The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-10
WITH TROOPS
NEARBY, SHOPS
ARE OPERATED
Begin Determined Efforts to
End Rail Strike-Ranks OF
Strikers Hold Soidly-No
Peace Overtures.
OBTAIN lNJUNCTIONS
CBy Associated Pross1

marshals railroad shops at several
troublesome points began determined
efforts today 10 break the railroad
shopmen's strike. While the ranks of
the strikers apparently held solidly
and peace overtures were still unseen.
Notified by the Chicago and Alton
that it intended to reopen the Bloom.
ington, Ill, shops Mayor E. F. Jones
and Sheriff ]. E. Morrison sent new
appeals for troops to Lieut. Gov.
Sterling with the result that state
troops from Springfield and Danville,
H., were ordered to entrain today
Three companies now patroling the
Illinois Central yards at Clinton, III,
may be moved to Bloomington. Both
places were quiet today, however, with
the traffic at the two terminals near
standstill.
Troops Stand Guard.
Kansas national guardsmen stood
guard in a drizzling rain while $50
men went to work at the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas shops in Parsons,
Kansas. There was no trouble. Dep
uty g. S. marshals took charge of the
Burlington shops at Aurora, Ill, while
a Gordon of 1900 strikers formed
slow moving circle around the shop.
The Burlington obtained an injunc-
ton to restrain strikers from inter-
fering with operation of the road in
Nebraska, after obtaining similar
writs Saturday in Iowa and Illinois.
Possible interference by the federal
government in Washington was seen
in a morning conference between At
torney-General Daugherty and Alfred
P. Thorn, general counsel for the AS
sociation of Railway Executives, af-
ter which the attorney general i'm
mediately went to the White House.
Probe Interference.
Reported interference with mail
trains on the Wabash was being in
vestigated by the postoffice depart
ment meanwhile.
National guardsmen were on duty in
Illinois and under arms in four other
states, United States marshals were in
charge Of law-enforcement machinery
at various points, the Michigan state
police we're ordered and prepared for
duty, while at other rail centers the
roads relied upon federal injunctions
and local authorities for protection in
attempting to operate shops and main
tain transportation into which increas-
ing inroads were noted.
! shrieked the final notes of railroad
| ultimatums cancelling seniority ard
| pension rights of strikers who refused
/ to return to the shops today.
| The day brought ominous forebod-
| ings of an impending crisis at many
| points as trouble brewed among the
CURED at scattered points and others
I eif,
/ tenser.
The tenth day Of the strike was
marked by the apparent determination
tions taken at the outset and indica-
tions pointed to a feverish deadlock.
Roads Open Shops
Railroads generally prepared &c open
their shops with what labor was avail
able, accepting returned strikers and
filling vacant jobs as far as possible
with imported workers.
l. State troops patrolled the Illinois
Central yards, and shops at Clinton,
Ills, while at Bloomington, Illinois, city
and county officials. admitting the col
| lapse of civil authority and expecting
further trouble In the Chicago and Al
ton shops, awaited action by Lieuten.
ant Governor Sterling on their appeal
| for troops.
/ A new appeal to the acting COVER
nor, was made by Mayor Jones and
Sheriff Morrison late last night. They
declared the strike situation was out
of their control
| National guard companies were mo-
bilized in Missouri, Kansas, California
and Indiana.
Marshal Prepared
|, United States Marshal Levy was
authorized by Federal Judge Carpenter
who issued an injunction restrainin.
strikers from interfering with oper
: alton of Burlington shops at Aurora
, Ills, to employ any necessary meas
ures to preserve peace there and en-
! force the injunction.
: q. S. marshals increased their forces
: as they prepared to take charge o.
law enforcement at points in severa
states where situations were critical
Marshal E. E. Fitzpatrick and {
force of deputies went to Parsons
Kas., where state troops also wer,
ordered by Governor Allen.
Several deputies working unde'
Marshal l. K. Pearshall of Kansas Cit,
were sent to Slater, Mo-, where strik
ers for several days had been in vir
tual control of the Chicago and Altol
, shops and the town. Marshal Pear
/. shall said he was prepared to have
deputies at all of the thirteen division
points in his district.
> Mobilize Deputies
Mobilization of special deputies wa
made for the additional purpose Q
J, protecting mails and property of var
!, ious railroads in the hands of receiy
! ers appointed by United States courts
! ]. A. Baggett. marshal for the north
= ern Texas district. was guarding mail
. on the Texas and Pacific, the Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas and tn
:. Great Northern railroads.
: Slater spent a comparatively quie
: Sunday with Marshal PearshalIs me
in charge of the situation but in
. ported strikebreakers experience
:. trouble in obtaining supplies from tn
= union controlled town and a numbe
u of them quit.
q Officials of the Missouri Pacific al
= ! nounced the annulment of thirty pa
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