Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-06
CONGILIATORY TONE IS
EVIDENT IN EVENTS
, OF TODAY
APPEAL FOR TROOPS
UNIONS CONTINUE IN COMMAND
OF SHOPS AT SLATER, NC.
AFTER SEIZURE AND FoRCIBlE
EJ TlON OF NON.UNlON
WORkMEN.

Chicago, July c. (By the A. PD-.
The strike of railway shopmen as.
suncd more conciliatory aspect to-.
day-the sixth since the nationwide
walkout-and feeling became moro
general In rail circles that the last
twenty-l0ur hours had shown mark.
ed trend toward peace despite in.
creased disorders at scattered poiEs.
1t was believed that yesterdays ex.
change of letters between Ben W.
HOOPER. chairman OF the United States
railroad labor board, end H. N. jew
ell head OF tho railway employees de-
partment Of the American Federation
of Labor probably opened the way t5
negotiations for an early settlement
of the controversy.
Jcwcls statement that the shop
crafts are willing 10 confer with
anybody authorized By the railroads
to bring peace proposals. was accept.
ed as a promising indication of al
speedy return to normal conditions In
railroad shops. Mr.. Jewell said he
neither included nor excluded any
body, but il the labor board came
with definite proposition he woulI
not hesitate to consider It,
The statement was nude in the
face Of the repeated contention by the
railroads that the shopmens strike III
not against the carriers, but again t
tho government, and therefore mat
ter to be settled before the labor
board, the governments tribunal
Explaining his failure to answer last
Friday summons TO appear at Il joint
conference before the beard, Mr.. jew !
ell said the summons came too late to !
possibly avert the Walkout set for Sat |
drday and that his appearance woulG |
have caused confusion in the ranks |
Of the shop crafts who had their or
ders to strike
Governor Undecided
Jefferson City Mo, July Gov |
arnOr A. NJ, Hyde announced this I
morning he would meet today rep
reSentativc OF the attorney generals |
Office who spent yesterday in Slate :, |
whore striking shopmen are in poscce- |
zion of the Chicago and Alton railroad I
shop The governor said he had been |
advised 200 soldiers wouli be neccs- /
gary to adequately guard the shops
Retain Hold on Shops.
Slater, Mo, July 6-(By A. P)-I
Railroad officials today awaited word
from Governor A. M. Hyde before
making further plans for reopening
the Chicago and Alton shops here.
from which crowd of more than 500 |
strikers drove eighteen strikebreakers |
yesterday.
After the strikers had cleared the !
town of striH breakers, had drawn
deadlno around the shops beyond |
which strangers were not allowed to
pass, and had established glIrd posts
at various points, they setfed down
to policy Of watchful waiting.
Union chiefs and town officials are |
one in declaring they expect no trou
bic, if the railroad does not attempt |
to import strike breakers.
Eighteen strike breakers were tax
en- from the shops late yesterday in
autos to the edge of the town and |
told to beat and keep going" Ten .
more, who escaped the first deporta-
ubu bt HIulnS III Il lDitIldu car III /
the yards, were placed on a Chicago |
train last night Trains going thru
Slater were watched carefully by a |
crowd of $50 strikers, who took com
mand of the railroad station and |
searched the trains 20 be sure they !
carried no strike breakers.
A negro porter, on sleeping car
where the strike breakers were quar-
tered was threatened with hanging
by the crowd railroad officials said .
and on his knees pleaded for his life
Three men were forced to leave Slat-
er after they had express sentiments
nntagonistic to the strikers. An air
brake inspector. George McClone of I
BloominetOn, H., was one of these
men. Others were the engineer nam
cd Shockley, and R. f. Green, an oil /
Inspector of BLOOMINGTON. Three I
frightened youths beating THEM way
on the tender of passenger train +
were hauled from their hiding places I
and forced to give an account of them
selves when strikers searching the /
train for strike breakers found them /
The strikers say they do not intend |
to permit the opening of the railroad /
shops with outside labor.
aailroad men control the local gov
ernment and furnished most of the |
subsistenance of the town. of which
the chief industry is the railroad /