U. S. RAILWAY STRIKE.
APPEAL FOR FEDERAL TROOPS Received July 14, 9.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, July 14. The Departments of War and Justice have received requests for 2500 deputy United States marshals and troops for the protection of railway property and the movement of tralus. The departments have appealed to local authorities to suppress violence arising out of the railway strike, and declare that Federal troops will be used only when the local authorities are helpless. Mr. Jewell, head of the railway employees department of the American Federation of Labour, telegrahed President Harding denying attacks, on mails and laying the responsibility for interference on 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 thebuildings and beat the strike-break-ers, many of the latter being knocked senseless while sleeping.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18533, 15 July 1922, Page 5
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148U. S. RAILWAY STRIKE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18533, 15 July 1922, Page 5
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