The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-21
HARDING SEEKS
MORE LIGHT On
RhIROAD TIEUP
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Csmmins and Senators Watson Of
Indiana and Kellogg Of Minnesota
of the senate interstate commerce
com1ittee, Of thu unayatling efforts
ma0o b. tham in the conference
with several leading eastern rail-
Rad executives last night to obtain
= basis for settlement OF the rail-
rad strike.
The three interstate commerce
committee membsrs went to the
White house shortly after . O'Clock
and laid before the president the
fall details Of the conference last
night with the railroad executives.
They declined to discuss their re-
port prior to tts presentation to the
president
Shots at Poplar Bluff.
Poplar Blum, Mo-, July 21.-(By
tie Associated Press.)-A volley Of
shots Was heard this morning At
the railroad yards where national
guardsmen are patrolling railroad
property. National guard omcers
refused to say who fired the shots.
The Big Four" Brotherhoods ct
Chaffee, near here. have asked Gov
ernor Hyde to remove the troops
from there, saying the guardsmen
are unnecessary.
Chicago, July 21.-tBy the As
ISOLATED Press. 1.-THE strike OF
railway shopmen today bore IN
creastng external appearances Of q
+, finish light between the union men
and tho rail heads.
| An abortive conference at Wash
ington last night between several
railroad presidents and members Of
the senate interstate commerce
committee only revealed strength
ened determination on the part of
the railroads not to weaken in
their declination to grant demands
of the union men for reconsidera-
!, ton Of the instructions which abol-
! ish seniority rights of the strikers,
destroy their pension status and
! refuse creation of boards of adjust
ment.
j The conference also revealed that
it was regarded as unpractfcable
to pass legislation to deal with the
present strike.
Hooper, Jewell Silent.
| Ben w. Hooper, chairman Of the
railroad labor board, and B. III.
Jewell, head of the railway en-
ployes' department OF the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor and lead-
or Of the striking shopmen, wouIs.
not comment early today when in
formed by the Associated Press o,
/; failure Of the Washington confer
ence to produce a hopeful sign.
/ So far as known here no further
plan containing solution Of the
strike situation was under way, and
speculation turned to what might
be the next step by the federal gov
| eminent
As the strike of 100000 shopmeu
rounded out its third week. its eff
feet ON transportation was becom-
ing increasingly evident, as report.
from throughout the country toll
OF annulment OF nearly. 200 trains
4 and combining Of numerous others
On the other hand, however, wers
reports Of additional replacement.
OF strikers, with increasing effort
to safeguard them, while the rank
OF the strikers were said by unioi
chiefs to have remained at fu.
strength.
| Strikers Increase.
The number OF strikers has beel
increased by walkouts in other de
partments Of some railroads, ths
latest Of consequence being that b,
5000 clerks on the Chesapeake 1
Ohio railroad
! Numerous reports Of violence con
tinued, spreading from Fresno, Cal.
to Worcester. Mass, and troop
were ordered out in two additional
states, making eight in which ma
tional guardsmen now are on duty
They are Ohio. New Hampshire
North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsyl
vania, Illinois. Missouri and Kan
sas.
| Strike, ballots were ordered dis.