The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-07-10
STRIKING SHOPMEN DID NOT RETURN
.ULTIMATUM ISSUED BY RAILROAD
LINES REQUIRING MEN TO REPORT
WORK This MORNING IGNORED

ton of Gov. Sterling on thelr request
for state troops.
A new appeal to the acting governor
was made by Mayor Jones and Sheriff
Morrison late last night. They de-
clared the strike situation was out
of their control. The national guard
troops were moblized in Missouri,
Kansas, and California. United States
Marshal Levy was advised by Federal
Judge Carpenter who issued an in
junction preventing strikers from in
terfering with Burlington shops at Au-
rora, ILL.,, to employ any necessary
measures to preserve peace there and
to enforce the injunction. d.
United States marshals increased
their forces as they prepared to take
charge of law enforcement in parts of
several states where situations were
critical. Marshal E. L. Fitzpatrick
and a force of deputies at Parsons,
Kan, where state troops also were or
dered by Gov. Allen, had charge of the
situation.
Deputy marshals were sent to Slat-
er, Mo-, where for several days the
strikers had virtual control of Chicago
and Alton shops and town. Marshall
|. X Pershall said he was prepared
to hvae deputies at all the thirteen
division points in his district.
Mobilization of special forces under
the deputy marshal was made in prep
aration for protection of the mails.
]. A. Baggett, marshal for the north
ern Texas district was guarding mails
on the Texas and Pacific, the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, and the lnterna-
tional and Great Northern railways.
Slater, Mo-, spent a comparatively
quiet Sunday with Marshal PershalPs
men in charge of the situation, but i'm
ported strike breakers experienced
difficulty in obtaining supplies from
the union-controlled town and a num-
ber of them quit.
officials of the Missouri Pacific an
nounced the annullment of thirty pas
3enger trains on the company's east
ern division, adding that trains on
other divisions probably would be
discontinued at the same time.
All train service on the Interna-
tional and Great Northern from
Georgetown to Roundreck, Texas, was
suspended.
Gov. ALI Taylor, of Tennessee, re-
ceived appeals to send troops to Mem
phis to protect properties and EN-
ployes of the Frisco lines. Four spe-
cial agents for the Frisco were ar
rested by the Memphis police for car
rying concealed weapons while off
railroad property.
investigations by state authorities
in Kansas of the wreck of the Golden
State Limited on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific at Topeka, were
under way. The state also took part
in the investigation of a wreck at
Burton Saturday.
Announcement was made that the
Kansas industrial court probably
would order an investigation of the
attack upon a negro porter at Her
rington, Kan. Four men, two of them
said by officers to be strikers, were
jailed as members of the party which
assaulted the negro.
Disorders spread to the east when
the homes of two Baltimore and Ohio
employees refused to join the strike
were bombed at New Castle, Pa. A
striker was shot at New Castle.
Two workers for the Missouri Pa
cific, at Monroe, La, were fired upon
and wounded. A former employe was
arrested, charged with the shooting
At that and in numerous other in
stances of the shooting connected
with the strike, union leaders deplored
acts of violence.
In most places where appeals for
troops were made, strike leaders said
all possible efforts would be made to
preserve order and they denounced
the calls for troops
At Knoxville. Tenn.s a policeman
and negro striker exchanged 80 shots
in a running pistol fight which re
suited in no casualties. The negro
surrendered when his ammunition ran
out.
Walter Floyd, Baltimore and Ohio
mechanic, was in a hospital as the
result of a severe beating by six men
at Ivy City, d. c. Special details OF
the police were detailed to guard
shops and yard districts in Chicago
Denver, New York and other cities
; throughout the country.
In New York strikers explained
their opinion in an open letter tc
commuters on the Erie, placing the
, responsibility on the United States
/ Railroad Labor Board.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, William B
Roberts, vice president of the United
} Brotherhood of Maintenance Of Way
Employees, announced meeting Wed
: nesday Of 20 district chairmen repre-
} senting 28 railroads in the East on tht
question Of wage cuts by the Labor