Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-07-20

The leaders of the brotherhoods held
several conferences and said their men
would continue to operate trains up
to the point where the military occu-
patton began.
President Helt of the railway Sig
nalmen announced that his organiza-
ton had postponed striking pending
negotiations with the labor board
which are now under way. On one
Eastern road all the clerks struck.
Determined to guard federal inter-
ests, the administration at Washing
ton has been keeping close tab on the
developments, and President Harding
issued a proclamation directing all
persons to refrain with oil interior
ence with the lawful efforts to main
tain interstate transportation and the
carrying of the United States mails"
This was done after Postmaster Gen
eral Work had submitted to the cab
met numerous instances of interfer-
ence with the transportation of the
mails and the information that a num-
Der of roads had been forced to aban.
don some of their man trains. In
case the proclamation were ignored,
the administration laid plans for the
institution Of civil and criminal pro-
ceedings against individual offenders
and the unions. It was understood
that for the present the various states
would be relied on for protection of
workers and trains, but If any failed,
the federal troops would be called out,
and possibly soldiers and marines
would be placed on the mail trains.
The President is determined to back
up the federal labor board to the full
extent of his powers.
On Thursday, at the direction of
the President, Secretary Weeks or
aered troops held in readiness to pro-
tect the lines of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas road in ,Eexas, where op-
erations were impeded by lawlessness
and violence. This was in response
to an appeal from the receiver of the
railway who was appointed by a Unit
I'd States court.
Announcement was made by the
Post Office department that IT every
mail train should cease to run, 1t
would continue to transport mails by
motortrucks and airplanes The de-
partment has SO planes, and the gov
eminent owns thousands Of trucks
belonging to various departments.
In response to the Presidents proc
lamation the executive council of the
shopcrafts unions sent him a long
telegram setting forth the grievances
Of the strikers. The labor board was,
by implication, charged with partial
lty, and the railroads were accused
Of specific violations of the law and
of disregarding the orders Of the
board. The workers, It was asserted,
have been and are ready to negotiate
with the railway executives and
struck only as last resort. eve re-
spectfully insist" continued the tele-
gram, that no interruption of com.
merce or interference with the malls
is caused by direct or unlawful acts
of organized employees. Such inter-
ruptton and interference results in.
evitably from attempts Of railroads to
operate with insufficient, incompetent
and unskilled workmen."
At the close Of the week all that
prevented an immediate strike Of the
maintenance of way men was the
determination Of their president, e.
F. Cradle, to keep them at work for
the present. A majority Of their gem
eral chairmen had requested that they
be called together to plan for a walk
out. The stationary firemen and oilers
decided to quit work on July II.
HICAGO was facing an almost
~ complete tieup Of its local trans: