The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-02
WARFARE THREAT
SEEN AS RESULT
Of COURT ORDER
Injunction Against Striking shopmen
Brings Demands for General SYM
pathetic Strike; A. F. L.
to Consider Call.
DAUCHERTY DENOUNCED
BY LEADERS OF LABOR
Machinists' Head Says VIII Continue
to Exercise Constitutional Rights;
Gompers Says viii Sup.
port Strikers.

Washington. Sept. 2.--Thc threat
ol widespread Industrial warfare
hung over the country today as q
result of the sweeping injunction Sc
cured by Attorney General Daugh
erty against the striking railroad
shopmen.
Demands for general sympa.
thetic strike poured In on Samuel
Gompers. president OF the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor, from all
parts of the country.
The issue of general strike will
be placed before the executive
council of the American Federation
at meeting here next week, Com
pers stated.
Gompers and other leaders of or
ganzed labor here characterized the
federal injunction restraining the
strikers and their leaders from in
terfering in any way with trans
portation including giving out of
interviews, as zone of the most out.
rageous pieces of business in the
history Of the country"
William II. Johnston, president of
the International Association of Ma
chinists, one of the shop crafts or
ganizations on strike, declared that
he would continue to exercise his
constitutional rights This. with the
statement of Gompers that the
strikers and their leaders would not
permit abridgement of the rights
guaranteed them by the constitution
was accepted as indicating that the
shopmen would defy those parts of
the Injunction dealing with assem-
bly, and speech.
"The only thing that the order
does not forbid is the right of the
men to stay out on strike" Com
pers said
Gompers announced that the non
striking unions would continue to
assist the strikers in every way
possible.
1--WE will give them our moral and
other assistance" he declared.
The injunction proceedings con-
stitute confession that the strik-
ers are winning their fight, he said.
otherwise, why would the gov
ernment, forced into it by the rail
roads, start injunction proceed
ings?" Gompers queried.
Legally. labor appears to be pow
cress to fight the injunction, Com.
prs stated. That a legal battle will
be opened by labor, however, was
indicated by Gompers and shop.
men leaders here.
"We will meet them on their own
grounds Gompers said.
1c rs stat that the confer
enc of tn. executive council Of the
federation would undoubtedly out
line course of action. The wide
spread demand for a general strike
will be discussed by the council
Gompers stated that neither he nor
the council has the authority to
call general strike. This power
rests with the individual unions,
The council, however, wields pow
eikul influence and its recommends
tions in the present case would be
accepted almost as a mandate, one
union leader declared.
Administration officials, however,
scott at talk Of a sympathetic
strike. They do not believe that
Gompers would recommend one
The fear of prosecution under the
conspiracy statutes would keep the
other union leaders in line, they
held.
Federal troops will not be used
until all other means of enforcing
the Injunction fail, a high admins
tration official stated today. He
believes the local police. railroad
guards and United States marshals
will be able to meet the situation.
Should these forces, aided by ad-
ditional deputy marshals, fail to
keen check on violence, state
troops would be sent to their aid,
and if necessary. federal troops
pressed into service. he stated.
Presidnt Harding is thoroughly in
accord with Daugherty's action, it
was made known at the white house.
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
asked why the government did not
proceed against the railroad execu-
tiyes.
Apparently the injunction aligns
the government against the shop