Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-06
NO new MOVE
!. ON FOOT
SETI'LESTRKE
Statement That Jewell and
Willard Had Conference
Contradicted.
Ten Men Are Held in Mem
phis in Connection With
Strike Disorders.

Chicago. Sept. 6.-(By the As
ISOLATED Prcss.)-Seven repre-
sentatives of the striking fed
Grated shop crafts were declared
by John Scott, secretary or the
Railway Employees department
OF the American Federation of
Labor, to be in Baltimore today
for a conference with railroad
executives on a proposition to
end the strike.
New York, Sept. eff any confer
ence is being held in Baltimore be-,
tween striking shopmen and railway
heads, Il involves only few indi-
vidual roads and does not look to-
ward settlement of the strike on
ntion-wide basis, it was said, today at
headquarters of the Association. OF
Railway executives. T.
Baltimore, M. D., Sept. e.-oficials
at the Baltimore and Ohio general Of
fices here who stand close to Presi-
dent Daniel Willard. and Vice Presi-
dent Charles W. Galloway, professed
ignorance Of the presence here of
representatives of the striking shop
men or of any proposition from them
looking to the settlement of the
strike. Mr.. Galloway was said to be
~ Ine west WI. "1idFo was IL nis
Office during the forenoons but could
not. be reached for an expression on
the Chicago dispatch.
(By The Associated Press.) -"
Chicago Sept. 6.-Leaders of the
railway shopmen's strike and railroad
executives were in accord today in
denials of published REPORTS that there
was a new move on foot to settle the
strike.
Inference that Bort M. Jewell, head
Of the shop crafts organizations. who
had been absent from strike head
quarters since the governments strike
injunction was granted by Judge Will
kerson last Friday, had been in con-
ference in Baltimore with Daniel
Willard, president of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, was tcontradtcted
with ran heads asserting they knew
Fof no new peace moves. john Scott
secretary, and ]. F. McGrath, vice
president Of the railway employees
| tion of Labor, denied a call had been
| issued from headquarters for a meet
ing Of the unions policy committee
here tomorrow.
JEWELS Whereabouts Unknown.
l. oLHSI uH4On OlllCldlS UeCllu6U To re-
veal the whereabouts of Mr.. Jewell
since he dropped out ofsight last Fr,-
day.
Mr.. McGrath declared rumors of a
contemplated meeting of the policv
committee Thursday was part of a
Iplot to deceive the shopmen.
Strike conditions generally were re-
ported quiet throughout the country.
J Ten Men Held.
': Ten men, all Of whom ,-~~e said by
police to be striking shopmen, were
held at Memphis. Tenn. in connection
with recent disorders. All of the ten,
the police said, have made confess
sions bearing on the killing of Chas.
H. Lanier, a non union shop employe
of the Frisco system. a plot to waylay
foreman, an attempt. to wreck a
passenger train near Memphis anc
the Staying of two negroes employees
of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific at Hurlbert. Ark. .rLanier was
shot from ambush, but in their al
legged confessions the men said he was
killed by mistake. their intention be-
ing to frighten his companion. Chas.
Stevens, a Frisco shop foreman.
! William M. Short. president of the
Washington State Federation of La
Dor. confirmed rer"rts OF statement
attributed to him in a speech at Bel
lingham, in which he urged his,Aisten-
ers to have no hesitancy in breaking
| the Daugherty injunction.