New Britain herald., 1922-07-12
REVIEW OF STRIKE
 SITUATION TODAY
Settlement Seems Nearer Dis.
 orders Continue

seemed possibly step nearer today when 1t was disclosed that secret con- ferences have been held between Ben w. Hooper. chairman of the U. 8. Railroad Labor Board. and leaders of the six striking shop crafts. President Harding's intervention in the strike through his proclama ion calling for protection of transporta- ton and the mails was accepted as bearing much significance Call From President. telephone call from Washington for W. L. McMenimen. one of three labor members of the board, was said by the Chicago Tribune to have come from the president. The telephone operator, the Tribune said, called the newspaper in an effort to locate Mir. McMenimen.
 Fresh disorders at scattered points while troops patrolled former trouble xones arrangements for conference today by the big four service brother hoods and an announcement by B. M Jewell, head of the striking shop crafts. that conferences were planned with representatives of 21 north western railroads were among other important developments in the rail strike.
 Injunctions Granted.
 Additional injunctions restraining strikers from interfering with railway operations were granted to several roads. New appeals for troops were made to the governors of Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. while Governor Boyle of Nevada was asked by the Union Pacific for state intervention in the strike at Las Vegas.
 Disorders occurred at Chicago, Mill waukee, Sayre, Pa, Orrville O., Den nfson, Texas, and at Roodhouse Ill. Bert dickson, roundhouse foreman for the Chicago and Alton said to be . nephew of w., G. Bierd. president of the road. was tarred and feathered by masked band.
 Two car repairers were reported to have been abducted at Marion, O., and at Pana, H., a carman left town under threats of strikers.
 Deny They Are Strikers.
 At Algiers, La, four negroes work ing in the shops of the Southern Pa ciic were fired upon by crowd of whites, 13 of whom were arrested for violating the federal injunction. The prisoners denied they were strikers.
 Clinton, H., New Franklin and Slater, Mo, and Parsons, Kas., where troops were on duty remained 'com- paratively quiet.
 The situation at Bloomington, H.. remain~d tense with troops holding tse yards and shops. Frequent shoot ings and the general hostile attitude of strikers and large crowds of sym pathizers kept National Guardsmen on constant vigilance.
 Meanwhile city and county authori- ties were endeavoring to re-establish government
 Object to Machine Guns
 Engineers, tiremen, trainmen and conductors announced that they would refuse to enter the Alton yards at Bloomington to take out trains as long as machine guns bristled in the l shops. They voted only to operate | mail trains unless the trains were de- livered to them outside the shop dis i trict during the encampment of the troops in the yards
 The meeting or the big four broth erhood chiefs was called for the pur- pose of discussing issues growing out of the shopmen's strike.
 Among other developments of the last 24 hours was the announcement of D. w. Helt, president of the rail- way signalmen that no strike would be called and the failure of clerks, station employees and freight handlers on the Norfolk and Western to re- spond to an official authorization of a strike.
 Shop crafts at Sayre, Pa, formed . peace committee" with the an- nounced intention of preventing dis orders as far as possible.
 Additional deputies were sworn in by the United States Marshal Levy in Chicago.
 Report Better Conditions
 The Santa Fe, Burlington and Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas announced that conditions were steadily improv- ing on their lines. Santa Fe shop men were reported by the road to be returning to work in considerable numbers At Galesburgh, Ill.,, 800 were reported to have returned to the shops
 Forty-one moulders, who joined the walkout at Parsons, Kas., were re- ported back on their jobs.
 Police at Boston drove pickets away from employment agencies where men were accepted for railroad work
 Roseville, Cal, officials were inves- tigating the dynamiting of one of the largest water tanks on the Southern Pacific system by party of unknown men and an attack by strikers upon an employe of the Pacific Fruit Elk press
 The Baltimore and Ohio at Youngs- town, O., and East St. Louis and Flora. H., and the Missouri Pacific and Frisco at Kansas City were among the roads to which federal in- functions were granted.
 More Join Walkout
 Two hundred maintenance of way employees on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Wilkes Barre, Pa, joined the walkout and 100 section men at Dennison, O.. went out on strike. The Baltimore and Ohio and the Erie sent some of their rolling stock to outside shops for repairs
 54 Trains Annulled
 Fifty-four trains were annulled by the Wabash. Governor Russell of Mississippi received an appeal for troops to protect Mississippi Central shops. An appeal was sent also to Governor Taylor of Tennessee to send National Guardsmen to the shops at Memphis
 Tnyerfi Q fjope of the cfrike situation