Evening star., 1922-07-22
SEEK SEPARATE PEACE.
Six Leading Roads Negotiate.
Other Walkouts May Come.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 22-As the railroad
strike today entered it's fourth week.
expectancy turned to Washington.
where Chairman Hooper of the Rail-
road Labor Board was called for a
conference with President Harding,
and to the efforts of six leading rail
roads to make separate peace with
their striking shopmen. A conference
between W; L. AcMenimen of the
Of Labor Davis at Moosehear,, ILL.,,
also was regarded as possible pro-
ducer of a peaceful gesture.
Reports from half a dozen cities
that approximately $4,000 clerks and
other railway employees had voted to
walk out and new indications that
Canada was facing shopmen's strike
added to the war talk. however. as
did President CRADLES statement that
any railroad that refused to meet
way men to adjust wage differences
would face strike of these workers.
A new note in the demand Of the
strikers was made evident by the
statement of Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
urge striking coal miners md shop
men and their respective employers to
begin direct negotiations, coupled
with the action OF representatives of
the big four" railroad brotherhoods.
in urging Congress to facilitate, a re-
settling disputes.
Branch Trains Cut.
Meanwhile eight railroads issued
cancellation orders for branch line
trains, swelling the number of an
nulments to well over three hundred.
State troops continued on guard in
eight states. while additional guards
were placed on duty in various cities.
The most notable instance was in
Fremont, Neb., where more than
professional men were deputized as
peace officers and as their first Of
ticial act escorted back into town
eleven non-union employees Of the
Chicago and northwestern railway,
who were said to have been driven
out of town by strike sympathizers.
Court action was limited to issu-
ance Of injunctions to the Missouri
Pacific and st. Louis-San Francisco
railroads at Kansas City, fling of
petitions for injunction at Atlanta by
the Seaboard Air Line and Western
and Atlantic railroads, and filing of
a suit by six labor leaders at Kan
sas City. Kan. questioning the right
of the Kansas court of Industrial re-
the shopmen's strike. The plaintiffs
in the suit claimed that the strike
is interstate in character and not
subject to state law.
Roundhouse Deserted.
At Oklahoma City one hundred
roundhouse workers walked out yes
terday.
strike ballots were sent to $50
clerks, freight handlers. express and
waukee and st. Paul railroad, on the
Tacoma, Wash. branch.
Strike ballots at Chattanooga had
not been finished by representatives
of the clerks.
A close vote of 10000 clerks and
other employees Of the Baltimore and
Ohio was indicated at Baltimore.
Approximately $50 employees Of the
Chicago, North Shore, Milwaukee, at
Chicago. awaited the strike order Of
before tef s arbitrating wage din difrerenees HrasIS
The employees Of the Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie favored taking q strike
tvote. 80 -
while officials of the maintenance
! Of way men at, Detroit discussed the
their union who had struck without
sanction, maintenance men of the
Pennsylvania between Portage and AL
toona, Pa, walked out in protest
against a wage cut.
More Trains Dropped.
Further curtailment Of train service
was announced by the Great North
ern railway at Sioux Falls, 8, D..
where all short-run trains were can.
celed; at Grand Forks, N. D., where
four local trains were annulied. and
at Spokane, Wash, where q humber
of branch-line trains were discon-
tinued, and an embargo placed on
perishable freight and live stock.
All Wabash trains into Hannibal
Mo-, were cancelled, but four Of the
six trains affected will run into East
Hannibal. ILL.,
At Detroit. the Grand Trunk rail-
was announced annulment Of sixteen
trains and curtailment Of the runs OF
ten others.
Four trains OF the Chicago and
Northwestern running into Madison,
Wis. were discontinued.
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