The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-21
.BORAH URGES
STRIKE ENDED
TO SAVE CROPS
Chairman of Senate Labor
Committee Urges Both Fac
tions to Hasten Solution
Jewell is Hopeful.
DISORDERS FLARE UP
CRY Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Declaring
the railroad strike was becoming in
tolerable, Senator Borah, Republican,
Idaho, chairman of the senate labor
committee today urged both sides in
the strike to hasten solution, be
cause of the losses in moving crops
Senator Borah in telegram to De-
Witt Cuyler, chairman of the associa-
ton of rail executives, and in con-
ference with B. NJ. Jewell, leader of
the striking shopmen and William H.
Johnston, president of the Information
al Association of Machinists, asserted
the crop losses through lack of trans
portation were becoming serious.
Mr.. Jewell, who with Mr.. Johnston,
called on Senator Borah at the latter's
office was said to view the New York
negotiations as hopeful. He and the
machinist's head. it was said, again
presented to Senator Borah reports as
| to determination of rail equipment
| CHICAGO, Aug. 21-Disorder con-
tinued to flare in the rail shop-workers
| strike during the early hours of its
| eighth week despite peace negotia.
tions pending at New York and asur-
ances by Chiefs of the big Four" that
no sympathetic strike of train service
employees impends.
While Michigan Central detectives
| were investigating the Gary. Indiana
1 wreck, in which two train crew were
killed early yesterday, violence broke
! out anew at scattered points from
coast to coast.
On the Atlantic side new disorder
occurred at Columbia, n. C.. where
| eleven men brought in to work in the
shop of the Southern railway wera
! attacked by a crowd of strike sympa-
! thizers.
Hostilities broke out in San Bernar
dino, Calf, where four men, employees
1 of the Atchinson Topeka and Santa
Fe shops were attacked and beaten.
Shots Exchanged
i Shots were exchanged by guards
|. and an unknown man in the Rio
Grande Western yards at Burnham,
Colo, suburb of Denver. The man,
who answered guards challenge by
firing at him, was believed to have
been badly wounded He escaped,
leaving a trail of blood.
Hurrying to Kansas City following a
near-riot in the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific shops there, Gov Allen OF
Kansas gave Mayor Harry Burton "a
hours to restore order, threatening to
send troops if the situation did not
improve.
Gov. Allen said he was informed
that gunner had been imported to in
timidate men who wanted to work in
the railroad shops.
: Official complications arose at Cor
bin, KY, where Chief of Police Man
!, ming a policeman and two deputy
) sherffs were arrested on federal war
rants charging them with resisting
and interfering with United States
: Marshal Williams and his deputies in
the discharge of their duties. Chief
Manning is said to have instigated
the holdup of Deputy United States
marshals on their way to serve re-
straining orders on strikers at Living
stone, KY.
Troops in Readiness.
Troops were held in readiness to en-
{ train for Spencer, n. c., where the sit
uation had been tense for several days
Following earlier outbreaks section
Of water main supplying the Southern
Railway shops at Spencer was blown
up.
Yardmen of the St Louis-Louisville
: line of the Southern Railway at
r Princeton, Ind, who had been on
I, strike since Saturday morning, return.
ed to work and freight and passenger
: traffic which had been tied up was
: restored.
Governor Hart of Washington took
D steps TO protect fruit growers of his
state by sending a representative tc
Washington to ask the interstate com
merce commission for action that viii
provide cars to move the big Wash
ington crop.