The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-22
HOOPER GOES !
into SESSION
WITH HARDING
Labor Board Chairman Re-
fuses to Comment on Strike
Upon Arrival In Capital
Expect Long Conference.
SEND SYMPATHY WIRES
tBv Associated Press.l

sponse TO a call from the White
House, went into conference with
President HAding prepared to give
the executive a complete survey of
the rail strike situation and the re-
cent negotiations conducted in view
of bringing about a settlement.
The labor board chairman went to
the White House soon after arriving
here from Chicago, and the presidents
list of engagements Of the day we're
arranged so as to allow an immediate
conference of as great length as nee
essary.
Comments on the strike situation
were withheld by the chairman. but it
was indicated that he might have a
statement to make after seeing the
president
Almost coincident with Mr.. Hoop
er's arrival, the American Federation
of Labor made public telegram sent
by the labor legislative representa-
tives of the national and international
union located in Washington to B. NJ
Jewell, leader of the rail strike forces,
and John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, pledging SYM
pathy and cooperation in the respec-
tive strikes of the railroad shopmen
and coal miners.
CHICAGO, July Pas the railroad
strike today entered its fourth week
negotiations for peace took new turn
and expectancy turned to Washington,
where Chairman Hooper of the rail
road labor board was called for con-
ference with President Harding and to
the efforts of six leading railroads to
make separate peace with their strik-
ing men.
A conference between W. L. MeMen-
linen of the railway labor board and
Secretary of Labor Davii at Moose
heart, ILL.,, also was regarded as a pos
sible producer of peaceful gesture.
Add To War Talk.
Reports from a half dozen cities
that approximately $4,000 clerks and
walkout and new indications that Can
ada was facing a shopmen's strike
added to the war talk however, as did
President CRADLES statement that any
railroad that refused to meet with
committees of Maintenance of Wav
men to adjust wage differences would
face strike of these workers.
new note in the demand of the
strikers was made evident by the
statement of Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor inviting the government to urge
striking coal miners and shopmen
and their respective employers to be-
gin direct negotiations coupled with
the action of representatives of the
Big Four railroad brotherhoods in
urging congress to facilitate a return
to the direct parley system of settling
disputes.
Cancellation Orders
| Meanwhile eight railroads issued
| cancellation orders for branch line
trains, swelling the number of annul-
ments to well over three hundred.
State troops continued on guard in
eight states while additional guards
were placed on duty in various cities.
The most notable instance was in
| Fremont, Neb., where more than a
| hundred of the city's business and pro
! fessional men were deputiZed as peace
officers and as their first official act.
escorted back into town eleven non
union employees of the Chicago E.
Northwestern railroad, who were said
to have been driven out of town by
| striking sympathizers.
Court action was limited to issuance
of injunctions to the Missouri. Pacific
and st. Louis-San Francisco railroads
at Kansas City and fling of petitions
/ for injunctions at Atlanta by the Sea-
board Airline and Western and At
lantic railroads, and filing of suit
1 by six labor leaders at Kansas City,
Kas., questioning the right of the
Kansas court of Industrial Relations
to assume jurisdiction over the shop
mems strike. The plaintiffs in the
suit claimed that the strike is inter
state in character, and not subject to
state law.
Send Strike EaIlots.
| At Oklahoma City, 100 roundhouse
workers walked out yesterday.
Strike ballots were sent to ESQ
clerks, freight handlers, express and
j station employees of the Chicago. Mil
woukee and ST Paul on the Tacoma,
Wash, division
The count of ballots at Chattanooga,
Tenn, had not been finished by rep
resentatives of the clerks.
A close vote of 1900 clerks and
other employees of the Baltimore and
Ohio was indicated at Baltimore.
approximately $50 employees of the
Chicago, Northshore and Milwaukee
at Chicago are awaiting the settle
|, ment of the threatened strike of Chi
cago surface and elevated car line
workers before arbitrating wage diff
ferences.
: Two thousand employees of the Pitts
burgh & Lake Erie favored taking a
strike vote.
, While officials of the Maintenance OF
} Way Mems union at Detroit discussed
? the question of Furnishing members OF
their union who had struck without
sanction, maintenance men of the
Pennsylvania, between Portage and Al
toona, Pa, walked out in protest
E against a wage cut.
Curtail Service
Further curtailment of train servict
was announced by the Great Northern
railway at Sioux Falls, S. D., where
: all short run trains were cancelled a
= Grand Forks. n. D.. where four train.
were anulled and at Spokane. Wash
!, where number of branch line train.
! we're discontinued and an embarg,
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