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With such big bold words last week in Chicago, Alexander Fell Whitney, the professorial president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, got his fellow workers to join the four other big railroad operating unions to call for a general strike vote among their 350,000 members...
Exploded Alexander Whitney: "This stalling . . . has made the settlement of railway wage disputes a farce." More & more blasts came; not since John Lewis had there been such high, hot talk by labor against the Administration...
...real wildcat strikes could be expected from another railroad quarter. The 1,100,000 members of the 15 non-operating railroad unions (maintenance men, etc.) were just about as mad. To their demand for a 20?-an-hour wage increase, another Railway Labor panel countered with an increase of 8? an hour. By last week the "non-ops" having negotiated for 13 weary months, had not yet got up their nerve for a strike vote, had agreed to resubmit demands to a new panel...
...Russians to set up a Red Army garrison at Kami. A full regiment of Russian troops was stationed there-dressed not in Soviet uniform, but in the Chinese uniform. Russia was permitted to establish a trade agency called Sovintorg which monopolized all Sinkiang export trade. The newly built Turksib Railway exercised enormous economic force. Russians helped to lay out roads, planned irrigation projects, trained a provincial army, staffed provincial hospitals...
...Harvests are burning, railway lines are being blown skyhigh, trains are being derailed. Everywhere French National Socialists are falling under Tommy-gun bullets, while the army of terrorists is moving about freely almost under the protection of the robes of judges who are only too ready to acquit criminals...