Evening star., 1922-08-08

extremes raises a suspicion that the
President must have found the safe
and sane position of fairness and
conservatism.
Many Men Needed.
"The opinion already expressed by
one executive that the President's
recommendations seem to demand q
the railways and the Characterization
OF the proposal by a leader of the
employees as an uncalled for attempt
to help the railroads break the strike
VIII be hard to reconstrue In the pub
lie mind.
'.rhe rising of business prosperity
and the consequent increase Of rail-
lated shopwork resulting from the
strike. will necessitate the employ
ment of greatly enlarged number
of mechanics The other ordinary
processes of readjustment that al
ways follow a strike would likewise
operate effectively. On a very large
number Of the roads. In my judge
ment, the question of seniority would
never even arise"
Board Ready to Act.
Acting upon President Harding sug-
gestion for ending the rail strike, the
Labor Board today stood ready prompt
ly and readily to consider the seniority
question. sole remaining barrier to
peace on the railroads.
In majority resolution adopted last
night the board asserted as much will
ingness to act on the seniority con-
troversy as to reopen hearings on the
wage and rule issues originally involved
in the strike.
A. o; Wharton. the only ono of tho
fhroA 1Qhnr
meeting, voted against the resolution
after an amendment he offered was
voted down.
Resolution MisinteFpreted.
'The only difference in the attitude Of
the board toward the wage and rule
questions and the seniority question" :"
the resolution said, rs that, as to the
former, the board would be called upon
to rehear matters already formally de-
cided. and. as to the latter. to consider
a question which has not been formally
heard and decided, but which has been
inferentially touched upon in the reso-
luton of July 5, 1922"
The July resolution. which declared
that striking shopmen were no longer
employees Of the roads, was wrongfully
interpreted as "outlawing'' the strikers
Mr.. Hooper asserted.
The boards offer to hear the senior
ity question and render a decision on
it, came on tho heels Of President Hard
the striking shopcrafts
Disorders ON Increase.
Increasing disorder marked the
progress Of the rail strike. which is in
its sixth week.
Troops were ordered to Joliet, Ill,
where two men were killed and
Sheriff Newkirk was injured in a
clash yesterday at the E,gin, Joliet
ard Eastern shops.
Gov. Thomas E. Kilby OF Alabama
ordered national guardsmen to Al
bany following a report that au-
thorities were unable to cope with
disorders growing out Of the strike
of Louisville and Nashville railroad
shopmen.
Austin King and p. J. Murrhy, fc,-
mer carmen in the Northern Pacific
railroad shops at st. Paul, were ar
rested when Samuel B. Smith. a shop
employe. charged that the men at
tackled him when he went to work,
beat him and threatened to hang
him.
Beaten With Wire.
Howard Mcdonald. a machinist's s
helper in the st. Louis-San Fran
cisco railroad shops at Monett, Mo.
reported that he had been beaten
with strands of wire rope. Three
men were held in connection with
the attack.
Nf
Burton of Kansas City, Kan, to fur
nfsh additional protection. to work
ers at Argentine, where a workman
in the Santa, Fe shops was attacked
Three men. charged with violation
of a federal Injunction restraining
Grafton Of the Texas and Pacific rail-
road. were found guilty at New. Or
leans and sentenced to thirty days
One man, charged with a similar Of
Tense. was discharged.
Declaring that general state OF
Calf. since the beginning of ths
aeer of the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe, said the San Bernardine
county grand Jury would be asked
to Investigate conditions. -.
Striking shopmen lost three con.
.tentiens in federal court at Portland
oISBOhs @AoesoiS ~ "htASNS w
portions Of a complaint against then
were overruled.=
Flogxed in Jail
Gov. Parker Of Louisiana in
structed Attorney General Coco t.
Investigate tho situation at Gretna
suburb Of New orleans, where fif'
teen men were imprisoned utter. the,
testified that they had been beater
by alleged strikers and strike, sym
pathizers. Several men testified that
they were fIogged BY negro trustie.
within the walls Of the jail. Tn,
prisoners were released by Fedora
fudge Foster. Gov. Parker. in hi.
snsf edrtions to. the Attorney general
I! declared the ,isnprisOumeut, Of the mel
was q disgrace TO the state" n,
threatened removal Of any ofhcia
found dereiict In his duty in connec
| tfoni With the Affair
/ Memherss of three locals of @th'
Brotherhood. of Railway TrRinmen II
Joint meeting at Houston. Texas
adopted resolutions protesting the
use, bY railroads cf defeetfye rollins
stock duripg shopmen's strike