The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
Governors of Five States Are
Asked to Send Troops.
Disorders Grow Each Day of
Rail Shops Tie-Up.
CHIGAGG A VIOLENCE CENTER
Woman There Holds Strikers at
Bay Until Police Come.
Jewell Still Keeps an Attitude
of Welcoming Settlement.

Slater. Mo. July 1.-Two officers
of the Chicago & Alton railroad and
one empioye' have been kidnapped by
striking shopmen. in the opinion of
]. L. Marquette. division superinten-
dent of the road. who explained here
today that the men. who were under
orders to. report here for duty. had
failed to make their appearance.
The men are r. A Green of Bloom
ington. ILL.,. a. chemist; w. L. Moore,
an engine inspector, and an employe
of the chief engineers office OF the
roundhouse at Chicago. whose name
was not known to Mr.. Marquette.
The men were-tIue to report here at
4:5O O'Clock this morning.
1t was believed that the three men
were taken off train No. Q somewhere
between Gillian, Mo, three miles east
OF here, and Marshall. Mo.
Green was ordered out of Slater
Tuesday night by a committee of strik-
ing shopmen who waited on him at a
hotel here. He left Wednesday morn
Ing. Moore left Slater at the same
time. following similar orders from
strikers.
GaliiPolis. o., July Harmed union
miners from Pomeroy Bend today at
tempted to stop nonunion miners at
work in the mines at Cheshire. o., ten
miles east of here The sheriff and
his deputies were called to the scene.
Parsons. Kan. July T.-Shops now
idle on the IL, h. & T. railroad will
be reopened as soon as possible with
nonunion men, it was announced here
last night by L.. G. Hopkins. public
relations officer of the road. Employ
nlent of nonunion men in Parsons was
being held up until. the question OF
using strikers as police is definitely
settled, Hopkins said.
Governor Allen late this afternoon
announced. that officials of the NJ. K.
& T. railroad, comforting with him
here today, were assured that ample
protection will be Immediately forth
coming. IL needed. when they decide to
reopen their shops. Officials OF the
road said they contemplated opening
the shops soon" with non-union
workers. The Katy shops are at Par
sons
Washington. July 7.-Postoffice de-
partment officials said today no fur
with the movement of United States
mails by striking railway workers had
been received since alleged strikers
attempted to hinder the movement of
mail trains in Missouri and Louisiana
Wednesday.
Springfield. m. July Authority
20 call a special state convention of
government intervene in the nation
wide coal strike. was vested in Presi- I
dent Frank Harrington of the Illinois
mine workers by his executive board !
and sub district officers at a secret I
session last night. it became known !
today.
The nesroe-. are now being fed by
the strikers. |
A number OF the negroes this after |
noon denied that the strikers had ]
threatened to lynch them and had
frightened them from their work.
tBy the Associated Preas.l !
Chicago. July with B. NJ. Jew
ell, head Of the striking railway shop
crafts. still maintaining a conciliatory /
attitude, but declining to make the 4
first move toward negotiations. an in
creaSing number of outbreaks and dis /
orders marked the closing hours OF i
the first week since railroad shopmen |
walked off their jobs last Saturday.
Federal injunctions restraining
strikers from interfering with rail-
road operations, molesting workers
and unlawfully picketing shops, were
issued at East St Louis. Ill, and
Shreveport. La.
Disorder Feared in Five states.
Mobilization OF state troops was or
dered by Adjutant General Black of
Illinois following disturbances in the
Wabash yards at Decatur. The gov
and Iowa were asked to send troops
to scenes OF disorders
Chicago experienced its first out
breaks of violence in connection with
the strike. A mob of strikers and
sympathizers which Included many
women. attacked and attempted 10
burn the homes of two Illinois Cen
tral employees at Burnside who re-
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