The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-07-14

with the railway snOp crdlts'
ave are into the fight and we
intend to win,' MIR, Healy said.
Chicago, july l4.-Railway union
leaders today said they expected TO
hold the maintenance of way labor
ers in check and prevent general
walkout in which 100000 shop ana
track workers threaten to join the
striking shop crafts employees.
Both E. F. Cradle, president OF
the United Brotherhood of Malnten-
ance of Way Employees and kallroad
Shop Laborers and b. NJ. Jewell,
head of the railway department OF
the American Federation of Labor, OF
which the maintenance Of way union
is q member, expressed the convlc-
ton that the organization would be
able to carry out the peace program
recently outlined as a result OF con-
ferences with the United States rail-
road labor board.
President Cradle laid the blame
for the newest strike talk which
cropped out again at Cincinnati last
night when T. c. Carroll, chairman
of the general chairman's associa-
ton said the chairmen might demand
q strike sanction, at the door OF a
few deserters."
d Some Wave Red Flag
"There are always some men IN
every organization who are waving
the red flag" said Mr.. Cradle today.
"There are always a few dissenters.
If the general chairmen should ad-
wise their men to strike and they
should do SO, it would be an, unlaw-
full strike and would not be recog-
nized by the national officers"
The general chairmen's association
of which Mr.. Carroll is the head, is
a separate organization within the
maintenance of way union and has
no authority to call strike, accord
ing to union officials. 1t could make
recommendation to the union but
has no power to function otherwise.
Many Fresh Outbreaks
Fresh outbreaks notably in Texas,
Oklahoma and Missouri; President
Harding's determined steps~to keep
the mails moving, and informal ne
gotiations for a settlement Of the
shopmen's. strike on seventeen roads
in the northwest were among other
important developments of the last
"a hours. ..... -1.,
Pressure by many of his general
chairmen upon e. F. Cradle, presi-
dent Of the United Brotherhood Of
Maintenance Way Employees and
Railway Shop Laborers, pushed the
common labor problem to the front
again. Mr.. CRADLES action in with
holding strike orders after mainten-
ance of way workers voted to join
the walkout, did not set we'll with
many of the organizations general
chairmen, who passed on to their
chief, the persistent demands Of the
rank and file for concerted action.
Mr.. Cradle arrived in Chicago
while threats to disregard his re-
fusal to join the walkout came from
within his organization. The gen.
eral chairmen, he asserted, had no
authority to call strike and he in
dicated an intention to remain firm
in his refusal to sanction a strike.
The new crisis caused by threats
from the maintenance men arrived
as peace moves to end the shopmen's
strike had apparently slowed up ma
terially. ..r.. --...
U. S. Officer Beaten
Meanwhile disturbances in connec-
tion with the strike continued. A
deputy United States marshal at
Oklahoma, was beaten and
kidnapped by band of 20 men in au-
tomobiles. G
A II year old worker in the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad
shops at Muskogee was assaulted
and the round house crew Joined the
strike.
Two men were beaten at East St.
Louis and mob attacked the North
ern Pacific roundhouse at Oroville,
California. At Gary, Indiana,
crowd of strikers stormed street
car in search of strike-breakers.
John H. Wood, United States mar
shall for the Northern district of
Mississippi, ordered a force of dep
uties to Amory, Mississippi, to take
charge of the situation in the St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad
shops. Deputy marshals were also
sent to Roodhouse, division point of
the Chicago and Alton.
Maj. Gen. Hines Ready
Major General John L. Hines,
commanding the Eighth Army Corps
area at San Antonio, Texas, was un-
der orders from President Harding
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