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Show SHOPMEN FEEL CONFIDENT OF WINNING OUT i Committee Issues Statement Regarding Men Returning Return-ing to Work I No uneasiness Is felt by local shopmen shop-men In regard to the ultlmato ou'.- j come of the strike, according to an official announcement made this morning by the publicity committee.; one to the men that have gone bark to work. Thej were ones, the committee said, thai were not expected lo go out on trrke in the beginning The official ;-tatement follows: "Regards the local nltuatlon. The firmness of the men la amazing, all , i pt to the men themselves, who so far are not even Interested in the a... . nniMBllfa r. (hi. ttfrfWsi a tr lt I n Lf this so far ;is o much heeded rest. CONDITION OF SERVICE. "With ii-anscontinenial trains pass-InK pass-InK through our city every day without with-out drinking water, with tollota out of repair and locked with the Overland Limited, the train do luxe of the est, unable to furnish current for the electric elec-tric fans while passing through the humid Sacramento valley; with the thermometer registering 104 In tho shade; with the nfirmness of B. M. Jewell) who commands the absolute ii spei t of every man In ihe railway employes department, with the excuse of the wage hoard that there Is a ba- sis now for opening negotiations for wage increases (not decreases!, we feel that we have absolutely no cause for alarm. , B E7TTJR X A STICIPATED. "Regarding the scare headlines yesterday yes-terday that men were returning to work. nn one at all familiar with the situation at this poim1 never expected to get these men out when they came out; we did not expect them to stay out. This morning (Thursday) was I the real test. w know our exat sirenrth, we know that we have no further traitors in our ranks i wr know the men who have descried are lacking lack-ing in mechanical ability, we. know that they have only remained there previous lo this lime through the efforts ef-forts of the organisations they not I betrej i,rid through their thorough j submission to their masters. "These men who have rttUNlSd have Judged the strike situation from tin- sin ndpo.i.f of Ogden ulone and until they become well enough posted to grasp the situation as a whole si 8 feel that they are more good to us , lnlde than out But the numbers 1 returning are fewer than company flg"UreS .-lalnv THE SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE, in continuation of the article published pub-lished In J osterday's paper we wish to cover the answer of that part or i the railroad men referred to in th.,t I nrtlrle. AVhen President Wilson refused to call a cabinet meeting or io appoint a wage board after fuilmg to reduce re-duce th cost of living in much more than the 90-day period reo,ujted, j thereby killing the last hope of the (Continued on Pago Two.) uu SHOPMEN FEEL CONFIDENT OF WINNING OUT (Coiitinned From Pace One) railroad men, smnll groups of switchmen switch-men In ihe Chicago yards walked off as Individuals. Almost overnight the; action of these few men spread and I the outraged feeling of their fellow I switchmen was expressed with uch singleness of purpose that wlihln' three days this branch of transports tlon was paralyzed throughout the nation. "With this condition existing we as- . ume that pressure must have been ' ontusht to b.;r upon ihe president oer-auke he did rnii a e.blno meeting and ho dlu appoint a wage board Frantic appeals went from the international inter-national official, of the different railroad rail-road organizations to their men not to Join li Is strike and he J at leas ort of the presidents f an International railroad organlxation wore so disgraceful that We ir! ashamed o discuss it hllo the rank and f,!o 0f tno wUh ,hr,eh,"t nr,the o"ltlon, ill With the strll-lng switchmen, heart nnd soul lh, bou kjJJ"" new angle 0f the situ,, tlon an I tho recognition of tho wage hoard of Tohn Gruneau. president of the i strlklW? switchmen C0llplcd with the apnea,! of the international officio . held up on the Job. rrir"r3 ain "This recognition bv thr grievance o hT in fUnd th? had been OuSw 2J22. 8Wit?hmen the 9urn total of flthta l.nd that thl we had sold ou, MJ,l"tn,Pnt who forced the isa.u .n 10 Vry mon PHOTTs'-rAo half mechanic, which wa, , -h,gher pil,d hour less than we hi,? h""" pr nad demanded three years previous and demand (hat time were oae i u , J In competitive Industrie". Botjd wage rate and the attitude tM .' switchmen wcr vigorously I tested by the rank and file bin International officers assumed as for a remarkable victory ' Thex forgot the wltchmes, we have not and never mean tejjj I we must admit that the influent; the switchmen wa:- .mo m. ai as that condition was generalS derstood the wage board. In j we placed such hope, hegan at In'U'atlon of the rallr,. ,1 ktcu n series of assaults on work In ( dltlons and wages that .lmpl du founded the workers wi h theilfl reasonable boldness. "The first of these assaults fflj reeled at tho abrogation of tbl tlonal agreement, which the woj on organized roadu hmj sacrlflej much to obtain This subject w discussed In our next article. J-Local J-Local federation publicity corrnnl rich porter,: v i 1 k i.. mans i;htom CHAti FATTEbbH 3. B. SMITH. SI AS f'AUSONS 1 |
