The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-03
new WORKERS
ASK SENIORITY
Be PROTECTED
Ten Thousand Shop Men of
Santa Fe Who Have Formed
Association Telegraph La
Dor Board.
L ULL IN MANEUVERS
BULLETIN


CHICAGO, Aug S.-Ten thousand
formed an association of new employees
today telegraphed Chairman Ben W.
Hooper of the railroad labor board,
demanding their rights be safeguard
ed in any settlement of the shopmens
strike. They are entitled, they say, to
protection in the seniority rights ac
quired during the strike.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-There was lull
today in peace maneGvers in the rail-
road strike. Rail men were reticent
and there was no forecast of where
the next peace effort would originate.
Strike leaders turned their atten-
tion toward Washington, where Presi-
dent Harding had telegram, sent by
the shopmen last night after their
meeting here, accepting his peace pro-
posals, upon condition that the unions
Interpretation of the settlement sug
gestions be recognized. Railroad ex-
ecutives were also awaiting news from
the capital, after their acceptance of
all the presidents proposals excepting
| that regarding restoration of senior
| ity rights to strikers.
Make No Comment
| Railroad men noted the invitation
| of the Southern railway TO striking
/ shopmen to negotiate for settlement
based on President Harding's plan,
/ but made no comment.
At Dallas, Texas, the Texas division
| Headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, announced that union men
now on strike would be employed only
as new men.
| Violence was reported from six cit
| les in as many states during the night.
FAur of the disturbances assumed the
proportions of riots. one resulting n
Z, the death of one man.
| Carl Spradley was killed during an
exchange of shots at Van Buren, Ark.
between guards in the Missouri Pa
cific shops and men said TO be strik-
ers The dead mans brother, Will
4 Spradley, was wounded, but will re-
cover, doctors say.
At Jackson, Mich, several police Of
ficers and striking shopmen were in
jured slightly when more than thou
sand strike sympathizers, including
many women and children, attacked
non-union workers with sticks, stones.
eggs and other missiles as the non
;. union men were leaving the shops of
the Michigan Central railroad
Attack Workers.
Eighty strike sympathizers attack
ed more than so workers in the Chica-
go-Great Western shops at Des Moin-
es Ia One man was severely injured
and dozen of the workers were miss
ing when police stopped the fighting.
Three special guards of the South
ern Pacific at East Bakerfield, Calf,
were fired on. Police invested but
, made no arrests.
In Lincoln, Neb.. more than a 100
|, men. women and boys attacked the
home of Burlington Route car fore
man with bricks and stones. Police
, dispersed the crowd. demonstration
, in front of the home of another worker
also was broken up by police.
Four non-union employees of the Mis-
surf, Kansas and Texas were beaten
with sticks and ropes and put off a
train at Upton. Tex, by Is men.
A strike sympathizer at Springfield,
H., was sentenced to 80 days in Jail
for violating a federal injunction by
tearing one of the printed injunction
notices from a telegraph pole
The Chicago, Milwaukee and ST
Paul was granted a temporary federal
I restrainin gorder forbidding interfer-
ence with operations in Helena, Mont.