DASTARDLY PLOT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11306, 4 September 1922, Page 5

DASTARDLY PLOT

SESTRUGTION OF RAILWAYS MEN ABRESTBD IN POSSESSION OF BOMBS. PLANS TO KIDNAP PRESIDENTS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.-— Copyright. Australian and N.&. Cable Association. VANCOUVER, September 1. Plans of a widespread plot to blow up railroad bridges and tunnels in New Mexico have been frustrated by the arrest of "W. Seyfreid, president of the New Mexico State Federation of Labour, and a taxi-driver on the Santa Fe train. The men carried suitcases containing three bombs. A search of Seyfreid’s rooms revealed a quantity of explosives find fuse. Federal agents at Chicago have announced that the Radicals have planned to kidnap the presidents of the various railroads throughout the country. Numbers of arrests are expected. CHECKING VIOLENCE GOVERNMENT TARES ACTION. NEW YORK, September X. The Government has made its first definite move to check violence. The Attorney-General, Mr Daugherty, has appeared in the Federal Court at Chicago and asked for an injunction to prevent the strikers from interfering in any manner with the employment of new workers by the railroads. INJUNCTION GRANTED WRIT RESTRAINS STRIKE COM- * MITTEES. (Received September 3, 11.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 1. The court has granted a temporary injunction urtt.il September 11th, when the court wifi, consider the Government’s case for a permanent injunction. Meanwhile, the temporary writ restrains strike committees from issuing , instructions and statements to strikers, and the union funds cannot be used to further the strike. The injunction prevents pioketing, meetings, threats of violence, or any. hindrance to the operation of trains. ‘ A LABOUR THREAT TALK OF A GENERAL STRIKE. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. (Received September 3, 11.6 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 2. Mr Gompers has announced that the executive committee of the American 'Federation of Labour will meet on September 9tb to discuss the advisahleness of calling a general strike as an answer to the Government’s injunction against the railway strikers.