Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-07-14
CHARGE PLOTIN
RAIL CAR FIRE
Strikers or Sympathizers AC-
cused of Firing Freight Cars
in Chicago Yards.
PUTS BLAME ON LABOR BOARD
Chief of the Strikers Declares Men
Have signified Willingness to
Confer, but Peace Overtures
Were Ignored.

st. Louis, July 1O.-Rail strikers
threats of lynching drove off 90 men
at the st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
roads shops at Springfield, Mo-, ac-
cording to statement from the rail-
roads offices here. 1t was also charged
the Springfield chief of police took
away % men after they had been IN
loaded at the company's barracks. In
the statement the railroad denied the
chiefs charge that the men were hel0
against their will.
Chicago, July 1O.--A plot to burn
hundreds of freight cars in the yards
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad ID
the Chicago manufacturing district
was charged by j. G. Molter, chlef
special agent Of the road, a1ter
flames had partly wrecked one or
string of cars standing on siding.
Prompt arrival of the fremen prevent
ed a spread Of the fire.
TITS the work of strikers or sympa-
thiZers," Molter said. If the fire mad
not been promptly checked 1t would
have spread to hundreds Of cars ana
the loss would have been appalling"
Fire Captain Hubert Classen told
the police he found evidence of Oil
having been poured over rubbish In
the car
Responsibility for the further con-
tfnuation of the strike of the 4O0,O0O
railroad men and the resultant conse-
quences, was placed directly up to the
United States railway labor board ana
railway executives by B. NJ. Jewell,
head of the strikers.
The strikers, through their leaders,
Jewell pointed out, have signified their
willingness to 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.
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
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.
1.-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 enforcement Of anarchy
In this country"
Lincoln, Neb., July Rehabilitation
of state troops for strike duty was re-
quested of Gov S. r. McKelvie by
county and city officers from several
Nebraska towns where railroad shops
are reported to be preparing to at
tempt operation with strikebreakers.
Slater, Mo-, July 10.--Although the
railroad strike situation remained
quiet here, it was reported that Ma
tional Guard troops at Loonville and
Warrensburg, near here, had been mo-
bilized and were in readiness to be
sent to this city on short notice.
Springfield, H., July 10.-The strike
situation at Decatur apparently has
quieted down and, unless there are re-
ports of renewed violence in connec-
ton with the strike of Wabash railroad
shopmen there, the state troops now
modified will not be dispatched to
that place. This advice came from
Col. Frank L. Taylor Of the adjutant
generals Office.
The three hundred militiamen will
be held at their armories until further
notice.