The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-07-22
DIRECT PARLEY
URGED TO KILL
ITS DECISIONS
Gompers Urges Government
to Invite Direct Negotia-
tiOns to End Strike
MORE TRAINS QUIT
Over 300 Cancellations Are
Announced as Strike Lines
Are Drawn Tighter
NV the Assoc lated Press)

fBv the Assoc lated Prese)
Washington, July 22-Chair-
man Hooper of the railroad labor
board presented to President
Harding in a four hour confer
ence today, details of the rail
strike situation, reporting on the
controversy between the union
workers and the executives from
the inception to the present time.
Chicago, July 22.-As the railroad
strike today entered its fourth week,
negotiations for peace took a new
turn and expettant eyes were turn
ed to Washington where Chairman
Hooper of the railroad labor board
was called for a conference with
President Harding, and to the eff
forts of six leading railroads to
make separate peace with their
striking shopmen. A conference be-
tween w. L. McMenim of the rail-
way labor board and Secretary of
Labor Davis at Mooseheart, Illinois,
also was regarded as a possible pro-
ducer of a peaceful gesture.
Reports that approximately $4,000
clerks and other railway employees
had voted to walk out and new indi-
cations Canada was facing a shop
mems strike added to the weight of
President CRADLES statement that
any railroad that refused to meet
with committees of maintenance
men to adjust wage differences
would face strike Of these work
ers. .-..
New Note Evident
A new note in the demand of the
strikers was made evident by the
statement of Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, inviting the government to
urge striking coal miners and shop
men and their respective employers
to begin direct negotiations, coupled
with the action of representatives OF
the "big four" railroad brotherhoods
in urging congress to facilitate q
return to the direct parley system
Of settling disputes.
From New Orleans came reports
of verbale attacks upon the railroad
labor board by union leaders.
Meanwhile eight railroads issued
cancellation orders for branch line
trains, swelling the number of an
nulments to more than three hun
dred. State troops continued on
guard in eight states, while addi-
tional guards were placed on duty
in various cities. The most notable
instance was in Fremont, Nebraska,
where more than hundred of the
city's business and professional men
were deputized as peace officers and
escorted back into town eleven nom
union employees of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway who were said
to have been driven out by strike
sympathizers.
lnjunctions Issued
lnjunctions were issued to the
Missouri Pacific and st. Louis-San
Francisco railroads at Kansas City,
and petitions were filed for injunct-
IONS at Atlanta by the Seaboard Air
Line and Western and Atlantic rail-
roads and suit was filed by six
labor leaders at Kansas City, Kan
sas, questioning the jurisdiction of
the Kansas court of industrial rela-
lions over the shopmen's strike. The
plaintiffs in the suit claim that the
strike is Interstate in character and
not subject to state law.
While officials of the maintenance
mems union at Detroit discussed
furnishing members of their union
VINO had struck without sanction.
maintenance men of the Pennsvl-
'ania, between Portage and Altoona.
pennsylvania, walked out in protest
against wage cut.
At Spokane, Washington, an en-
oargo was placed on perishabIe
freight and livestock.