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Show II S. P. ERECTING QUARTERS IN YARDS FOR NEW SHOP WORKERS Local Men on Strike Given Until Tomorrow Morning Morn-ing to Return to Work and Retain Rights; Both Sides Issue Statements v JM. Facilities to hnndle .m entin of workers In the Southern Pacific B hop wf-ro started Sunday and win I be completed Thursday, according to in announcement made today byvof- H the Jv with orders Issued requiring all em- II ployes to be bnck at their posts by I not later than T a. m. Thursday morn I v Ing, the railroad officials have taken '- . precautions against the failure of the I men to ronirn by constructing' bunk I houses, dininc rooms and Other living I quarters In the yarns for men who I will be hired I" case the men fall to I reappear TO PROTECT MIN I These quartets will be furnished the I men who lake the positions in case I the present employes, now on strike, I failed to return, it Is said. 'Phe rall- I roads will lukc other steps to have I full protection for their new employes, I it was announced. I Sufficient guards have been hired to i I patrol the property and to protect 'ho j I now men In case Steps Of this nature I are necessary. TRAINS on TIM E. I Board and lodginc-1 will be rurnish- I ?d the men. Under these provision" I the men will not have to leave the I railroad yards. Trains Into Ogden today were reported re-ported on time, the strike havinK little lit-tle effect on the service, officials Rind. I MA IN ON GHOl M E. E. Calvin, vice president of the i I Union Pacific lines in charge of traf fic was an ugden visitor Sunday. Tt, arrived from the wrest anil departed' last night for Salt Lake, where he has ipcned headquaru rs at ih Hotel L'lah. Mr. Calvin will remain in Salt Lake lor a few days to hold conferences I with officials of the road with rei- :-rrnce to the railroad strike. Carl R. Gray, president of the I n- I Ion Pacific. now touring: southern l tat), Is expected to arrive In Sail Lake Thursdays GIVEN UNTIL TOMORROW. h Striking shot craftsmen of Ogden H ,."hat left the employ of the Southern B Pacific on July l will retain their sen- I H lonty rights and pension and pass j H privileges without prejudice, providing B they return to work at the regular B starting time tomorrow morning. H This was the announcement iv:o il H by J. H. Dyer, general manager of the I H Southern Pacific company, in official j H notice to the strikers. Copies of th H notice have been mailed to the home 1 1 H address of all strikers, it is said. M H Failuro to report for duty at the B designated time means forfeiture of their Jobs and privileges. Mr Dyei said, and other men will be. hired to ' fill the vacancies. ji Mr. Dyer also said that the number ' of men roturning to work Is In'creaa- 1 ing DYER'S STATEMENT. His statement follows I 'The number of Southern Paclfli ' ehop crafts employes la stead I j in- 1 ff creating. 1 "At Los Angeles, Sacramento and 1 H other points manv of our former Shop : H craft employes who left their work I commencing July l arc returning to the service. "In Arizona our shop crafts work- ' ing force toda Is r.O per cent of th..- ( force normally employed. N'ew men'i JI are being employed These are being It added to the force of employes mini- ' f '""ring more Than one-third Of ttlOSt whom the strike call BOUghl to In- I volve, that remalled loyally on the fob -slnco the first. t EXPECTED TO RETI RN. , "It becomes- Increasingly evident that, with fhe exception of a small I minority, the employes who left the!T service will take advantage of our of- I fer of yesterday w hereby those who I i report foi rimy promptly will have I their seniority, pension and pars privileges priv-ileges restored without prejudice After Af-ter 7 a in July 6. Is2.. Thoe who I fall to report for duty at the regular starting time on the shifts on which : they last worked, shall forfait trm privilege ot-belng returned to the M vice, and their former places will be I considered vacant and open to newly employed men ' The strike Is hav ing no effect upon the usual movement of our freight and pasem;ei Imslne ' ( ! M I : TO Ml .N 'Phe notice to the men to return to 'work or forfeit their jobs follows. To former shop crafts employes who left our service comirienclng 10 a. in.. July 1st: "Vou are hereby culled upon to return re-turn to service promptly on your previous pre-vious regular alignments "Vou have no quarrel with the Southern Pacific, therefore this strike i .iKainst tin- government because the. I'nited States Railroad Labor board whose decisions you protest is the government under the law. The findings of the board w iil be upheld by public opinion, your sitlar-led sitlar-led leader and their families will net suffer the loss and privations that will come, to most of the rank and file who fall to return to the service and those who are dear to them. BELIEVED MISLED 1 believe you have been misled have acted hastily wilhoul full nall-zatlon nall-zatlon of the grave consequences of your action and want to give you the opportunity of correcting your mistake mis-take before- others are employed to lake our former places Those w bo report for duty promptly prompt-ly win have their seniority, pension J and psss privileges restored without prejudice. After 7 a m. July t. 122, those who fail to report for duty at the regular starting time of the shift on which they las; worked shall for- fell the privilege of being returned to I the service and their former places Will In considered vac. ml and open In newly employed men. PROG EST I ERA! i CLAWS, A resolution protesting the use by the Railway Labor board of th. term outlaws" as applied to lhe striKing shop craftsmen, was adopted by the i Ugden Trades and lnbor assembly In regular session Monday. 'y resolution resolu-tion follows Attention was directed to an article j published in the dally press In which the Hallway Labor board chSJ cter-ized cter-ized striking railway employes B I "outlaws" On motion, a committee f three G W Telleson of th.- Sheet Metal Workers Building Trades local No. 133. W. fcf. Adams of lhe Typographical Typo-graphical union No, 236, and Roy Pen-Iroy, Pen-Iroy, of Theatr'.cal Alliance No. 368 .o draft resolutions covering the mater, mat-er, which follow Whereas. The Associated Press has tubllshed throughout the Inited States the Mntemont that Henjamin rlooper, chairman of the Railway La-jor La-jor board, has characterized the strik-ng strik-ng railway worker:.. American citizens ind taxpayers who help to pay tho salaries of said board, as 'outlaws,'' ind STYLED PROPAGANDA. Whereas, we question the authority f the said Railway Labor board in his matter, and reoenl their statement j is propaganda Intended to poison the j jubllc mind; therefore, be It Resolved, b the Ogden Trades a id .abor Assembly In regular session a.'- i lembled this 3rd da of July, 1922, ! hat wc call upon Mr. Samuel Gom- i Krs. president of the American Fed- j ratlon of LabOr, to demand thai the hallway labor board withdraw the lamp "outlaw" as applied to members )f organizations affiliated with the Vrnerli an I'edi-ration of Labor, and to take such otflior action an may be deemed necessary to conserve, the good name of Its members and the (vell-'belng and existence of the organisation organ-isation ajt such Fraternally submitted, ( Signed ) " C. w TKLLESON, W. H ADAMS. ROY PENDROY The resolution was adopted unanl-1 unanl-1 mously, and copies were ordered sen' to 'he Ogden Standard-Examiner, The ) Federated Press. Tho N'ew Majority Labor .ind the American federation of I Labor. i Attest) I W. M PIQOOTT, Seo'y-Trcas. , BASED ON PROMISE. 'The wage board In Monday'-! Standard-Examiner attempted to BUS-1 tain then- position by giving a table i of wages paid shop . rafts In December Decem-ber of 1917. The committee dSSlrSS to testify to the accuracy of these I figures as thai was 'he time e were living on the promises o( lhe niimin- I istratton This condition existed not only iu December of H'17. but con-, tinned woll Into 1918. This part of our grievance was explained in Monday's Mon-day's Standard-Kxanilner. "in that communication we took up i the. shopmen's grievances to the time of President Wilsons promise to, make satisfactory adjustment of ! wages, and while this promise was. accepted by the men It was not ac-j copied with the same faith and en- thuslasm that former promises had been. I slder the usual delay we wero glv..n I an Increase of 4 cenia per hour, with the promise that living costs would I be reduced within s i days. This tr-rangement tr-rangement vvou'.u never have been tolerated except for the fact that just about this time Warren S Sion-, grand chiel of the Locomotive: HJn- ginssrsi had appeared before I he nation's na-tion's executive and proved thai h I matter how wages were Increased, living liv-ing costs Increased faster thereby i making Increases prai tlcallv useles-' IVORKERS START TO CLAMOR. "The majorit.v of the rank and file with Mr. Stons'S arguments In view, accepted President Wilson's promise helleving that some sort of a standard stand-ard price would be established. It such an arrangement had been made we knew that all disputes would be eliminated for all future time. Instead In-stead of decreases we found daily increases in-creases and the sum total of thH promise was Just another d.. appointment, appoint-ment, Just a little lew.- faith iii the men In whom w. started with unlimited unlim-ited faith. "Long after the 90-day period had expired, with no relief in sight, the protests of the workers throughout the nation became so clamorous that our officers as well as the officers of other railroad crafts again appealed appeal-ed to the administration for a I I These appeals were supported strikes In various parts of the country. coun-try. In every case the administration administra-tion refusing to deal with the men on strike. Our officers Insisting, as in the past, (hat the men returri to work and in every rose these instructions instruc-tions were complied with. , During this period living costs continued con-tinued to Increase and vv e were flnal- alty with a flat-fr.c.i . Mat. no nt from the president that he would neither call a cabinet meeting to make an effort to relieve this condition, con-dition, nor w-ould he appoint a wage board to adjust It. NATION L AGREEMENT. "Before taking up the answer offered of-fered by at least part of the rallroco men to this attitude of the president we believe the public is entitled to understand "now and w hj the national! agreement was formed "For a period farther back than most members of the Ogden hor: crafts can remember there had been a consistent effort to Improve working work-ing conditions On the railroad-; In : the 1 nlted States which were oi-Rnn- ized, conditions had gradually I n Obtained through conference with the' managements which were considered! just. While on unorganized roads the only rules were tho-. trbitrSTlly I laid down by the company officio aiul these rules varied In different I shops on the same road according to the whims of those local'y in charge When the government assumed control of the railroads they made a unit of tra nsportatlon facilities and! considered Jt only Just that rules and working ...millions should be uniform uni-form throughout the country'. B "In the conference that formed the I national agreement the repreaenta-I repreaenta-I lives of the men on the organized roads forfeited conditions which they had been years In securing, out they I did th'.s in order to unify the rules ! as requested b.v the railroad admln- Mon. "At the convention of the railway I employes' department In April I of this year, the representatives of J these organized roads Informed that body that ;hey had sacrificed much In order to obtain this national agTee- ment and the question was asked I 'In G name how much farther I do you expect us to go?' "We refer anyone wishing further information as to where the rules of I the national agreement were obtain- I ed to the testimony of Frank Mc- Manon. who represented the govern-j govern-j mem at the formation of the national j agreement and who testified before! the labor board at Its abrogation. "Regarding th.- local situation a thorough organization has been per-! I fected under the direction of an ev- : ecutive committee, consisting of three i members from each craft. "The effectiveness of tho strike Is 1 I being dally attested to by news dis- ! patches in the daily prc. "Local Federation Publicity Com- rniliee. RICH PORTER, A. C. AD ELM ANN B H SMITH, CHAS. PATTERSON "D C MORBV " |
