Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-05
Secretary Davis, Deploring
Violence, Says No Gibbet
Too High tor Wreckers.
HOLIDAY FAILS TO HALT
DISORDERLY OUTBREAKS
Open Switch Found With Lights
Gone-Cars and Bridge Fired.
Many Arrests Are Made.
BY the Associated Press, 4

By the Associated Press./
CHICAGO, September with the
governments rail strike injunction
universally condemned by union lead
ers in Labor day messages yesterday,
impending federal court action in cases
growing out of arrests for alleged
violations Of the writ occupied the
foreground of the picture of the ma
tons industrial situation today.
The annual holiday brought lull
in railroad strike developments.
While some Labor day orators were
injunction. other union leaders ap-
pearing as speakers followed Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, in attacking the
restraining order.
Speaking at Philadelphia, Mr.. Com
pers reiterated his charges that the
injunction was violation of the Con-
stitution and the laws Of the land.
Executive Council Meets.
Members of the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor
were gathering at Atlantic City to-
day.
At this conference Mr.. Gompers said
he would place before the committee
requests from various labor organiza-
tions for a general strike call
While union leaders were berating
the Daugherty Injunction. other
speakers dealt with the Industrial
situation in another light Notable
examples of these were the speeches
of Secretary of Labor Davis at Moose
heart. ILL.,, and Edward j. Brundage,
attorney general of Illinois, at a gath
ering Of Chicago republicans.
Davis Scores "DastardIy Deeds,
Secretary Davis declared no gibbet
can be built too high for those who
execute such dastardly deeds as the
deliberate wrecking. of a train at
Gary" A way would be found, he
said, to settle industrial disputes
without force. -.abor, he declared,
had successfully resisted attempts to
high wage levels would bring pros
perity.
Disorders Go On.
Despite the general quietude of
Labor day, the holiday period was
not without it's contributions to the
growing list of outbreaks incident to
the railway shopmen's strike
At Ardmore, Okla. inspectors were
investigating what Santa Fe railroad
officials said was an attempt to
wreck a passenger train bound from
Kansas City to Galveston. The en-
gineer reported that he found an
open switch with the signal lights
broken off.
Nineteen freight cars were burned
In the yards of the Great Northern
hundred cars were endangered by
the blaze, which broke out stimuli
taneously in five different places.
Farmers Save Bridge.
Farmers extingushed a blaze. which
damaged a ST. Louis-San Francisco
railway bridge. at Bengal. Okla.
Two men were arrested at Cynthi-
ana, KY, charged with attempting
sto wreck a Louisville and Nashville
passenger train last Saturday.
Other arrests included that of John
A. Stecklein. acting chairman of the
Shop Crafts Federation. at Needles,
Calf, and of Jacob Cohen. editor
and publisher of the Labor Review, at
Memphis, Tenn. charged with violat-
ing federal injunctions.
Prisoner Said to Have Confessed.
Memphis police made public an al
legged confession by Seth w. Posten,
one of four men held in connection
with the killing of a shop foreman
from ambush, in which. Posten is said
to have admitted that he was one of
several who pulled spikes and loosen
ed rails in an attempt to wreck a
Frisco train near Caperville, Tenn.
on the night of August 26 In the
purported confession Posten named
two of the men held with him in the
ambuscade investigation as particle
pants in the wreck plot.
Thomas Mrachek. Great Northern
railway guard. was held without bail
pending thes outcome of injuries to
a striking shopman. who was shot by
the guard at Grand Forks, N. D.
Advises Strikers to Seek Jobs.
Declaring the shopmen's strike had
been lost so. far as the Central Of
Georgia railroad is concerned, W. A.
winburn. president of the road, adj
vised the strikers to find some kind
of work to protect their families.
Miss Jeanette Rankin of Montana,
the. first woman to sit in Congress,
declared in a speech at Peoria, ILL.,,
that the wives of union men should
participate with their husbands in the
Df, affairs