The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-07
WEEK OF RAIL
STRIKE ENDS
IN DISORDERS
Jewell Still in Conciliatory
Mood But Declines to Make
First Move to End Walkout
of Shop Craftsmen.
MAIL NOT HINDERED
CBv Associated Pressl

CHICAGO, July with B. NJ Jew
ell, head of the striking railway shop
crafts, still maintaining the concilia-
tory attitude he assumed after the
strike was underway but declining to
make the first move towards negotia-
tions for peace, an increasing number
! of outbreaks and disorders marked
the closing hours of the first weel;
! since shopmen throughout the country
walked off their jobs last Saturday.
! Federal injunctions restraining the
strikers from interfering with railroad
operations, molesting workers and un.
lawfully picketing shops were issued
at East ST. Louis, H., and Shreeve
port, La.
| Mobilization of state troops was or.
dered by Adjutant General Black of
Illinois following disturbances in the
! Wabash yards at Decatur. The Gov.
ernors of Alabama, Kansas, Missouri
to scenes of disorders and where peace
was threatened in their states.
Outbreaks in Chicago
il Chicago in the past "a hours expert
enced its first outbreaks of violence
in connection with the strike A mob
Of strikers and sympathizers, which
included many women, attacked anC
attempted to burn the homes of two
Illinois Central employees at Burnside
who refused to join the walkout Pc
lice dispersed the mob after Mrs. julia
Gabel, 60, wife of one of the Illinois
Central men. held the attackers at bay
with a revolver when they attempted
to storm her home.
Picketing of railroad shops contin
lued in numerous parts of the country
and several arrests were made in con
nection with picketing and disorders
| Despite numerous outbreaks b,
strikers, there was a general impres
sion in railroad circles that the trenC
of the strike was toward peace anC
) hope was expressed that Mr. Jewel
would be brought together with tn,
United States Railroad Labor board
two diplomats in mediation-Chair
man Ben w Hooper and W. L. Nc
, Menimen, one of the three labor mem
bers.
Employ New Men.
| Railroads meanwhile continued t
employ new men to take the jobs lef
| by the strikers and the ultimatum t.
return to work next week or forfei
t all seniority and pension rights stoo,
: effective in shops throughout tn
| country.
Although some short run trains
: particularly en- the Chicago and North
: western and the Salt Lake line of tn
' Union Pacific, were annulled, the raj
: roads generally reported slight inter
) ruption of transportation as a resul
Of tAo chnnTnan'S StTiIxn
Strikers were reported at variou
t points to be struggling back to tn
, old jobs in uncertain numbers, bu
! these reports reflected no weakness
f in statements from union headqua1
D ters, where Mr.. Jewell reiterated hi
Y announcement that the strike was VII
: tually 100 per cent effective.
2 Mr. Jewell exhibited telegram
/ from women's auxiliaries of sho
v crafts organizations expressing SUI
e port of the strike He also announce
the first sympathetic walkout by e.
hibiting messages informing him ths
/ $500 moulders employed on railroad
0 had joined the ranks of the striker
e Temporary Injunction
e The temporary injunction order 1
/ sued by Federal Judge English at Eas
l. SL. Louis was uIeCleu IoWdIuS StIll
/ ers on the Illinois Central at Mound
Centralia, Mattoon, East st. Louis an
t other points in the southern nlino
: district
e Judge Jack at Shreveport granite
S similar injunction to the New o
S leans, Texas and Mexico railway.
e Mayor Coad of Parson, Kas., unde
n threat Of custer by Governor ALE
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