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Show EVERY UNION ASKED TO HELP SHOPMEN WIN Federation Sends Out Appeal Ap-peal to All Locals and Labor Publications I WASHINGTON, July 19 An appeal Was issii-".! foffay bv the executive council of the federation of the labor to "all workers everywhere to support sup-port the railroad workers in their efforts to secure a Just settlement of I the railroad shop trades dispute." I 1 Orgunlzed labor Is asked specifically In tho appeal to refrain from doln? 1 any work formerly done by men now on strike while th- workers on strike aro urged to conduct themselves In a lawabidlng manner. APPEAL t NAMMOIS. The appeal which was Issued by un-anlmoua un-anlmoua vote of tho executive council coun-cil and over the signatures of all members of the council, including Samacl Gompers. federation president, has been forwarded to every labor organization or-ganization in the United States, to every labor publication, to all organisers organis-ers of the federation, The text of the appeal assigned by members of the executive council, follows fol-lows "We call upon working people everywhere ev-erywhere and upon a-ll Americans who love Justice to sustain the cause of the railroad workers who have ceaacd work a" their only remaining method of protest against an Injustice which, must rank as one of the most reprehensible repre-hensible which any American industrial indus-trial or pollMcal institution has ever sought to impose. PPEAL TO WOHRF.KS. "No workman, whether a member of a union or not. will. If he la possessed pos-sessed of true American manhood en-i gago in any work formerly done hj' I men now on strike. "No man on strike will. If he Is true to the cause, conduct himself In any but a lawablding manner. "The cause for which the worker are contending Is worthy of every Just and proper effort that can be put forth In Its behalf. "Let there be a determination and a solidary which sKill at the same tlrr bring victory In tho present utrugg e and servo notice upon reactionary employers em-ployers and financial Interests everywhere every-where that there la to be no return to autocratic despotic methods In American Ameri-can Industrial life " |