AMERICA'S LABOR WARS

Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 4

AMERICA'S LABOR WARS

RAILWAY STRIKE SPREADS.

COAL FAMINE IMMINENT,

Preas Association—By Telegraph-Copyright,

NEW YORK, August 9. Tho Joliet strikers now include the engineers, conductors, and way men. Tho last-named are striking because of tho troops being called out to protect tho railway property. Two thousand additional strikers walked out from the Elgin'Joli't 1 railroad following the riots. Additional Illinois militia were sent to Joliet.. A huge demonstration occurred at the funeral of the strikers.

The strike has Lied up (he movement of all freight from east to west and vice versa through Chicago, Rochester, and Ndw York,

Air Roosevelt, in a speech, said: “A coal famine now stares us in the face. Tho country does not really know what such a condition will mean. The responsibility must rest with those who refused to give an ear to Piesident Harding’s efforts to effect a settlement.”—A. and N.Z. Coble.

ENGINES TO BE REPAIRED IN CANADA.

OTTAWA, August 10, (Received August 11, at 8.25 a.m.)

Fifty American railway engines in a crippled condition are proceeding to Montreal for repairs. It is believed that the Canadian workmen will refuse to work on them.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ATTITUDE OF BROTHERHOODS,

NEW YORK, August 10, (Received August 11, at 9.25 a.m.)

A Cleveland message states that while the presidents of three brotherhoods (locomotive engineers/ firemen, and enginemen) advised their members to leave work if their lives were endangered by guards or defective equipment,- the president of the Trainmen’s Brotherhood telegraphed to his members asking them not to strike, but to refer their complaints to the Executive Committee, which will investigate the matter and give a decision. —A. and N.Z. Cable,

EMPLOYERS DECLINE TO ATTEND

CONFERENCE,

NEW YORK, August 10, (Received August 11, at 10.30 a.m.)

At Indiana (Pennsylvania) twenty-five members of the Central Pennsylvania Coal Operators’ Association declined to attend the Cleveland conference.—A., and N.Z. Cable.

TRAINS UNDER FIRE,

NEW YORK, August 10. (Received August 11, at 10.30 a.m.)

At Cleveland the Brotherhood leaders were notified that trains operated by their members were fired on by coal strike sympathisers all along the lino of the Kentucky coalfields to Chicago,—A. and N.Z. Cable.