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Show SHOPMEN REPORTED GOING BACK I ri'A A O O A A A A A A A OTHER ONIONS I FAIL TO JOIN I IN BIG STRIKE I Decision of Maintenance Men Clears Skies to Con-siderable Con-siderable Extent JEWELL COMMENTS H Roads Say They Are Getting Men, Shopmen Say Walk- out Effective 'M Hie Southern Pacific company today announced that there were 242 men H at work In the shops alono. This In- H eludes tho number which dkl not H strike and the men who have return- 'H ed since the walkout on Saturday. WASHINGTON, July R. Interfer-once Interfer-once with the movement of the United States mulls by striking railway work. ors In dlffernet parts of the countrj wns reported todav to the office of the j superintendent of railway mail Vr- 1 vloe. Tho reports came from .Mar- H Shall, Texas; St. Louis, Cliaffee. Mo. B i Kansas City and Qulncy. Mo. H CHICAGO. July 5 (By The Assn. Hj ciated Press). Striking railway shop-men, shop-men, who walked out in the nation-wide nation-wide call from the headquarters of th H six shop crafts unions here last 9at- IH I urday. were reported drifting back to work today in groups of uncertain H I Today was considered th turn 1 Its B I point in the strike of the 3.r0,000 tc 100,000 workers. Although responding generally to the call last Saturday 'railroad officials Insisted today that j many of the defections were due tc HI the desire of the men to take a holi-day holi-day over the Fourth of July. Local union reports to the office ot H j B M Jewell, head of the shopmen, ic- Iterated tho Union assertion that tht. I'm strike was 100 per cent effective al H all points reporting. H Freight handlers, clerks and sto IB nonary firemen and oilers joined rhu deserting ranks of shopmen at various points, although fully as many shop) reported that men were returning to work tO'lav S5t PLAYING LONE IlNl. CHICACO. July 6. (By the Asso-ciated Asso-ciated Press, i Railway shopmen who Bpv,' walked off their Jobs last' Saturday. played a lono hand ir. the rail strike. Fears that other unions would join the striking shopmen were virtually dispelled. The first wdde rift In railroad strike clouds showed Tuesday, when main- HL tenance of way employes, who Include BBS. ! track workers and other common la- BjH i bor. definitely abandoned the Idea ol ;Hp.v a walkout at this time. jVH Credit Cor averting i striki jSB which threatened to become general ! among ail classes of railway labo. except the "big four" brotherhooili and telegraphers, was generally con- jSH ceded to Ben W". Hooper, chairman of the United States railroad labor BVJ board W. L McMenlmon, labor mem- jSH her of the board, and K. F. Crab' ) president of the maintenance men HjSH the "big three ' in Tuesday'.-, confer H REMAIN -M WORK. HfcV As a result of the holiday confer- HE; nearly 400.000 maintenance of mK'-I way men. who for n week hovred Bfe'V' oh the verge of a strike after votlna overwhelmingly in favor of a walk out. will remain at work. Bjgj ;'- Maintenance men wdll stay on the Bf1' Job 'under protest'' against the 0. Ogtiy' OUO.000 cut in their wages pending Bfei1 negotiations for a readjustment of fiti urags scales upon an appeal by the Bpy . employes. In many rail centers striker have K ' been notified that they would forfeit all right- and consideration for fu- HSf turc employment if they failed to re- He turn to their Jobs Immediately. Many ttr"f roads were accepting new men for Uft work in the shops. JI WILL CO N't iR AT l"L ATES. tV Tho maintenance of way union, H&M - hi le officers Tuesday decided to do- IraKi lay their threatened strike, were given 9wV tho sympathy and congratulations ot nKrg the striking railway shopmen by B. Bn M. Jewell the shopmen's head to- day He declared that the malnte- BAqhS nam e "f way union's action was not BBeV a urprii;e and added that "if thay BJEa can find a av out of their dlfflcul- tie they are to he congratulated." HHq The decision of rhe track laborers HEI does not weaken the position of the HJ nhop striker-" In the least, .Mr. Jewell HB said. "Each organisation of the Am- HQg erica n Federation of Labor railway department was an autonomous body and we don't want to drag anybody BK into a fight unless he wants to go," VAWn he declared. "The shopmen did not E run away without doing everything BM thej could think of." Mr. Jewell con- HH tinned. "This whole situation Is the HAh result of attempts by the financial Interests to crush the union " aBBi Ml V SICNFH CP. Bfli From Roanoke. Va., came the r- H port that foremen of maintenance of HH way labor and clerks were quitting VAB their Jobs in sympathy with tho shop- HHB men. Traffic was reported suspend- HB ed north on the Norfolk & Western, a JBH line carrying conl shipments for the Pennsylvania railroad. The Chios gi H Alton hired a vacant store room Continued on Page Tvo.) iB I STRIKING SHOPMEN PLAY LONE I GAME; OTHER UNIONS AT WORK I Roads Declare They Are Getting Men To Take Strikers' Places But Committees Declare Walkout Is Proving Effective H i (Continued from Pe One) j V down town here today. Installed two desk! and nemo clerk.- and within an ! BT hour had signed up 20 men lo fill! i ho striker position Fifty men I were in line at the same time waiting, 10 sign up Shop mechanics of all j crafts were sought. i Won official predicted that other I v , ..,vHes of rallwav labor would become: ino. ulated b the -hnpn.. n's strike that the effect of tho walkout) ,,,ild b. ghi :o bow on transp-rtu-ilon soon Striking shopmen of the Chicago I Milwaukee & St. Paul railway and the Burllnpton system have " given until July 10 to return to work. I fter thit date, according to the rall-,,..d rall-,,..d notices, the strikers will forfeit all seniority rlcht- nnd If later re-em re-em ployed .will be taken as new om-B om-B R1 ployce. Irftorts IN WEST. Conflicting statement-- were miAi ,,n the strike Mltuation on tho Pa. Ue coast. Officials of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific said more than one-third of the hopmon remained at their posts and j that others who had gone out were returning Some new men wore hired. Pnlon officials reiterated their statement state-ment hat 90 per cent of the shop-j men were out Two men w-re arrest-j ed for violating picketing laws. Reports of violence or dl-orders In . enncctlon with the strike were few j and scattered J L. McLellan. road , master of the Kansas Southern at de, Qulncy. L,a.- reported that he had been attacked and beaten by a num-i num-i ber of men Sunday. Authorities, tx pressed the belief thnt McT.el'an'3 os-! os-! wallants were strike sympathizers and not strikers. THINKS MEX Vn.Ii QITT. OMAHA. Neb July 5 DMplte the decisions of executives of the maln-b maln-b tenanco of way men' unions not to strike pending mediation efforts, local union leaders today predicted that many maintenance men would walk out before nightfall. M. R. Gibson, strike chilrman In the Council Bluffs. Ia.. dlstrlci aaW he expected a large number of main- tenance men would Join the shop-i shop-i men's strike this afternoon. I Howard Gates. chairman of the Omaha district, said they had 00 Information In-formation regarding the walkout of maintenance men here, but paid there were strong Indications that a ' great manv of the men IH walk out here." Gates characterized the Burlington railroad flat."' issued Tuesday and designating July 10 as the final day on which striking shopmen may return re-turn to work and retain their seniority, senior-ity, as "Just a plain scare that, we have been expecting a long time." Lsssssi 1 SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. Sheriff Ellis Jones, of Sacramento county, in which the large RosevIHe shops Of the Southern Pacific lines are located, lo-cated, was to render a decision today on the request of striking railway shopmen to deputize union men to guard railroad property there A committee was appointed Tuesday Tues-day night by the -unking shopmen To wait on the herlff today and explain ex-plain to him that union men tea I I efforts would be mad- t(, discount statements of union heads that no PflBll 'violence would be tolerated COMPANY HK.s IV. - At San Bernardino Cal . a division point on the Sant i I ' lysteitt, workmen work-men were busy today constructing quarters to house f.OO men who ire being sought to replace the striking shopmen. An old blacksmith shop is being converted Into a dining hall and the company Is "digging In" to B avoid the necessity of workmen pass- Jng through squads of pickets on 'he streets leading to the shop yard The entire strike situation t iday re-volved re-volved around picketing Arresl of two striking shopmen af the Bay I Shore shops of the Southern Pacific and their release on ball, charged with violation of the antlpleketlng ordinance, or-dinance, presages a test of the right to picket. The men. however, told the authorities they were not pi ket-Ing ket-Ing hut were on watch at the railroad H property to prevent destruction cr H disorder and were not Interfering with or approaching tho strlkebreak- H . From the office of the Southern H Taclfle company came the statement that "the number of shopcrafts employes em-ployes In steadily Increasing." r P hikinc Ml v. OMAHA. Neb. July 6 W. H. nulid t to B. E. Calvin, vice president of the Union Pacific system sys-tem said today that the system wis hiring men to take the place of striking strik-ing shopmen, but that he was unable nt this time to give figures on the number thus employed. The question as to how their seniority se-niority rights of striking shopmen will be affected by the strike was und.-r consideration by the system. Mr ;u!ld said, adding that possibly the company would have some .announcement .announce-ment later today TELEPHONE PICKETING. TOPEKA, Ivan.. July t. A new angle an-gle In strike picketing. "telephone picketing." has come, to Governor Alien Al-ien in several reports that shopmen who had not gone out or members of the iumllles, had been called over the telephone followed by argument, persuasion and regret that something ' unpleasant was bound to happen If scabbing" didn't cease, the governor -aid todav OFFER SERVICE FREE. GREAT FALLS, Mont.. July 5. In the event of a Jreat Northern railway rail-way wreck In this district, which would endanger publie safety, or .should the main line of the company be blocked by train derailment members mem-bers of wrecking crews, now on strike here, will offer their services to the railway company without compensation. compensa-tion. Thl" dscllion wns reported Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of I he executive board of the six crafts involved in the walkout from the Oreat Northern shops. IMCKI-rrs 1MM HLI.T) NEW YORK, July 5. Leaders of Lhe striking hopcrafts unions placed double forces of pickets around the railroad sheps and yards today, whlcn Is considered to bo the first real te-it of the strength of the shopmen s strike against the wage decisions of the railroad labor boaid as there hm been a Sunday and holiday re-asatlon of work since the stride was called. Another reason for the Increased '. a' Mvitlcs to keep the morale of the I strikers is seen In the decision of maintenance of way unions to remain ! at work pending the outcome of an- , other Conference with the labor board on their wage scale. BRIDGES GUARDED. ATLANTA. Oa.. July C Armed guards are on duty on all bridges on the Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad between Atlanta and 'hattanooga. In announcing this step Tuesday night, officials of the road stated that the guards would tie used as u precaution .igainst an 1 attempt to destroy Its property or Otherwise Oth-erwise Interfere with Its train schedule sched-ule during the progress of tho exist- 1 I Ing nation-wide strike of railway shop workers. No ovortact of the strikers I occasioned the step. It was said Other roads contemplate inklmr j similar action, aecordlng to reports here. |