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Show 25,000 SPURN HARDING PLAN OF RAfl. PEACE Eastern Committee Sends Fiery Letter Approving Jewell's Attitude NEW YORK. Aug . Twenty-five thousand rail shopcrafts workT: through David Williams, secretary of the eastern committee, today sent a telegram to B. M. Jewell at Chicago putting themselves on record as refusing re-fusing to accept President Harding's proposal for submitting" the seniority question to the railroad labor board The telegram read: ' In behalf of 26.000 striking railway rail-way shopmen in the New York district dis-trict we endorse your stand in refusing refus-ing to accept the compromise propo-dtlon propo-dtlon of President Harding. Located in a district exposed to the poison gas attack as represented by the ling propaganda of the railway executives, our members have stood the attack without faltering and the morale of the strikers is perfect. "Manv of the strikers are ex-service men, -who fought under the stars and stripes for democracy in the late war These men have witnessed our so-called so-called American railway executives hirec heap Chinese and Hindu labor to try end break the strike and under no rlr, unist inces will the former sol-dlers sol-dlers agree to allow this conglomeration conglomera-tion of unskilled foreign workmen to bo considered aa favored by the. employes em-ployes of the railroads In order to gratify the autocratic desires of the American railway kaisers for a condition con-dition of Industrial slavery for railway employes "Let us assure you again we want no compromise and urge that the fight he fougrft to a finish right now on Its me rits and the present administration admin-istration in control vof our government govern-ment be forced to say whether It stands for real Americanism or the brand of Americanism represented by a fow hardbolled railway officials, who would wreck our entire country In their lust for power." |