Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02
CHICAGO POLICE
BARE HUGE: RAIL
VIOLENCE. PLOTS
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Is Forced Into Receiver
ship While Striking Shop
Workers Mark Time

CHICAGO, Aug. -31.-With the ar
rest of three men early today, Chi
cago police declared they had barred
a plot to dynamite the western Elk
press" a fast passenger train on the
Nc.y York Central at !. point be-
tween Gary, Ind, and Chicago.
The wreck, according to the police,
was to have marked the beginning
of a new nationwide reign of terror
on railroads.
According to information. the -iSi-
nal plan of the plotters was to blow
up the train last Tuesday. The de-
lay, police said, was caused by the
capture of four men accused OF
wrecking the Michigan Central
million Dollar Express" at Gary,
August 20, when two OF the train
crew were killed. Charges of MUIR
der against these men and the vigil
lance with VIII. h railroad property
has been protected. made the plot
tiers wary, according t. their captors.
First information of the intended
dynamiting, according to the Police,
was obtained by private detectives
posing as strikers.
Reports that raids throughout the
country were planned, was denied at
the bureau of investigation OF the
department Of justice here.
Detectives today were attempting
to earn whether there was any 1Cn
nection between the plot attributed
to the trio held in connection with
the reports that the western express
was marked for wrecking and that
of four men held at Gary, Ind.
oh,
of the killing of the engineer and
fireman on the Michigan Central *
press train which was wrecked near
Gary or August 20. The men held
at Gary were alleged by the police
to have admitted membership rail.
way shipments unions whose mem
bers now are on strike.
The police suspect that a guam
tity of dynamite has been obtained
by plotters for wrecking trains and
damaging railroad tracks and build
ings.
Railroad detectives who represent.
ed themselves as strikers were said
by the police to have obtained the
first information coi.eeI..4llS the al
legged dynamite plots.
The men now held in connection
with the alleged plot against the
Western Express are G. A. Dag
ham, j. J. Boyle and Frank r. Hart
man. All live in Chicago and are de-
clared by the olice to be striking
ghopn1en and communists.
The plan to dynamite the pas.
senger train was declared by inves
ligators 20 have been set for today
although an earlier plan, the de-
tectives say. was to have caus ,d
the wreck last Tuesday. The ar
rests in connection with the Gary
wreck according to police, are be
lieved to have delayed the plans al
legged to have been plotted against
the western express train.
In an attack on the labor board
for it's refusal to substitute the prin.
ciple of the living wage" as adj
vanced by the trackmen, for the
theory of a "just and reasonble'
wage as provided in the transporta.
ton act, B. M. Jewell, head of the
striking shop crafts, declared the
boards action fully justified" the
Z shipments strike. Classification of
the shopmens position on June 80
has come from an unexpected
source he said. THE bolrd's an.
swer to the request of maintenance
of way employees for a pronounce.
ment on the principle of the living
wage fully supports the determine.
ton of the shop crafts to seek other
sanction for just living standards. u
Passing of the Chicago and Alton
railroad into the hands of receiv
ers was one of the high lights today
in the nations railroad situation.
The receivership of the Chicago
and Alton railroad filed yesterday il
federal district court, was viewed to
day by a high federal official as onG
means of relief from strike troubles
1t would place the road under fed
eral supervision, this official pointed
out.
While the road was declared tc
have a total Indebtedness of $4,000,
O00, it was set forth in the state
ments of attorneys for the road I,
also had had difficulties with strik
ers at several points but these trou
bles, except with the striking shop
men, have been cleared away. How
ever, the government official here
said that under receivership, an,
acts CT strikers against the roat
could be considered as directed
provide a test of such government
supervision.
-Four men, two of whom were sal;
to be deputy United States marshals
were attacked by crowd and sc
verely beaten at Sedalia, Mo.
ATTEMPTS to blow up the tracks
of the Chicago and Alton and 4;
bridge on the same road near Alton
Cicn0unf.ad xxyt1o
of dynamite were found by section
crew.
Although preparations were mad,
to reopen the shops of the Missouri
Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas ant
Texas railroads at Sedalia, Mo, tn
Missouri Pacific roundhouse ant
shops at DeSoto, Mo-, remained
closed, the management announcin,
that operations had been discontin
ued indefinitely.
Furthe- Violence
An explosion OF dynamite on tn,
main line of the Cleveland, Cincin
nati, Chicago and st. Louis railroad
al Arlington Heights, a suburb O
CINCINNATI, derailed the tender of {
work train. A passenger train hat
passet: a few minutes before the ex
plo%ion
An ataempt was made to blow III
the commissary of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad at Paducah, KY. TIL,
explosion blew a hole in the GROUND
near the building.
A fast train on the Chicago anC
Alton ran into an open switch a
Covel, ILL.,, near Bloomington. In
yestigators said the switch showed
evidence OF tampering. Police pre-
cautions at New Orleans, in effect
amounted to martial law in efforts
to check disorders which authorize.
characterized as virtual anarchy
Automobile loads of police patrolleC
districts where fires have occurred
in the homes of railroad worker,
following announcement by the fir