The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-07
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fused to Join the walkout. Squads Of
police dispersed the mob after Mrs.
Julia Gabel, So. wife of one of the
Illinois Central men, held the attack
ers at bay with a revolver when they
attempted to storm her home.
You were all my friends once" she
shouted at the mob, but I'll kill the
next one of you who throws a stone.'
B. @ o. Employees Attacked.
The attack on the two MONIES oc-
Cured during a demonstration near
the Burnside shops. Women among
the marchers screeched imprecations
at the workers and soon stones and
sticks began to crash thru windows
John Kassol, an employee OF the
Baltimore & Ohio shops, was in q
critical condition in hospital follow
ing an attack by strike sympathizers.
But Trend Is Toward Peace.
United States Marshal Loisel at New
Orleans asked Attorney General
Daugherty for authority to swear in
at least fifty extra deputies as a pre-
cautionary measure. The New Orleans
district has been the scene of several
of the first disturbances and the rail-
roads contemplated applications in
federal courts for injunctions restrain
ing strikers
A negro employed as boilermaker
by the Illinois Central at New Orleans
was knocked from a train by several
white men and shot in the hip.
Despite numerous outbreaks by
strikers there was a general impress
sion in rail circles that the trend of
the strike was toward peace and hope
was expressed that Mr.. Jewell would
be brought together with the United
States railroad labor boards two dip
lomats in mediation-Chairman Ben
W. Hooper and w. L. McM enimen, one
of the three labor members.
New Men Still Employed.
Railroads continued to employ new
men to take the jobs left by strikers
and the ultimatums to return to work
next week or forfeit all seniority and
pension rights, stood effective turnout
the country
The railroads generally reported
slight interruption of transportation
as a result of shipments strike.
Say Strike Sympathizers Did 1t.
Chicago, July "A plot to burn
hundreds of freight cars of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad in the Chicago
manufacturing district was charged
today by J. c. Molter, chief special
agent for the road, after flames had
partly wrecked one OF a string of cars
standing on a siding. Prompt arrival
of the firemen prevented a spread Of
the fire!
TITS the work of strikers or sympa-
thiEers," Molter said. IF the fire
had not been promptly checked it
would have spread to hundreds of
cars and the loss would have been ap-
palling."
Demand Troops in California.
Sacramento, Cal, July demands
for troops to proceed at once to Rose
vile. an important icing station on the
Southern Pacific. was made today
upon Gov. William D.AStephens by q
committee headed by Sheriff Z. H.
Gum of Placer county, who declared
the situation resulting from the strik-
ing shopmen had gotten beyond the
strength of the local authorities.
Gum declared an engineer was dy-
ing as the result OF violence at the
hands of strikers, that $50 cars of
fruit were rotting because the ice
plant was pieketed and no refrigera~
tor cars are permitted to move.
The governor requested the sheriff
to return to Roseville ana endeavor to
control the situation, promising to
send troops if he was unable to cope
with conditions there.
@Kansas City, July THE Chicago
& Alton shops at Slater. Mo, will be
opened as soon as protection for work.
men is obtained, Charles NJ. Miller, at
torney for the road in Kansas City,
announced today, after telephone
conversations with ]. L. Marquette,
superintendent OF the Alton, who has
been In Slater since Tuesday.