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Show "EXPECT HARDING 10 TAKE STAND LULL COMES IN PEACE MANEUVERS MANEU-VERS AS WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERS CON-SIDERS SHOPMEN'S MESSAGE Southern Railway Invites Striking Workers for Parley on Washington Washing-ton Plan; Violence Reported at Several Points Chicago. There was a lull Thursday Thurs-day in peace maneuvers in the railroad rail-road strike. Kail men were reticent and there was no forecast of where the next peace effort would originate. Strike leaders turned their attention toward Washington, where President Harding had a telegram, sent by the shopmen, accepting his peace proposals propo-sals upon condition the unions' interpretations inter-pretations of the settlement suggestions suggest-ions be recognized. Railroad executives execu-tives were also awaiting news from the capitol, after their acceptance of all the president's proposals excepting except-ing that regarding restoration of seniority rights to strikers. Railroad men noted the invitations of the Southern railway to striking shopmen to negotiate for a settlement settle-ment based on 1'resident Hardings' plan, but made no comment. At Dallas, Tex., the Texas division headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, announced union men, now on strike would be employed only as new men. , Violence was reported from six cities cit-ies in as many states during the fight. Carl Spradley 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. The dead man's brother, Will Spradley, was wounded, but will recover, re-cover, physicians say. At Jackson, Mich., several were slightly injured when more than 1000 strikers and sympathizers, including many women and children, attacked nonunion workers leaving the shops of the Michigan Central railroad. Eighty strike 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 the workmen were missing when police stopped the tighting. Three special guards of the Southern South-ern Tacific at East Bakersfield, Cal., were fired on. In Lincoln, Neb., more than 100 men, women and boys, said to be strikers and sympathizers, attacked the home of a Burlington route car foreman with bricks and stones. A demonstration demon-stration before the home of another worker was broken up. Four nonunion non-union employes of the Missouri, Kansas Kan-sas & Texas were beaten at Upton, Tex., by fifteen men said to be strikers. |