Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-07-14
JEWELS SIDE
(Continued from Pace One)

\SS'e'heSA aSO WV
tives refused to meet the shop crafts
officers in an effort to mediate the
strike as had been suggested, was
that the railways hope to destroy the
employees organizations.
Ii such is the case, the statement
said. the railroads are due to receive
a sudden awakening, the American
public should charge them with the
responsibility"
At the Labor Board it was an
nounced that an effort might be made
along new lines to settle the strike
but no details were given. After rail
executives had refused to meet shop
crafts representatives yesterday.
Board members announced that the
executives who refused to confer did
not speak for the individual rail-
roads and intimated that a new plan
Of settlement might be based on this
fact.
The shop crafts representatives re-
piled today to President Harding's
proclamation which declared that the
strike must be settled through the
authorized agencies, yplacing the
blame for the strike on the railroads
and asserting that carriers had vio-
lated many decisions of the Labor
Board
Other events during the day included
orders from tho war department to
have troops in readiness to protect the
Missouri. Kansas d Texas lines in the
No., o. 4
United States court. announcement by
Postmaster General Work that $4,000
motor vehicles; can be used to trans
port the mails if rail service fails, and
the issuing of restra ming orders to
the 81 !.ouis-San Francisco railway
at Fort Smith. Ark, and the Chicago Il
Eastern Illinois. and the Toledo. St.
Louis & West IN railroads at East It.
Louis. Ill
Nj. Jea ellis statement in reply to
the executive ultimatum follows:
The letter attributed to the four
railway executives addressed to Mr.
Hooper must be amusing to those V no
understand the situation. Again we
see the attempt of the big institutions
of the country to wrap themselves
around the Stars and Stripes and to
attempt to lead someone to believe that
they are not responsible for the situa-
tion-that the law-abiding. God fear
| ing American citizens who are now
standing for justice and against the
oppression of financial mana cement
and directors of railroads are fighting
their government.
The American public knows tina
the railway snop crafts are not fight
ing their government.
Let it be said now and, for all time
that the strike will not be called off
and the men will not be ordered back
to work until Justice has been secured
and railroad homogeneous can, II they
wish, settle this strike,
1T must be apparent to the thinking
American public that there is some
force directing the policy Of the rail-
roads. which for their own selfish in
terests do not want a settlement. but
are demanding a continuance of the
strike
IF that force is so blind to the in
terests of the American public, which
!isohligated to serve, and if it is SO dull
of comprehension rs to even have a
faint hope of crushing the employees
organizations, then that force or group
of people is due to receive sudden
awakening, and the American public
should charge them with the respon-
sibilty.
"The railroad employees had no de-
everything that honorable men could
do to avoid a strike. Now that they
have been forced into a strike, it shall
he effective in legal and proper
manner, and it will be continued to
. successful conclusion"
A deputy United States marshal on
guard at the M. X. & T. shops at
Muskogee. Okla. was seized by band
of about 90 men said to he strikers.
as he was leaving duty late today.
He was beaten over the head and car
ricd away in an automobile
President T.. NJ. levy Of the West
ern Pacific Railroad appealed to Gov
ernor Boyle of Nevada for permission
to arm guards at shops and stations
along the Western Pacific
Definite action to terminate the
strike Of railroad shopmen in the
northwest was deferred at confer
erce OF strike leaders with executives
OF the railroads centerine in Minnea
polls and st. Paul. when confidence
was expressed that tn strike would
be settled on national basis within
a few davs.