The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-09-06
MARSHALS BUSY
LABOR DAY
Labor Day Found United States
Marshals Modified to Enforce
Strike Injunetion-New Acts Of
Violence-Jewell Missing.

Labor Day and the sixty-sixth day
of the railway shopmen's strike found
United States marshals modified to
enforce the governments strike in
junction and prepared to keep a close
watch on labor demonstrations
throughout the country.
In Chicargo union leaders said no
organized pogram had been made for
observance of the holiday.
Arrival of the annual holiday
brought with it new acts of violence
and further expressions Of bitter re-
sentiment on the. part Of labor leaders
against the federal injunction. Many
union chiefs against whom the in
junction was issued, declared they
had not been served with writs. The
whereabouts of B. M. Jewell, leader
of the shipments strike, remained
unknown early today.
Central labor union bodies in va
rious cities adopted resolutions deal
ing with the railroad strike. The Bos-
ton Central Union pledged full moral
and financial support TO the striking
shopmen and adopted a resolution
calling upon President Harding to
sieze the roads and to restore the
strikers to their old jobs. The resolu-
ton also denounced Attorney General
Daugherity for his action in obtaining
the injunction.
In Chicago, where of the first
arrests for violation Of the injunction
was made, the Chicago Federation of
Labor authorized a campaign for
funds to aid the striking shopmen.
The resolution was adopted following
speeches by William q. Foster, one
of the nations foremost radicals and
former United States Senator R. F..
Pettigrew, of South Dakota.
Foster, advocate of one big union,
for railroad workers, criticized lead
ers of the rail unions for lack of uni
ty in failing to make the rail strike
general. He attended the meeting
as a delegate from the Garments
union.
Former Senator Pettigrew said
nothing could be expected from a con
gress composed largely OF lawyers.
"a lawyer" he said, "is the only
man who can take a bride and legally
call it a fee. Their training makes
them unfit to represent the people"
Investigation of yesterdays disas-
trous fire at Pittsburg, Pa, where
seven car repairmen were burned to
death and a number injured when a
Pennsylvania railroad clubhouse was
destroyed, had resulted in the arrest
of'one man.
At Louisville, KY, the failure of
alleged train wreckers to remove a
derail device prevented the head-on
crash of a Louisville and Nashville
train into a string of cars loaded with
stones. The locomotive, baggage and
mail cars were derailed, but the
coaches remained on tn e tracks and
there were no injuries.
Seven men were under arrest at
Gretna, La, a suburb of New Orleans
charged with having beaten and slash
ed a round house employee.
At Carbonate, Ills, an Illinois
Central employee was attacked and
beaten. Two trains were stoned at
Grey Court, New York, and state
police went to the aid of railroad de-
tectives in dispensing crowds in the
Erie railroad yards at Port Jervis, N.
Y, where a workman was injured
by stones.
Other incidents included attempts
to wreck trains at Trinidad, Colo,
and Montgomery, Ala, and the burn
ing of freight cars and buildings at
Denison, Texas.
Several strikers were arrested at
Memphis, Tenn, in connection with
the killing of a Frisco shop work
err who was shot from ambush Sat-
urday. Police said the men confessed
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