The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-04
VIOLENT ACTS
ARE REPORTED
ONLABOR DAY
Whereabouts of B. M. Jewell
Continue to Be Mystery
Resolutions Denounce At
torney Generals Course.
RESEN M MENT BITTER
fRy Associated Press,

| Sf1iCAGO O6pI 4-1ue dawn Oh
Labor day and the sixty-sixth day of
the railray shopman's strike found
| United Staaes marshais mobilized to
enforce the governments strike in
junction and prepared to keep close
watch on labor demonstrations through
out the country.
In Chicago, union leaders said no
organized program had been made for
| observance of the holiday.
Arrival of the annual holiday
brought with it new acts of violence
and further expressions of bitter re-
sentiment on the part of labor leaders
against the federal Injunction.
| Seek Labor Chief.
Many union chiefs against whom
the Injunction was issued declared
they had not been served with writs
The whereabouts of B. NJ Jewell. lead
er of the shopcrafts strike, remained
unknown early today
Central labor bodies IN various
cities adopted resolutions dealing with
the rail strike. The Boston Central
union pledged full moral and financial
support to the striking shopmen, and
adopted resolution calling upon
President Harding to seize the rail
roads and to restore the strikers TO
their old jobs. The resolution also
denounced Attorney General Daugh-
erty for his action in obtaining the
Injunction.
In Chicago, where one of the first
arrests for violation of the Injunction
was made, the Chicago Federation OF
Labor authorized campaign for
funds to aid the striking shopmen
The resolution was adopted following
speeches by William z. Foster, one
of the nations foremost radicals, and
former United States Senator R. F.
Pettigrew, of South Dakota
Deplores Lack of Unity.
Foster, advocate of one big union
for RAILROAD workers, criticized leaders
of the rail unions for lack of unity in
failing to make the rail strike general.
He attended the meeting as delegate
from the Garments union.
Former Senator Pettigrew said moth
ing could be expected from congress
composed largely of lawyers.
"a lawyer he said, 'is the only
man who can take bribe and le-
gally call it fee. Their training
, makes them unfit to represent the peo-
pie"
Arrest One Now
Investigation of yesterday disastrous
j fire at Pittsburgh, Pa, where seven
2 car repair men were burned to death
j and number injured when a Penn
syKania railroad bunkhouse was de-
, stroyed, had resulted today in the ar
: rest of one man
At Louisville, KY, the failure of al
e legged train wreckers to remove de-
: rail device prevented the head-on
lo, IL, - -Gr-s1y
= train into a string of cars loaded with
u stones. The locomotive, baggage and
mail cars were derailed but the coach
I es remained on the tracks and there
: were no injuries.
y Seven men were under arrest at
E Gretna, La, a suburb of New Orleans.
u charged with having beaten and
. slashed the throat of fifteen year old
= negro, roundhouse employe.
!. l EmpIoye Beaten
At Carbondale Ills. an Illinois Cen
trail employe was attacked and beaten.
Two trains were stoned at Greycourt,
n. Y, and state police went to the
{ aid of railroad detectives in dispers-
: ing crowds in the Erie Railroad yards
at Port Jervis, n. Y, where workman
! was injured by stones.
Other incidents included attempts to
Il wreck trains at Trinidad, Colo, and
Montgomery, Ala, and the burning of
freight cars and buildings at Denison,
Texas.
Several strikers were arrested at
Memphis, Tenn, in connection with the
/ killing Of a Frisco shopworker who
was shot from ambush Saturday Po-
lice said the men confessed.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept A
/ group of men in a closely curtained
II auto fired a bullet into a building in
e the Big Four railroad coach yard here
T today and several railroad guards.
who occupied the building narrowly es-
& capped being struck The guards re-
4 turned the fire and are of the opinion
e that one of the autoists was hit for
J. as the machine was driven rapidly
4 away ccream of pain was heard
IS The guards pursued the automobile
q for some distnace but lost the trail.
'r PORT JERvIS, n. Y, Sept A.
y Stoning Of train from Cleveland in
1t the mountains near the Erie division
d al point and an epidemic of disorder
among locomotives was reported today
by road officials. Yard Master Wallace
said that since midnight every big en-
CINE had suddenly developed trouble
y and had to back into the yards for re
pairs before it could start its journey.
se In most cases. he said, it had been
II found that the airbrakes would not
'e work. oil caps had been broken or
~ fires would not draw properly. About
IL :, 900 men normally are employed in
"a the shops where the strike is in pro-
" gress.
d PITTSBURGH, Sept six investi-
IN gations-by railway, municipal. county
and federal agents-were under way
today to determine the cause of the
fire which swept through a bunk
house of the Pennsylvania railway in
'e the Thirtieth street yards yesterday
10 claiming seven lives and injuring 1o
:. other recently employed repair men
Property loss was more than $500. 900