The Washington herald., 1922-07-13
RAILROAD CHIEFS
REJECT HOOPER'S
PLEA FOR PEACE

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derby methods" Jewell said The
| public, which is saying No vio-
lence. gentlemen may look to the
| railroads and their hired gunmen.'
Trainmen Are Reassured.
Earlier in the day the executives
met with representatives of the big
| four" brotherhoods and at the con-
/ clusion of the conference it was an
nOunced by President Samuel FELTON,,
| Western chairman of the American
| Association of Railroad Executives
| that the brotherhood heads had de-
manded and received assurance that
| trainmen would not be asked to do
strikers work.
| One case where train service en-
| ployes had to 20 out with inadequate
( equipment, endangering lives. was
brought up. and the brotherhoods
were given promises that this would
/ not happen again, according to Eel
/ ton.
THE organized railway employees
/ are conducting an orderly, we'll dis
/ ciplined strike that should command
/ the respect of the American people -
/ Jewells statement said.
/ lHeN ask llle support OF all pun
| lie officials and Of the press in pre-
! serving law and order. Four hun
| dred thousand men have suspended
work and are subjected to the hard
| ships of unemployment in order to
maintain the right of every worker
| to a living wage and prevent degra-
dation of the American standards IF
! living.
In a vast army of this size il is
| certain there will be some lawless
| men. The railroads are eager to
| publish stories of violence SO that
| they may obtain injunctions and
| call'for soldiers to encourage strike
| breakers and to create hostility
| against the workers. Yet only
/ sporadic acts of a few irresponsi-
| bles. highly colored and viciously
/ exaggerated have been recorded.
The employees cannot and do not
| expect to succeed by violence. Moral
and economic pressure alone must
win"
|, More Troops Move,
The statement then set forth
| lengthy instructions to the men to
respect railroad property and to
| commit no violence.
"On roads employing no strike
| breakers our own men are acting
as guards to railroad property"
Jewell declared.
Two additional compan nies of
| troops were sent to Clinton, Ill. to
guard the Chicago and Alton shops,
| following reports that a pitched
| battle was imminent
Courts in several parts of the
West issued further injunctions re-
straining strikers from piCketing
shops. Minor disorders were re-
! ported
Chairman Hooper. who with w. L.
McMenimen. labor member of the
! board has been working day and
night trying to bring about peace.
declared tonight that he was still
hopeful
once Clerk Shot Dead.
The most serious outbreaks of
the day came at Crewe. Va, and
Denison, Texas. At the first named
town. Russell Virgins. a yard Office
clerk in the employ of the Norfolk
& Western Railway, was killed and
an unidentified man was seriously
wounded when shots were fired into
/ a crowd of picketing clerks at the
station. The clerks struck Tuesday
morning.
At Denison, Texas, ffty-one men,
forty-seven of whom had been
brought to the territory to serve
as deputy marshals and the other
four being railroad guards, were
attacked by crowd of strikers
! numbering more than 1000.
w. J. Pike 81 wears old watch
man for the Missouri, Oklahoma &
Gulf Railroad, was shot in the
shoulder and abdomen. Sixteen of
the other men were taken to nearby
river bottoms. stripped to the waist
and 1ogged with blacksnake whips.
The remainder escaped the mob.
United States Marshal Phil E