Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-22
j. S. LABOR BOARD .
OFFICIAL MEETS
PRESIDENT TODAY
Washington, July y. - Chairman B
Hooper of the railroad board, arriving here today
in response to a summons from the white house
went into conference
with President Harding
prepared to give the

with President Harding
prepared to give the
executive a complete survey Of the
railroad strike situation.
After the conference had been in
progress nearly an hour Chairman
Cummins and Senators Watson, of
Indiana, and Kellogg, of Minnesota,
members of the interstate commerce
committee, who conferred with east
ern rail executives on the strike
situation Thursday, were called to
the white house
Hooper Arrives for Conference.
Washington, July 22.-(B BY the A. P.)
Chairman Ben w Hooper of tho
railroad labor board arriving here to-
day in response to a summons from
the white house, went into conference
with President Harding prepared to
give the executive a complete survey
Of the railroad strike situation and
the recent negotiations conducted with
Il view to bring about a settlement.
All Eyes on Washington.
Chicago, July 22.-(APD-As the
railroad strike today entered it's
fourth week negotiations for peace
took a new turn and eXpectant eyes
were turned to Washington, where
Chairman Hooper of the railroad la
Dor board was called for a confer
enCe with President Harding and to
the efforts of six leading railroads to-
make separate peace with their
striking shopmen. A conference be.
tween w. l.. McMeninen, of the rail-
way labor board and Secretary of
Labor Davis at Mooseheart, Ill.,, also
was regarded as a possible producer
of peaceful gesture.
Reports from half a dozen cities
that approximately $4,000 clerks and
other railway employees had voted to
walk out, and new indications that
Canada was facing shOpmen's strike
added to the weight of President
CRADLES statement that any railroad
that refused to meet with commit
tees of maintenance Of way men to
adjust wage differences would face
a strike of these workers.
A new note in the demand OF the
strikers was made evident by the
statement of Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, invit-
ing the government to urge striking
coal miners and shopmen and their
respective employers to begin direct
negotiations coupled with the action
of representatives Of the Big Four
BrOtherhOOdS in urging congress to
facilitate a return to the direct par
ley system of settling disputes. From
New Orleans came reports of verbal
on the railroad labor board
by union learers.
Meanwhile eight railroads issued
orders for branch line
trains, swelling the number of annuF
ments to we'll over three hundred.
State troops continued on guard in
eight states while additional guards
we're placed on duty in various cities.
The most notable instance was in
Fremont, Nebr., whore more than a
of the citys business and
men were deputized as
)eace officers and as their first Off
,ial act escorted back into town
eleven non-union employees of the
Chicago and Northwestern who were
said to have been driven out of town
)y strike sympathiZers. Court action
vas limited to issuance of injunCtions
o the Missouri Pacific and St Louis
md San Francisco at Kansas City,
ling of petitions for injunctions at
Atlanta by the Seaboard Airline and
Western and Atlantic railroads and
ling of suit by six labor leaders
1t Kansas City, kans.. questioning
he right of the Kansas court of in
lustrial relations to assume jurisdic-
ion over the shopmens strike, The
Plaintiffs in the suit claim that the
trike is interstate in character and
rot subject to state law,
At Oklahoma City, one hundred
ound house workers walked out yes
erday Strike ballots were sent to
20 clerks, freight handlers. express
nd station employees Of the Chicago.
Milwaukee and St Paul on the
Tacoma. Washington division. The
cunt Of ballots at Chattanooga had
ot been finished by representatives
f the clerks
A close vote of 10000 clerks and
,ther employees of the Baltimore and
)hio was indicated at Baltimore.