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Show JEWELL SCORNS U. S. RAIL BOARD Shop Crafts Intend to Deal Directly With Line Executives My JOHN L. SFTVAK International News HerYlCS i 1 1 l AC( '. J uly 1 I h, fnlted States labor hoard OS a medium ol en. ling tho strike of the railway shop emits will not be dealt with by th railway men's employes' department of the American Federation of Labor, It was announced tonight by B. M, Jewell, head of Ihe 400,000 shopmen who went on strike tOdaj "Our business 19 not with the hoard but with the railroads " declared Jewell, Jew-ell, 'and with the railroads, we shall deal Of course. If the ruilwa) executives execu-tives wish to conduct their dlcus- slnriH Ihroiiirh the hnnrri thnt Is their j lookout. In such circumstances we I shall deal with the board, but In m, other." At the same time Ben W Hooper, chairman of the labor board. Issued a statement promising government protection pro-tection to men who will take the strikers' strik-ers' places. REPORTS II LLP IN The strike ill he 100 per r ent per-, per-, feet. It was announced al .strike headquarters. head-quarters. Jewell admitted, however, I that he had heard from scarcely more I than 50 per cent of his representatives. I He expressed himself as confident that I by Monday the full list would show the walkout 100 per cent. The head of the strikers broke his long silence with these statements. His mysterious disappearance dis-appearance whe-n sought by the labor board remains unexplained tor he avoided all questions on that score. Ho appeared today from wherever he was for a conference with the executive execu-tive council of the railway men's ele-partmcnt ele-partmcnt and remained at strike headquarters head-quarters late into the night receiving the returns from his locals throughout through-out tho country. Before him on his desk was a largo batch of telegrams, when he received tho newspaper men The wires congratu ated him for the stand he had taken In refusing to obey the board and also contained reports of the success of the strike orders II AKDIM. s IN Ti.R EN HON Jewell was asked whether he had burned all his bridges behind him In Ignoring the labor board's citation He replied "Just now my men are not working for the railroads, so we have nothing to do with the labor board." Asked whether he would welcome presidential intervention, he replied: We ,ire not invitlnc anyone to in tervene." The only form of settlement that lean bring this strike to an end, Jewell Jew-ell pointed out grimly waa the ignoring ignor-ing of the labor board s wage cut. "The basis of settlement," ho declared, declar-ed, ' must be the restoration of the wage scale before the cut wont into effect and the enforcement of the no farming out ruling." ii i ORDER KQriP.Ml.vr Jewell added that he had Informa- j tion to the effect that the roads would feel the pinch of the strike within a week. "The condition of the roads' equipment." equip-ment." he stated Is "334,01)0 bad order cars and 18.3CS bad order locomotives , out of a total of 66,000 locomotives and 2.300.000 cars. They cannot get sufficient work done oven if they went ( to outside shops to do the work." L Jewell also called attention to what , he consl-dercd the "utter failure" of , the hoard. Since the labor board has been In effect It has onlv tried four railroads . viniuiinnu whiln to mv knowledge, i i more than 100 rouds have violated the 'board's orders.' he said. 'The ! strengthening of tho strike organization organiza-tion will now take up the union's energies." en-ergies." he concluded. SITUATION IN BRIEF Simultaneously with the strlko which went into effect this morning, the wage slash of approximately $134.-j $134.-j 000.000 also went Into effect. This 'wage cut affected approximately l,-1 l,-1 oho oon men. The situation tonight briefly was as I follows: ! The United States labor board, a I governmental body ordered tho wage cut. The railway men refused to abide ! by the board's decision, ordering the railroad executives to Ignore the wage I cut or suffer the consequences of a : strike The railroad executives refused to ; heed the employes' ultimatum on the ground that the difference is between the einplojes and the labor board and not with them. GO WITHOUT ORDERS With this tangle In the railroad situation sit-uation the walkout followed this morning. Including thousands of men In the maintenance of way departments, depart-ments, who went out in an unauthorized unauthor-ized strike, against the expressed orders or-ders of E. H. Grablo, their leader. It la only a question of a few days before they will bo officially called out," declared John Scott, secretary of the railway employes' department, ''so it doesn't really matter." The walkout of the shopmen, oc-cordlng oc-cordlng to reports received from all over the country WSS peaceful In some sections the strikers left with heera and songs Tabulations by the various railroads affected, could not be completed today to-day because Saturday Is "short day" A detailed count of the number of men out Is expected on Monday when the roads will be able to see how many , of their men rail to report for work GUARDS ARE UIHKP In many of the railroad shops. It was reported, hundreds of men failed to show up for work altogether, not 1 deeming it necessary to work the hour or two before the strike went Into effect ef-fect v ; In many localities throughout the country. special guards havo been I placed around the shops for protection , In the event Of any disorders. In Chicago Chi-cago alono, Chief of Police Fitzmor-rls Fitzmor-rls has ordered 1,000 reserves ready for instantaneous service. An order it Is feared may i ausc trouble was Issued It wa.s reported, at headquarters -by the ECansas Industrial i ourt Tho order forbade all picketing of shops where strikes are In progress. : Union leaders at strike headquart- i er3 wen- Jubilant nt the showing of their memberships and reiterated their intention of remaining on strike until the decision of the labor board I n as reversed. On the other hand, tho railroad executives Mtate that they expect no pinch for six weeks, before v. Inch; I1II1I-, 11 19 lCIIOIVU, DV1I1V7 iv.. ..... be made to bring the strike to an end. STRIKF ( ALLS DE3TCKRKD The 400.000 men who are out. It was announced at strlki headquarters, likely will be followed by approximate-y approximate-y half a million more within thi next two weeks, unless the labor board tikes some unexpected atps, Thse men are mainly maintenance of way men anei stationary firemen and oilers, oil-ers, strike orders for whom have not yet been Issued. Though ES II Grable and Timothy 1 1 c. iles heads of these departments. , nr.-, i Chairman Hooper ,f the labor la-bor board that the sink, order would bo held in abeyance until July 3 It j (was pointed out by these leaders that thsy had no Intention of issuing a strike order before that date. ' The complete tabulation of our ballots bal-lots has not been made. declared Healej "and we are consequently un-Abls un-Abls to order the strike What will happen next week remains to be seen " It Is general y believed in both rail-road rail-road executive circles as well as union un-ion headquarters that unless the la- 1 bor board alters its stand on the wage cut. these men alao win go out on strike, despite the peace' efforts of the railroad executives who promised to discontinue the "farming out" of work, one of ihe employes' chief i oni-I oni-I plainto. |