The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-07-11

Protection
Government Announces Life
And Property to Be Pro-
tected During Strike.

Chicago. July 10.-(By the Associated
Press)-With increa sing numbers OF
state troops and emergency forces oi
United States deputy marShais on 6uaEu
wherever outbreaks have been threat
ened, the government today announced
that life and property would be pro
tected, the mails continued and inter
state commerce not interrupted despite
the strike of railway shopmen.
After conference with Presiden'
Harding, Attorney General Harry
Daugherty said that the government
would make certain that law and order
were preserved through the appoint
ment OF deputy marshals.
The attorney generals announcement
came shortly after Lieutenant Governor
Fred L. Sterling. acting head or the
state OF Illinois had ordered five com
panies Of national guardsmen 10 Bloom-
inpton TO protect the shops of the Chi
cago & Alton railroad. The ordering
out of the state troops followed appeals
from the local authorities who declared
that civil authority had collapsed and
that the soldiers were needed TO pro-
tect life and property. They were
greeted on their arrival at Blooming
ton by crowds of strike sympathizeTs
with jeers and ribald comment
Clinton Domains Quiet
At Clinton, Ills. where the l!l!noi:
Central shops have been under SuaFo
Of state toops since Satuday night wheN
an outbreak was threatened foIlo"ins
n fatal shooting affray, the day passed
In comparative quiet, although severa
shots were fired by sentries at Sroup
Of men who were believed TO nave peer
advancing to attack the shops. Ahs
attackers fed, none of them being In
jured. At Aurora, Ills. where an emeF
rency force OF deputy marshals ha'
been on guard since the Burlington oo'
ta!ned a temporary injunction SatuFoas
several hundred strikers and Strike
rympa thizers held a silent parade about
the shops. All Of the Aurora ponce
yorce and many railway guards watcnec
ths demonstration which was orderly.
Aside from few clashes the can
csllatton Of some passenger tains on th'
shorter runs and the reopening or shop.
IN various sections Of the country, tner'
we-e few developments IN the DAY
Railway executives had expected SOM
demonstrations to furnish the turnin'
poin. Of the strike. because or inc Cltl
matum OF many roads that all stF'Eei
who did not return to work today woul'
| forfeit their seniority rights.
Little Disorder
Little disorder was reported as h'
result Of the efforts OF the ROADS u
/ reopen the shops. At Hoxie. Ark.' o.
non-unlon workmen sent there were
! chased out OF town and forced 10 en-
train for Poplar Bluff. Mo. Al the heao
quarters - ,Se Erie railroad in Ch,caso
| where a labor bureau WAS es:aoHsnec
after the strike was called. the follo"
Ing sign was posted at noon;
'.No more men wanted. quota tui!.
Tho Illinois Central published an an
nouncement saying that any or It's mel
who returned to work before July II
would retain their seniority rights.
Service curtAued
Some curtailment Of train service wa
repor,ed from ST. Louis, hannibal MO
Louisiana, Illinois, New York ana sew
oral other states. Interference by ran
way strikers In Texas with mai
train was reported to the postoface de
| nartnent today. J. L. Taussig, presi
dent OF the Wabash Railway comrany
appealed to the government TOR Pc
tion FOR his roads shops and sa ina
strikers had stopped a mall trs.H
Moberly. Mo. by cutting tho ar nos
and throwing rocks through tho win
dows Of the coaches