Evening star., 1922-07-10
SEEKING ASSA|[ANT
/ OF STR|KEBREAKER
Warrant Out for Man Who
Struck Worker at Ivy
City Shops.

A warrant is out today for the ar
rest OF a man believed to be the as
sailant Of Henry B. Floyd, twenty
was struck in the mouth and painful
ly hurt last night when he passed
outside the bounds of the Washing
ton terminal shops at Ivy City.
Police Of the ninth precinct, in
making this announcement today,
stated that there was no further trou-
BILE expected, and that the fight in
which Floyd, who is native of
serious ARRAY, but the elimination of
an argument over the strike situa-
ton. A few other men, according to
the police. were with Floyd's assail-
ant. They did not strike him, police
believe. the only blow he received be-
Of the supposed assailant was not
made public.
Taken to Casualty.
Floyd was taken to Casualty Hos
pital and his condition is not serious,
Washington terminal officials declared
today he would probably be ready
for work again in q very short time.
They did not seem to take a serious
view of the affair and made no state
appear to them serious and that it
apparently was q matter for the local
police. No additions have been made
to the already substantial quota of
special policemen who are guarding
railroad property. it was announced
today.
Fear of q riot last night brought
Lieut. Guy Burlingame and a number
Of policemen to the scene of the trou..
BILE at Ivy City. Within ten minutes
Ptop haf ha ct 1--WE
well in hand and conditions normal.
At the strikers meeting this morn
ing in George Washington Hall. Sd
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east. warning was given the union men
by the labor leaders that violence
would not be tolerated.
I'VE regret the affair of last night
more than we can state" declared
Business Representative Charles Fra
zier of the machinists' group Of strik-
ers. TT is hard for US to believe that
the men who participated in the night
are unionists, for We have told them
time and again that such action
would do nothing except hurt the
cause. 1t is possible, and we are in
vestigating to see il it is a fact, that
the. participants were strike sym.
pathizers and not strikers. If so. of
course, we can exert no control over
them"
ConIon at Alexandria.
Conditions under which railroad
men throughout the country have
been working and the cause Of the
strike formed the topics of an ad-
dress by P. J. Conlon, vice president
of the International Association of
Machinists, at largely attended
meeting in the Alexandria, Va, ar
mory yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Conlon stated that the strike
was the form of last resort protest
used by the workers against unbear-
able conditions. He declared that
when the roads went under govern
ment control on July 1, 1920 wages
were increased 13 cents per hour, and
that the railroads benefited them
selves by obtaining three times more
revenue. AS long as the funds came
from the United States Treasury, he
SAID. there was no complaint. He con-
inued that the roads started an attack
on the men with propaganda and that
on January 10, 1921. the roads claimed
that the men had taken advantage of
Unole sam. He contended that the
man on July /, 1921, were cut cents
an hour, and that the wage cut
snheduled for this yuly would have
made the total drop 15 cents an hour,
AGAINST which the men struck in pro-
test.