The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-25

silence on the rail situation, but it
was confidently expected that Presi-
dent Harding would begin action to
end the shopmen's strike during the
week. In some quarters it was be-
lieved that the next move might come
through the railroad labor board. 1t
was pointed out that the board has
power to grant full recognition to the
new shopmen's unions, which 40 east
ern railroads, under the leadership of
l.. F. Loree, eastern regional chair
man of the association of railway
executives, contemplate forming.
Further spread of the walkout was
considered unlikely, since the an
nouncement that the 10000 members
of the station agents union would re-
main at work, made by W. ]. Noone,
head of the union after a conference
with w. L. McMenimen, labor mem
Der of the rail board. However mem
bers of the local union of firemen at
Evansville, Ind, yesterday adopted
resolutions recommending a strike IN
less armed guards were removed from
the entire Louisville & Nashville sys-
TEN.
Shortsue of Commodities.
Existing embargoes on freight have
caused a shortage of commodities in
several cities and lack of ansporta-
ton has reduced the supply in few
lines. In Chicago a leading chain
grocery firm yesterday announced that
the sale of sugar would be limited to
10 pounds to a customer. Similar &C
ton previously had been taken in
several small towns.
Curtailment of train service con-
tinued the Pere Marquette announc-
/ ing that the Resort Special" from
Chicago to Detroit would be placed on
tri-weekly basis and 13 other trains
suspended.
At Chicago the Grand Trunk line
cancelled two trains between Chicago
and Detroit and two between Chicago
and Harvey, and the Chicago & North
western annulled two trains between
Chicago and Milwaukee.
Six trains were cancelled by the 500
| Line, Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railroads at st. Paul. In North
| Dakota train service on several divi-
sions was placed on a tri-weekly basis.
Motor trucks would be used to carry
mail on off days, it was announced.
Seven Arrested
Disorders took a new turn when
! seven men were arrested in .Philadel-
phia charged with spreading among
the workers at the Baldwin Locomo-
| tive shops literature demanding that
the workers refuse to work on rail-
road equipment.
Two men reported to the police at
! Henderson, KY, that they had been
| kidnapped and beaten by strikers at
| Howell, Ind.
| In Peoria, H., clash was averted
when Sheriff Whitmore disarmed a
non-union worker whom 200 men had
started out to find and disarm.
In Danville, ILL.,. twenty-one non
union men who had left Wabash trains
in protest against food conditions were
fed by strikers and sent on their way
i to Decatur.
Non-union workers on their way to
Denison, Tex, to fill the places of strik-
| ing shopmen of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railroad, were halted en- route
because troops were not there on
guard. Seventeen state rangers were
sent to Denison by Governor Neff last
night, but an Official of the railroad
said that no less than four or five hun
dred men could provide protection
there.
Three batteries of field artillery of
the Missouri National Guard arrived
at Moberly, Mo-, last night for guard
duty in the railroad shops.
A Santa Fe passenger train carrying
Twenty-Five non-union workers was
| fired on at San Bernardino, Cal, and a
crowd of 900 strikers and sympathizers
attempted to storm the train on it's ar
rival. One man was arrested.
Federal deputy marshals replaced
deputy sheriffs as guards at the rail-
road shops in Cedar Rapids, Ia, where
an outbreak was feared.