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Show SHOP CRAFTS' OFFICERS URGE MENTO WORK CHICAGO. Aug 8 Representatives of the six international' organizations of shopmen met here today to devise plana for getting all striking members of their union to return to work. M. A. Maher, international vice president of the International Brotherhood Brother-hood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilder Shipbuild-er and Helpers of America, declared ?11 shopmen now on strike were participating par-ticipating a 'rump" movement not sanctioned by international organizations, organiza-tions, violative of the rules they themselves them-selves had established governing strikes and in defiance of the officers of the union. Mr Maher asserted the strike now on was prompted by radicals of the shopmen's unions who favored the "one big union" movement, this ne ing particularly true, he said, of the pr sen) strikes on the railways in the northwest. "The officers of the international organization of shopmen arc not against strikes.' said Mr Maher. ''In fact a strike ballot has been sent out and the vole Is now being taken, but we believe in accomplishing by negotiation nego-tiation what we are seeking rather than by Btldke if it is possible The. leaders of this 'rump' movement are for 'direct action' and have Influenced in lot of men who can give no reason for their action in striking. Both Mr. Maher and Mr. Wicklin declared statements given out here by M L Hawver and John P Saunders, ', hairman and secretary respective!) of the Chicago district council of the Confederated Railway Shopmen's l'nion, greatly exaggerated the extent and seriousness of the walkouts." |