Imperial Valley press., 1922-08-09
1900 STRIKE
IN JOLIET
Protest On Armed Guards
Spreads to Other
Rail Points
MORE TROOPS RUSHED
Stone. Declares Members
Have Been Threatened
And Shot At

other rail workers will be dragged
into the nationwide walkout OF
shopmen, thus bringing about COM
plete paralysis of transportation
was given weight today by reports
from many points of moves in this
direction.
At Joliet, Ill, 1900 Big Four
Brotherhood workers went out in
protest against railway guards.
At Willxesbarre, Pa, $50 main
tenance Of way employees, who had
been cleaning fires and working in
shops since the shop crafts strike
started, walked out.
Five hundred workers OF the
Cooke plant of the American Lo-
comotive Co. struck as a protest
against having to repair engines OF
the Erie road.
Warren S. Stone, president OF
the brotherhood of locomotive engi-
neers today declared conditions are
serious in so other places.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Six additional
companies of Illinois national guard
were rushed to Joliet today where more
than 1900 members of the Big -Four
railroad brotherhoods employed ON the
Eigin, Joliet and Eastern road went
out fon strike today.
The walkout of railroad men included
engineers, firemen, conductors and
trainmen. Switchmen were expected to
Ioin the strike today.
The Z. j. and E. is an outer belt
line serving industrial towns III the
Chicago switching district.
Union leaders declared the strike was
the most important sympathetic move
TO back the shopmen since the latter 9
walkout started.
Stone Sounds Warning
CLEVELAND, Aug. 9.-Warren S.
Stone, president of the brotherhood of
engineers today sounded the
warning that conditions are as serious
in so other places when informed that
brotherhood members employed by the
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railroad had
walked out.
"The guards and members of the
state militia have fired shots at our
men, threatened them and made the sit
lation there so intolerable that it was
probably impossible for them to re-
main at work any longer" Stone said.
At the office of w. G. Lee, president
of the brotherhood of railroad train
men it was said that the men served
an ultimatum upon the company last
night to withdraw the troops or they
would quit work.
At Alliance, Neb., located on the
Burlington railroad, brotherhood
member was shot by a guard, they de-
ciared.
Vote $4,000 Against Compromise
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Twenty five
thousand striking shopmen in the
Greater New York district have voted
to refuse President Harding's strike
proposal, according to tel
cgram dispatched to B. M. Jewell, at
Washington, today.
David Williams, secretary of the
central strike committee, advised
Jewell that the men here are for "a
fight to the finish,'' the seniority issue
to be decided on its merits and not on
Il basis of II compromise.
A new angle today was thrown into
the seniority fight which has proved
the stumbling block to rail peace by a
statement from A. 0. Wharton, labor
member of the railroad labor board.
Wharton declared that the refusal OF
the railroads to return to the striking
shopmen their full seniority rights, may
result in forever barring from employ
ment on the railroads approximately
one fourth of the men, because they
have passed the age limits up to which
carriers will employ new men.
Without their seniority rights, the
men would have to apply for positions
as new men.
Harding To Act Next Week
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Presedent
Harding next week will place before
congress for approval the government 8
plan for seizure of certain railroad and
coal mines, if the twin coal and rail
strikes shows no sign of breaking down
by that time, officials stated today.
The executive had about abandoned
hope for an amicable settlement of the
rail strike and is hopeful but not con-
fident of an early settlement of the
coal dispute.
With all his mediation efforts facing
failure, Harding wants congress back
Of any emergency measures that he
may find necessary to protect the pub
lie interest.