Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-10
.UN|ON CHIEFS HIT
|. AT GARY DISTRICT
IN CALLING STRIKE
300 Brotherhood Men
Join 300 Way Work
crs in Walkout.
STEEL CORPORATION
WILL BE CRIPPLED
Action Taken as Protest
Against Armed Guards
at Joliet.
CLAIM LIVES ARE IMPERILED
Transportation of C"ni md other
Materials tu Plants
STEEL CORPORATION
WILL BE CRIPPLED
CLAIM LIVES ARE IMrEnrLED
Transportation of Coni md other
MatcrinI> tu Plants
ilnlts.
ny Alex nndcr Jones',

United News stan Correspondent
CHICAGO. Aug. 9.-In calling out
all employees on the Joliet division n
OF the Elgin. Joliet and Eastern Rail-
road Wednesday, railroad union lead
crs dealt the financial interests
they claim are back of both the
rail and mine strikes one OF the Sc
verest blows Yet handed out by
either side In the gigantic indus
trial struggle.
When 1900 brotherhood men ana
500 maintenance c-of-way workers
walked out every train on this divi-
sion. which is the switching nerve
center supplying the mammoth Gary
district steel plants with coal and
coke. was stopped.
This comparatively small railroad
Is necessary Ia the normal running
o' the United States Steel Corpora
uon and allied aud independent steel
plants. Most OF the coal and coke
!s switched into the steel district on
IT'S tracks and the major part Of all
finished products. steel rails. sheet
iron. tubing. and hundred other
needed materials. are switched out.
VIII lie Severely hit.
IT this strike is maintained and
other divisions OF the railroad inin
IT, the steel industry will be severe
~ MT and scores OF blast furnaces
closed IN the opinion OF traffic .x
p.ris
The reason given by the big four
brotherhood leaders for the strike
was that the ,ra!nmen were IN
danger of their lives due Ia th..
presence OF soldiers guarding M.
shop districts in Joliet.
IL is regarded as significant. how
ever. tha' the same conditions exist
IN other shop centers and no similar
action has been taken.
II is pointed out by weIl-i,-
formed observers here that mis-
strike follows the claim union Load
ers have made that great financio,
interests in the East are backing Z,
general onslaught on unionism nnd
'ha' the same interests are back ~
h"ih the mine and rail- strikes o,d
me threatened walkout of sailors -,
we Great Lakes. The rail union
leaders hold the financial irterest-
""SH OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
tSpohSible for the refusal OF all
'"c carriers 10 settle on the scniorI.
~ question. the miners point TO IN.
l iihanoia! interests In the PITTSBURGH
uisiric; as the reason for refusal Ia
meet them in a four Stat. nrro
meht' ana the sailors union d.cInr.a
the United States Steel corporati,,
- behind the twelve -nour day md
Az per cent wage cut they are frh,.
ns against on ore aou ,,ai v.s.
sells.
transportation of coal and o,b.r
materials from joliet TO IN. xt.,,
"'str'ct stopped dead early Wcdncs
day The Switchm.n followed ,h,
ihE Four" men out and w.r. fnI-
lowed in turn by the maintenance.
"i way workers. With the switch.
men out all in'ierroad switcbinr mn
uraliy ceased
Late Wednesday Chairman cbor,.s
Day, Of the Joliet division of ,h,
irotherh"od of Locomotive Emf.
heerS on the E.. j. Il r.. said liza,
the strike would not be called ON
until the soldiers are taken nvnT
re received an answer in tho f,rn,
"i "oO additional troops from ,.bi.
Gag" 10 guard the riot district. wher.
wv" men were Killed ana Sherin
Hcwhirk, Of Joliet. badly wounded