The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-07-13
RAILROADS MOVE
FOR INJUNCTION
Plan for Application for Federal
Writs General Throughout
Nation.
10 CALL HALT ON VIOLENCE
Would Restrain Strikers From Illegal
interference with Lines-Riotina
In Chicago and Disorder In
Various Places.

Chicago, July 10.-Railroads are re-
ported to be planning to checkmates
the growing violence In the strike OF
<OO.OO shop crafts employees through
wholesale applications for federal In
functions, restraining the strikers from
illegal Interference with the operations
Of thei rlines
Practically every road In Louisiana
In reported 10 have the necessary pa
pers prepared To follow the lead OF
the Trans Mississippi Terminus Rail
road company. which obtained writ
specifically enjoining the union men
from interfering with old OF new mem
bers of the road.
Other railroads, including those In
Chicago. have had their attorneys 81
curing the necessary legal evidence
and sffidavits OF assaults. sabotage
and destruction Of property upon
which the applications must be based.
Chicago July l0.-A mob Of more
than a hundred striking shopmen and
sympathizers armed with clubs and
rocks, rushed several west-bound Four
o0ehth street cars at Robey street and
dragged men believed to he strike
breakers TO the street. There they
were bestenpnd clubbed. In one case
their victim was left unconscious In
the gutter A number OF shots were
fired into the Chicago 4 Northwestern
railroad roundhouse at Chicago ave
nue. and Halsted street by three men
In q small automobile. No one was
hurt. While the rioting was u prog
ress another series Of assaults was
reported to have taken place at Loom
h and Fifteenth streets. where q
crowd surrounded a number Of work
eru. On Fourteenth street one Of the
nrst victims OF the mob wss an inno-
csot passenger.
Rail oMseisi Assasslnatsd.
Fred J. white. superintendent OF
ths car department Of the Illinois Cen
trul railroad. was assassinsted near
New Orleans.
Threaten 10 Lynch Worksra
II. Louis. July l0-Rsil strikers
threats Of iyuching drove on 6o men
at the ST Louis & San Francisco rail-
roads shops at Springfield. Mo-. &C
cording TO a statement from the rail
roads ofices here. II was also charged
the Springfield chief Of police took
away % men after they had been un-
loaded at the company's barracks In
the statement the railroad denied the
chiefs charge that the men were held
against their will
Plot to Burn Cara
Chicago. July lO-A plot TO burn
hundreds Of freight cars In the yards
Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad In
the Chicago manufacturing district
was charged by J. G. Moiter. chief
special agent for the road. after
flames had partly wrecked one Of q
string Of cars standing on . siding.
Prompt arrival OF the nremen pro
vented q spread OF the ire.
Responsibility for the further con-
tinuation OF the strike Of the 100000
railroad men and the resultant conse-
Quehces. was placed directly up to the
United States Railway Labor Board
and railway executives BY b. N.
Jewell. head Of the strikers.
The strikers, through their leaders,
Jewell pointed out, have signified their
willingness 10 meet in conference with
authorized representatives with the
view Of settling the strike. These
peace overtures, the strike leader as
serted. have been ignored. both by the
railway executives and the labor
board.
Strikers Must Return.
ANY doubt that the United States
rail labor board is determined TO stick
by the wage and other decisions,
against which 100000 railway shop
men are striking, was dispelled by a
statement issued by Ben W. Hooper.
chairman OF the board.
The strikers were notified that they
can hope for further consideration
only after they have returned to their
jobs throughout the country.
The shop crafts" reads the state
ment. "have been fairly heard before
the labor board. They have appealed
from the sober. conservative Judgment
Of this board to the strike. with all In
evitable, un.American subversion OF
law and order.
For the labor board to Yield to
measures Of this kind would be an
outrage upon public decency and
would hasten enthronement OF anarchy
In this countrv"