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Show EXPECT HARDING TO IE STAND LULU COMES IN PEACE MANEUVERS MANEU-VERS AS WHITE HOUSE CON-8IDERS CON-8IDERS SHOPMEN'S MESSAGE Southern Railway Invites Striking Workers for Parley on Washington Washing-ton Plan; Violence Reported at Several Points Chicago. Tboro was a lull Thursday Thurs-day in poaco maneuvers in tho railroad rail-road strlko. Hail mon woro rotlccnt and thoro waa.no forecast of whore tho noxt peaco offort would originate Strike leaders turned tholr attention toward Washington, whoro Prosldont Harding had a tologram, sont by tho shopmen, accepting his peaco proposals propo-sals upon condition tho unions' interpretations inter-pretations of tho Bottlomont suggestions suggest-ions bo recognizod. Railroad executives execu-tives wero also awaiting nowa from tho capltol, aftor tholr accoptanco of all tho president's proposals excepting except-ing that regarding restoration of seniority rights to strikers. Railroad mon noted the invitations of tho Southorn railway to striking shopmen to negotiate for a settlement settle-ment based on President Uardlngs plan, but mado no comment At Dallas, Tor., tho Texas division headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas & Toxas, announced union men, now on strlko would.be employed only as now mon. Violence was reported from six cities cit-ies in as many states during the fight Carl Spradloy was killed during an exchange of shots at Van Buren, Ark., between guards In the Missouri Pacific Pa-cific shops and men said to be strikers. strik-ers. Tho dead man's brother. Will Spradley, was wounded, but will recover, re-cover, physicians say. At Jackson, Mich., several woro lightly Injured when more than 1000 strikers and sympathizers, including many women and children, attacked nonunion workers leaving tho shops of tho Michigan Central railroad. BIghty strlko sympathizers attacked more than sixty workers in the Chicago Chi-cago Great Western shops at Des Moines, la. One man was severely injured in-jured and a dozen of tho workmon wero missing when police stopped tho fighting. Three special guards of the Southern South-ern Pacific at East Bakorsflold, Cal., were flrod on. In Lincoln, Neb., more than 100 mon, women and boys, said to be strikers and sympathizers, attacked tho home of a Burlington route car foreman with bricks and stoqes. A demonstration demon-stration bofore tho homo of another workor was broken up. Four nonunion non-union employos of the Missouri, Kansas Kan-sas k Toxas wore bcaton at Upton, Tex., by fiftoon mon Bald to bo strikers. |