The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-07


WASHINGTON, Aug. President
Harding today called upon striking
railroad shopmen to return TO work,
requested the railroads TO assign them
to work and asked both the workmen
and carriers to submit the disputed
question of seniority 70 the rail labor
board.
WASHINGTON, Aug. President
Harding will announce some time to-
day new plan, which he hopes will
lead TO a termination of the nations
railroad shopmen's strike, it was an
nounced at noon today by William H.
Johnston, head of the machinist's
union, after he and other leaders had
conferred with the president
Mr.. Johnston, with B. NJ. Jewell.
general leader of the striking shop
ment, and J. P. Noonan, chief of the
Electrical Workers union, spent near
ly an hour in conference with the
president, but professed TO have no
knowledge as to the forthcoming state
ment from the executive.
The union leaders also refused to
comment on suggestions put to them
by newspaper men, that the president
/ planned to ask the unions to call off
the strike and submit the seniority
status to be given the returning strik-
ers to the adjudication of the railroad
/ labor board.
Channels Open
| Channels of communication be-
tween the administration and promi-
nent railway heads are always open,
! despite refusal of the railway execu-
/ tives' association to accept Mr. Hard
ing's previous suggestion as to res
toration of seniority rights TO strik-
ers.
Another angle of the strike growing
! out of the presidents proposal was be-
! fore representatives of the manage
ment and the shopcraft groups of the
Southern railway who were to begin
| meetings here today on the companys
formal suggestion that its men return
/ to work on the basis of the White
House program. The Southern is act
ing independently of the other car
riers and accepted Mr.. Harding's plan
i in full, but whether the men will come
back or hold out for a nationwide set
| tlement was still to be disclosed.
CHICAGO, Aug. Leading figures
in the railway shopmen's strike were
away from Chicago today and this
center appeared to be in the doldrums
while the next peace move was being
formulated
B. NJ. Jewell, head of the railway
employees department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, with other
strike leaders, was in Washington. ex-
pecting TO resume discussions with
Il President Harding.
l Ben w Hooper, chairman of the
United States Railroad Labor board.
was within easy reach while spending
a short vacation at Michigan City,
Ind.
Scattered incidents of disorder
marked the early part of the sixth
week of the shopmen's strike A pas
isenger train on the Western Of Ala
bama, enroute from Atlanta to Mont
gomery. was fired on by alleged
strike sympathizers, according to re-
ports from Montgomery. No persons
were injured
Foreman Kidnapped
Y. S. McLana, car foreman in the
Illinois Central shops at Birmingham
Ala. was kidnapped by armed men
blindfolded and taken by automobile
TO a woods near Cardiff, Ala. where
he was badly beaten with hickory
sticks.
Eight men said to be striking Bur
lington railroad shop workers, and tn
wives of two of them, were arrested BY
federal officers on charges of violating
injunctions prohibiting interference
with men at work in the railroad
shops at Havelock, Neb. The mer
were placed in Jail but the womel
were permitted TO remain in their
| homes under custody. Specific charges
included painting houses yellow, in
timidating company guards, assem-
bling in crowds. threatening worker,
and causing disorders.
State authorities in Tennessee were
investigating a fire of supposed incen
, diary origin which destroyed tht
! freight station of the Louisville ans
Nashville railroad and 90 cars in th'
! Knoxville yards The loss was est
: mated at 100000.
J Help Clear Tracks
! / Striking shopmen assisted in clear
: ing the tracks following the Missouri
Pacific wreck at Sulphur Springs, Mo
, where many persons were killed an
injured. The strikers, however, re
fused to pick up wrecked cars.
Chicago units of the Illinois Na.iona
! Guard on strike duty in the Chicag'
and Alton shops at Bloomington. Ills
will be relieved soon by other troop
now at Camp Grant, according to a.
# announcement by Adjutant Genera
|. Black.
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