The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-04-01
issued: 1921-02-01
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note: Question View That Railroads Face Bankruptcy Unless Wages Readjusted. REGARD sl^TEMENT AS ULTIMATUM TO LABOR Aver Atterbury's Policy is to Disrupt Unions and Turn F Public Opinion. 'CHICAGO. Jan. 81.—President ttll- ison was asked tonight by represent- •atives of seven labor unions to In- i vestlgatc tlio statement of Brig- •General "W, W. AUerbury, of tho Pennsylvania railroad company, be- foi-e tho labor 'board, that lho railroads of tho United' -States must have wage re-adJustmenu nr be In dan (for of bankruptoy, and If the statement were found to bo true, to placo the matter beforo congress and ask tliat body tn onaot remedial leg- telailon Immediately. Believe Conditions Exaggerated Tho union leaders, however, In tholr telegrams to tho president making the request,- declared thoy •did not bellovo the roads to bo ln tho; financial condition outlined ,iby : General' AUerbury, They charged I ho had, by delivering, what they ; termed "un ultimatum." to tho la- boar bonrd, "violated nil decent properties, disregarded tho Trans por ta- I tloh act, , and flouted existing j -agencies Buch as tlio Interstato ! Cortimorce commission,, etc." General Atterbury's obvious pollon i tho telegram said. "It to disrupt 1 labor unions, turn public opinion : against the employees and" JplacD wages on a pre-war basis so that j railroad proillB may bo enhanced when prosperity returns. The ehtpper would have to pay increased rates , and the lAhorer would bo explolt- ! ed If General Atterbury.bad hla way."' The -telegram waa signed by representatives of tho railway otnployeos' department ot tho American Fed- , cratlon of Labor, Amalgamatd) Sheet 1 Metal Workers' International Alliance, Brotherhood of Hallway Cor- metifof Ainerica, International Brotherhood Of electrical Workers, In- tornatlonal Brotherhoods of Blacksmiths,' I n i it im t liiim i Brotherhood of Bollormmakcrs, und the Inlcmatlon- ; al Association of Machinists. Coal Workers Allege Violation ot Tfeaty • Terms by Employers…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0396598
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text