Evening star., 1922-07-17
UNION MAY OUTLAW
25,o)D TRACKMEN
Who JOINED STRIKE
Labor Vice President Issues
Warning as Others
Threaten to Quit.
SPREAD OF WALKOUT
LOOMS AS MANY VOTE
Clerks on go Roads Cast Ballots.
Big Four in Kansas Seek
Sanction to Stop Work.
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BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July I1.-ApproXimately
$4,000 maintenance of way men have
struck without permission from Presi-
dent Cradle, J. c. Smock, vice president
Of the union, estimated today.
Mr.. Smock said the strikers probably
will be outlawed by their national off,
GERS.
Peace negotiations in the railway
strike temporarily were at a standstill
today. Rail heads and strike leaders
expected todays developments to in
dicate more clearly the ultimate out
come, however. with statements and
circumstances ariously pointing toward
a spread or settlement.
Much Importance was attached to the
number of shopmen returning to work
today, as this date marked the time
limit for retaining seniority and other
rights.
Hopes for settlement at an early
date appeared to be based chiefly upon
the attitude of E F. Cradle, president
of the Maintenance Of Way Employees
Union. who is expected at Chicago to-
day from Washington, where he held a
conference with President Harding. Mr..
Cradle said he would confer with mem
bers Of the United States Railroad Labor
Board here to get support to prevent
carriers from requiring maintenance of
way men to do strikers work.
Maintenance Men Restive.
Another-indication of a drift toward
peace was seen in the statement of
r. A. Henning, general chairman Of
the Federated Shop Crafts of the
northwest, that only the refusal of
eastern roads to agree to reinstate
striking shop crafts workers with
their full seniority rights was pre-
venting settlement as far as the
roads of the northwest are concerned.
Possible extension of the strike was
Parker, head of the eastern chairmen
of railway workers. that local officials
in eastern centers were having in
creasfng difficulty in holding the
maintenance of way men ct their
Jobs. He said 20 per cent of the
16,ooo men. in the metropolitan dis
trict already were on strike.
IA message to E. H. Fitzgerald,
heAd OF the Clerks. Freight Handlers,
Express and Station Employees
Union said q strike vote of 5000
clerks on the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad showed 93 per cent of
the men favoring a walkout and ask
ing for authority to strike. can
vass of the strike vote of the same
organization on the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois railroad showed 9Sh
per cent of the workers favoring a
walkout. according to representa-
tives of the union.
Ask for Strike Sanction.
Topeka. Kan. unions of the Big
Four b-otherhoods and the Switch
mems Union petitioned their officers
for permission to go on strike July
90
In st. Louis fifty stationary firemen
and oilers, employed by the Terminal
Railroad Association. voted to strike
today.
Clerks and station employees on
more than sixty of the 2p1 class 1
roads have taken strike votes, ac-
cording to information received here.
At Milwaukee failure to receive a
strike order from President Timothy
Healy of the International Station
ary F'iremen and oilers Union was
taken as a sign of nearby peace.
Reports of cancellation of trains.
because of shortage of coal or equip
ment, and of violence, continued to
come in.
Gov. Kendall of Iowa issued a
warning to mine and railroad strikers
and sympathizers in that state not
to interfere with the activities of
railroads, following a reported moles-
tation of strikebreakers. A similar
report from Hoisington. Kan. to Gov.
Allen caused him to send Capt. Wint
smith there to investigate and re-
mort whether troops were necessary.
Switch Thrown Three Times.
At Nevada, Mo-. 1T was reported
that a switch on the main line of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road had been thrown three times,
but that it was discovered each time
by employees before an accident re-
suited.
A guard at Brosley, Mo-, shot and
slightly wounded a non-strike sym
pathizer during an argument about
the strike.
A special agent of the st. Louis and
San Francisco railroad was shot and
killed accidentally during a friendly
scuffie with another agent at Harvard,
Ark.
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