The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-09-04
GOVERNMENT MAKES MOVE
TO ENFORCE STRIKE INJUNCTION

Asheville, sept.t Freight ant
passenger trains are moving out d
Asheville on schedule time today fol-
lowing the rearrangement of guard.
at the Southern depot yesterday sat.
isfactory to railway switchmen anc
firemen who walked out Saturda,
night because Of the appearance Of
guards and to the shopmen who qui,
because Of temporary removal O,
guards TO appease strikers.
Chicago, Sept. 3 (By the Associated
Press).-The beginning of the tenth
week of the countrywide strike of the
railway shopmen found $500 United
States marshals mobilized to uphold
tho drastic temporary injunction OBJ,
tained by the government on Friday
to prevent lawless violence and keen
the nations transportation machine
running.
From Chicago, as a center of rail
road activities, was directed the work
OF enforcing the injunction, pending
the hearing to make it permanent on
September II. A mass Of complaints
and allegations of conspiracy and at
tempts to ruin property and jeop-
ardize life were being collected today
for the use of Attorney General
Daugherty in support OF his applica-
ton to make the injunction perma-
nent. 1t will not be alleged that the
strikers are guilty in most of the QUE
breaks Of violence reported, but the
government, it was said, will main
tain that actions Of the strikers and
strike leaders caused the violence.
Extra forces Of deputies have been
sworn in by United States Marshal
Robert R. Levy and are being dis
patched to railroad shops and ter
nlinals to watch for acts forbidden by
the order handed down by Federal
Judge Wilkerson. A thousand writs
were prepared in the federal building
and sent to all parts of the country
for service on the labor leaders named
In the injunction. B. M. Jewell, head
of the shopmen, could not be found
and it was reported he was in the
East. John Scott, secretary Of the
shopmen, remained at his desk at the
union headquarters.
~ haven't violated any law" he
said, "This organization never did
'sanction violence. Bot We are 20
ing to carry on the work Of the
union without fear or tremor, and I
don't believe the injunction is intend
ed to restrain us from so doing"
Meanwhile there are three different
pictures painted by Western execu-
tives, government officials and union
leaders.
eve are moving the business; our
men are coming back to work in in
creasing numbers, general conditions
are steadily improving and the strike
is broken" was the consensus If
opinion Of the executiv ,s.
Federal officials engaged compiling
the lists Of acts Of violence for the
hearing on making permanent the
injunction, pointed to the petition pre-
sented in court by the attorney gen.
eral, in which he declared that half
the locomotives in the country had
been tampered with and that more
than 1000 mail trains had been can
celled.
Union officials reiterated previous
statements that If the strike contin-
ued the railways would be 'paralyzed
within 80 days.
In connection with the appointment
during the past two days of marshals
and deputies, the following statute
was cited by officials Of the depart
ment Of justice, being Section Number
78S:
"The marshals and their deputies
shall have in each state the same
power in executing the laws Of the
United States as sheriff and their
deputies in such state may have by
law in executing the law thereof"
Still further explaining the power
of the chief executive, federal Of
ticials quoted decision by the su-
preme court, as follows:
$50 If the president or the attor-
ney general is advised that the mails
Of the United States, possibly carry
ing treasure, are liable to be robbed
and the mail carriers assaulted and
murdered in any particular region of
the country, who can doubt the
authority Of the president or Of one
Of the executive departments to pro-
vide sufficient guard, whether it be
by soldiers of the army or by mar
shals Of the United States"