The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-07
FEDERATION IN
PLAN OF ATTACK
ON INJUNCTION
GOmpers and Other Chiefs Hold
Secret Conferences.
May Move Thru Courts to Have
the Act Vacated.
IN FAVOR OF IMPEACHMENT
IN FAVOR OF IMPEACHMENT
Try to Enjoin Injunction in
District of Columbia.
Daugherty Says Order Does
Not Deny Speech Right.

Atlantic City, Sept. 7.-American
Federation of Labor chiefs, led by
President Samuel Gompers, today pre-
pared to draft a plan of attack upon
Daugherty's injunction against the
railroad shop craft strikers Follow
ing a series of secret conferences
which lasted until late last; night, it
was unofficially announced at labor
headquarters in the Ambassador hotel
that, it had been almost definitely de-
cided to attempt thru the courts to
have the Daugherty act vacated.
A score of labor chiefs were already
on the scene as today's program got
under way. Labor headquarters today
still professed ignorance of the where
abouts of IS. NJ. Jewell, head of tHe
striking shop crafts organizations. and
w. H. Johnston of the machinists,
whose absence from their accustomed
headquarters brought forth unofficial
reports here that they were on the
way to confer with Mr.. Gompers.
1t Is reportd that several heads of
the big five brotherhoods also will be
invited before the American Fedora
ton of Labor, with which they have
no official affiliation, to review the
story of their efforts as mediators to
bring about peace between the shop
crafts and rail executives.
Support Impeachment Effort.
New York, Sept. support of the
FeQ6TdliOil VI I4dOOT III us
efforts to bring about the impeach-
ment of Attorney General Daugherty
and Federal Judge Wilkerson of Chi
cago for their part in the issuance of
the rail injunction was pledged by
Samuel Gompers, federation president,
in a telegram received from Atlantic
City today by the central and labor
council.
Order Served on Noonan.
W ~ i, To %
Noonan, president of the International
brotherhood of Electrical Workers. a
leader in the strike of railway shop
men, today was served formally with
a copy of the restraining order OBJ
tanned by the government from Chi
cago federal court.
Service was effected by U. S. Mar
shall E. c. Snyder who was under
stood to have received his instructions
prior to the filing of a petition in the
courts of the District of Columbia by
Noonan organization for an order re-
straining the federal authorities from
enforcing the provisions of the Chi
cago order.
Try to Stop Order
A petition for an injunction was
tiled today in the supreme court of
the District of Columbia against U. S.
Attorney Peyton Gordon and U. S.
Marshal Edgar c. Snyder, marshal for
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, James P. Noonan. president
and Charles P. Ford, secretary which
would restrain Gordon and Snyder
from enforcing within the District of
Columbia the provisions of the blanket
injunction issued by Attorney General
Daugherty in Chicago last week.
The plaintiffs state that neither be-
fore nor since the first day of July
this year have they committed any
unlawful acts incident to the strike of
railway shopmen. The brotherhood
and President Noonan were named in
Attorney General Daugherty's injunc-
ton.
No Personal Restrictions.
Attorney General Daugherty's an
nouncement Of the governments plan
of procedure in connection with its
injunction suit against the striking
railway shop crafts was viewed here
today as a reply TO labor leaders and
others who have assailed the intunc-
tion as violation of constitutional
rights, leaving in no doubt the de-
termination of the department of JUS
tice to pursue the course adopted.
Dividing interest with that develop
ment in the rail situation today were
continued reports of secret negotia-
tions looking to some sort of a sepa-
rate strike settlement with individual
roads and the significance of that con-
nection of the meeting called in Chi
cago of the policy committee of the
shop crafts unions AS to any such
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