The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-12
outside the shop district during tho
encampment OF the troops in the

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encampment OF the troops in the
yards.
Form ~Peaoe Committee.
Shop crafts at Sayre, Pa, formed
a peace committee" with the an
nounced intention of preventing dis
orders as far As possible.
Shop crafts leaders expressed sat-
isfaction over the success Of the
strike, while most of the roads were
noncommittal. The Santa Fe, Bur-
lington and Missouri, Kansas and
Texas announced that conditions
were steadily improving on their
lines. Santa Fe shopmen were re-
ported by the road to be returning
to work in considerable numbers.
At Galesburg, ILL.,, system shop
crafts chiefs reported that on the
entire Burlington route $50 union
shopmen were working.
Parsons Men Return.
Forty-one fnolders who joined
the walkout at Parsons, Kan, were
reported back on their jobs.
Police at Boston drove pickets
away from employment agencies,
where men were being accepted for
railroad work.
Hoseville, Cal, oficials were in
vestigating the dynamiting Of one
OF the largest water tanks on the
Southern Pacific system by q party
Of unknown men, and an attack by
strikers on an employee of the Pa
cific express.
The Baltimore & Ohio at Youngs.
town, Ohio, and East st. Louis and
Flora, Ill, and the Missouri Pa
cific and Frisco at Kansas City
were among the roads to which
federal injunctions were granted.
Maintenance Men Strike.
TWO hundred maintenance Of way
employees On the Central railroad Of
New Sersey at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Joined the walkout and 100 section
men at Dennison, Ohio, went out
On strike.
The Baltimore I Ohio and the
Erie sent some Of their rolling
stock to outside shops for repairs
Fifty -four trains were ahnulled BY
the wabash.
Striking shopmen 1t Topeka
Kan, in resolutions declared thai
they would not return to the SAINTS
Fe shops until all employees WHIT
remained at their posts during tn
strike were removed and theil
places filled with men who JOINED
the wslkout.
| Notices to Kansas mayors In
forming them that their cities ar
liable for damages under the stat
mob" Law were forwarded BY At
tofnsg General Hopkins.
4 workers. Home Stoned.
| A crowd Of men, women and chill
dfen stoned the home Of Samue
| Thompson, . Santa Fe employe II
| Chicago. Thompson was werkinl
LIT Corwitch. Ill, and his wife VA
home alone when the attack Va
made. Police dispersed the mob.
Tentative proposals considered 1
the psAce conferences included Ii
following:
PeAes RrsposAla
4 That the railroads. abolish con
tract system Of farming out work I
contractors.
II That certain WORKING rules gov
erning overtime pay b modified.
i That the shopmen be given IN
, other hearing on the wage issue.
Il That the railroads agree 10 estaf
fish boards Of adjustment 70 hsa
all disputes, except those involtin
wages.
Il Invitations 10 attend today
"big Four" confefence were SCI
! TO the following: +. De Witt Cuyfel
. chairman Of the railway executive
association, and other rail exect
II Nves; Warren 3. stone, pfesidef
. Of the Brotherhood Of LotomOtfv
Engineers: ". q. Lee, president
| the Brotherhood Of Railroad Tf4il
II men; D. 3. Robeftson, president
!, the Brothefhocd q 1irenAn -
! Enginemeu; L Z On1o2A1d, Deo1l
] dent q tAe Asue1 uRhop1-ee 1AflWa
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