Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1922, Page 9

ASKS SENATE QUIZ | OF RAILWAY CHEFS: Executives’ Association Ac-: cused of Blocking Settle- ment of Strike. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 28.—Investiga- tion of the Association of Rallway Ex- ecutives by the United States Senate as directly responsible for the failure to end the rallroad shopmen's strike was suggested in a telegram sent yesterday by John J. Dowd, chairman of the central strike committee for the metropolitan district, to A‘lher[ B. Cummins, chairman of the interstate ebmmerce committee of the Senate. After suggesting that the committee investigate the association “in its re- lation to the present shopmen's strike and of its organization and activiti in general,” the telegram continue ‘This _group of individuals effectually urkven“fid a settleme e t the railroad strf even when such a settlement was urgentl quested by the President of the United States | and agreed upon by the union in- volved.” * Rule of Minority. . Asserting that the rejection of mediation proposals by the railway executives did not - represent th opinion of a majority of the membe of the assoctation. the telegram adde “The evidence is overwhelming that the proceedings of this ;associution have for the past yeal been manipu- lated and controlled, ¢ best interests of the ra by T. De Witt & examination of indi- vidual members of this association on the witness stand would reve & situation that would st country and prove- of in benefit both to the American industry and to the public gt large. Commenting on the telegram, Chair- man Dowd said: “There never n ba peace m railroad industry while Ass tion of Railway Executive to exist. Superdangerous Union. “Here is a union more dangerous than any labor union could ever be. This association is a union of 100 or so men, clothed with prodigious power, and absolutely controls, by its small inner circle of half a dozen men, more power than all the other | members put together. “The members of this inner circle are out to establish the open shop | on American railroads. “It is four weeks now since th union defled the nation. Since t it has closed the door upon any po bility of peace. It is this one u that 1s beyond all public contro Railroad executives, who were seen following the filing of Chairman Dowd's telegram, declined to make any comment. VIRGINIANS HURL DYNAMITE ; . 17 Home of Negro Rail Worker and' Commissary Scenes of Blasts. RICHMOND, Va. August 25.—Two instances of dynamiting Saturday night and early yesterday was re- ported from Clifton Forge last night No one was injured and little prop- erty damage was done, according to advices reaching Richmond. The Shargen, It i halleved. were huried | from an automobile. One charge was hurled at the Fitz- gerald commissary, which supplies Chesapeake and Ohio raifway work- | men with foodstuffs and other sup- plies, late Saturday night. Striking the roof, a stick of dynamite ex-| pioded. hurting no one and doing | little damage to the bullding. 1 A second stick of explosive was.| thrown early yesterday against the ~home of a negro shopman, who re- fused to walk out with the striking employes on July 1. The concussion blew off the porch of the dwelling, | tore a hole in the side of the house and broke a number No one was hurt. I The attempted dynamiting was the i culmination of several weeks of dis-} | of windows. order, including kidnaping. SHOPMEN SPLIT DENIED. Southern Railway Members Not to Quit Union, Says Leader. SPENCEZR. N. C., August 28—Re- ports that Southern rail shop- men are to meet at Spencer today. to consider withdrawing from the na- tional body, and forming a new ganization, was emphatically deniod st night by J. Ellis, head of the shopmen and president of the state federation of labor. " If you want [t i) They’ll go in a jiffy at this price. i "I 20.99 | EL Paso.l Galveston {IColbert prestige as Huron, & . high-class plumbers has COME EARLY! 1000 STRAP MODELS & OXFORDS LAUDS THE SOLIDARITY OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Samuel Gompers, Head of A. F. of L., Takes Optimistic View of Strike Situation. The September number' of the Fed-l ] erationist, the oficial organ of the § American Federation of Labor, will contain a highly opumiziic view by 1 Gompers, president of the Ammerican Pedoration of Labor, on the m.,| national strike situation. He says| i| that organized labor groups have every reason to congratulate their memfership with the coming of Labor day, 1922, because of the “Industrial and’ political solidarity of tlie work-} Ing _people” and because of thp “fail-] " of employers “to bring about wage reductions” and because of the determination within thémselves to | push forward the organization ofi labor in strong union bodies and fight | the propaganda of the “epen shop.” | ! Resistance of American labor to the | program of wage reduction and union smashing, he asserts, has been su cesstul. In l’PKflPd to th pers said, “Labor : WEAT“'IH?R 3 it _and 1OMOrrow; m)tlh'un e, west, ortfon tonight fresh northwest 'lmu“hé mln gentle variable. West Virginia—Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer. ! Récords for Twenty-Four. Heurs. Thermometer—4 p.m., 65 12 midnight, 61; 4 a.m. noon, 69. Baro, S an., 30 ! Highest temperature, 73, at 2 p.m. yesterday. Lowest- temperature, 60, oceurred at 11:45 p.m. yesterday. Temporature. same date last year— Highest, §2; lowest, 6. Conditioms of the Water, Temperature and condition.of the m.—Great Falls—Tem- wdition, clear. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and weodetic survey.) Today—Low tide, 647 am. 7 high tide, 3 occurred and ture, Mr. Gom-i . and lay, l'.‘d finds the mental issus with which they have been forced to gontend sinee the armistice, and with which they have bean forced to contend in a general way over a still longer period of | vears. “But Labor day, 1922, workers in a position of vantage than before. The period of unemployment ha passed. The wage-reducti . and and p.m.; 1:05 a.m. pm. high tide, The Sun and Moon. u )—Sun rose 5:32 a.m.; sun sets finds the reater ad- | crucial 6:46. Tomorruw—sun risra sets 6:45 p.m. ~ Mgon rises 12:07 p.m.; sets 10:46 p.m. = Aatohioblle famps to be lighted one- Lhalf bour after. 33 am.; sun lish the so-called ‘open-shop’ which in reality the non-union ghop, h Proven without Good Plan. 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DENISON, Tex!, August 28.—Eight- een persons were injured, three se-; rlously, Saturday night, by a freight | train_erashing into the rear end of the Katy Flver:#x the Missouri, Kan- sas and Texas railrgad, at Bells, four- teen miles east of- here, ~Nearly all of the passengers in the rear coach were thrown out of.their berths. The injured were struck by fiying glass and bruised by fhe It of the im- pact. I "Hllullmll T Y STEaE T MEMPHIS RAIL LOOSENED. Federal Agents Join in Search for Nine Would-Be Wreckers. MEMPHIS, Tenn., August 28.—De- partment -of Justice agents yes- terday Jjoined police and railroad detectives in a search for members of a band of nine men. Who; in an apparent attempt to .wréck 'a . fast Nashville, Chattanooga‘and St. Louis passenger train on the outskirts of this city, Saturday, loosened a rail on the main line of the road. 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