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Show TELL REASONS FOR ATTITUDE Railway Brotherhoods Explain Ex-plain Why They Refuse To Join Strike CLEVELAND July 26. Members of the four railroad brotherhoods the Engineers, Conductors. Firemen and 'ralnnicn. while heartily In sympathy with the action of the railway shop employes who are striking to maln- lain & decenj standard of living, have nevertheless been ordered by their officers to perform scrupulously uM their usual duties under the terms of their agreements with the railroad i-ompanles, no more and no less. At the same time they are advissjj under; no circumstances lo do work previously pre-viously done by or take the place of any of the striking employes, under penalty of expulsion. In other wordj, the chiefs of the brotherhoods recognize recog-nize the strike of the shopmen a& legal and Justifiable, Inn in accord-ancs accord-ancs with their well-established poi-Icy, poi-Icy, they will not violate the solemn contracts for service which ihey have previously made with the railway companies. PROTEST VIOLATION. While observing carefully the terms! of their agreements. the railway interstate commerce commission against the action of certain railroads affected by the strike in compelling train service employes to take out nglnes which an dangerous, unsafe. Jeopardizing the lives of the employs as well ns the traveling public. Because Be-cause of the shopmen's strike, the jrenernl yardnuister of the Kansas City Terminal has just posted notices requiring onglneers to move traim over congested and foreign tracks without air being coupled for the operation op-eration of air brakes. On other lines headlights are out of repair, enclno flues are leaking, Injectors fall to work, water glasses are broken, ani other defects are unrepalreii which endanger the lives of the employes as1 well as the public. The rules of the Interstate com- I mcrce commission forbid the opera-, tlon of engines In such condition, and the brotherhood chiefs have appealed directly to the bureau of safety and the bureau of locomotive Inspection maintained by the commission to S4 that these practices are immediately, stopped In extreme cases, the transportation trans-portation brotherhood executives liav.i themselves taken the Initiative and authorised their men to refuse to perate trains under conditions which' obviously Imperil life and limb. |