The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-15
'BROTHERHO0DS
OBJECT TO The
use OF TROOPS
Engineers, Firemen,
Trainmen and the
Conductors Refuse
to Enter Shops Or
Yards While Troops
Are on Guard

Yards While Troops
Are on Guard
Chicago, July II (By the Asso-
ciated Press).-Witi1 state troops
and United States deputy marshals
on guard in half dozen states to
avert violence and prevent inter-
ference with the movement of the
mails or interstate commerce. lead
ers of the Big Four railroad
brotherhoods and railway execu-
tives were hurrying to Chicago to-
night to confer tomorrow on is
sues growing out Of the shop
mems strike
At Bloomington, Ill. where state
troops have been guarding the Chi
cago & Alton railway shops. engi-
neers,. fremen,. trainmen and con-
ductors. members of the four big
brotherhoods, voted today not to
enter the shops or yards. as long
as troops are stationed there.
Union officials ordered their
men to keep the mail trains run
ming, however. Clerks employed in
the yards and at the depot walked
out last night. refusing to work
under protection Of the troops.
The day passed quietly at the
~. kxx-o cI,
during the day. and both We're
traced to accidental discharges of
sentineIs' rifles.
The matter of working with
guards and state troops on duty
was expected to be one of the mat
ters taken up at tomorrow's meet
ing.
Another. issue to be- discussed
will be the alleged insistence Of the
carriers that members Of the
Big Four do work regularly as
signed to the crafts now on strike.
The United States railroad labor
board last week rendered an opin-
ion that the members of one craft
of workmen We're not required to
do the work OF another union
whose members were on strike.
unless they did so voluntarily.
Members Of the Big Four unions
also protested that rolling stock
has not been kept :. in condition
since the strike of shopmen. engi-
neers, claiming that engines with
defective brakes. headlights and
air equipment had been turned over
to them.
A rift in the, strike clouds appear
ed today with the announcement OF
D. E. Ee1t. president Of the
Brotherhood OF Railroad Signal
men. that his $4,000. members
would not strike at this time but
expected to open new nesotia-
tions with the individual carriers
regarding their grievances. If un-
able to reach an agreement. the
entire matter will be referred to
the railroad labor board. he said.
Armed with three federal injunc-
tons issued against rail strikers,
United States Marshal Moore Of the
Peoria Office went to Clinton. ILL.,,
to serve the papers. The writs
restrain the strikers from picket
ing. interference with the opera
tions of trains, intimidation of en-
ployees or any conspiracy to tie
up transportation.
The shop craft leaders assumed
more hopeful attitude today with
receipt of adyices that, all told. Is
railroads had made conciliatory
expressions looking toward a set
tlement of the strike and that
some already were conferring with
the system federation committee.
No settlement will be considered,
however. except on a. national ba-
sis. the union heads insisted. adj
herring 10 their original attitude
that the railroads deal with the
six international shop unions as a
whole.
Negotiations have progressed SC
far on the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern that r. A.
Henning. chairman of the strikers
committee at ST. Paul. MINI. came
to Chicago today to confer with
President B. NJ. Jewell and other
federation officers. No definite
conclusion was reached, it was
said.
Little actual violence was re-
ported today, although troops and
guards remained vigilant. Two
hundred Kansas National Guards
men were sent TO Harrington, Kan,
to guard the Rock Island shops
and officials of the Southern rail
way asked Governor Russell Of
Mississippi for troops at sHatties-
burg to protect the property OF
the Mississippi Central shops
officials of the st. Louis-Sar
Francisco at st. Louis announced
they had requested protection from
the MAYOR of Memphis and the
governor Of Tennessee because
some of their employees at the
Georgia shops had been intimi-
dated b% the strikers ana the SIT
uation was so serious that they
were compelled to bring the
workmen to and from the shops ir
automobiles.
All was quiet at Clinton. III.
where state troops have been sta
toned since Saturday. Additional
deputy marshaIs were sworn II
here to protect the Chicago &
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