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Show 400,000 RAIL MEN TOLDl TO STRIKE ON SATURDAY! Mum OFFICIALS SAY U WALKOUT WON'T I TIE UP TRAINS I Brotherhoods, Switchmer 1 and Telegraphers to Continue Con-tinue at Work on Lines SIX CRAFTS TO QUIT j ! ! Jewell Says Executives Are! I Only Ones Who Can Prevent Strike Now CHICAGO June 20. (By th AsH soclated Press) Strike ordi rs -isnerll b. the six craft presidents of the rail 11 I road shopmen's organization '..ere ri out today to general chairmen reprc'll I aentlng 400 000 men. authorizing sj atrlke at 10 a. m. July 1. "on a'. , I railroads and Pullman .-hops In tlu It United States." II mm The- text of the strike order fo' jj lows In compliance with the strike voUU all shop craft employes below the runljj of goneral foremen are hereby grant II ed sanction to suspend work at 1(11 I a m . July 1. on all railroads anfl Pullman shops in the rniM Notify all outside points. Wire numijj MM her responding and number remaininijl at work." fmjM SIGNED BY SIX The communication was signed by I William H Johnson. I WM International Association 01 .m 1 1 chlmsts. j w Kline. mW international Brotherhood ol Black- I smiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers 01 Mm America. umm A. Franklin, j MWt International Brotherhood of Boll-IB ermakers. Iron Shipbuilders and Help- ers of America. ' Sbbb! J. J Haynes Amalgamated Shop Metal WorkerjjB International Alliance. BJJ James F Neelan. ;HL1 International Brotherhood of Elec-IB trlcal Workers. !kV Martin F. Ryan. Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen olM America. ' Sasl Letters of Instruction regarding tn:jH progress and conduct ot the wtr'-kJB w re being prepared at general head-IB quarters here today and were to baW mailed out tonight. aH ISSVE DECLARED CLEAN CUT "The Issue Is clean cut. with n(Jfl strings attached." said B M JewellJfl president of the railway d- 1 . I the American Federation of labor.'iH It Is up to the railway executives JB -tholr meeting toda? They can s'.opjBJ this strike t"da or tomorrow but fl Saturday a 10 1 lock It Is all The committee of 90 generul clmlr- mi :i today were on their way to theli I home se oi SH the strike. A subcommittee remained mjM at headquarters to direct operations,! Members of railway executives, un- dci th chairmanship of T Dewltt I Cuyler. were to meel her.- today in re- I iponsi 1 1 1 issued several w -ek m 9 ago but ;he program of their confer-IB ence was not announced. SATURDA1 MOMENTOUS DAY The Impending walkout makes SaMl urd.iv ri momentous dny In the rail- flfl road world m 'that date the $40. -in 0 100 cul hi freight rates ordered hyllH the interstate commerce commission! becomes effective simultaneously wlthll loi h of tl I ,000 from the wK4 of railway workers ordered by thoil railroad labor board The pay of hf 111 400.000 ahopmi n was ut S'.i.i.iiOO.OOO. fm Railroad officials anlicip.i'...-d now- I ir' her slriK'- ",-d'-i to inalnte- I nancc-of-waj emplov -: upon cornple- I tlon ot 1 he canvass of th' ir nrike vote IJJ i at Detroit. lH In spite of the Impending walkout I (Continued on Page Two ) OFFICIALS SAY WALKOUT WONT TIE UP TRAINS (Continued from Pago One) from the shops and the tracks, rail officials declared transportation would pontlnue to move, because train serice employes who constitute the bit four" brptJierhooda, switchmen and telegraphers arc- not parties to controversies over wapes und working work-ing rules. The shopmen's strike is In protest against the wajfe reduction ihv abolishment abol-ishment of rules by the railroad labor board and the farming out of shop work to ConstractQrs, M.ilntenance-Of-way men balloted solely on the wage reduction I It was a coincidence that the association asso-ciation of railway executives called a meeting hers today, according to rail officials. The meeting'. It way said, was called two weeks In advance of the ultimatum by.B. M Jewell, head of the shop unions, for a conference principally on contract wlh tho American Railway Express company ULTIMATUM KK.TFATION SURE The strike situation, however, made the meetlnc all the more Important. , Rejection of Jewell ultimatum thnt . the roads iirnore the labor board's , wagre rni decisions and restore abol-Ished abol-Ished rules governing working conditions, condi-tions, was certain. It was said, rail officials of-ficials declaring that Jewell's condl- tions for avertlnK a strike were "lm- possible." i in the other h.tnd. a conference be-twi be-twi en railroad executives and union leaders war declared possible, not no much in any hope of reaching an agreement, but as a vehicle for carrying carry-ing the disputes Immediate!) to the i labor board, which paved thie nation from the throes of a rail strike last October. By the formality of an announcement an-nouncement that the roads and unions loiild react no agreement, the labor board, it was pointed out, could take Jurisdiction us it did in the threatened strike of the big four brotherhoods last fall. Another possibility was that the board could similarly a.-ume junsdlc-l junsdlc-l tlon over Hituationa growing out of an actual strike on the grounds that the , -tnke would Interrupt commerce -oo |