The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-07-01
Reports Show That in Some
Instances Men Refuse by
Hundreds to Obey Strike
Call-Violence Occurs.
Roads Hire Strikebreakers
and Prepare to Fill All
Vacancies = Some SYM
pathetic WalkoutS

CHICAGO. July 1.-The nation
wide strike called for 10 O'Clock this
morning Of the six crafts in the rail-
road shops Of the country was not
as effective as union officials had
hoped, 1t was declared today in
dispatches received here from the
larger railroad centers.
Union officials generally claimed
hat 100 per cent of the nearly 400.
900 union shopmen dropped their
tools at the zero hour. but spokes-
men fog, the railway executives.
police OF sevral cities and newspaper.
men on the ground declared that the
walkout was anything but general.
In some districts the strike was 100
per cent. effective. however ''Prac-
tically ALL shopmen In the central
region of the Pennsylvania system
near Pittsburgh were out. according
to an official statement issued by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Other large
sections reported similar situation.
But in some districts union shop
men refused polntblank to lay down
their tools. Three hundred employees
nf he yaI, 9I,
this refusal. At Wilmington. Del.
only forty-five of the 1855 workers
OF the Pennsylvania road left their
work, and all Of those employed in
the shops Of the Reading and b & o
remained at work
Disorders occurred near Washing
ton and in Cleveland soon after the
zero hour. Strikers clashed With
guards neaT the capital and police
squads dispersed parade of mole
than 1000 striking shopmen in the
Ohio city al they marched throusif
the streets to mass meeting. When
police first ordered the strikers TO dis
perse they refused Riot calls brought
hundreds Of police reserves and The
parade was abandoned
Several cities reported the hiring 81
strikebreakers and thousands were
strike. Business was particularly
brisk at Columbus and Boston.
{. w Galloway. Vice President "a
charge OF operations Of the Baltimore
q Ohio. issued statement In BaIii-
more in which he said that 6S2 mSn.
or 80 per cent. OF tho force at the
Mount Clare shops went out and that
about 40 per cent or tho men at The
Riverside shops here remained at
work Both shops were maintaining
operations. he said.
The strike call 10 blacksmlths.
boilermakers, sheet metal workers,
electrical workers, machinists and car
men was issued Thursday night after
ballot by the 10000 0shop workers
had shown, according to union Of
ficiuls. u SO per cent. majority in
favor OF striking.
An agreeable surprise was received
by the union heads in dispatches frOtn
several sections OF the country that
thousands of workers had Joined the
strike who were not believed To have
intended doing so. For example. 1000
employees of the Illinois Car COM
pany. who do what is X pwn as out
side contract work. left their jobs,
In Boston about 100 maintenance II
way men walked out. although these
workers have not been called out by
their leaders. At Connellsvillc. Pa,
the night force of workers met ties
day force with flags and bands ami
marched through the city.
Chairman Ben Hooper of the Rail
road Labor Board remained on duty
throughout the night AT the board
offices. hoping that some last minute
development might prevent the strike.
The orEaniza tions holding the strike
permits are the mAchinists' carmen's.
blacksmiths'. boilermakers' sheet
metal workers and electrieians'
unions.
All maintenance OF way forces
throughout the United States were in
struetsd to Fomain at work. pending