Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-11

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orders that all workmen going into
: the shops be searched for weapons
and liquor.
III there is any fighting TO be done,
we viii do II" the Colonel said,
Scribe Tells Different Story.
Despite Colonel Culbertson's report
newspaperman who spent the night
/ In the shops and heard the shooting
said he was told by the officers ON
duty there that 800 shots had been
| fired.
! Colonel Culbertson denied the re.
port Of the men in the shops thai au-
tomato rifles had been used. The
colonel's headquarters are at the un.
ion depot about mile and half
from the scene of the trouble
Crowds Of strikers and strike sym.
pathi2ers began crowding around
the shops this morning and al 10
o'clock orders were issued TO set
up machine guns covering every en-.
trance.
Signalmen Stay on Job.
Chicago, July 1.-THE brotherhood
Of Railroad Slgnalmen will not strike
for the present at least, according to
statement issued this morning by
d. w. iet president of the organiza.
ton, the decision was arrived nj at.
ter conference between the execu.
tive board OF the union and the rail-
road labor board.
Sanction Clerks Strike.
Cincinnati Ohio IuIv % ii 4.
OF railway clerks. freight handlers. ex
press and station employees on the
Norfolk Gnd Weston railroad has
been sanctioned by Grand President 2.
II. Fitzgerald ace Nrdng to l. d. Mum
by, assistant to Fitzgerald. at tho
headquarters Of the Brotherhood OF
Railway CLERKS here today.
100 Per Cent Strike.
Gaesburg, ILL.,. July 1.-THE strike
committee OF the executive board Of
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
Shop Crafts Federation issued a state
ment late Monday afternoon to the
effect that the men at Plattsmouth,
Neb.. st. joseph. Quincy, H.. Aurora.
H., McCook, Neb. and Hannibal. Mo.
remained out Monday 100 per cent.
Tclcerams received from Plattsmouih
and Hannibay state that stationary
hrGmon. brass molders, foremen and
laborers walked cut Sunday
The committee predicted today that
there would not be single break in
the ranks of the strikers on the chi.
cago Burlington and Quincy system.
Maintenance Men Return.
Galesburg. ILL.,. July 1.-Two hNr-
dred and fifty of the 300 maintenance
Of way WORKERS on The Santa Fc who
quit last Friday were back at work
near here this morning. Most of the
men were foreigners, who laid down
their tools on account of the cut in
pay ordered by the labor board Road
foremen, it is said, persuaded them to
return to work.
Reduce Train Service.
Chicago, July Embarrassing dis
orders, curtalment of train service
and troops on duty at several TROUBLED
centers marked The progress of the
rail strike today.
Fresh acts of violence occurred in
California, where at Roseville, fifteen
miles from Sacramento, an employee
OF the Pacific Fruit Express was shot |
while on duty at car icing plant.
Armed strike sympathizers were said
to be occupying positions commando
ing the icing plant.
One man was in jail aG Red Bluff, |
Cal, and another was out on $4,000
bond charged with kidnapping Patrick
Gallagher, boilermaker, employed in
the Southern. Pacific shops at Gerber.
AT New Castle, Cal, attempts were
made to dynamite one of the largest
water tanks on the Sour hern Pacific
system. Five men drove up in an
and placed charge under
the tank A hole was blown in it.
Marshals Protect Mails.
United States marshals were pro-
Getting the mails on southwestern lines
and were guarding the Burlington
shops at Aurora, where 1000 pickets
the shops.
Mail rail centers were blanketed
with injunctions issued by federal
courts restraining strikers from in
terfering with the operation Of trains
and shops Picketing was general
he country.
Clerks, station employees and freight
handlers on the Norfolk & Western
received authority from their presi-
dent, e. II Fitzgerald, to strike at 10
a. m. today.
The Missouri Pacific following its
assurance to Gov. Allen of Kansas,
thai no trains would be taken off
the lines in that state rescinded its
earlier order disseminating l24 local
passenger and mixed trains, an
that there would be no dis
ruption of it's existing schedules any
where on the system because of new
developments.
Several hundred deputies under a
lTniled States marshal were protect