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Show 8000 STATIONARY FIREMEN JOIN RAIL STRIKE BOARD TRYING TO GET PEACE PARLEY GOING Regional Conference at St. Paul May End Walkout TJiere JEWELL IS FIRM Declares Men Will Not Go Back Until They Get Concessions WASHINGTON. July 14, President nardmg wa described by White Iloiuie callers today ns quite hopeful over the rail strike situation and confident con-fident that Chairman Hooper of the railroad labor hoard would be able-soon able-soon to work out a solution Hiitlsfac-torf Hiitlsfac-torf to all concerned. CHICAGO July 14. E. F Grable. head of the maintenance of way brotherhood, left here this morning for Washington where, it was said, he will go Into conference with President Presi-dent Harding concerning the threatened threat-ened walkout of the men In his union. Before his departure. Mr Grable Issued Is-sued a statement In which he said there would be no strike of the maintenance main-tenance of way workers unless they were 'coerced Into It.'" Mr Grable's departure was a surprise sur-prise to his aoctes n the union ranks CHICAGO, July 14 (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) The forces of striking railway men were augmented toaay oy la call authorizing stationary firemen !and engineers and machine shop oilers oil-ers to suspend work at 8 o'clock next Monday morning Approximately 8000 men are in the three crafts, whose , duties in general are the operation of practically all power generating ma-machlnory ma-machlnory in the railroad shops and round"houscs. Tho cessation of work by these operatives Is expected further fur-ther to cripple the efforts of the railroads rail-roads to keep abreast of their cqulp- ment repairs I Peace moves in the shopmen's strike were reported to be progressing en-icourngingly en-icourngingly in St. Paul, where union I leaders and rail executives wjfere In conference. R A Hennlng. rhuir-I rhuir-I man of the northwestern division of the shopcraft.s with the consent of National President B M Jewell Is negotiating ne-gotiating for a basis settlement which might be applied nationally, but f all -ling that will continue to parley for at I least a regional agreement under 1 which the roads of northwestern section sec-tion of the country might resume normal nor-mal operations peace in 48 hours Mr Hennlng said today that peace within the next forty-tight hours whs possible thoueh national headquarters headquar-ters here would offer no confirmation of the prospect. MORE QMT IN TEXAS I Tho troubled situation in Texas seems to have subsided considerably. Dallas reports this morning said no violence occurred In tho state Thursday Thurs-day and that messages to Governor Neff from Dcnison officials vouchsafed vouch-safed that troops wore not needed in that area. Federal soldiers remain in readiness at San Antonio. How ;ver, under order from Washington Clerks and freight handlers continue con-tinue to leave their posts in various sections, but there seems to be no indications in-dications of an acute situation in that field. Members of the railroad labor board meanwhile arc continuing th ir efforts ef-forts to brinR tho strike leaders and the rail officials together In national conference, but report little progress STRIKE OKUnii ISSUED A strike call to the 8000 stationary firemen, enginei rs and oilers employed on railroads throughout the L nitcd States has been Issued. Timothy Hcaly, International president of tho organl- zatlon announced today The strike is effective next Monday July 17. at S a. m. The call was made' in compliance with the recent referendum referen-dum which favored a walkout, Mr. ' Healy said. I The text of the message to call locals lo-cals of the organization follows: "In compliance wlfh your strike vote, which Is 88.6 per cent favoring a walkout, sanction Is hereby granted to each and every member oi our brotherhood on all railroads, .-barn plants, roundhouses and terminals throughout the United States to suspend sus-pend work at 8 a. m . Monday, Julv 17. 1922. "Timothy Healy. 'International president." Stationary firemen and oilers on various va-rious roads had already Joined In a sympathetic walkout with the rail-, way shop crafta. '-We are into the fight and we lr-:nd lr-:nd to win.'' Mr. Heulv said JEWELL 8 FIRM The railway shopmen's strike Will (Continued on Page Two.) ' SITUATION IN RAIL STRIKE Maintenance of Way Work-I Work-I ers Restless and May-Decide May-Decide to Quit (Continued from Rase One) noj be r:llcii off. and thf men VII not be (rdrecj back to work "until Ju.--tlco Ikus been secured." li. M. JowbIIi h ml of the rallwriy i-inployes' dc-j)artnuni dc-j)artnuni of the Xmeric.fn Federation of Labor, said in n statement replying reply-ing to the rail axe&utlvea ultimatum of Wodnetiday The rail exeoutivei auggoHted that the strike bo called off und the men return to work after which dlffcrcricoa niiuhi be taken up before the (Jnfld BtatM railroad labor ooard. .Mr. Jewell, in th BtatOfnent, inti-matad inti-matad thai the reason the executive! refused to meet Shopcrafts officers In an effort to mediate the strike a. htid bOOA Suggested that the railway.- Impe to dcifrdy the employes organizatloTiS, If sjuch i the case. th. statement said the railroads are 'duo to re-icclvo re-icclvo a sudden awakening. The American public should charge thorn with the responsibility. " At the labor board U was announced that an effort might bo maao along new lines io sdtio the- otrlko iiu'. nc details wen givep Alter rail c.v cu-tlves cu-tlves hail refused to meet slfppcratu. rcprasciUatlvcs boaru momlkii a an-Aounced an-Aounced tii u the exscutlvea who ri;-iiiie.i ri;-iiiie.i to confer did nui speaR ror tho Individual railroad an.i liitlmatci tuai n w plan oi settlement migui ue based on tbls ract. it nad tnw n -uc- i'11"' i. mi". in i utiis louuy in. ti the railroads Of the northwest were apparent!) artXteoj to setue and .nat j new peace plans might be alrvcl d at this section .o i RNOXl EXPLAINS I TOPBKA Kank. July 14. The dlf-ferencc dlf-ferencc between picketing by railroad strikers and the offering of Jobs to m.-n by railroad officials is mainly the difference betwejen breaking th- law and keeping tho law, (i over nor H. J. Allen said in a letter to F. W. Hat-chef, Hat-chef, chairman of the publicity com- i initteo of the Topeka striking shop-in. shop-in. :i. marie ubllc today. 1 , The letter w as In rtfply to one from Ratchet in which the governor was asked to explain the dirterence. The governor svaa also askod if threatening i t.iV.- the pensions and Benefits from men who had c-iL-ed working for the r.'.nl, h.is i 1 ' ' i form of Intimidation .nui in the .-am.- class a.s plekefing. Governor Allen replied that these benefits were ior the purpose of get-iin get-iin efficient service from the workers bad always been in existence and that the workers willingly deprived themselves them-selves of them when they quit work, "The reference." says the letter to "a statement f the officials of tho I railroad companies that such rules i would be 'ncour.Hod doeB not pretend to mean a thr.nt or intimidation" l.l i:k HI si i.i ss NEW yORK, July 14. Dispatching l speci.il ili-iutle or Hi.' protection ... the mails lii various strike centeiu of New Jersey odny had a cheering effect on those responsible for that Shd I of the railroad service It was r.--ported other centers in the metropol-it.ii metropol-it.ii dlstrnt 'pettvd to ask for deputies. dep-uties. Reports that strike votes were being taken by clerks of th" big four and the ; Chesapeake thlo, inspired the stute-n.ent stute-n.ent by union men that the clerks I will jrobably force the issue on several other lines unless they get conditions on u par with those obtained on the New Vork Central Thursday. Union leaders claimed that more maintenance of way men were going THREE IRRKSTS MAPI: SPRIlMGP'lELD, Mo.. July 14. Three men who said they were striking strik-ing shopmen of the St. Louis-San Francisco. ysteni were arrested early today by deputy marshal.s on a changS ..f attempting to break into reeerveh of railroad supplies The MlSh were taken t. J.o I. son c...int i..ll pending j their trial on a charge "f contempt of a United States court order. These ;ir- the first arrests of strikers here since the strike began. M VAftA M Tt 1TION RENO, Nev., July h. President C. M Lew of the Western Pacific rall-road rall-road appealed Thursday to Governor ' Uoyle for permission to arm guards at shops ami stations along the Western West-ern Pacific. He said Elko authorities had forbld-1 forbld-1 ilen guards to carry weapons In Nevada Ne-vada The governor received a written writ-ten opinion from Iieputy Attorney General Robert Richards that it was the constitutional right of citizens to prole, t their property and that the , arming of guards on railroad property was not Illegal. on |