Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-07
Rail Men Apply
for Injunction
Continued from paEc One

municati"n from Senator Cummius.
committee Chairman, made public today
by John j. Dowd. chairman of the Cen
tral Strike Committee for the metro
p"litan district
I h" letter replying TO n request for
AZ investigation. wired by Mr.. Dowd
on August 30. follows in part:
~ roaiz" as fully as you possibly can
tho effect of the shopmen's strike and
know that. taking the country over,
III" percentage Of bad order cars has
sr"ntIy Increased.
does not need an investigation TO
establish this fact, for whilc the de-
gre" Of disability is in dispute. the fact
thnt the roads hav" not been able since
July ! to keep their engines and cars
III proper condition Is admitted by all
candid persons"
Chicago. Sept. With .hc Rail.
way SEonrrafts' Policy Committee Of
Ninety summoned TO meet in Chicago
next Monday. hope Of an early or rar-
'idl settlement OF tho rail- strike was
renewed today for the first timc since
railroad executives and union chiefs
hr"k" OF peace negotiations in New
York.
Th">" hopes were founded principally
WI NV an I'l lUS UNIONS lnl1rV tOm-
mite" meetings and statements by
strike leaders Of tho possibility of sop.
arat" agreements with fifty-two Of tho
class ono roads. representa-; approx
imatcly $1,000 miles.
Railroad executives generally either
denied that peace ovcrtures had been
considered in conferences with union
IearerS. or declined to comment upon
runners "t an impending settlement
Some insisted that the strike was bro-
ken. and that peace parleys hnl ended
WITH n" breakup of the New York
conferences
TIL" call for tho Policy Committee
meeting ISSUED at Chicago strike head
quarters ny John scott. secretary Of
m" Railway Employees Department Of
tn" American Federation of Labor, went
out 10 the general chairmen of the
sh"pcraft, organizations over the name
of y. VI. Jewell. head of the depart
, m"n', whose whereabouts had remained
publicly unknown since the Govern
mont strike injunction was granted 10
Attorney General Daugherty BY Federal
Judge James II. W!lkerson last Friday.
Officials OF tho Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, Of which Daniel Willard is
president and which is included IN
tn" group Of roads from which strike
leaders hope 10 obtain separate agree =
ments. denied knowledge of any con.
fcrenc" with Jewell or his associates.
At the same time Samuel Gompers
president "f tho American Federation
of Labor. and his executive council,
meeting at Atlantic CITY. prepared for
a court battle - vacate the injunCt ion
Although talk of a general strike o'
organized labor as forcible protes,
. again>' tho injunction was persistent al
Atlantic tIty, members OF the executive
{ council expressed opposition to such q
course. declaring that public senri-
ment was sufficient TO win the battle"
7. u" Witt tuyler. president of the
Railway Executives Association. Will
othor rail heads. said the roads were
pleased with tho way striking employees
were coming back 10 work.
Huntington, W. Va. Sept. 7.-Th,
homes of \. J. Figg and Clark Blank
enship. employees of the Chesapeake ant
Ohio Railroad here, were dynamiteC
carly today The residences arc in diff
frrent sections of the city and the ax
rlosiona occurred within a short tim,
OF each other.