Imperial Valley press., 1922-07-11
GUARD SHOT
IN STRIKE
V0LLEY
S. P. Superintendent in
Range of Fire at Rose
vile Outbreak
TROOPS AGAIN ASKED
Signalmen Refuse to Join
ShOpmen and Agree
On Settlement

SACRAMENTO, Calf, July H..
An appeal for state troops was made
today by the Southern Pacific follow
ing the dynamiting of two Southern
Pacific water tanks at Newcastle and
firing on a crowd last night at Rose
vile when William Westlake, South
ern Pacific guard, was wounded.
At Roseville, II shots were fired at
Westlake as he stood with a number Of
Others on the station platform. He was
watching the icing of Pacific Fruit
Express ears by nonstriking workers.
Deputy State Labor Commissioner
Arthur l.. Johnson, who was in Rose
vile, investigating reports that Mexi.
cans were being put to enforced labor
icing ears behind the Southern Pacific
stockade. was only 4 feet away when
Westlake was shot through the arm
and chest. He will recover, physicians
said. His assailants hid behind a fence
and later escaped in an automobile.
S. P. official in Range
Thomas Ahern Sacramento division
superintendent of the Southern Pa
cific, was standing by Westlake 8 side
when the latter was shot. He immed-
lately made an appeal to the governors
office Tor state troops.
One of the shots fired passed through
the Windshield of the automobile of
John Cooley, Southern Pacific carpent-
er, who is on strike.
City Marshal A. Opprude and Con-
stable Jim Moran say today that rail.
road guards and workmen told then,
at the time of the shooting last night
that the shots were fired inside the
yards.
The officials were outside the South.
ern Pacific fences. Workmen called to
them, they said, that men inside were
practicing shooting at cans with
5000 rifle.
Federal Injunction Sough
It was reported today that the South.
ern Pacific will ask an injunction
against the striking unions. The North
western Pacific has already asked an
Injunction, alleging acts of violence.
The petition will be heard by Federal
Judge Dooling in San Francisco Mon
day.
Railroad Guard Kills Man
BUFFALO, n. Y, July 11.-Rioting,
accompanied by destruction of railroad
property and shooting, broke out here
today in connection with the shopmens'
strike.
Michael Zalesinski, 90, was shot and
killed by a New York Central guard.
The home of George Gibbons, foreman
in the Lehigh Valley shops, was stoned
and a freight ear was burned by strike
svmpathizers.
OGDEN, Utah, July 11.-Following a
stormy meeting of 500 striking shop
workers here last night, the strikers
early today marched to the Southern
Pacific shops and formed picket line
nearly mile long. Union officials told
them violence would gain them moth
ing.
Immediately following the meeting
the entire police force of the city was
modified.
Signal Men Not in Strike
CHICAGO, July 11.-Railroad signal
men today definitely announced they
would not join in the shopmen S strike.
ID. w. Helt, head of the union, stated
he had accepted an agreement, similar
to the compromise proposition with the
maintenance of way union.
The signal men will open negotia.
tions Immediately with various rail-
roads in an effort to reach an agree
ment on new wage scale.
Brotherhood May Take Hand
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 11.-Offi-
cias of the big railroad brotherhood
unions will confer in Chicago tomorrow
with railroad officials to demand
showdown from the roads on the pres
ence of troops on railroad property and
operation of trains with defective
equipment.
"When the lives of crews and pass
engcrs are endangered because ct
faulty equipment, the big railroad
brotherhoods will act,
This was the statement of William G.
Lee, president of the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Trainmen and spokesman for
the big brotherhoods. ''We have told
our members to operate trains as long
as poor equipment does not endanger