The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
WESTERN LINES
OPEN UP AS men
RETURN To WORK
Western Pacific and Union
Pacific Lines Cleared.
Emergency Crews Are Moving
Trains for Santa Fe.
ROCKS FOR SANTA FE WORKERS
Four Arrests Follow Attack
Made in San Bernardino.
Brotherhood Strike Is Over in
Western Territory.
Emergency Crews Are Moving
Trains for Santa Fe.
ROCKS FOR SANTA FE WORKERS
Four Arrests Follow Attack
Made in San BernardinO.
(By the Associated press1


San Francisco, Aug. 1.-THE trans
portation situation arising from walk
outs of operating brotherhood men on
far western railroads was easier today.
All those who had been out on the
Western Pacific, which links San
Francisco with Salt Lake City, re-
turned 10 work late yesterday. The
Union Pacific Salt Lake City-Los An
geles line was cleared last night by
return to work of brotherhood men.
At Las Vegas on the Santa Fe, now
sas previously, the most severely ham
pered of the affected lines, passenger
trains, were moving as fast as
emergency crews of officials and other
casual help could move them between
Gallup, y. NJ, and San Bernardino,
trains at Albuquerque and Las Vegas,
n. NJ, was clearing
But if transportation phases of the
situation improved others did not. Up
ward to 200 persons, including ten
women and four children remained
virtual prisoners in the Union Pacific
enclosure at Las Vegas, New, where
they have been held by strike sympa-
thizers for several days. A force OF
state policemen was concentrating at
Las Vegas, its first unit already there,
and developments were anticipated.
Trouble at San Bcrnardino.
At San Bernardino, several persons
were injured by rocks thrown when a
crowd of strike sympathizers at
tempted to prevent yesterdays shift
from leaving the Santa Fe shops.
Four persons were arrested. Crowds
gathered several times on the streets
of the town, but dispersed at the be-
hest of officers.
A mass meeting of members of the
public and the railroad unions has
been called to meet in Fresno, Cal,
tonight with the object of urging
congress to make impossible such dis
locations of normal life as have re-
suited from the present strikes.
By The Associated Press)
Chicago Aug. 17.-An end to the
strike of big four" transportation
brotherhoods on western roads, an
improved. outlook for peace IN tnc
New York conference today, shoot
ings. bombing and burning were high
lights in the nations railway crisis
during the last twenty-four hours.
BIockades and tieups on the Atcht-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe, the Union
Pacific, western Pacific and Southern
Pacific cleared up when striking train
crews called off their, walkout and
opened the way to immediate restora-
ton of traffic on lines which were
paralyzed by the strike of the big foIr
brotherhoods. Stranded Santa Fe
trains were moved out of Albu-
cuerque. n. M, and traInmen at Pres
colt, Ariz., notified Santa Fe officials
that strikers would return to work.
these moves followed earlier develop
ments toward ending he tieup on the
Santa Fe.
U. p. Trainmen Back.
The Union Pacifics traffic knot un-
raveled rapidly after trainment on the
Las Vegas division caIed off their
strike. other western roads restored
T. transportation activities which had
been in effect since the shopmen'5 )
strike began July l.
Tentative agreements looking to-
ward an end to the trainmen's strike
on the Cumberland Valley division of
the Louisville & Nashville were an
nounced at Corbin, Ky.
With the train service strike break
ing up in other sections of the coun-
try trainmen who interrupted traffic
on the Missouri Pacific at Van Buren,
Ark. refused TO return to work while
guards remained on duty in the yards
Only trains which were made up and
delivered to crews outside the railroad
yards were moved.
Bomb Santa Fe Train.
Bombs were thrown at a Santa Fe
train which left San Bernardino, Cal,
for the. first time in six days. The
first bomb exploded in the railroad
yards and two more were hurled at
the passenger train as the engine
wheels spun over oiled rails in pulling
out of the city
George Stambaugh, a brakeman on
the Great Northern, was shot and
(Coutirued on PaRe TEoJ