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2282 PROOLAMATIONS, 1922. sixty days from the maturities of the unpaid amounts within which to make payment of the interest. If the interest is not paid within the time stated, or if, within such time, the amounts in arrears are not paid in f11ll, without interest, the purchases or entries for which the amounts are due will be reported by the district land office to the General Land Office for cancellation. _ IN WITNESS WHZEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. _ Done at the City of Washington--this tenth day of July,——m the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and twenty-two and [snail] of the Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and Forty-seventh. WARREN G. Hammm By the President: Cinnnns E. Hucims ‘ Secretary of State. ¥¤1Y¤·1¤¤-. BY THE Pnnsmmnr or THE Umrnn Srrxrns A PROCLAMATION.

,,fl"°°‘°‘ WHEREAS, the United States Railroad Labor Board is an agency

V<>*·*¤·P-470- of the government, created by law, and charged with the duty of adjusting disputes between railroad operators and employees engaged in interstate commerce; and WHEREAS, the United States Railroad Labor Board has recent? handed down decisions, one affecting the wage of the Shop Cra t employees, the other declarin the contract system of shop craft work with outside agencies to Ee contrary to the intent of the transportation act and, therefore, that such practice must be discontinued; and WHEREAS, the Shop Craft employees have elected to discontinue their work, rather than abide by the decision rendered, and certain operators have ignored the decision ordering the abandonment of the contract sléopspractice; and WHER , the maintained operation of the railways in interstate commerce and the transportation of United States mails have necessitated the employment of men who choose to accept employ- ment under the terms of the decision, and who have the same indisputable rigjlx to work that others have to decline to work; and WHER S, the peaceful settlement of controversies in accordance with law and due respect for the established agencies of such settle- _ _ ment are essential to the securit and well-be` of our eople; mfg"b§,?,‘}{,°€,,}{{,@g NOW, THEREFORE, I, WARREN GTDTIARDING, PRESI- gui mil ¢r¤¤sr>¤r¤¤- DENT OF THE UNITED STATES, do hereby make proclama- ° tion, directing all persons to refrain from all interference with the lawful efforts to maintain interstate transportation and the carrying of the United States mails. These activities and the maintained supremacy of the law are the Erst obligation of the government and all the citizenship of our country. Therefore, I invite the cooperation of all public authorities, state and municipal, and the aid of all good citizens to uphold the laws and to preserve the public eace, and to facilitate those operations in safety which are essential)to life and liberty, and the security of property and our common public welfare.