Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-07-28
COMBINED STRIKES
!. ARE BROUGHT HOME
PRICES OF DOMESTIC COAL IN
EAST GO skYRocKETiNG AND
SUPPLY SHORT IN PLACES
Interstate Commerce Declares M
tion1I Emergency Now Exists Be-
cause Of Railroad Coal Strike
Throughout the Nation

Chicago-The railway strike, com
bined with the coal strike ia bein,
brought home to the public through
the announcements OF leaders in sew
eral industries that unless a speedy
settlement was reached closing of the
plants with resulting unemployment
rationing Of fuel and food supplies
and cripling of public utilities ser.
vice, would result
Steel plants, especially in the East.
Will be closed on a wholesale basis, If
present conditions continue 10 Aug
ust, according to the head of large
steel corporation. Industrial coal
was said to be unobtainable at any
price In New York In Chicago In
creases of from 1925 to $15.25 ton
in coal cars In bitum1nous fields has
caused an appreciabls decline In pro-
duction.
The close relationship which the
strikes were assuming was seen in the
statement of H. B. Trumbower OF the
Wisconsin railroad commission that If
the coal strike lasted an additional two
weeks rail transportation in that
state would be at a standstill.
Official Washington has maintained
confidently expected that President
Harding would begin action to end the
shopmen's strike during the week. In
some quarters it was believed that the
next move might come through the
railroad labor board 1t was pointed
out ohat the board has power to grant
full recognition to the new shopmen's
unions which forty Eastern railroads,
under the leadership of L. F. Loree,
Eastern regional chairman Of the AZ
ISOLATION Of Railway Executives, con-
template forming.
Hopes for immediate peace were
centered in the meeting of officials OF
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad with
representatives of the strikers. Success
in settling differences on that road
probably would mean that other roads
would uQOpL d Sluilidl SOuAoO
Further spread Of the walkout was
considered unlikely since the an
nouncement that the 10000 members
of the Station Agents union would re-
main at work, made by w. j. Noone.
head of the union, after conference
with w. L. McMenimen labor member
of the rail board. However, members
of the local union of firemen at Evans
vile, Ind, Wednesday, adopted resolu-
lions recommending strike unless
armed guards were removed from the
entire Louisville & Nashville system.
Existing embargoes on freight have
caused a shortage of commodities IN
several cities and lack of transporta-
ton has reduced the supply in few
lines. In Chicago q leading chain
grocery firm Monday announced that
the sale of sugar would be limited to
ten pounds to a customer. Similar ac-
tion had previously been taken in sev-
eral small towns.
Curtailment of train service con-
tlnueu line feTe MdrQuelle dhuVunCeu
of thirteen trains. The
Grand Trunk cancelled two trains be-
tween Chicago and Detroit, and the
Chicago & Northw estern annulled two
trains between Chicago and Milwaukee. ;
Six trains were Cancelled by the 500
inc, Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railroads at st. Paul.
In North Dakota train service ON
several divisions was placed on tri-
weekly basis. Motor trucks would be
lsed to carry mail on off days 1t was
Disorders took new tuin
when seven men were arrested in
charged with spreading
lmong the workers at the Baldwin
locomotive shops literature demanding
hat the workers refuse to work on
abroad equipment.