The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-09-07
SAYS AG|TATORS
WILL Be CALLED
Attorney General Daugherty
To Proceed Against Mis-
guided Leaders.
Process Servers Meet With
Handicaps-Injunction
Flayed In Senate.

Washington. Sept s.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press)-Formal announcement by
Attorney General Daugherty that the
government would consider in due time
what proceedings shall be taken against
the few misguided labor leaders VINO
have made incend!ary speeches IN con-
ncction with the industrial situation and
rcrS!sten reports that secret conferences
are in progress looking TO some sort OF
separate settlement with individual
roads, stood out In t"dly's development
in the strike of the railway shop crafts.
Process Service Hampered
Incidentally. Mr.. Daugherty said
"Preparation II the governments case
had been somewhat hampered" by the
difficulty PROCESS servers were exper-
iencing !r locating leading officials OF
the shop crafts organizations.
W. II, Johnston. president OF tho ma
chinis,s. Nnd B. NJ. Jewell, official head
o fthe seven organizations on strike
have recently dropped out of public. view
although labor spokesmen have invar-
Iably denied the two leaders were
avoiding the service OF copies OF the
restraining order ISSUED at Chicago last
Friday. and asserted they would BE-
available II wanted for that purpose.
MIR. paugherty In his statement en-
pha sized his belief that the rank and file
of labor organizations were content to
leave the Issue to the orderly processes
OF law. but said the few leaders. who
have shown contempt for the courts
need not complain that they are denied
the full privileges Of free speech"
Want Union Records
Instructions have been sent to the
United States attorney at Chicago that
the attorney general said TO notitS
counsel for the unions that loading off'
cials OF the shipments organizations to-
gether with their complete records
would be required before the court when
the case IS again called.
Both in government and in labor cir
cles today complete ignorance was ss-
serted Of any actual or impending ne
gotiations looking to the settlement OF
the strike. Some officials had been In
formed. IL was said. that the outlook fol-
n settlement had been frightened by
recent developments, but even with
these, details were lacking. II was a
matter Of common knowledge, however
that several railroads still held the
views In favor OF separate settlements
which their representatives had e1'
pressed at tho recent conference or rail-
way executives in New York.
Attack In Senate
The governments temporary restrain
Ing order came in for It's first public at
tack in the Senate today, when Senator
Robinson. Democrat. Arkansas. assailet
the writ on the ground that II consti
tuted plain violation Of the Consti
tuition" Senator Watson. Republican
Indiana, defended the government:
course. asserting that II was the only
action possible in the emergency which
the country faced.
The suggestion that settlement neSo
t!ation4 might have been Instituted
through third parties was seen in th'
statement OF machinists officials tina
their organization had not been invited
to any meeting.
So far as could be learned no aftor'
was instituted to serve labor leaders
who might have been in Washington
United States Marshal E. c. Snyder
said he had received no instructions
from the department OF justice and tha
he had not been given copies OF th'
chicago order which would be IeceS
sary before he could undertake the tasi
ATTORNEY General Daugherty said m
"assumcl' that the strike leaders woulC
w"lcom" tn" opportunity to hear before
y tho court