The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-02
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issued by the executive council of
the railway employees department
of the American Federation Of La
Dor, strike leaders pleadged to aid
by their every power" enforce
ment of the injunction against
"lawlessness and violence in con-
nection with the strike.
From the White house came the
declaration that the federal gov
eminent will not stop with the re-
straining order if it finds that
other steps are necessary"
In their statement the coun-
Gil assumed that the right of rail-
way employees is acknowledged in
continue lawful strike in lawful
manner until satisfactory set
Element is made"
The statement declared that it
could not be assumed that the at
would have waited
two months to proceed against the
strikers if peaceful conduct of
the strike was unlawful, or that
President Harding would have held
conference with claw breakers"
and proposed that the law break
ers whom they represented should
return to work under terms which
they afterward accepted and which
the railway executives rejected"
Attorney-General Daugherty ar
rived in Chicago unannounced yes
terday In presenting his petition
he declared the injunction was not
aimed at union labor and was nee
essary to the preservation of the
unions themselves.
Meanwhile vandalism and vio-
lence continued to make their
black marks on the current history
of the walkout. The last "a hours,
however, developed fewer out
RACES than days Immediately pre-
ceding.
High Lights.
High lights included the derail-
ment of a Big Four railroad pas
senger train at Brownsville, Ind,
where a woman passenger was in
jured; bombing of the home of a
railroad shop foreman at Little
Rock, Ark; plot v dynamite
property of the Louisiana q Ar
kansas railway at Bentley, La, and
attempt to derail a Big Four rail-
road train at Marion, Ohio; de-
railment of the Palmetto Limited
on the Atlantic Coast Line, neal
Tampa, Fla, and an attempt .te
blow up bridge over the Clyho-
ga river in Ohio.
The most disastrous occurrence
was the wreck of a st. Louis and
San Francisco passenger train al
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, with the loss
OF two lives and injuries to a mum
Der of passengers. The wreck oc.
CURED when the train crashed
through a trestle. Investigation
had established no act of vandal
ism as contributing to the cause
of the collapse of the trestle. AL
though Frisco officials vigorously
denied the trestle had been un
safe, Prosecuting Attorney Fun
wick of Parry county began inves
tigation of reports that section
hands reported the structure to b.
unsafe several months ago.
/ The Baltimore & Ohio railroad
announced annulment of % pas
senger trains September 4.
i Coal mines in the southern Hi
nois fields were closed because o
a car shortage 1t was reportet
that half the mines in Williamson
county were shut down.
; C. H. Markham, president of tn
Illinois Central announced tina
, conditions on that road had i'm
: proved to such an extent that tn
Paducah, Kentucky shops wer
employing more men than befor
the strike began, and that Their
would soon be no more jobs for re
turned strikers.
Department of justice opera
tives denied that a nation-w
4 raid on radicals was contemplate
: as result of disclosures and al
rests in Chicago in connection wit
alleged wreck plots