The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-11
TRAINS LEFT
BY TRAINMEN;
GUARDS CAUSE
Passengers Are STRANDED d
When Workers Refuse to
Move Cars Renewed Out
breaks of Violence.
TIE-UP THREATENE
tRy Associated Press)

Cf1lCA9O-. aug. 11-SeflOaS threats
to traffic by refusal of trainmen to
move trains at points where troops
are on guard renewed outbreaks of
violence resulting in several deaths,
and the possibility of walkouts by
maintenance of way men on various
roads. marked the progress of the
strike of shop crafts employees as rail
road heads and leaders gathered for
conferences today to consider sepa-
rately President Harding's proposal
for ending the strike
Members of the big Four trans
portation brotherhoods, upon whom
train movements depend, were author
ized by their chiefs to suspend work
if they consider strike conditions and
the presence of soldiers at terminals
and junction points 'unbearable."
Tie-up Threatened
Western. divisions of the Atchison.
Topeka & Sante Fe were threatened
with a tie-up OF trans-continental
trains by refusal of enginemen. fire
men, conductors and trainmen to op-
crate trains while troops were sta
toned along the line where outbreaks
occurred earlier in the strike.
At other centers throughout the
country similar situations threatened.
Switchmen at Moberlv, Mo, return
ed to work after short walkout, but
firemen there voted not to aid in the
movment of freight trains until the de
mands of the striking shopmen We're
met
NFt El1N .
York Central lines in the Colling-
wood yards at Cleveland, one dis
patcher. and the other call boy, were
shot and killed on a street corner.
Their slayer escaped.
At Harlburt, Wyo, two negro shop
employees of the Chicago, Rock Island
&, Pacific were shot and probably ia
tally wounded
Bomb Misses Mark.
At Birmin CHAM, Ala, an attempt
was made to blow up dining car used
for feeding shopmen and laborers in
the Frisco yards. The bomb missed
its mark and blew a hole in a nearby
box car. The explosion occurred just
before 100 men were due to arrive at
the car Police found bundle OF
dynamite sticks in the yards near the
cars.
Dynamite was used in an attempt to
blow up shanty cars and diner III
4 the Southern railway yards at Ashe
vile, n. c. Windows were shattered
in a car containing IL workmen.
State rangers were sent to Texar
kanana, Tex, in connection with strike
activities. Water pipes supplying the
Texas and Pacific yards and the Union
station were cut twice by unknown
persons.
Marvin Oxiner, a car repairer. EN-
ployed by the ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco railroad at Memphis. Tenn. dice
from gunshot wounds received wheI
he was attacked and robbed by two
negroes while on his way to work.
Conferences Arranged
Conferences were arranged between
railroad and union officials in Chicago
today in an effort to avert a walkou
of $500 maintenance of way men o.
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paui
Maintenance of way men at Kansa!
City sent resolutions to their natlona
officers demanding protection of thei
interests, even to the extent of caliin;
a suspension of work.
strike vote to poll sentiment o
Big Four brotherhood men at New
thetic strike to aid the striking shop
men was in prospect.
Federal Judge James H. Wilker5on
recently appointed to the fedora
bench to succeed former Judge X. Nj
Lands, commissioner of baseball
granted an injunction restrainin;
strikers from picketing in the yard
of the Elgin and Eastern railroad a
Joliet, H., where troops remained o!
guard. The E. J. and E. outer bel
line for Chicago shipping still wa
tied up by a walkout of big Four
brotherhoods in protest against tn
l. presence of soldiers.
Injunction Granted
Posting of circulars designating
shop workers as "scabs" and strike
breakers" was restrained in an injunc
ton granted at st. Paul by Fedora
Judge Booth.
Strike ballots were ordered 70
clerks employed by the Lackawanna
In conference at St Paul, governor
of Minnesota, North Dakota. South Da
kota, Wisconsin and Iowa sent t
President Harding their approval c
action toward governments operatio
of railroads serving cCal regions an
ALI mines also if necessary to reliev
the situation brought by the dua
strike of railroaders and miners.
Coal shortage was assigned by roa
officials as the reason for temporar
cancellation of four branch line train
on the Missouri Pacific. out of Wich
"a. Kas. The Missouri Pacific al
noloncement followed withdrawal c
six passenger trains of the Frisco lin
operating in Kansas.