STRIKE CRISIS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 8, 10 July 1922, Page 7

STRIKE CRISIS

ON AMERICAN RAILWAYS

VIOLENCE REAPPEARING

s STATE TROOPS MOBILISED,

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(Received July 10, 9 a.m.)

NEW-YORK, Bth July,

The railway strike has assumed serious proportions. .Following the killing of a boy during a fight between strikers and guards of railway property at Clinton, Illinois, State troops have been called out. Four other States—lndiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and lowa—are holding troops in readiness. Violence has been renewed by the strikers at several points throughout the country, particularly in Chicago and New Orleans.- Terrorism by workers and suspected strike-breakers is alleged to be rife. Warrants have been issued in the Kansas Industrial Court for the arrest of three union leaders for calling a strike. Railroad operation is curtailed on several lines because of the shortage of men, and fruit shipments in the west are menaced owing to the extension of the strike to the employees at the ice plants along the main routes.

The Governor of Ohio ha 6 circularised the local authorities in the mining districts where non-union workers are working, declaring that they will be held to strict account if they do not safeguard lif and property in the event of an attack by strikers. The State troops are to be mobilised, but will be held in readiness for use only if the authorities are unable to cojr with the situation.

The mine officials at Madisonville have asked the Governor of Kentucky for troops to prevent trouble in Madieonvillej where non-union men are employed.