The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-05
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OF I DEATHS
IN BUNKHOUSE
Pennsylvania Railroad Off
cials Asked to Produce In
spectors of Building-In-
quest en- Friday.
VIOLENCE DIES DOWN
(Ry Associated Pressl


stroyed Pennsylvania railroad bunk
house and storage building here Sun
day with loss of seven lives got un.
der way today when Coroner ]. ]. Nc
Gregor accompanied by county and city
officials and representatives of the
Pennsylvania department of labor and
industry, visited the scene. The in.
quest, the coroner said, would be held
Friday. Coroner McGregor today call
ed upon the railroad company to pro-
duce the man whose duty it is to in
spect buildings in which workers are
housed.
i CHICAGO, Sept 5.-With the gov
ernment's rail strike injunction uni
versally condemned by union leaders
in Labor day messages yesterday, i'm
pending federal court action in cases
growing out Of arrests for alleged vio-
lations Of the writ occupied the fore
ground of the picture of the nations
industrial situation today.
The annual holiday brought lull
in railroad strike Developments
While some Labor day orators were
cautious in their references TO the in
junction other union leaders appear
!; ing as speakers followed Samuel Com
: pers, president of the American Fed
2 GRAFTON of Labor. in attacking the re-
straining order. Speaking at Phila-
I11- IL
charge that the injunction was vio-
5 lation Of the constitution and the laws
2 of the land.
Council Meets
Members of the executive council Of
1 the American Federation of Labor
were gathering at Atlantic City today.
At this conference, Mr. Gompers
y said he would place before the COM
!. mittee requests from various labor
organizations for a general strike call
q While union leaders were berating
S the Daugherty injunction, other speak
e ers dealt with the industrial situation
l. in another light. Notable examples of
g these were the speeches of Secretary
l. of Labor Davis at Mooseheart, H. and
@ Edward j. Brundage, attorney general
S Of Illinois, at a gathering of Chicago
7. Republicans.
d Secretary Davis declared mo gibbet
(. can be built too high for those who ex-
ecute such dastardly deeds as the de-
liberate wrecking of a train at Gary"
adding that ''the slaughter of working
men at Herrin was a revolving spec
tacle which advanced not the cause in
which the men fell
Il Arraigns Union Leaders
Attorney General Brundage, who is
tdiroo+in1 bo nd i1tr1 inc q -
Herrin mine massacre, bitterly ar
raigned union leaders, who announced
- their intentions of defending any union
= miners who might be indicted in Viii
= Hanson county.
-, The attorney general mentioned no
names, but in mentioning one man he
ts singled out statements attributed to
n Frank harrington, president of the
- Illinois Mine Workers.
- Despite the general quiet Of Labor
day, the holiday period was not with.
n out its contributions to the growing
ID list Of outbreaks incident to tns rail
=. way shopmen's strike.
ay Probe Alleged Wreck
Ia At Ardmore, Okla, inspectors were
e investigating what Santa Fe officials
said was an attempt to wreck pass
as enger train bound from Kansas City
of to Galveston. The engineer reported
slr that he found an open switch with the
is signal lights broken off.
Nineteen freight cars were burned
in the yards of the Great Northern
system at Great Falls, Mont Eight
hundred cars were endangered tv the
blaze which broke out simultaneously
e in five different places.
y Farmers extinguished blaze which
damaged a st. Louis-San Francisco
railway bridge at Bengal, Okla Two
men were arrested at Cynthia. KY
Is charged with attempting to wreck a
~ Louisville and Nashville passenger
OF train last Saturday.
Arrest Strike Leader
al Other arrests included that Of John
81 A. Stecklin, acting chairman Of the
Man M shop crafts federation al Needles, Cal
a. and Of Jacob Cohen, editor and pub
=. Usher of the Labor Review at Mem
N phis, Tenn, charged with violating
federal injunctions.
ba Memphis police made public an al
ee legged confession by Seth w. Posten
IN one of four men held in connection
> with the killing of a shop foreman
;aI from ambush, in which Posten Is saii
TO have admitted that he was one o
several who pulled spikes and loos
ened rails in an attempt to wreck
Frisco train near Caperville, Tenn, OF
= the night of Aug. 26. In the reported
&c confession Posten named two of tn,
Ter men held with him in the ambuscad,
ah, investigation as participants In tn,
ant wreck plot.
The Hold Railroad Guard
es. Thomas Mrachek, a Great Northern
ter railroad guard, was held without bal
the pending the outcome of injuries to
ion striking shopman who was shot by tn
, guard at Grand Forks, N D.
Declaring the shipments strike ha
been lost, SO far as the Central O
Georgia railroad is concerned, W. A
Winburn. president of the road, ad
vised the strikers to find some kin
VA of work to protect their families.
- Miss jeanette Rankin, of Montans
an the first woman to sit in congress
zen declared in speech at Peoria, Ill
cle that the wives of union men shoul