The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-22
Rail World Awaiting Decision
of Court Tomorrow.
Judge Wilkerson Will An
nounce Injunction Ruling.
TEMPORARY ORDER EXTENDED
Nineteen Roads Have Already
Accepted Peace Terms.
Others Continue to Hold Aloof
From Settlement Plan.

Chicago, Sept. 22.-With the rail-
road world waiting for the decision he
has promised by IL a. m. tomorrow.
Judge James H. Wilkerson, in the
preparation of his ruling on the gov-
ernments strike Injunction was with
out any suggestions today from At
torney General Daugherty for modi-
fication of the restraining order. The
only features of the attorney generals
bill interpreted as in any way modify
ing the order now In effect, lay in
clauses clarifying the phraseology OF
original passages and in the following
provision:
Nothing contained herein shall be
construed to prohibit the use of funds
or moneys of any said labor organ
! izations for any lawful purpose, and
nothing contained in this order shall
be construed to prohibit the express
sion of any opinion or argument not
intended to aid or encourage the do
ing of any of the acts heretofore en-
Joined, or calculated to maintain or
prolong a conspiracy to restrain in
terstate commerce or the transporta-
ton of the nails kt
Is Governments Last Word.
Mr.. Daugherty, at the close of the
hearing, personally explained the gov
ernment's position.
"This order" he said, speaks the
| last word for the government and for
society and civilization for peace and
| fairness, for liberty and protection.
with firmness and, IL necessary, with
force"
| Until he makes his ruling the re-
straining order issued September 1
and extended for a second ten-day
period, remains in effect, Judge Will
kerson announced
| Nineteen Roads Accent Pact.
| Nineteen railways and their sub
4 sidiaries had made peace with their
| striking shopmen on the basis of the
| Baltimore terms, according to an Of
fetal announcement by John Scott,
secretary of the shop crafts organiza-
| ton. At the same time many other
roads continued to hold aloof from
| the settlement plan and operated their
shops independent of any negotiations
with officials of the striking unions.
Roads which have declined to settle
must shoulder the responsibility OF
maintaining a lockout, a bulletin is
sued at strike headquarters asserted.
Seek Agreement With C. & A.
| Union representatives made known
| that they were seeking an agreement
with the Chicago & Alton, now in the
hands of receivers.
/ The return of strikers to the shops
of the Southern railway at Coster, KY,
was marked by outbreaks when non
union workmen were driven off after
a fight in which fourteen men were
injured.
| The Southern was one of the roads
which accepted the Baltimore terms.
Representatives of the road said an
investigation was being made and
that shopmen who unlawfully par
ticipated would be prosecuted under
the provisions of the federal injunc-
| ton.
A bomb explosion in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy roundhouse at
( Kansas City marked the first disorder
| in those shops during the strike.
| At st. Louis a bomb demolished
car and stopped a train in the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas yards. Railroad
officials said they believed the bomb
was intended for two cars loaded with
| high explosives near the car which
was wrecked.
Santa Fe Striker Arrested.
D. A. Hamilton, president of the
Federation of Shop Craft unions in
the Santa Fe shops at Fort Madison.
Ia, was arrested for interfering with
4 a deputy United States marshal who
entered union headquarters to arrest
a man charged with completely in an
attack on Joseph Vonderhaar, a work
man.
The shops of the Louisiana & Ar
kansas railroad at Stamps, Ark, were
reopened when 900 strikers returned
to work. Union leaders said their
status was practically the same" as
twhen they walked out July I.
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