The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-07-11
FIRM STAND
BY GOVERNMENT

Chicago, July 10 (By the Associat
ed Press).-With increasing numbers
ofsta te troops and emergency forces
of United States deputy marshals OF
guard wherever outbreaks have beer
threatened, the government today an.
nounced that life and property woulc
be protected, the mail continued anc
interstate commerce not interrupted
despite the strike of railway shop.
men.
After conference with President
Harding, Attorney General Daugher.
ty said that the government would
make certain that law and order were
preserved through the appointment OF
deputy marshals.
The attorney generals announce
ment came shortly after Lieut.. Gov
Fred E. Sterling, acting head of the
state of Illinois, had ordered five
companies of National Guardsmen to
Bloomington to protect the shops of
the Chicago & Alton railroeI. The
ordering out of the state troops fol-
lowed appeals from the local authori-
ties who declared that civil author
tiles had collapsed and that the SOL
diers were needed to protect life and
proprty. They were greeted on their
arrival at Bloomington by crowds
of strike sympathizers with jeers and
ribald comment.
In Clinton, ILL.,, where the Illinois
Central shops have been under guard
Of state troops since Saturday night,
when an outbreak was threatened fol-
lowing a fatal shooting affray, the
day passed in comparative quiet, al
though several shots were fired by
sentries at a group Of men who were
believed to have been advancing to
attack the shops. The attackers fled,
none of them being injured. At Au-
rora, ILL.,, where an emergency force
of deputy marshals has been on guard
since the Burlington obtained tenn
porary injunction against violence OF,
Saturday, several hundred strikers
and strike sympathizers held silent
parade about the shops. All of the
Aurors police force and many rail
way guards watched the demonstra-
tion, which was orderly.
Aside from a few clashes, the can
collation. of some passenger trains on
the shorter runs and s-the rsepening
of shops in various sections of the
country, there were few develop
ments in the day. Railway execu-
tives had expected some demonstra-
tions to furnish the turning point of
the strike, because of the ultimatum
of many roads that all strikers who
did not return to work today would
forfeit their seniority rights.
Little disorder was reported as the
result of the efforts of the roads to
reopen their shops. At Hoxie, Ark,
so non-union workers sent there were
chased out of town and forced to en-
train for Popular Bluff, Mo. The
"Katy" shops in Parsons, Kan, the
scene of rioting earlier in the strike,
reopened under the protection of 300
National Guardsmen with $50 nom
union men on duty.
At Sacramento, Calf, operations
were resumed at the local Southern
Pacific and Western Pacific shops
with no signs of disturbance. South
ern Pacific officials announced that
about 1900 men were at work but
union leaders said that 1900 workers
were on strike. At the headquarters
of the Erie railroad in Chicago, where
a labor bureau was established, the
following sign was posted at noon:
"No more wanted, quota full"
The Illinois Central published an
announcement saying that any of it's
men who returned to work before
July IL. would retain their seniority
rights In Denver newly employed
men were put to work in the shop
without any sign of disturbance of
even of picketing. At Altoona, Pa,
it was reported that scores of men
working in the shops there had
thrown down their tools to join a
demonstration of the strikers.
Some curtailment of train service
was reported from st. Louis, Hani-
bal, Mo-, Louisiana, Illinois, New
York and several other states.
Interference by strikers in Texas
with mail train was reported to the
postoffice department today. j. E.
Taussing, president of the Wabash
railway company, appealed to the
government for protection for his
roads shops and said that strikers
had stopped mail train at Mobley,
Mo-, by cutting the air hose and
throwing stones through the windows
of the coaches.
Temporary restraining orders pro-
hibiting striking shopmen from pick
citing or interfering with employees
at Monroe. La. and at Little Rock