AMERICAN STRIKES
RAILWAY SERVICES AFFECTED. MEN BLAME EMPLOYEES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CHICAGO, July 13. Tho chiefs of six of tho striking railway shop crafts have telegraphed to President Harding warning him that interruptions and interference with railroad transportation will continue to increase until an agreement is obtained to give skilled workmen a reasonable wage. Owing to the employment of unskilled men, tho strikers’ statement declares, the employers, and not they, are responsible for the interruptions and violence, because the former refuse to listen to the strikers’ demands. The.railway service is seriously affected in many districts. The companies are cancelling numerous trains to-day, pleading that they _ are unable to obtain sufficient protection.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
WASHINGTON, July 13. Tho Department of War and the Department of Justice have received requests for 2,500 deputy United States marshals and troops for the protection of railway property and the movement of trains. Tho departments have appealed to the Icjcal authorities to suppress violence arising out of the railway strike, and declare that Federal troops will bo used only when the local authorities are helpless. Air Jewell, head of tho Railway Emplovees’ Department of the American Federation of Labor, has telegraphed to President Harding denying attacks on mails, and laying the responsibility for interference on the railway companies. Fifty armed railway strikers surrounded the Western Pacific Railroads workshops at Oroville, California, and overpowered the guards, after a battle in which 200 shots were fired. They then rushed tho buildings and beat the strike-breakers, many of tho latter being knocked senseless while they were sleeping.—A. and N.Z, Cable. ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN CALLED OUT. CHICAGO, July 14. (Received July 15, at 9.40 a.m.)
Eight thousand stationary firemen, engineers, and oilers have been ordered to join the railway strike on July 17.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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