Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-07-13
ILLINOIS TROOPS
!, GUARD RAIL SHOPS
Five Companies on Duty. at,
Il BIoomington-No> Disorder.
MJUNcTIoNs HALT PICKETING
Attorney General Orders Use Of Dep
uty Marshais If Mails Are in
terfered With-Radicais Blamed :
for Disorder at Clinton, III. ~

for Disorder at Clinton, III. t@&
Chicago, July 11.-There was q dis,
tinct lull In the activities Of railroad
strikers during the day. u
Awed by the presence Of National
Guardsmen and deputy United States
marshals and warned by federal in
functions, the striking railmen fore
bore any violence.
: Not a clash, not a fire, not an in
jury or an avert act Of picketing
was reported during the day.
Five companies Of Illinois National
Guardsmen, ordered into Blooming
ton by Acting Gov Fred Sterling at
the request Of Mayor e. e. Jones, who
feared an outbreak, although the Stu
!ation had been quiet since Sunday
night, slept On their arms, but found
mo work to do.
Aurora Shopmen Quiet.
Expected violence in the Aurora
shops Of the Chicago, Burlington &
IQuincy railroad failed to materialhe
during the day, the striking workman
remaining within the bounds of the
federal injunction prohibiting inter
ference with workers.
= Upwards of 1000 strikers. paraded
lup and down the street opposite Bur
Hington shops, where 300 men whol
failed to go on strike were plying
ftheir tools, but the picketing was
absolutely silent and entirely peace
tful. When the men were warned away
fby local police they returned to their
tunion headquarters without protest.
Ten deputy United States marshais
Ordered to Aurora to quell any vio-
Hence which might arise and to see
that the federal injunction against
lpicketing was respected. found moth
ling to do, but remained on call.
Radicals New Menace. =
r While striking railmen themselves
iOffered no violence, new peace
menace developed in the Clinton (Hl)
'strike zone in the activities of radi-
lcal ENJOYS believed to have been
sent there for the purpose of provok-,
ing clashes between the strikers and
the National Guardsmen.
!; States Attorney w. f. Smith or.
}dered the city combed for l. w. w. |
Representatives and other profess
sional agitators, following a report
of the firing of two more shots over |
/ the heads of sentries in the Illinois
Central roundhouse yards. i,
!, Acting Governor Sterling sent |
troops into the Bloomington strike
zone and issued a proclamation to
the city of Bloomington following the
request Of city officials.
Get Order Against Jewell.
Through Attorney Nelson J. Will !
cox the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
lroad obtained before Federal Judge /
lGeorge T. Page a temporary injunc-
ton restraining B. M. Jewell, head Of
4the shop crafts and strikers, from In
any way interfering with operation Of
the cOmpany's shops or roundhOuses.
ut was made returnable for a hearing
tOn It's permanency July %. 49, +
Judge Fitzhenry, in the United
Estates District court at Bloomington,
granted a temporary injunction re-
straining striking shopmen from in
terfering with the operation of the
Wabash and the Illinois Central rail.
roads.
Mails Must Move, U. S. Says
Following the announcement by
President Taussig of the Wabash
railroad that mail trains will be dis
continued on that road unless govern
mental steps are taken to- protect such
trains, came word from Attorney
sGeneral Daugherty In Washington that
Hlaw and order must be preserved,
property and life protected and inter
state commerce and transportation of
mails must not be interfered with" =
This policy" said the attorney gen.
leral, after a White House conference,
@'will be continued wherever required.
The President is fully advised and
has the situation we'll in hand"
Information was obtained from semi
official sources that several Of the big
roads were planning to withdraw some{
local passenger trains before the end
of this week unless there was, a
change In the present shop conditions.
A dispatch from Bloomington said
that local freight trains on the Chit
cago & Alton there were abandoned
and that the road had declared an
embargo on live stock, reserving pow
er for passenger trains and food
freight trains. So far no reductions
have been made in passenger services
though an acute shortage of coal Is
admitted.