The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-16
HARDING WILL
TELL FEDERAL
STRIKE STAND
Arrangements Completed For
Presidents Appearance al
Joint Session-To Discuss
Rail Walkout Particularly.
UNION LEADERS BUSY
fRv Associated Pressl

(By Associated PreSS)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Presiden.
in a message tomorrow to
congress will present to the federal
and to the country the
position of the government with re-
spect to the industrial troubles, par
ticularly the railroad strike.
Arrangements for the presidents
appearance at the joint session to-
morrow of the senate and house were
at a conference between the executive
and Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
Republican leader of the senate
Belief has been expressed in some
quarters that the president might de-
lay the presentation of the message
until after it had been determined
whether the mediation efforts of the
train service brotherhood chiefs in to-
morrow's conference with a commit
tee of railroad executives would be
successful or result in failure, but Sen
ator Lodge said that the president
fully intended to go before congress
at the earliest possible moment. The
time that the president will appear
was not decided today and may not
be until tomorrow
Meanwhile rail union leaders in
Washington continued in session pre-
pairing for the conference which broth
erhood chiefs have obtained from the
Association of Railway Executives in
New York tomorrow.
Advise Men To Return.
In the meantime heads of the four
brotherhood organizations kept up
their efforts to relieve the situation
created in the west by unauthorized
walkouts of train service operatives
and in addition to messages advising
the men to return to work union rep
resentatives were being sent to various
points for personal investigation
Leaders of the shop crafts on author
lied strike marked time pending out
come of the latest mediation move.
Other late day developments yester-
day continued to be discussed today.
These included the approval by the
president of the Interstate Commerce
commissions determination for strict
enforcement 81 safety laws on the rail-
roads and the statement that the de-
partment of justice is investigating
activities of Industrial Workers of the
World in the far west rail strikes and
of disorders in Kentucky.
CHICAGO, Aug 16.-Transportatio
tie-ups in the far west began to un-
rayel today as rail heads and union
leaders looked toward direct negotia-
tions for ending the strike of rail
shop craft employees.
Railroad executives here were pes
simistic, however, over the success of
peace parleys proposed by leaders of
Ia "
hands the shop crafts placed their
case.
! Rejection by the unions of Presi-
dent Hardings proposals for ending
| the strike. rail heads declared. all but
! broke their faith in the success of the
| suggested conference, but despite the
!! lack of confidence executives of the
western roads approved acceptance Of
F! the proposals to meet the unions in
| New York tomorrow.
Conditions Critical.
| Although conditions on roads in the
| far west were relieved by breaks in
the strike of train crews, the general
situation remained in the critical stage
| it reached many days ago and Presi
| dent Harding's next expected move
was to lay the whole industrial crisis
| before congress.
] Embargoes were lifted and trains
were moved again over the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, the Southern Pa
cific and Union Pacific, the roads
chiefly affected by the walkouts of the
| Big Four transportation brotherhoods.
/. Refusal of brotherhood leaders to
sanction the walkouts when the Santa
Fe issued ultimatums demanding inn
mediate explanations of the attitude
of national officials of the train serv-
ice unions, were followed by speedy
developments in untying the traffic
knots in California and other western
states. Conditions on other roads af-
fected by the brotherhood walkouts
iwere slower in clearing up.
Outbreaks Reported.
Outbreaks and violence in connec-
! ton with the strike during the last
"a hours included clash between
strikers and guards and workmen in
! the Missouri Pacific yards at Van
Buren, Adk., six miles west of Fort
. Smith. More than 100 shots were
fired.
: At Little Rock, Ark, George Walk
, er, IS, and Frank Walker, IT. were
seized by three men in the Missouri
Pacific yards, taken into the country
, ana IIDSSHA- GeCt sc I4duC HIS Wdy
: back to the city but Frank still was
! missing early today. Neither Of the
: youths had been working in the rail
2 road shops, but were enroute to Chi
! cago.
| Four men were arrested in Bristol,
: Va, on federal warrants, charging
r them with intimidating non-union
Y workers in the Norfolk & Western
yards.
Nine Men Arrested
Nine men were arrested and war
rants were issued for others in con
s nection with riots at Newton, Kas
Aug. II. The warrants charge viola
= ton of the Kansas industrial cour
n law.
: Between $50 and 200 trainmen an6
\ switchmen on the ST. Louis South
:. western (the Cotton Belt) railroas
: walked out at limo, Mo-, virtually
n tying up traffic The walkout fol
O lowed a disturbance at Fornfelt, II
i which an engineer was hit in the les
d by one of 300 shots fired. The strik
e ing trainmen charged that the pres
; ence of guards and shooting affairs a
a several poiutS made. WORKING nondi