The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-04
HIRE new men
WHILE UNION
LEADERS MEET
Officials of Strikers Plan to
Make Walkout More Effect
ive-Watch Southern Rail
way Meeting.
IERIE TRAINS ANNULLED
(By Associated Pressl

| CHICAGO, Aug. 4-With neither
| settlement nor federal intervention
appearing as probable in the immedi-
ate future, railroad executives contin-
ued hiring new men, while union lead
ers were meeting and planning, so
they said. to make the strike more ef
fective. The policy of both sides now
seems to be one of marking time.
Interest in peace, however, was re-
vived in the announcement of a meet
ing in Washington tomorrow of the
| Southern Railway management and
representatives of the roads shop
craft
The Southern railway is one of the
few roads that has not issued ulti-
matums telling strikers their jobs no
longer exist.
! Although a number of roads con-
tinued to report improved service, the
Erie road announced that 20 trains in
!. the eastern region will be annulled
tomorrow due to the coal shortage.
Union officials here today were
awaiting word from President Hard
ing with regard to their message ac-
cepting his proposals for ending the
walkout. Railroad executives and the
strike leaders still maintained their at
titudes on the question of seniority,
the executives insisting that rights of
men who stayed at work and new men
be respected, and union chiefs hold
ing out for restoration of rights to
strikers.
Two Deaths Reported
Two deaths resulted from violence; /;
one IN Edgemont, S. D., where a
switchman of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy was shot, and the
other in Chicago. where a carpenter
employed in the Illinois Central shops
was beaten to death
repairman in the Illinois Central
shops in Chicago was beaten into in
j sensibility because he refused to join
i the strikers a
i At Waco, Tex, a guard in the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas shops was
shot through the groin during an argu-
/, ment with a fireman
Union Pacific trainmaster was
! seized on the main street of Las
Vegas, New. taken several miles into
the desert and given coat of tar and
i excelsior. At the same town four
women attacked the wife of a Union
Pacific roundhouse foreman as she
was carrying dinner to her husband
She was beaten severely.
! Two men were injured and half a
dozen windows in passenger coach
were broken when a crowd of men
stoned an Illinois Central train al
New Orleans, La
Workers Wounded
At Birmingham, Ala, two white mer
:, and two negro women were wounded
in clash between non-union workers
and striking shopmen of the ST Louis
San Francisco railroad, police reports
!, said The white men and one of the
negro women were shot. One of the
men was seriously wounded.
Mayor Cowart of Waycross, Ca, re
voked the licenses of two barber shop.
where BARRIERS refused to shave non
union men. The shops continued t
. operate, but the proprietors and bar
| bers were summoned to appear il
court to answer charges of doing bust
ness without licenses.
AT RlCHmOnu, va, SIrlkl0R Sl0p
men of the Southern railway were t.
meet late today to discuss the com
pany's proposition to reinstate strik
= ers without prejudice to their senior
: ity rights. No action would be taken
2 however, 1t was said, until word wa.
received from Chicago headquarters
The Atlantic Coast Line yesterdal
E obtained temporary ORDER at Pensa
: cola, Fla, restraining strikers of tn,
federated shop crafts from interferin:
with that company's employees or prop
erty, other than picketing by peaceful
: means. The order was directed par
r ticularly at shopmen on strike n
River Junction and High Springs, Fla
= File Answer
The Nashville, Chattanooga and ST
i Louis Seaboard Airline and the West
d ern and Atlantic railroads wer
5 charged with maintaining a "standini
; army" to suppress the strike of raj
way shopmen in lengthy answe
/, filed ut Atlanta, Ca, by union official
: to the petition of the roads for cor
tinuance of a temporary RESTRAINING
= order against the strikers.
In their answer to the petition tn
: strikers requested the court to Pre-
. hibit the railroad from "maintainin
more than two members of thei
standing army to any one garrison"