New Britain herald., 1922-07-11
Franklin. Mo. with other units under arms ready to entrain.. Marshals Gua rdtuR Tratus


 Marshals Guarding Trains.
 United States marshals were pro- tecting the malls on southwestern lines and guarding the Burlington shops at Aurora, Ill.. which had been surrounded by one thousand pickets.
 Many rail centers were blanketed with injuctions Issued by federal courts restraining strikers from in- terfering with operation Of trains and shops. Picketing was general throughout the country.
 21 Trains Curtailed.
 New York and the east began to feel the combined effects of the strike of coal miners and railway shopmen. 21 passenger trains on the Erie and all double sections of the West Shore were discontinued and all except trains on the Norfolk and Western were said to have been delayed three to six .hours because Of shortage of Locomotives and coal. Labor leaders predicted that further curtailment Of service was imminent.
 Following mass meetings of strik- CTS in New York area union leaders declared that their followers were 100 per cent staunch
 Eastern roads, Including the Penn syvania, the New York Central and the Delaware and Hudson announced they had enough mechanics, surplus locomotives and rolling stock to con tinue present service indefinitely.
 The Missouri Pacific. following its assurance to Governor Allen of Kan sas that no trains would be taken off in the lines in that state, rescinded it's earlier order discontinuing 124 To- cal passenger and mixed trains.
 Several hundred deputies under Y. s. marshals were protecting operation Of trains on the Texas and Pacific, the Missouri. Kansas and Texas and the International and Great Northern railroads which are in federal receiv- ership. The Santa Fe announced that it was on top of the strike and the situation was improving steadily.
 Workers Returning.
 "A few more days" said A. G. Wells, vice president of the road. Twill put us where we were before the trouble started. as a large number of our old employees are coming back to work and many new men are apply ing for jobs"
 National Guard troops from Boone vile and Columbia. Mo-, were or dered to New Franklin following al legged threats by strikers warning of fcials of the Missouri. Kansas and
 
 H. G. Odell trainmaster. R. E. Pat terson. roadmaster, and o. O. Horton, supervisor of building, left New Franklin following the threats.
 Bloomington, Ill.,. was one of the trouble centers but apprehension was abated by the presence of state troops.
 Soldiers Are Jeered The soldiers were greeted with jeers as they patrolled the shops and yards of the Chicago and Altoon. Machine guns were trained in the direction from which few shots were fired at | the soldiers early today, but the fire was not returned.
 The tense situation at Bloomington was aggravated by the clerks who quit work after they had announced . they would refuse to continue while troops were on guard. Officials of the train service brotherhood also protested against the presence of sol diers.
 Officials of the striking shop crafts their protest against the mli tary occupation but promised Col. Culbertson in command that they would do all that was possible to avert trouble.
 Strik ebreaker Beaten
 Deputy U. s. marshals guarding the and Great Northern ar rested two strikers at Laredo, Tex, after a strikebreaker was beaten
 The strike and resultant cancella- ton of trains has interrupted the Cnited States senatorial campaign in Missouri, candidates being compelled 10 revise their itineraries.