Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-17
\ End TO STRIKE
|G 4 WEST ROADS
better OUTLOOK
bin Crews Call Off
alkout-Opens Way
for Traffic
ESTERN FRUIT MOVES
,sult of Settlement of
Trouble With the
Train1nen

N (By Associated Press)
ehicago, August 17.-An end to
i strike of big four transportation
nhprboods on western railroads, an
|proyed outlook for peace in the
N York conference, shootings,
mbing and burning were high
Hts in the nations railway crisis
rng the last "a hours.
Blockades and tieups on the Atchi-
ii Topeka & Santa Fe; the Union
,eific, and Southern Pacific, cleared
Iwhen striking train crews called
their walkout and opened the way
Immediate restoration of traffic on
rs which were paralyzed by the
rike of the big four brotherhoods.
Stranded Santa Fe trains were
Ned out of Albuquerque, N. NJ,
d trainmen at Prescott, Ariz., no.
ied Santa Fe officials that strik-
would return to work. These
geS followed earlier developments
Yards ending the tieup on the San
sFe. The Union Pacific's traffic
b unraveled rapidly after train
b on the Las Vegas division called
| their strike. Other western roads
stOred transportation activities to
/ basis which had been in effect
re the shipments strike began
y I.
tentative agreements looking to-
b an end of the trainmen's strike
|the Cumberland Valley division of
Louisville & Nashville were an
lnced at Corbin, Ky.
Elth the train service strike break
up in other sections of the coun-
trajnmen who interrupted traffic
the Missouri Pacific at Van Bu-
Ark, refused to return to work
PIE guards remained on duty in
yards. Only trains which were
Pc up and delivered to crews out
the railroad yards were moved.
SeStIement of the trouble with the
Pnmen resulted in an immediate
Vement eastward of fruit ship
pts and other perishable freight
fOoned in California.
SOmbs were thrown at a Santa Fe
ln which left San Bernardino. The
\ oomb exploded in the railroad
'uS and two more were hurled at
passenger train as the engine
FvS spun over oiled rails in pulling
Kansas City.
brakeman on the Great Northern
'Not and killed at Havre, Mont,
railroad guard.
l|' Nell S. Hansen, wife of a
pa Re shop foreman, was shot and
ga IN her home in Uueblo, Colo.
zee took up the trail of two men
are said to have attacked her.
! a"'eS Lewis, a striking Pennsyl-
"a railroad machinist, was shot to
!" oy Charles Parsons, a wealthy
estate man at Cape Charles, Va,
! a dispute over the strike.
'OOpS remained on guard in virtu-
d" places where soldiers were
% queII riots earlier in the
o' These included five towns in
''"s and three in Illinois.
y VVa' authorities asked for troops
'Sv'cer' n, c., where shop work
'''e routed by strike sympathiz-
": :'l o'lies, IN command of troops
.'nOh' ILL.,, recommended martial
-, lO'io"lng renewed disturbances.
aDOreaks N were reported from Ce-
"aplds' Iowa, and Superior and
''re' ,m Wls., Birmingham, Mobile
''oahy' Ala, and Scranton, Pa.
"C'empt was made to blow I'D
'acAs Of the Louisville & Nash
Il. a. Birmingham, and a p lot to
IA IA a train on the same road at
e was discovered, while the
., VI an an L. & N. employee was at
w .,s,' with bombs and bullets.
On the Chicago, Rock Is
q ~, aelfic was blocked at El
y okla., where a railroad bridge
burned. "'''O"u Of'ose
WY y, IN federal court at Kansas
r. no returned a verdict of not
", - ene case of four men charg-
'lth violntinr &C