Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-07
RIGHTS OF MEN NOT
TO BE CURTAILED BY
STRIKE INJUNCTION
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whose death the men are held, was
shot from ambush. In the purport-
ed confession Poston named two Of
the men held with him in the ambus-
cade investigation, as participants in
the wreck plot.
At Ardmore, Okla, inspectors
were investigating what Santa Fe
railroad officials said. was an attempt
to wreck a passenger train bound
from Kansas City to Galveston. The
engineer reported that he found an
open switch with the signal lights
broken off.
Nineteen freight cars were burn
ed in the yards Of the Great North
ern system at Great Falls, Mont.
Eight hundred cars were endanger-
ed by fire which broke out stimuli
taneously in five different places.
Farmers and sawmill hands eX-
tinguished a blaze which damaged
a st. Louis-San Francisco railway
bridge at Bengal, Okla.
Two Men Arrested
Two men were arrested at Gym
thiana, KY, charged with attempt
ing to wreck a Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train last Saturday.
Other arrests included that Of
John A. Stecklein, acting chairman
Of the shop crafts federation at
Needles, Cal, and of Jacob Cohen,
editor and publisher Of the Labor
OF MnT1o1o11ic oharoo6
with violating federal injunctions.
Guard Is Held
Thomas M. Mrachek, Great
Northern railway guard, was held
without bail pending the outcome Of
injuries to a striking shopman who
was shot by the guard, at Grand
shot in self-defense, was removed
from the county Jail to a place of
secret imprisonment, Sheriff Stew
art explaining that the move was
made to avert possible violence.
Mrs. D. D. futile, wife of a sec.
ton foreman on the Illinois Cen
by James Robinson, a town marshal
at Marissa, ILL.,, when the woman's
husband failed to heed the marshals
OIuSI ~ sup LIlS dulOlIlObl1C III
which Tuttle and his wife were rid
ing. Robinson said he was on the
lookout for car stolen at Pinckney-
vile and believed the futile ma
chine to be the one for which he
was watching. futile explained his
failure to stop by saying he mistook
Robinson and a companion for high
Waymen.
Declaring the shipments strike has
been lost as far as the Central of
Georgia railroad is concerned, w. A.
Winburn, president of the road, adj
dressed a communication to strikers
suggesting they find some kind Of
work to protect their families.
Miss jeanette Rankin, of Montana,
the first woman to sit in congress,
declared in a speech at Peoria, ILL.,.
that the wives of union men should
participate with their husbands i'll
the conduct of union affairs.
Editor Released
Jacob Cohen, editor of the Mem
phis Labor Review, was released
here on 1000 bond today, charged
with violation of the Daugherty rail-
road injunction. An issue Of his
weekly paper yesterday contained
an article in which he expressed con-
tempt for ike-breakers.
POLICE CLAIM SHOPMAN
MAKES CONFESSION
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 5.-Police
here made public a confession al
legged t. have been made by Seth w.
Postor, one of the four men arrest
ed here in connection with the am
buscade early Saturday morning, in
which Charles II amor nOn-nnl0n
Frisco shopman, was sh and killed,
in which Poston states that he, with
several other men, were responsible
for the pulling OF twenty-eight
spikes from the tracks If tn Frisco
railroad near Capleville, a few miles
east of Memphis on the night of Au-
gust 26.
A supplementary confession was al
legged 10 have been made by Seth w.
Poston, one of the four men held
in connection with the killing early
Saturday morning of Charles H
Lanier, non-union Frisco shopman
in which he states that he partici
pated in the killing of two Negro
shopmen at Hubert, Ark, on the
night of August 10. Poston is said
to have implicated three more white
men and two negroes.
Charles Jackson, John Keely
white, and VIII Townsend, negro
| were taken into custody by the pc
lice this morning in connection with
the Hubert killings. Townsend is
! said to have confessed to completely
| in the affair. Other arrests are ex
pected.
Six more arrests were made by
| detectives today in connection with
the killing Of two negro employees al
| the Rock Island shops at Hubert
| Ark, on August 10, following start
ling revelations made by Seth w
| Poston and Frank A. Miller.
More Arrests Likely
Detectives said that more arrests
| probably would be made today.
Miller, in a confession, said to have
been made to detectives late last
night, told of the plot to wreck the
Kansas City-Florida limited, fast
| Frisco passenger train, near Cap1e
vile, Tenn, August 26, when tw N
| ty-siX spikes had been pulled from
the rails. He admitted coplicity il
the spike pulling but was not i'm
| plicated in the double murder a
| Hubert.
| Poston, detectives said, confessed
ne participated in the killing of the
negroes at Hubert, and implicated
several others.
Arrests today include Hugh Dor
land, John Kelly, Dudley Cleggs Rob
ert C. Bright, c. w. Jackson, White
and VIII Townsend, negro, all OF
whom are said to be strikers.