The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04
Arrival of the Annual Holiday
Brings New Violence.
Many Cities Again Report At
tempts to Wreck Trains.
STILL TALK GENERAL STRIKE
Labor Bodies Are FlOcking to
Support of ShOpmen.
First Arrest for Violation of In
junction in Chicago.

Chicago. Sept. 4.-The dawn of
Labor day and the sixty-sixth day of
the railway shopmen's strike found
the U. s. marshals modified to enforce
the government strike injunction and
prepared to keep a close watch on
labor demonstrations thruout the
country In Chicago union leaders
eaid no organized program had been
made for observance of the holiday.
Arrival of the annual holiday
brought with it new acts of violence
and further expressions of bitter re-
sentiment on the part of the labor
leaders against the federal injunction
Many union chiefs against whom the
injunction was issued declared they
had not been served with writs. The
whereabouts of B. NJ. Jewell, leader
of the shop crafts strike, remained un-
known early today.
Central labor bodies in various cities
adopted resolutions dealing with the
railroad strike. The Boston Central
union pledged full moral and finan-
cal support to the striking shopmen
and adopted a resolution calling upon
President Harding to seize the roads
and restore the strikers to their old
jobs.
An Arrest in Chicago.
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arrests for violation of the injunction
was made, the Chicago Federation of
Labor authorized a campaign to aid
the striking shopmen. The resolution
was adopted following speeches by
William u. Foster and former U. S.
Sen. r. f Pettigrew of South Dakota
Foster, advocate of a one big union
for railroad workers, criticized leaders
of the rail unions for failing TO make
the rail strike general. He attended
the meeting as a delegate from the
Garments union Following his speech
resolutions protesting his arrest in con-
ncction with the recent radical meet
Inc at Bridgman, Mich, were adopted.
Former Senator Pettigrew said
rothing could he expected from a con-
Cress composed largely Of lawyers
Another Wave of Destruction.
Thruout the country a wave of de-
struction marked the dawn of labor
day developments. At Louisville, KY,
the failure of train wreckers to remove
a derail device prevented the head-on
crash of a Louisville & Nashville train
in a string of cars The locomotive.
baggage and mail cars were derailed.
Seven men were under arrest at
Gretna, La, a suburb of New Orleans.
charged with having beaten and
slashed the throat of a 15-year-old
negro.
Two Trains Are Stoned.
Two trains were stoned at Grey
court. n. Y, ard state police went to
the aid of railroad detectives in dis
persing crowds in the Erie railroad
yards at Port Jervis, N. Y, where a
workman was injured by stones.
Other incidents included attempts
to wreck trains at Trinidad, Colo, and
Montgomery, Ala, and the burning of
freight cars and buildings at Denison,
Texas.
Several strikers were arrested at
Memphis. Tenn, in connection with
the killing of a Frisco shop worker
Saturday. Police said the men con-
fessed
Urge Gompers To Call 1t.
Striking shopmen at Philadelphia
j ned other labor organizations in
urging Samuel Gompers. president of
the A. F. o. L., to aid in calling a
general strike in protest against the
injunction.
An investigation began today in a
wreck in which three persons were
injured at Stony Run, near Baltimore
In preparing to attempt the release
of four men held at Gary on charges
of wrecking the Million Dollar Ex-
press On the Michigan Central, Au-
gust 90, attorneys seeking a writ of
habeas corpus charged a fifth man
had been arrested and beaten so bad
ly by police trying to obtain a con-
fession from him, that he is confined
TO a hOspital