The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-08
Arrest Six at Ottnwa.

Ottawa. Kan. July s.--Six men
were arrested here this morning on
cI1- rses of 'picketing' in connection
With the strike of railroad carmen.
The men are T. E. Lewis. ]. s York,
Harry Chambers, j. w. Jeffries, J. A.
Eciler and Jack Rountree. Beiier is
hold on two counts. He is president
OF the local carmen's union The
others are all union men and on
strike.
Springfield, ILL.,. July s.-Federal
Judge Fitzhenry this afternoon grant
ed a temporary restraining order for
bidding strikers from interfering in
any way with the operation of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy shops at
Bcardstown and Galesburg. He set the
hearing for a temporary order for July
II. Action was taken upon the re-
quest of the railroads lawyers
clinton. Ill. July s.-James Fitz-
gerald. a striking Illinois Central
shopman OF Clinton, was shot thru
the neck and his 4 year old son in
stantly killed here at 1880 this after
noon when guards opened fire on the
strikers when imported workmen were
being taken to the shops The strikers
were throwing stones at the guards
and men when the guards opened fire.
(By the Associated PressJ
Jefferson City. No, July s.-Roy
Rucker. counsel for the Missouri
Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas systems today conferred with
Governor Hyde about the strike situa-
tion. and Cyrus W. Crane, general at
torney for the Santa Fe and Kansas
CITY Southern. and Alpha y Brown.
assistant general counsel in Missouri
for the Chicago & Alton, are sched-
uled to hold conferences with the gov
ernor later today.
Slater. Mo. July S.-whether or not
troops to protect the property of the
Chicago & Alton railroad company and
it's workers in case of the expected re-
opening of the shops here, was the
subject of speculation on every corner
today.
Chiefs of the local striking shopmen
assured Governor A. NJ. Hyde yester-
day troops were not necessary, that
the strikers would do no violence to
men who would be brought here by
the railroad to operate the shops
But at two nearby towns companies
of the state militia were called to-
gether to receive complete field equip
ment and told to remain in touch with
points of assembly.
tBy the Associated Press)
Chicago. July S.-Railway shopmen
entered the second week Of their strike
today with no apparent inclination to
follow the only avenue to peace held
open to them by the United States rail-
road labor board.
The board stood on the position
taken by Chairman Ben W. Hooper
that the only way the striking shop
men could receive recognition in con-
ciliatOry conferences was to restore
themselves to standing before the
board by returning to work
Jewell VIII Stay Out
b NJ. Jewell. head of the shop
crafts who held himself open to ap-
proach by ANY responsible person
authorized to negotiate settlement"
declined to make the first move. pre-
ferring rather to place the blame for
a continuance OF the strike upon the
labor board and the railroads.
The railroads remained fmmovable
In their attitude of considering the
strike as against the government
rather than against the roads
Conditions generally. so far as
transportation and shop operations
were concerned. remained much the
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