New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Sllopn1en Here
Will Disregard
u. $. Injunction
Take View Legal Ressrains
ON Picketing Obtained by
DaugIierty Does Not
Affect Their Activities
Bitterly AssaiI Harding
Governments Action Called
ssPerfidy''; Await Orders
From Their Headquarters

Meetings of strikers and the picket.
ing Of shops will be continued in this
district despite the Injunction granted
crafts unions. The Central Strike Conas
mittee, following a meeting held last
night, announced that after examining
into the details of the injunction order
the local leaders had decided they did
not come within its provisions and had
determined to continue their activities
until advised otherwise by the irfteraas
tional headquarters of the union.
The union officials bitterly assaSIsd
the Administration for its move in ao-
pealing to the courts and accused Pres.
ident Harding and his Cabinet Of es-
pousing the cause of the railroads. This
attack followed the shock of the first
news that such an injunction had been
granted. 1t was in the form of a state
mept and it agsailed the President.
Attorney General Daugherty and rail.
road executives.
Statement of Shopnen
The statement, which is signed By
David Williams, secretary of the Cen.
tral Strike Committee, follows:
"The application for an injunctiua
upon the part of the government to
break the railroad strike brings vividly
TO light many factors in the handling
of our government affairs.
at indicates the perfidy of Presi-
dent Harding in offering so-cailed
settlement to the men and railroad
companies, with an apparent under
standing it would be turned down by
the companies and the present action
taken when it became evident the
strike could not be broken.
at is not an act characteristic Of a
politician whose chief attribute before
becoming Attorney General was to
secure pardons for rich law-breakers
at shows why the railroad execu-
tives have refused all reasonable offerz
Of the employees for settlement Of the
strike. In fact, it proves they would
have been foolish to agree to the
strikers terms, knowing that they
controlled the powers of government
through the Attorney General.
Called "Retribution"
'eThe injunction is just retributioa
to wage earneRs on the railroads who
voted for the candidate of Wall Street
They voted for change and now they
are getting it, backed by the powers Of
the government.
"The statement of facts by the Attor-
ney General shows that the strikers
had the railroads beaten so cleenly
that, within a few days the railroads
would be tied up, and repud;ates the lys
ing propaganda Of the railroad COM
panies that has been spread SO geners
ously by the press within the last few
days"
Attorney General Daugherty's action,
railway executives said, came as COM
plete surprise to them alSo
Robert G. Binkerd, assistant to
Chairman Thomas de Witt Caryier, Of
the Association of Railway Executives,
said:
eve had no Indication that Mr..
Daugherty contemplated such an in
junction. have no comment to make
ON the situation it creates"
Unaware of Plan Here
The Federal marshals Office and ths
loc2l Office of the Department Of Jus
tice equally were unaware of the plan
to apply for injunctive relief. Neither
did the local Offices know of any plot to
kidnap the heads Of several large rail-
way systems.
Marshal Hecht, in charge of the
Southern District Of New York, said
that conditions had been so TRANQUIL
about local railway terminals that he
had Withdrawn all deputies assigned to
guard the shops when the strike began.