The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-15
TROOPS TO
PROTECT
RAILROADS
Strike Disorders In
crease in Number
and = iolence Life
3 and p operty 70 Be
protected

ana properly 10 BE
tected
Chicago, July 10 fBy the As
sociated Press With increasing
pumbers of state troops and emer-
gency forces of United States dep
uty marshais on guard wherever
outbreaks have been threatened.
the government today announced
that life and property would be
protected. the mail continued and
Interstate commerce not interrupt
ed despite the strike OF railway
sfepmen.
After q conference with Presi-
dent Harding. Attorney General
Daugherty said that the govern
ment weuid make certain that law
and order were preserved through
the appointment Of deputy mar
shasss
The attorney generals announce
naent came shortly after Lieut.
Goyernor Fred q. Sterling. acting
head of the state OF Illinois. had
ordered Ave companies of Nation
at Guardsmen to Bloomington to
protect the shops Of the Chicago &
Alton railroad. The ordering out
OF the state troops followed ap-
peals from the local authorities,
who declared that civil Authorities
had cola psed and that the soldiers
were needed to- protect life and
property. They were greeted on
their arrival at Bloomington by
crowds OF strike sympat thizers with
jeers and ribald comment.
In Clinton, Ill., where the Illi-=
nois Central shops have been un-
der guard of STATE troops since
Saturday night, when an outbreak
was threatened following a fatal
shooting afray the day passed in
comparative quiet. although several
shots were fired by sentries at a
group OF men who were believed
TO have been advancing to attack
the shops. The attackers fed. none
Of them being injured. At Aurora:
III. where an emergency force OF
deputy naaTshals has been on guard
since the Burlington obtained a
temporary Injunction against vio-
leHce ea SATURDAY several hundred
strikers and strike 4 sympathizers
held silent parade about the
shops. All OF tile Aururs police
force and many railroad guards
watched the demonstration. which
Was orderly
Aside from a few clashes. the
cancellation of some passenger
trains on the shorter runs and the
reepening of shops in various sec
tons of the country. there were
few developments in the day. Rail-
way executives had expected some
demonstrations to furnish the
turning point of the strike. be-.
cause of the ulSimatum Of many
roads that all strikers Who did not
return to work today would for
felt their seniority rights.
Little disorder was reported as
the result of the efforts Of the
roads to reopen their shops. At
Hoxie, Ark. so non-anion workers
sent there were chased out OF town
and forced to entrain for Poplar
Bluff. Mo. The Katy shops in
Parsons. Kan. the scene of rioting
earlier in the strike, reopened un-
der the protection of geo National
Guardsmen with $50 non-union
men on duty.
AT Sacramento Calf. operations
were resumed at the local Southern,
Pacific and western Pacific shops
with no signs of disturbance.
I Southern Pacific officials announc-
ed that about 1,500 men were at
work but union lenders said that
1.8Ge workers were on strike at
the headquarters of the Erie rail-
road in Chicago. where labor
bureau was established after the
strike was called, the following
: sign was posted at noon: No
more wanted. quota full"
The Illinois Central published
an announcement saying that any
of It's men who returned to work
before July II would retain their
seniority rights. In Denver newly
enployed men we're put to work in
the shop without any sign Of dis
furbance or even Of pieketing. At
Altoona. Pa, it was reported that
scores Of men working in the shops
there had thrown down their
tools to join demonstration of
the strikers
Some curtailment of train SER
vice was reported from st. Louis,
fIanibai. No, louisiana. Illinois.
New York and several other
states.
Interference by strikers in Texas
with mail train was reported to
the postofHce department today. j.
e. Taussing. president of the Wab-
ash railway company. appealed to
the government for protection for
his roads shops and said that
strikers had stopped naif train at
,Mobley. No. by cutting the air
hose and throwing stones through
the windows Of the coaches.
Temporary restrai,itpg orders
prohibiting striking shopmen from
pieketing or interfering with em-
p1oyees or persons seeking employ
!. ment at Monroe. Lat. and ut Lit
tie Rock. Ark. We're issued today.
Bonneville. Mo-. July i0-Twp