The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-14
Stationary Firemen and Oilers Ordered Strike Today
by Timothy Healy, Federal Troops Are Promised to
OuelI Disturbances and Allen Says Interference With
Transportation in Kansas Means Arrest.
HEALY'S men OUT
Members of Big Four in Texas
Also Want to Strike.
Maintenance Way Men Threat
en- Strike without Orders.
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(By the Associated Press)
Chicago, July IA strike call 10
the 5000 stationary firemen. engineers
and oilers employed on railroads thru
out the United States has been issued,
Timothy HeaIy, international president
of the organization. announced today
The strike is effective next Monday
July II, at a. m. The call was made
in compliance with the recent REFER
endum which favored a walkout, MI
Healy said.
.'Wc'rc Out To Win"
The text of the message to all locals
of the organization follows:
IN compliance with your strike
vote, which is SS.6 per cent favoring
a waIkout, sanction is hereby granted
to each and every member OF our
plants round houses and terminals
thruout the United States to suspend
work at a. m, Monday, July II, 1877.
TIMOTHY HEALY,
international President"
Stationary firemen and oilers on
various roads had already Joined in
sympathetic wallIout with the railway
shop crafts.
tend to win Mr.. Healy said.
Toledo. July 14.-In sympathy with
striking railroad shopmen, $50 bag
gage handlers, mail truckers, common
laborers and other workmen constr
tutinE the first shift at the Union sta
tion here, quit work at noon today.
other shifts, the strikers declared, will
not report for work. They say -that
between 45O and 500 men will be in
volved in the walkout.
Decision of the stationary firemen
and oilers to strike comes on the heels
of a threat to strike issued by 400, OOO
inf of pmDlOVeS. Elrll-
ployes and heads of other brother
hoods have condemned action of E. F.
Grablc, president of that brotherhood,
in not calling the strike, as a vote
favorable to it was polled-
Cradle will go to Washington, he
announced to see President Harding
and take up with him the question OF
settling the strike.
Texas big Four Wants Strike.
The Associated Press reports that a
strike not later than July 20, in SYM
pathy with striking shopmen, was re-
solved upon today by 500 members
of the Big Four" brotherhoods at
Amarillo. Texas, in formal appeal
20 their executives.
The union men complain of abuse
and insults in the attitude assumed
by some of the guards used by the
companies among their other stated
reasons for joining in a general walk
out of all railway employees
Governor Neff of Texas refused
carly TODAY to send troops to Denison,
and federal troops were held in readi-
ness at the Eighth corps area, under
charge of General Kinds.
Shopmen Won't Go Back.
B. NJ Jewell has made it plain that
he has no intention of withdrawing
his strike order and sending men back
to their jobs pending negotiations for
settlement
The St. Paul conference between
P A. Henning, chairman of the fed
Grated shop crafts of the northwestern
district and rail officials, brought no
definite results, but both sides ad-
mitted that negotiations had advanced
to a stage that gave promise of a set
tlement of the strike on the II roads
of the northwestern group
Bloomington and Clinton, Ill. Her
ington and Parsons. Kan, and New
Franklin, Mo-, where troops were on
guard, were reported quiet. The same
was true of Slater, Mo. West Chicago
and Aurora, H.. where United States
marshals and deputies were in charge
of the situations
Forty individuals. heads of various
railroad shop crafts unions in the
state of Indiana were named in an in
junction suit filed in federal court at
indianapolis today by the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad in an effort to re-
strain striking shop craftsmen from
committing bodily violence on work
ers imported by the railroad TO take
the SIrlkerS places.
Refuse Offer to Settle.
Striking shopmen of the Kansas,
Oklahoma & Gulf railroad announced
at Muskogee that the road had Of
fered to make concessions to them to
settle the strike. but because It was in
violation OF the policy of the shop
mems national union in dealing with
individual roads, the offer would be
refused.
Trains Arc Slowed Up.
Train service on several lines run
ming into Chicago is seriously slowed
up by the rail strike. but trains, never
theless. are running, and delays are
smaller than might have been sx-
pected. a careful check of the term
inals revealed today.
Some Of the leading trains of each
line were delayed from half an hour
to two hours-particularly thru trains
from the west
Towanda Women's Act Appreciated.
FL Dorado. July 1.-THE Towanda
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