Evening star., 1922-08-22
RAIL STRIKE STORM
SHIFTS TO SOUTH
Further WaIkouts Reported
With Train Tie-Ups in
Several States.
TROOPS STILL ON GUARD
Additional Outbreaks Feared.
Second Attempt Made to Dyna-
mite Bridge on G. & 0.
TROOPS STILL ON GUARD

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. August 22.-Walkouts by
trainmen on the Southern railway,
resulting in tie-ups in North Caro-
lima. bombings. beatings and investi-
cations of alleged wreck plots. marked
progress of the rail shipments strike
while efforts to settle it hung Sus-
pended pending the New York meeting
tomorrow of rail heads and officials
Of the transportation brotherhoods.
| mediators for the striking shopmen.
Eight companies nf state troops
were on duty about the shops of the
Southern railway at Spencer. ~ T..
where LOO men arc out. and about
i the post Office al Salisbury, three miles
from Spencer. Troops at the post Of
flee were requested by Postmaster A.
r. Boyden. who alleged that open
threats had been made to lynch post
office clerk.
Troops Break Tcnscness.
TenseneSs prevailed in the situa-
tion at Spencer. but was broken by
arrival of the troops. Trainmen,
switchmen and clerks held meeting.
at which they decided to defer mov-
ing trains until later today. when an
other meeting was to be held to de-
eide whether the walkout was to be
nermanent. All trains arriving at
Spencer after midnight over the
ception of No. 1873. which left with
clyde Keever. general foreman OF the
southern shops. at the throttle.
At Atlanta thirty-five extra United
States deputy marshals were on duty
IN the Southern railways Inman
was perhaps fatally injured and nine
others severely beaten
party of men was reported to
have attacked ]. p. Feaster. boiler
maker. at Birmingham late last night
near the Louisville and Nashville
port, was bound and severely beaten.
southern Railway clerks from
Washington arrived at Knoxville to
work in the Coster shops.
Tie-Up Threatened.
Traffic on the Louisville-St. Louis
division of the Southern will be tied
up completely at 1901 o'clock Thurs
day morning unless B. G. Falls. gem
cral superintendent of the western
big four" brotherhoods effect an
agreement on the roads use of armed
guards.
Mr.. Falls today was in Princeton,
Ind. where firemen walked out yes
terday, and was expected to confer
hood. Their action cut off the four
through trains from Louisville to St
Louis and trains in and out of Prince
ton.
The general division walkout set
FOR Thursday would take in all the
big four men and will affect. it
was estimated. between $50 and 400
men located at terminals at East ST.
Louis, Illinois. Louisville, Princeton,
Ind, and Huntingburg. Ind.
Second Dynamite Attempt.
At Huntington, w. Va. second at
tempt to dynamite Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad bridge was frustrated
when track walker. frightened three
men from the trestle. They left
box of dynamite and forty feet Of fuse.
Linemen for the Missouri and North
Arkansas railway discovered an OBJ
struction on the tracks near Harrison,
Ark. and removed it ten minutes be-
smeared on the tracks and a heavy
iron bar placed on them
H. D: Fought. an employe of the
Missouri Pacific railroad shops at Little
Rock. Ark. told the police that he and
a companion were kidnapped, taken to
a party of men, Fought escaped after
struggle, but said he did not know
the fate of his companion. who was
receiving terrific beating.
Renewed Outbreaks.
San Bernardino. Calf, remained in a
high state of excitement over renewed
outbreaks in the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe yards. A striking electrician
was killed and another striker per-
haps fatally wounded in a running
pistol fight with negro waiter en-
ployed at the commissary inside the
Santa Fe inclosure. According to police
the negro said he emptied a pistol at
five men who followed him from the
shop gates. A strong guard was
thrown around the Jail where the negro
was held.
A hotel at Smithfield. Pa, where
twenty-five railroad workers were
quartered. was bombed early today. A
miners bunkhouse also was damaged
by an explosion. State police arrested
fifteen men after an attack on non
union miners. Ten men were injured
in the fighting.
Numerous prosecutions of persons
arrested for violating federal injunc-
tions restraining interferences with
railroad operations were begun in vari-
Gus parts of the country. They included
the trial at Peoria, ILL.,. Of Mayor c..
p. Skinner of Moline, Ill.,. on a charge
of contempt Of court. Mayor Skinner
was accused of tearing down injunc-
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