Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-07-21
STRIKERS DELAY
MAILS IN IOWA
Crew of DeraiIed Passenger
Train Is Chased Away.
WRECK BLOCKS THE TRACKS
Repairmen and Wrecking Crews Ara
Kept From Wrecked Cars-La-
borers Quit in Defiance of Or
ders From Their Leaders.

Chicago, July 1S.-Superintendent
of the Railway Mail Service Brauer
eral Work that Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy train No. 81 left the track at
.Lovilia, Monroe county, Iowa, and that
striking coal miners and shopmen's
sympathizers had persistently refused
TO permit wrecking crews to clear the
| tracks.
j Passengers, train and wrecking
crews have been driven away from the
train, he added, and the track has
been blockaded, thus delaying the
movement of mail.
| superintendent Brauer said he had
notified the post office inspectors at
st. Louis and was attempting to COM
municate with the departments repre-
sentative in Des Moines with a view
| to relieving the situation. Burlington
| rail officials, he said, reported to him
that the attitude of the local authori-
ties was ''lukewarm." He suggested
that the United States marshal at Des
Moines be instructed from Washing
ton as to what action he should take.
Work Informs Daueherty.
Postmaster General Work, immedi-
ately upon receipt of the telegram
from Mr.. Brauer, communicated the
details to Attorney General Daugher-
ty for such action as the Department
| of Justice might feel justified in TAX
ing. Lovilia is about sixty miles south
| east of Des Moines.
Approximately $4,000 maintenance
of way men have struck without per-
mission from President Cradle, J. G.
Smock, vice president of the union,
| estimates.
| Mr.. Smock said the strikers proba-
| bly, will be outlawed by their national
officers. Mr.. Cradle, who conferred
with President Harding Saturday, is
| in Detroit.
Peace negotiations in the railway
strike temporarily were at a stand
| still. Rail heads and strike leaders
expected developments to indicate
more clearly the ultimate outcome.
however.
Hopes for a settlement at an early
date appeared to be based chiefly upon
the attitude of Mr.. CRADLE Mr.. Ora
BILE said he would confer with men,
bers of the United States railroad la
boar board here to get support to pre-
vent carriers from requiring mainte-
nance of way men to do strikersF
work. He also said he had called a
meeting of the brotherhood's grand
lodge in Detroit Thursday.
Seniority Rule Trips Peace.
Another indication of drift toward
peace was seen in the statement of
Il. A. Henning, general chairman of
the Federated Shop Crafts of the
Northwest, that only the refusal of
certain roads to agree to reinstate
striking shop crafts workers with
their full seniority rights was pre-
venting a settlement as far as the
roads of the Northwest are concerned.
Possible extension of the strike was
forecast in the statement of William
Parker, head of the Eastern chairmen
of railway workers, that local officials
In Eastern centers were having in
creasing difficulty in holding the
maintenance of way men at their Jobs.
He said 20 per cent of the 10000 men
in the metropolitan district already
were on strike.
Eight thousand members of the In
ternational Stationary Firemen and
mi
President Healy, who is here waiting
report of the effectiveness of the
strike
Promises of an addition to the strike
within "a hours came from G. A. Wor-
rell, general chairman of the Brother
hood of Railroad and Steamship
Clerks, following the receipt of tele-
gram from e. I'll. Fitzgerald, national
chairman of the brotherhood, sane
tioning walkOut of the clerks.
The message said that if the rail-
roads refused to grant concessions
and the men felt that they were inn
posed upon Mr.. Worrell could call tie
men out. Chairman Worrell predict
ed that the men would bolt before
wednesday.
Worrell made this statement In
spite of the fact that conference has
been arranged between the union Off
Gals and road heads for Wednesday.
''The Northw estern clerks voted 90
| per cent for strike on Saturday."
Worrell said, "and the Monon and
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul men
are now voting"
According to Worrell, If the men 90
out it will affect not only the rail-
roads, but the lake steamships as well.
as the brotherhood is composed of
clerks for both industries. It win
mean that 100000 men in the country
and 10000 in Chicago will be onl
strike, he said.