Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-18
THOUSANDS Join
STRIKING SHOPMEN
IN MIDDLE WEST
Way Men, Clerks, Freight
Handlers and Oilers
Walk Out.
GREAT LAKES SHIPPING
FACES INTERRUPTION
Roads Reported to Be Trim
ming Service TO Save
Rolling Stock.
SHORTAGE OF COAL ALSO FELT
Lack Of skilled Workers Thwarts
Attempt to Use Strike
Breakers.
GREAT LAKES SHIPPING
FACES INTERRUPTION
,HonrAGE OF COAL ALSO FELT
Lack Of skilled workers Thwarts
Attempt to Use Strike
breakers.
ny AIe1srder r. Jones,


CHICAGO. July l7.-wi,h thous-
ands o. painte ena nee -ot-way men.
clerks. freight handlers. stationary
engineers and oilers Joining the
~alkout OF 100000 shopm.n. rail-
road, trimming service to the bone
TO save rolling stock and coal vital
transportation on tho Great Lakes
facing seriou. interruption because
of coal shortage and threatened
strike of sailors. and azores Of re-
ports OF interrupted rail- service. the
strike Monday reached point In
the Middle West where, according
10 authorities, immediate Federal aid
Is imperative.
Throughout, tire Miodl. West sta
uonary nrsmen and oilers walked
out OF shops already nearly deserted
Unauthorized walkouts OF clerk,
and freight handlers occurred In
many cen,erx. Nesseia on IN. Great
Lakes were either tyins up because
of coal shortage or giving notice
they would have TO do 30 within a
fe~ days.
skfIed workers Scarce.
'-'''''af '@N'GNiNtN maui tEE-
mendous effort TO break the shop
mems strike with strikebreakers. but
the lack of skilled mon to man the
lithea. boiler shops and sheet metal
repair shops war declared TO have
practically thWarted this attempt
q j Brauer. superinte ndent Of
railway mail here. notified Postmas-
ter-General work tina, strikers at
Lovil!a. iowa. had refused to allow
~reckinS crews TO clear the track
after Burlington train had been
derailed and that the mails were
neing held up. Al Evansville. Ind.
the same trouble was reported by the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail-
road. A fast mail train crashed into
switch engine. ovsrturning both
locomotives. 1t is charged by the
railroad that htrikers refused to al
low wreckers TO work. and that all
trains had TO be de,oured over belt
lines to enter Evansville. The wreck
was caused. It was declared by Su-
perin,endfnt Glijdem. because men
operating the automatic block syS-
TENS were on strike and manual
signal system had to be used. sig
ns!men were reported goin6 out on
other railroads late Monday
Annual Passenger Service.
Passenger service on one braoch
OF the Monon TOAD was completely
annuiled. Two fast New York and
washington trains on the Baltimore
and OHIO were also cancelled. and II
Was reported that unless the shops
are reopened and coal obtained that
service on all lines will be OH a
wartime basis by next week.
One thousand apprentices walk cd
out OF the Great Northern and North :
rrn Pacific shops at ST. Paul, Mimi.
and several hundred clerks and
freight handlers were reported out
on these roads. Tho Pennsylvania
Railroad Company Union" shopmen
at Terre Haute walked out, accord
Ing to report and Joined the strik
ers. leaving ffty-four men working
there. while l.740 are declared out.
Union leaders predlct that gen
eraI walkout of maintenance-of-ws
men will commence Thursday fol-
lowing a meeting Of the grand officers
In Detroit Wednesday President E.
r. CRADLE. who appealed In person
TO President Harding for settlement
OF the trouble before his men went
on strike, said that he did not be-
lIsys he could hold his general coun-
oil from sanctioning a waikout un-
less there is immediate Federal ac-
tion.
Clerks and freight handlers on sew
eral railroads with terminals here mp
pealed Monday to President f. r.
Fitzgerald for permission to strike.
Violence OF Minor Character.
Violence. while seemingly general
in many centers, was Of a minor char
acter. according to reports.
From the offices OF President r. NJ
Jewell. leader OF the striking shop
men. came the report that the union
leaders are preparing to put the
scrsws on" and acqulesce to a general
walkout OF all unions afiliated with
the shopmen.
Following plan OF procedure said
TO have beon laid down at the recent
a. e. OF l.. convention at Cincinnati.
tho leaders have only called strikes
OF the shopmen In ORR to have as
few men out as were necessary. 1t
was believed that the miners and
.hopmen. through the force of cir
cumstaEces-and working under tho
agreement signed here-could force
both the operators and railroad ex-
fcutives to favorable decision. It
has now been decided that the ad-
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