The Monroe journal., 1922-07-18
nine RAILROAD POLICEMEN
BUNDLED UP sent AWAY
-Four Companies Of State Troops Are
stationed AT Raleigh, Durham,
Wilson and Rockingham
HELD READINESS SUPPRESS
ANY DISORDER TAKING PLACE
Governor Morrison Declares That
Disorders in All sections OF the
State Must Cease at Once.

This morning four companies OF
state troops had been drawn from
their encampment at Morehead City
and stationed at Raleigh, Durham.
Wilson and Rockingham by Cover
nor Morrison. who announces that
he will hold them in readiness to
suppress any disorder that may take
place al the centers of the railroad
strike at Rocky Mount, where the
coast line shops are located, and at
Hamlet and Raleigh.
Disorders broke out at Rocky
Mount the last Of the week. Nine
guards, or special agents-railroad
police-which had been sent to
Rocky Mount. were bundled up by
strikers and sent away. Judge Con-
ner of the United States district court
issued an injunction against any fur
ther violence at that place. The town
of Rocky Mount sits straddle OF the
Edgecomb and Nash county lines.
The sheriffs OF these two counties
and the mayor of the town appealed
to Governor Morrison to send troops
there to guard work. This the gov
ernor refused to do. saying that he
would wait to see il peace were re-
stored In consequence Of the injunc-
tion OF the federal court.
The governor announced, however,
that he mad ordered the four compa-
nies OF troops to be In readiness to
suppress any disorder that might
break out anywhere in the state, es-
pecially ii is understood, with an
eye on Hamlet, Rocky Mount and
Raleigh. In winding up his procla-
nation the governor said:
There are disorders elsewhere in
the state incident to the strike. They
must cease. regardless of reasons Of
fered for such lawless conditions. |
shall use every power the state pos
sesses to restore order and to keep
the peace everywhere within the
state. l warn those who are engag-
ed in this lawlessness and threats OF
violence that they cannot prevail
against organized society. and that
III they do not at once come to order
and conduct their cause with argu-
ment rather than with menace,
threats and violence, | shall throw
lall the military power OF this state
against them without further delay"
No Signs of Peace
In the meantime, there are no
signs throughout the country of a
cessation of the strike. The shop
mems Representatives claim that II
is succeeding. Certainly the opera
tion of trains is becoming more and
more crippled. The situation all
about the country seems to be about
what it Is in North Carolina. There
are small outbreaks of violence, due,
it is claimed, to the hot heads, and
not at all countenanced by the lead
ers of the workmen. In Georgia and
other states the governors are doing
about what the governor of this state
lis doing, that is, holding troops in
readiness to suppress violence. Ev-
erywhere the men feel very deeply
that the federal labor board has been
stacked against them. There are
nine members of this board Three
OF them are supposed to represent
the railroads, three the public, and
three the workmen. This amounts
by reason OF The partiality shown in
the appointment Of the three repre-
sentiug the public. that six men rep
resent the railroads in actual effect
in the opinion of the men. They
say that the railroads have violated
the Instructions of the board in 104
specific eases. vet now they claim to
be very law abiding, and profess to
be outraged that the shopmen will
not submit 10 the order of the board
reducing their wages and upsettinG
working conditions. The demands
of the working men are thus sum-
married.:
The Five Demands
The five demands of the shopmen
were announced as the restoration
of all seniority rights to strikers, i'm.
mediate establishment of a national
adjustment board so that the men
may obtain quicker action on local
grievances than is possible through
the labor board. the abolishment OF
outside contracting by the roads, the
restoration of certain rules and
working agreements, and a return 10
the scale OF wages in effect before
the cut ordered by the labor board
for July l became effective simul,a-