The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-15
HOPE OF PEACE
is ABANDONED
BY RAILROADS
Labor Board Official Says
Roads Have Decided to Re-
open All Their Shops With
Non-Union Men.
NO MORE CONFERENCES
fRy Associated Press


peace which seemed all but certain
during most of the week slumped to-
day following last nights failure of
the roads and the strikers to reach
even starting point. Executives of
the roads have virtually abandoned
hope of any immediate settlement ii
was learned today.
According to an Official OF the rail
road labor board the roads have decided
to reopen their shops with non-union
men. Many of them have not hired
men extensively thus far still hoping
for return of their own men.
Chairman Ben w. Hooper of the
railroad labor board added TO the gel.-
eral depression today by announcing
that no further conferences with the
union heads were scheduled.
B. NJ. Jewell, president Of the shop
craft. still held out hope. He remarked
incidentally that the strike would t'be
more effective two weeks from today
than today"
Yesterdays session between Chair
man Hooper, acting as an official en-
voy Of the railroads and union lead
ers, ended in what was apparently an
unbreakable deadlock. Of the four
main questions at issue not a single
ing out Of shop work by the railroads,
declared illegal by the board, is the
biggest stumbling block
While reports indicated that the ma
tional situation was gradually getting
more serious, disorders have apparent
ly subsided
Goes to Capital
E. F. Cradle, president of the United
nf Of
employees and railway shop laborers.
who faced rebellion in the ranks CT
his organization, left Chicago foT
Washington with the avowed intention
of fighting every move of the 'red
flag" element in the ranks He de-
clared that no strike action by main
tenance men would be sanctioned by
him unless the men are ''coerced" in
to it by railroads attempting to force
maintenance men to perform duties
usually done by shopmen now on
/ strike. Mr.. Cradle went to Washing
| ton to confer with President Harding
on the threatened walkout by common
| labor on the roads.
| The encouragement in Mr. CRADLES
attitude was partly Offset, however. by
! tke strike call for stationary firemep.
engineers. and oilers who were au-
! thorized by their international presi-
dent, Timothy Healy, to walk of their
| jobs next Monday.
Disorders in connection with the
strike were largely confined to tn,
south and southwest Col C. S. Lin
| coin, assistant chief of staff, of the
Eighth corps area, received orders
| from Washington to investigate the
situation at Denison, Tex, where con
| ditions were unsettled
Officials Sent
| At the same time Governor Neff Or
| dered Adjutant General Barton of the
! Texas national guard to go to Deni-
son, and Tom Hickman, captain of thu
! Texas rangers, was dispatched TO the
| scene. Officials of the Missouri Kan
sas and Texas railroad stated that no
strikebreakers would be taken into
| Denison and that no attempt would
be made to operate the shops there
| until adequate protection was afforded
Troops at Poplar Bluff, Mo, were
relieved by other detachments of Mis-
souri, National Guard, and the town re-
manned quiet.
Governor Davis of Ohio ordered
mobilization of state troops in prepara-
tion for any trouble which might arise
in connection with the strike.
Bloomington and Clinton, H.. scores
of early disturbances remained quiet
with civil authorities augmenting
peace forces by extra deputies in pre-
paration for taking over the system
following the departure of state troops.
Mail Arrangements.
i While President Harding and his
cabinet discussed the rail and coal
strikes. postal authorities took pre-
liminary steps to transport mail by
commercial aircraft, power boats and
motor cars if railroad service beco tes
hampered to the point that the mails
are seriously threatened.
) Samuel Gompers at Washington de
clared the American Federation of La.
Dor stands squarely behind the strik-
ing railway shopmen.
Postal authorities at New York were
! flooded with offers of emergency
/ transportation for first class mail as
| result of the threatened tie-up. Air
planes, hydroplanes, motor boats and
7 autos were placed at the disposal OF
t the government by private individuals
: and national organizations. All offer;
: were tentatively accepted and surveys
: of equipment and travel lanes for land
water and air were undertaken i'm
r mediately.
5 Congressman Carl Riddick at Liv
5 ingston, Mont, declared that congress:
/ will ultimately intervene in the strike
S When the strike starts to tie up traf
fic congress will be forced to inter
yene,' he asserted
Vote TO Strike
Members of the American Fedora
4 tion of Railway Workers at Clevelanl
voted to join the shopmen's strik
:, next Monday. according to officials o
n the union. The organization, it wa
: said, has no connection with tn
American Federation of Labor, bu
has a membership of 10000. Al
,s proximately 1900 pipefitters. coac
:, repairers, painters. freight car repail
> ers and inspectors will be affected,
was said.
At Tulsa, Okla. ]. c. Whitfield
"a guard for the Midland Valley, wa
: wounded in sharp clash between tn
!. guards and strike sympathizers at l.
nd feber.
II At Chattanooga, Tenn, Bernar
- Mallon, Jr., attache of the office
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