The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-25
Efforts Are Being Made
By the Rail Lines To
Organize Individ u a |
Unions On Each Road
SWashington Sees No
New Ray of Hope In
the General Situation


Washington, July 25.-The use of
shipyard machine shops for repairing
the rolling stock of the railroads in
the United States is the latest devel-
opment in the strike of shopmen.
Some repair contracts are reported
already to be let and general sur
vey of shipyard plants is being made,
according to r. H. NJ. Robinson. pres
ident of the Merchants Shipbuliding
Company, of Chester, Pa. The ship
building plants of the New York Ship
Building Company at Camden, N. j.,
the Todd yards at Brooklyn and the
yards at Cleveland, Ohio, Norfolk, Va,
and Chicago, were mentioned by Mr..
Robinson as capable of use by the
railroads.
Strike leaders say shipyards work
ers will refuse to take part in a cam
paign to take work from the shop
crafts.
w. G. Walder, spokesman for the
railroads, on the other hand declares
that union men in the Schenectady
shops had refused by to l vote
to strike against doing railroad repair
work. He said that other shops were
displaying the same temper against
the efforts of the strikers to involve
them in a dispute with the railroads.
Representatives of the 1000 signal
man working on the northeastern rail
roads and affiliated with the Brother
hood of Railway Signalmen of America
have announced the suspension of the
strike order recently voted pending
further negotiations with rail officials.
3. & o. Conference
Baltimore, July 25.-A conference
here of the management of the NBalti-
more and Ohio system and members
of it's striking shop crafts, while per-
mitted by the national organization
involved, will not result in any sep
arate agreement or separate settle
ment of the strike on the Baltimore
and Ohio, according to J. N. Davis,
national union official, who is direct
ing the shopmen's strike in the Bal
timore district.
"a separate agreement with the
Baltimore and Ohio system would be
an admission of weakness of the po-
sition taken by the shopmen in this
strike admission of weakness of the
position taken by the shopmen in
this strike which is out of the ques-
tion and not to be thought Of" Mr..
Davis added. There was some expec-
tation that if today's conference does
not result in peace between the Bal
timore and Ohio and its shopmen, it
may formulate plans which will be
the. basis for discussion at national
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,ean Bernandino, Cal, July 25.-An
appeal for 25 additional men was
made by o. S. Greenwood, a deputy
marshal last night, following an at
tack on a Southern Pacific train car
rying % workmen for the Santa Fe
shops here. Shots were fired as the
strikers and sympathiZers tried t.
storm the train upon it's arrival. Dep
uty marshals drew pistols in the clash
with the crowd. Two marshals were
knocked down.
one man was drreSleu. oIIiholS
sought a warrant for the arrest OF
Dolph Bassett, deputy marshal, charg-
ing that be used undue violence. The
removal Of one officer will be demand
ed by Greenwood, he announced. The
officer was alleged to have released
striker arrested by deputy marshal
and turned over to the police for tenn
porary custody.
A signal torpedo was placed on the
track and when the train slowed down
shots were fired at the coach con-
tanning the workers. Two bullets
passed through windows.
Ten days ago one train was
searched by armed men, believed to
have been strike sympathizers in Ca
jon pass, about 20 miles east of here.
At that time the situation was re-
ported tense and the mayor and the
sheriff at San Bernandino requested
that Governor Stephens send troops.
RYAN REFEREE APPOINTED