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CONSIDERS ACTION
MISGUIDED FEW"
Attorney General Daugherty Declares
Government Will Take Up Ques-
ton of Incendiary Speeches in
Connection With Industrial Stu
alton.

alton.
Washington, Sept. 6.-Formal an
nouncement by Attorney General
Daugherty that the government
would consider in due time what
proceedings shall be taken against
he few misguided labor leaders who
have made incendiary speeches." in
connection with the industrial situa-
alton, and persistent reports that
secret conferences are in progress
looking ITO some sort of separate
settlement with individual roads
stood out in today's developments
in the strike of the railway shop
crafts.
Incidentally, Mr.. Daughterity said,
preparation of the governments
case had been somewhat hampered"
by the difficulty process servers were
experiencing in locating Heading Of
icials of the shop crafts organiza-
oitns".
W. H. Johnston, president of the
machinest, and B. M. Jewell head
of the seven organizations on strike
have recently dropped out of public
view although labor spokesmen have
invaribly denied the two leaders were
avoiding the service of copies of the
restraining order issued at Chicago
last Friday and asserted they would
>e available if wanted for that pur-
pose.
Mr.. Daugherty in his statement en-
,hasized his belief that the rank and
file of labor organizations were con-
tent to leave the issue to the orderly
process of law, but said the few
leaders "who have shown a contempt
for the courts need not complain that
they are denied the full privileges of
free speech Instructions have been
ent to the United States attorney at
Chicago, the attorney general said, to
notify officials of the shopmen's Or
ganization together with their com
plete records, would be required bbe-
fore the court when the case is again
called.
Both in government and labor cir
cles today complete ignorance was as
serted of any actual or impending ne
gotiations looking to the settlement
of the strike. Some officials had
been informed, it was said, that the
"outlook for asettlement" had been
frightened by recent developments
but even with these details were lack
ing. It was a matter of common
knowledge, however, that several rail
'oads still held the view in favor of
separate settlements which their rep
resentatives had expressed at the
recent conferences of railway execu-
tives in New York.
The governments temporary re
| training order came in for its first
ublic attack in the senate today
when Senator Robinson (Democrat)
Arkansas, assailed the writ on the
round that it constituted "a plain
violation of the constitution. SEN
ator Watson (Republican) Indiana,
defended the governments course,
asserting that it was the only ac-
lion possible in the emergency which
he country faced.
The suggestion that settlement ne
rotations might have. been institut-
ed through third parties was seen in
the statement of machinists' offici-
ais that their organization had not
been invited to any meeting.
So far as could be learned, no ef-
fort was instituted to serve labor
leaders who might have been in Wash
iington. United States Marshal E. C.
vnder said he had not been given
copies of the Chicago order which
would be necessary before he could
undertake the task.
Attorney General Daugherty said
he assumed" that the strike leaders
would welcome the opportunity to ap-
pear before the court.
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