The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-11
TENSION HIGHER AS STRIKE PROGRESSES
CURTAILMENT TRAIN SERVICE
and POSTING OF TROOPS MARK
THELAST TWENTY -FOUR HOURS

United States Railroad Labo rBoard.
Bloomington, ILL.,, July 1.-THE en-
tire night was a succession of alarms.
| At midnight three shots were fired at
sentrie3 near the north end of the
plant. A lieutenant and detail in
| vestigated and set up a machine gun
covering a grocery store where Is to
| 90 strike pickets were congregated.
| The lieutenant then told the pickets
the gun was trained on them and adj
vised them to leave.
Several shots were fired at l o'clock
from the direction of an elevated road
way. The sentries responded with no
| indication that anyone was hurt.
At 2:45 Major L. w. Roszell re-
ceived a report that four men had
succeeded in slipping past the sentry
line into the shops on a spying ex-
petition and had made good their es-
cape. Then at o'clock two bullets
hummed past sentrys ear. They
apparently came from a weed patch
in a little gully.
Three automatic rifles sprayed the
patch with 300 rounds of bullets and
|
during the night Daylight failed to
reveal any trace that anyone had been
| hit.
Lieut.. Col. Chas w. human, who is
in charge of the guards in the shops,
predicted that today will be the de-
cisive day. After a round of the
sentry posts at a. m. he said last
nights sniping was merely to test
out the mettle of the soldiers and see
what they would do under fire.
Ninety-four non-union workmen ar
rived this morning. Thy were search
ed by the troops and gun was found
sticking out of one mans sock 1t
was confiscated.
Col Culbertson has issued orders
that all workmen going into the shops
be searched for weapons and liquor
"If there is any fighting to be
done we win do IT, the colonel said,
Crowds of strikers and strike SYM
| pathizers began crowding around the
shops at 10 o'clock and orders were
issued to set up machine guns cover
| ing every entrance.
Railway Clerks Called
| OHlO, July iC
sanction, he said was given in a tele-
gram to Richard p. Dee, vice grand
| president of the Brotherhood, who had
| gone to Roanoke to investigate the
situation there. The Norfolk and Wes-
| tern runs from Norfolk, Va, to Gin
cinnati, and Columbus, and the strike
| calls out the railway clerks, freight
handlers and express and station en-
ployes in those cities and along the
line.
Mumby also sa idthat headquarters
of the Brotherhood, who had gone to
, Roanoke to investigate the situation
| there. The Norfolk and Western
and Columbus and the strike calls out
! the railway clerks, freight handlers
and express and station employees in
those cities and along the line.
Mumby also said that headquarters
| of the brotherhood has been advised
that the executive board of the Broth
erhood on the Chesapeake and Ohio
system was to present resolutions to
officials of the road at Richmond, Va,
at 8 a. M, today, protesting against
cut in wages and demanding full
| time vacations without involving extra
hours of work
Protecting the Mails.
| Washington, July 1.-THE determ-
nation of the federal government to
maintain mail transportation during
the present shopmen's strike failed to
check the stream of reports to the
postoffice department of interference
by strikers of mail trains.
S. H. Crisler, superintendent of
railway mail service at st. Louis, re-
ported in kilograms to Postmaster
General Work, that 5000 miles of rail
way mail service on the Missouri,
| Kansas and Texas railway were not
being operated. Mr. Crisler added
that the fuel situation was serious
because of the apparent impossivility
of getting coal moved over foreign
lines from the mines, for use by the
road.
The st. Louis San Francisco rail-
way company notified the department
it had no intention of Withdrawing
mail trains.
No further trouble was reported
from Springfield and other points in
Missouri where the strikers were al
! legged yesterday to ha verefused to
move mail matter and the situation
at Kansas City was reported today
to be improved.
Postmaster General Work today re-
ceive dfrom T. c. Galloway, president
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company the following telegram to-
day:
1.-THE Baltimore and Ohio railway
company was obliged to annul the
operatio of its train No. 46, from
Flora, ILL.,, to Shawneetown, ILL.,, yes
terday morning and on that account
was unable to perform United States
mail service between these points
on account of the action Of strikers
who would not permit our officers
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