The New York herald., 1922-07-04
STRIKE OF SHOPMEN
HAS LITTLE VIOLENCE
Police Guards Distributed but
Find No Trouble.

CHICAGO. July ASSOCIATED Press) -
The third DAY of the shipments strike
passed in comparative quiet although a
slight disturbance was reported at
Perry Iowa, where twenty laborers
brought in from Chicago for shop work
were stoned ana run out of town. c. T..
Johnson. general manager Of the Kan
sas City Southern. reported to the labor
board during the day that ore of his
assistants had been assaulted by strike
sympathizers at Leesville. La. while
repairing an air hose.
In the larger cities police guards
were reported to have been thrown
about railway property. while the Cham
ber of Commerce of Kansas City Mo-.
following special meeting. telegraphed
request to Governor Hyde. asking him
to call out the National Guard of Mis-
souri, and to station enough troops in
Kansas City to prevent loss of life and
destruction of property. which the
chamber said 1t believed to be an i'm
mtnent possibility in the railroad strike.
Iaborers of the maintenance of way
and storehouse departments of the
Union Pacific Railroad at Las Vegas.
New, walked out to-day when notice of
the United States Railway Labor Board
wage cut was posted on bulletin boards
in the shops here. The action was taken
although no official strike orders have
been received.
The st. Louis officials Of the NJ, X.
and T. road announced to-day that strik-
ers who do not return to work by
Wednesday will lose their seniority
rights. At Dennison, Tex, NJ X and
T. officials sent personal letters to their
1a~1a vi, aai- r.
open until July 5. at which time they
will be declared vacant. Southern Pa
cific employees failing to report for
their regular assignments Wednesday
also will be considered permanently out
of the service and will not again be
employed by that road. G. S. waid,
vice-president and general maneger, was
quoted as saying.
Farming out" OF repair work has
been started by the New York Central
lines, ten locomotives from Cleveland
and three from the Elkhart. Ind, shops
being sent to Dunkirk, n. Y, Oddly for
repairs.
wabash officials at St. Louis said that
the 2,500 clerks employed by the road
had reached an agreement and accepted
a wage cut averaging 81 a week. This
cut is slightly less than that ordered by
the Labor Board and makes the average
pay s1os a month, it was explained.
Timothy Healy. president OF the sta
tionary firemen and oilers. dispatched
kilograms to-day to $50 of his local
unions telling them the men have "a
perfect right to strike now IL they so
desire. The messages were sent in
answer to Inquiries asking authority to
join the striking railway shopmen. and
reports to Mr.. Healy to-day said that
about half of the firemen and oilers
had already quit work
His kilograms do not give authorize
tion to strike Mr.. Healy said, but
merely point out that the union could
not hold the men at work. The text of
the message follows:
Our strike ballots are now out and
returnable July 10. However, IL your
members wish to strike now. they have
a perfect right to do so and we cannot
prevent them. The shop crafts are en-
titled TO our moral support"
The firemen and oilers ballots were
sent out two weeks ago. returnable July
10 at Omaha. They will be canvassed
here July IL by President Healy and his
executive committee.
On some roads the stationary engi-
neers and firemen have already Joined
the shopmen 100 per cent. strong, Mr.
Healy said to-day.