The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-09
tBy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Sept 9-"Nothing to
say" was the brief reply of union
leaders and railroad heads alike to in
quir1es concerning the strike situation
today pending developments next
Monday when Judge James H wiIkin-
son is due to hear Attorney General
Daugherty's application to make the
governments strike Injunction perma-
nent The policy committee of the six
striking shop crafts is summoned to
strike controversy had apparently
adopted waiting policy until then.
S. Davies Warfield, president of the
Seaboard Airline, who with Daniel
Willard, president of the Baltimore
and Ohio, is included in the group of
executives said to be leaning toward a
plan for separate agreements for SET
ting the strike on individual roads,
was expected here today.
Willard Secretive
Mr.. Willard, who met with other
rail heads here yesterday, was even
more secretive than his associates
when questioned concerning the new
peace moves.
The shopmen's strike entered its
eleventh week today with conditions
generally quiet throughout the coun-
try.
A fifth man was arrested at Tulsa,
Okla, on charges of setting fire to a
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
road bridge near FL Reno, Okla, on
Aug. II.
Murder Charges Brought
! Four men faced murder charges at
Memphis, Tenn, for the killing of
Charles Lanier. Jr, a non-union en-
ploye of the Frisco system. Police
/ said the men confessed to virtually
all crimes and disorders since the rail-
road strike in that section of Tennes-
/ see
! Three men were reported to be in
| the custody of United States deputy
marshals in connection with the dy-
namiting of section of track Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul at
| Perry, Ia.
Military and federal authorities
were without clews TO the identity of
bomb throwers who wrecked the
homes of two Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as railroad shop employees at Parsons,
Kas
Invited Back
A. F. Banks, president Nof the Elgin.
Joliet and Eastern raiload outer belt
line to the Chicago steel and shipping
district announced that striking en-
ployes of the road had been invited tor
return Monday to their former posi-
tions and rating with the company, in
cluding seniority rights He said he
expected the men TO return Monday.
Strike leaders, on the other hand dc
clared there was no break in their
ranks and that strikers would not re-
turn to work until the strike was ter
minated on national basis or until
some other satisfactory arrangement
had been made
Officials of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy announced that west OF
the Missouri river the system has 10l
! percent of normal shop force AL
though the Burlington made no an
nouncement such as that of the Union
Pacific restoring pension rights to for
mer employees who return to work, c.
D. Gray, assistant to W F. Thiehoff,
general manager said.
RICHMOND, Va. Sept. s-Federal
Judge Groner dismissed charges
against two railroad shop strikers
here yesterday because he said, he
did not wish to mar the spotleSs r.
ord of the railroad workers who walk
ed out in the eastern district of vir-
ginia. He told the men. however to
leave the state o. F. Edward and o.
C. Lyons, former Richmond, Freder-
; icksburg and Potomac railroad me-
chanics were charged with violating
an injunction issued by Judge Croner
He asserted the evidence showed they
were guilty only of using improper
language against other employees"