The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-12

vide the Outstanding
Textures of the Events
of Today
W NEW YORK, July 12.-Presi-
dent Harding's proclamation on
the rail shopmen's strike result
ed today in public declaration
of the "strike conduct" commit
tee of the Eastern railroads that
they would "continue on strike
until satisfactory settlement is
~ reached, even if every mail train
in the district is cancelled"
Chairman Hooper's Program
Chicago, July t2.-(By the AS
aocated Press.)-A program for
the solution of the railroad shop
mems strike was drawn up today
by Chairman Ben w. Hooper, of
the Railroad Labor Board, after
conferences with leaders of the
shopmen, and was submitted to
representatives of the railway
s executives from four sections of
the country at noon today.
Chairman Hooper's program,
which is said to represent the min
imum acceptable to the striking
shopmen, is to be carried again
to the shipments leaders later to-
day, with the comments and coun-
ter proposals of the executives.
Waiting for Reply
Richmond, Va, July 12.-Officers
- -, Jaf1
Clerks today were awaiting an ans
wer from the heads of the Cheasa-
peake and Ohio Railways to demands
submitted at a conference yesterday
" by j. G.. Parish. general manager of
Z the road.
Mr.. Parish in statement today.
declared no definite time for hand
ing the reply to the clerks has been
fixed Optimism over the outcome
& of the conference of the clerks of the
c. e o., and officials was expressed
both by the clerks and the union.
Situation in Richmond.
Richmond, Va, July 12.-While of,
ficials of the striking shopmen on the
roads entering Richmond today de-
clared the situation is growing grad.
ually more unfavorable for the car.
riers, heads of the railroads declared
that so far the walkout of the shop
men, which began on July l has had
no material effect on the movement
of trains.
CONFERENCES PLANNED
Chicago July 12.-(By the Associ-
ated Press)-Settlemen of the ma
tional rail strike seemed a step near
er possible, today, when it was dis
q closed that secret conferences have
been held between Ben w. Hooper,
chairman of the railrQNd labor board,
and representatives of the six strik-
ing shop crafts. No definite conclu
sicus were reached as a result of
peace meetings, but the dis
xT~ of the conferences, which
Hc nd to. be more personal than
offN$ raised the hopes of the inter-
ested parties.
Reports of interference with traffic
andTthe mails were received with ex-
pectation that developments would
grow out of these facts in the near
future.
A telephone call from Washington
for w. L. McMenimen, one of the
three labor members of the board,
have come from the president. The
telephone operator, the Tribune said,
called the newspaper in an effort to
locate Mr.. McMenimen.
Fresh disorders occurred at scat
tered points, while troops patrolled
former trouble centers. Arrangements
for a conference today between the
"big four" train service brotherhoods
n
ell, head of the striking shop crafts,
that conferences were planned with
representatives of twenty-one north
western roads, were among other i'm
portant developments in the rail
strike today.
Injunctions against interference
with their operations were granted
to several more roads.
Governors of Mississippi, Tennessee
and Texas were asked for troops,
while Governor Boyle of Nevada was
asked by the Union Pacific for state
Intervention in the strike at Las
Vegas.
Disorders occurred at Chicago,
Milwaukee, Sayre Pa, Orrville, o..
Denison, Tex, and Roodhouse, Ill.
Bert Dickson, a roundhouse foreman
of the Chicago & Alton. said to be a
nephew of w. G. Bierd, president Of
the road. was tarred and feathered
by a masked band
Two car repairers were said to have
been abducted at Marion, Ohio, and
at Pana, ILL.,, carman left town un-
der threats of personal injury. At
Algiers, La, men working in the shops
OF the Southern Pacific were fired
upon by a crowd of whites, 16 of
whom were arrested for violating the