Evening star., 1922-08-04
RAIL UNIONS AWAIT
PRESIDENTS REPLY
Speculation Rife as to Next
Move for Peace-Both
Sides Firm.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, August 4.-Developments
in the railroad strike were confined
to speculation as to what the next
peace move would be and reports Of
violence from various points during the
past twenty-four hours.
Union officials here today were await
ing word from President Harding with
regard to their message accepting his
proposals for ending the walkout
Railroad executives and strike leaders
still maintained their attitudes on the
question of seniority, the executives in
sisting that rights OF the men who
stayed at work and new men be re-
spected, and union chiefs holding out
for restoration Of rights to strikers.
Two deaths resulted from violence;
one in Edgemony. S. Oak. where
switchman of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy was shot, and the other
in Chicago, where carpenter en-
ployed in the Illinois Central shops was
beaten to death.
A repairman in the Illinois Central
shops in Chicago was beaten into in
sensibility because he refused to join
the strikers.
At Waco. Tex. a guard In the Mis-
SouIl, Kansas dnG eXaS SHOPS was
shot through the groin during an ar
gument with fireman.
Women Attack Wife.
Union Pacific trainmaster was
seized on the main street of Las We
gas, New, taken several miles into
the desert and given a coat of tar
and excelsior. At the same town four
women attacked the wife of a Union
Pacific roundhouse foreman as she
was carrying dinner to her husband
She was beaten severely
Two men were injured and half a
dozen windows in a passenger coach
were broken when a crowd of men
stoned an Illinois Central train at
New Orleans. La
At Birmingham. Ala. two white
men and two negro women were
wounded in clash between non
union workers and striking shopmen
Of the st. Louis-San Francisco rail-
road, police reports said. The white
men and one of the negro women
were shot. One of the men was seri-
ously wounded.
BARRIERS Lose Licenses.
Mayor Cowart of Waycross, Ga,
revoked the licenses of two barber
shops where BARRIERS refused to shave
non-union men. The shops continued
to operate. but the proprietors and
BARRIERS were summoned to appear in
court to answer charges of doing
business without licenses.
At Richmond, Va. striking shop
men Of the Southern railway were
to meet late today to discuss the
company's proposition to reinstate
strikers without prejudice to their
seniority rights. No action would be
taken, however, it was said, until
word was received from Chicago
headquarters.
The Atlantie Coast Line railway
order at Pensacola. Fla, restraining
strikers of the federated shop crafts
from interfering with that COM
panys employees or property, other
than picketing by peaceful means
at shopmen on strike at River juno
ton and High Springs Fla
Oppose "standing Army"
The Nashville. Chattanooga and st.
Louis, Seaboard Air Line and the
Western and Atlantic railroads were
charged with maintaining stand
ing army" to suppress the strike Of
railway shopmen in a lengthy answer
flied at Atlanta, Ca, by union officials
to the petition of the roads for con-
tinuance of temporary restraining
order against the strikers.
In their answer to the petition the
strikers requested the court to pro-
hibit the railroads from maintaining
more than two members of their
standing army at any one garrison"
Western railroads with headquar-
ters in Chicago added 1929 shopmen
to their forces between July 25 and
August 2. a statement issued today
by the western presidents committee
on public relations Of the Association
Of Railway Executives said. On July
25. according to the statement. west
ern roads had 44.501 men in their
shops and on August the number
was 59,760. The daily increase of men
returning to work or being hired, the
statement indicated. ranged between
! 500 and 1000 men.
Arfested After Thrent.