The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-12
OUTLOOK DARK
AS TRAINMEN
LEAVE POSTS
Strike of Rail Shop Crafts
Takes on More Threatening
Aspect as Walkout of
Brotherhoods Spreads.
ENDS
cBy Associated Press}

tby Associated FFeSSJ
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-The strike OF
rail shop crafts employees today had
adopted a still more threatening as
pect today as the walkout entered its
seventh week
Paralysis of railroad transportation
in various sections particularly the far
west, northwest and southwest, threat
ened as Big -Four" brotherhood men
abandoned work or called meetings to
consider quitting in protest against
presence of armed guards on railroad
property or against handling allegedly
defective equipment.
The trainmen's walkOut started
when train service men tied up trans
continental Santa Fe trains on the
California and Arizona deserts and
freight traffic on the Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern outer belt line for the Chicago
steel and shipping districts and grad
ually has taken on Importance during
! the last "a hours.
! Switchmen Joined engineers. fire
men, conductors and brakemen in
protests against working when troops.
deputy T. S. marshals and other
guards were on strike duty az former
trouble centers. Clerks on the Santa
! Fee coast lines were authorized 70
walk off their jobs if they considered
conditions unsatisfactory
| Trains Tied Up
| Southern Pacific firemen Joined the
walkout. tying up limited passenger
trains at ogden, Utah.
| Members of the Big Four brother
hoods in Texas we're called TO meet at
Waco tomorrow to determine what TO
/ do. They previously voted to strike,
but were held TO their jobs.
! The added menace came as railroad
heads who met in New York prepared
their reply to President Harding's pro-
posals for ending the shopmen's strike
which began July I, and shopmen's
Headers at Washington were expected
to render their reply TO President
Harding's final peace proposal
Strike Spreads.
Early today the trainmen's strike
had spread until it affected among
other roads, the Illinois Central al
; Memphis, the Louisville and Nashville
at Evansville. Ind, and Madisonville,
KY, the Denver and Rio Grande the
: Wabash at Moberly, Mo-; the Union
Pacific and Oregon short line at Po-
catello. Idaho and Salt Lake City and
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
With strike threats increasing from
. brotherhood men who actually operate
trains the only voluntary check which
: had been placed on the walkouts early
: today came from w. G. Lee, chief Of
. the Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men. who directed his men to remain
at work until strike was authorized.
: Although several Santa Fe passen-
ger trains held up by the strike at
California points were backed into Los
/ Angeles. other trans-continental trains
i were stranded in the desert. Passen-
gers marooned at Selligman, Ariz.. ap-
: pealed to Santa Fe officials to relieve
! them from their plight, declaring that
/ women and children were suffering.
The plea was passed on to brotherhood
officials at Needles, Calf. They were
l urged by the company TO consider the
situation from humanitarian
standpoint.
= Passengers SweIter
> Passengers on the stranded trains
3 sweltered in the heat of the desert,
9 but many accept their fate well. and
!, so wore blue bands on their sleeves
: signifying their sympathy with the
strikers.
Embargoes on fruit. livestock and
other perishable freight were anhounc
| ed by the Southern PdcIhc.
= Sporadic outbreaks Thursday il
connection with the rail strike, were
| followed by a lull, but Bloomington
!. III. where troops are still on guard
; returned to the trouble map waen c
q K. Krauss. foreman in the Chicago
Il and Alton shops was seized by mask
, ed men, taken to the outskirts of thf
city, beaten TO inconsistencies anc
: left by the roadside
f Reports of a heavy explosion neal
e the Mississippi Central railroad shop
e at Hattiesburg, Miss, came fror
It Jackson.
a An eastbound Alabama and Vicks
/ burg passenger train was halted a
n Jackson and passengers transferret
" to Illinois Central trains. Reports o
a clash between guards and switch
= men at Meridian, Miss. were said t,
have been responsible for the transfer