The Topeka state journal., 1922-07-11
Roads Are Pulling Off Trains
Due to Fuel Shortage Also.
While Violence Marks Opening
of Shops Outside Kansas.
mail TRAINS ARE TAKEN OFF
Harding Holds Conference
Over Both Strikes, at Capital.
Kansas Utilities Board Probes
CurtaiIment ON "MOp."

! Washington, July 11.--Interference
with the mails was reported to the
government here today from many
points over the United States
This is in spite of the governments
determination to maintain transporta-
ton of the mails and interstate com
merce during the shipments strike.
Postmaster General Work late today
directed all postmasters to report to
their local superintendents any inter
ference in the movement of the mails.
Wabash Is Hard Hit.
Interference with railway mail at
tributed to the railroad strike put
out of operation today 5000 miles OF
railway mall service on the wabash,
according to kilograms received by
the postoffice department from II.
CIsler, superintendent of railway mail
service at st. Louis
For more than two hours today
the president and his cabinet dis
cussed the chaotic industrial situation
brought on by the twin rail and coal
strikes.
1t was finally decided that the chief
executive should make the position
of the government clear in a formal
statement to the public.
This statement will be issued by
the White House tonight
IsallTOaQ ana coal Strikes lORelneT
were getting in their effectiveness in
a combine today. with fifty-four
trains announced by officials at DAN
Vile as being taken off the Wabash
in Illinois.
The Missouri Pacific mixed train
making one round trip daily between
Dexter and Arkansas CITY. Kansas,
also was announced as being cur
tailed.
Both announcements placed the
L -Tr..z L. -
bined with the rail strike. Officials
of the Wabash stated curtai1ment of
the fifty-four trains was due entirely
to lack of coal coming from Ken
lucky.
To Probe the Report.
Informed of reports that the Mis-
souri, Pacific train from Arkansas City
had been taken off, a member of the
state public utilities commission in
Topeka stated he would look into ths
matter at once.
He stated he was assured by Presi-
dent Bush of the Missouri Pacific that
no trains would be taken off today.
Rifle Fire Breaks Quiet.
Rifle fire broke out here for the
first time since the beginning OF the
shopmens strike today, preceding
bringing of ninety-seven nonunion
workers to the shops at BlooninRton.
III, which are guarded by national
guard troops.
Reports from Sheriff Jacob Morrf-
son of Mclean county to Adjutant
General Black of Illinois stated that
nearly 200 shots had been fired. and
that houses were being fired into. He
asked that orders be given to discon-
tinue the firing. Col. A. L. Culbert-
son, in charge of the troopers, how
ever. stated that only three shots had
been fired, and that no one had been
hurt
One shot was fired from outside
the military lines, and two from the
inside" he stated. "One of these shots
was accidental"
Engineers VIII Not Strike.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers issued a statement at head-
quarters at Cleveland late today.
branding as false reports that meme
bers would go on strike. We do not
go on sympathetic strikes" the state
ment said.
Charges that I. w. W. had been
brought into Kansas City for the 9ur-
pose of stirring up trouble among the
striking shopmen were made this
morning by Chief of Police Edwards.
Honeycombed With Radicals.
Railroad centers Of Missouri ara
honeycombed with other radicals, with
instructions to repeat the Herrin
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