INDUSTRIAL WAR
* UNITED STATES RAILWAY DEADLOCK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 20. The unions’ demand for the re-employ-ment of the railway strikers and tho refusal to submit the seniority question to the Railway Labor Board threaten to block a settlement of the railway strike. Increasing disorders in the middle west and south also menace the peace movement. One important railway, the New Haven and Hartford, has signed an agreement with its employees decreasing the wage reductions, which the Railway Labor Board ordered. WRECKERS AT WORK. NEW YORK, August 20. The wreck on the Michigan Central Railroad, which the officials declare was due to tho withdrawal of the dog-spikes (clamping the rails to the sleepers), permitting the rails to spread, resulted in the deaths of.two men, serious injury to two others, and the demolition of a baggage train. A reward of £I,OOO has been offered for the capture of the wreckers.— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 4
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155INDUSTRIAL WAR Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 4
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