Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-03
UNIONS CERTAIN
PRESIDENT WILL
END SHOP STR|kE E
Chicago, Aug. 3.-Union leaders today set
tied down to wait for the next step toward peace in
the rail strike following their acceptance of Presi

Nh' ioi biiiS peace
proposals turning their
eyes toward Washing
ton where they believe the move will
originate. They do not know Just
what action will be taken, but all be-
lieve the president will accept the
offer held out to him by the railway
{. executives when they declined his
| peace proposals and again attempt to
| find common ground for settlement.
The attitude of the union men was
! expressed by one leader who said
I'VE believe in our president and will
stand by him.
While both railroad executives and
employees were anticipating further
action by the president, f. ]. Manion
of st. Louis, president of the railway
telegraphers, announced that he had
suggested to the twelve railroad
unions not on strike including the
brotherhoods to meet soon to discuss
the tendency to draw these organiza-
tions into the strike
J At Washington. it was intimated
that the president has no plans for
any further action in regard to the
strike.
Luli In Peace Talk.
Chicago, August 3.-(By A. P)--
There was lull today in peace man.
euvers in the railroad strike. Rail men
We're reticent and there was no fore
cast of where the next peace effort
would originate.
Strike leaders turned their attention
toward Washington, where President
! Harding had telegram sent by the
! shopmen last night after their meeting
( here accepting his peace proposals
7 on condition that the unions inter-
probation of the settlement sugges-
tions he recognized.
Railroad executives were also await
ing news from the capital after their
acceptance of the presidents propo-
sails excepting that regarding restora-
tion of seniority rights to strikers.
Railroad men noted the invitation
of the southern railway to striking
shopmen to negotiate for a settlement
based on President Harding's plan but
made no comment
At Dallas, Texas, the Texas division
Headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas announced that union men
now on strike would be employed only
as new men.
Violence was reported from six cit
les in as many states during the
night. -Four of the disturbances as
sumed the proportions of riots, one re-
suting in the death of one man.
Killed by Guards.
Carl Spradley was killed during an,
exchange of shots at vanburen. Ark,
between guards in the Missouri Paci-
fc shops and men said to be strikers.
The dead mans brother VIII Sprad-
ley, was wounded but will recover,
physicians say.
At Jackson, Mich, several police
officers and striking shopmen were
slightly injured when more than a
thousand strikers and sympathizers
including many women and children
attacked non-union workers with
sticks and stones, eggs and other mis-
siles as the non-union men were leav-
ing the shops of the Michigan Central
railroad.
Eighty strike sympathizers attack
ed more than sixty workers in Chi
cago Great Western shops at Des
Moines, Ia. One man was severely in
jured and dozen of the workers were
missing when police stopped the
fighting.
Three special guards of the South
ern Pacific at East Bakersfield, Calf,
were fired on. Police investigated
but made no arrests.
Attack Foreman's Home.
In Lincoln, Nebr.. more than a hun.
dred men, women and boys, said to be
strikers and sympathizers, attacked
the home of a Burlington route car
foreman with bricks and stones. Po-
lice dispersed the crowd. A demon.
stration before the home of another
worker was also broken by police.
Four non-union employees of the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas were
beaten with sticks and ropes and put
off a train at linton, Texas. by fifteen
said to be strikers. A strike sympa.
thizer at Springfield, H., sentenced to
thirty days in jail for violating fed
eral injunction by tearing one OF the
printed injunction notices from tele-
graph pole. The Chicago Milwaukee
and st. Paul was granted temporary
restraining order forbidding interfer-
ence with operations in Helena, Mont,
by the federal court.
Car Strike Peace Move.
Chicago. Aug. "Details of tenta-
tive plan for peace in Chicago's street
railway strike were being discussed
today by the surface line companys
board of control. II was understood
that when objections of the board
have been eliminated the plan would
he submitted to the union leaders, and
if it met their approval be submitted
to the strikers for referendum vote.
Meanwhile the greatly augmented
motor fleets were moving In steady