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Number 348
Volume 2
I.&G.N. RAILROAD STRIKE IN FULL FORCE
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U. S. DELEGATES TO WORLD CONFERENCE EIGHT UNIONS
STRIKING TRAINMEN ARE
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Armaments are shown at their first meeting. Upper: Secretary of State
Lower: Elihu Root, former Secretary of State and Senator Oscar Under-
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vertisements have been ordered in- fice patrons were told the roads were
noon
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No 7 pulled out of the terminal,
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went to Raab, occup:
mt Bethlen,
Non-Union Men Employed.
ized, would effect less thanone-fourth
a
practically all day session of four
and yards of the I. & G. N., where
less, both teams precipitaetly tighten-
through a series of smashing line
also attended the conference, said:
"As per orders of the railroad labor plunges and forward passing.
board, the strike situation as far as
Early in the fourth period, Bomar
ed Mr. Jewell that they would hold
dispatch, and minus disturbance. As
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to the noon hour, the uni~o train-
MARSHALL MARKETS
Marshall receipts today, 50 bales.
Are Making Mistake
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that the men will go through no mat-
ter what instructions they get.”
No New Developments
On The Irish Situation
president of a string of banks in
Georgia, is at San Antonio, Texas.
when Texas was penalized half the
distance of the field for slugging
by Penna, who was put out of the
game; a penalty which set the Long-
horns back to their 20-yard line. .From
this point, Vandy began a series of
determined line bucks, and after the
Texas team again had been penalized
Steve Huskins sez ef you kan
fool the peeple part uv the time
thet they will fool theirselves
the ballunce uv the time.
ops, it
because
d even
nd peo-
MW ap-
forcs
gard to rules and working conditions,
it is said.
By The Armocinted Frew
Sparta, Ga,, Oct. 22.—Word was
received here today that Governor
Hardwick has issued a requisition on
More Than Half The Member-
ship Of Rail Organizations
1 Against The Strike
CHARLES MAKES
‘ EFFORT TOWARD
. REGAINING SEAT
WILL NOT JOIN
THE “BIG FIVE”
I be is.
nge of
it had
hat the
be un-
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but the
uestion
suing a
icalities
President Of Railroad Trainmen
Makes Announcement Fol-
lowing Conference
Governor Of Budapest Receives
Protests From Allied Repre-
sentatives And Czecho-Slova-
' kia And Sends Troops To Ask
Charles To Leave; Flies From
Switzerland
vas ex-
mpleted-.
id thaf
peace.
micable
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landed safely behind the Texas goal.
From a kickoff Texas passed and
VANDY DEFEATS
TEXAS 20 TO 0
BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS WALK OUT WHEN THE NOON
WHISTLE BLOWS AND ALL IS PERFECTLY QUIET
AND ORDERLY; ROAD TO OPERATE ON FULL
SCHEDULE; GUARDS ALONG LINE
, Everything was perfectly piet ani
orderly at the noon hour at the depot
RAIL SITUATION
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being confined to the switchmen, the
conductors, the firemen, the engin-
eers, the trainmen and the telegraph-
Requisition Made
For Former Banker
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Some Sayin’s
Of Si Bones
Announcements That They Will
Not Join "Big Five" in Walk-
out Were leaned Last Night
By Eight Of The Eleven
Standard Unions; Telegraph-
ers Only Ones To Stay
By Th- Amoclated Prem
Chicago, Oct. 22.—Officials of un-
ions with more than half of the rail
employes of the nation in their mem-
bership, tonight anounced that their
men will not be authorized to join
the “Big Five” organizations in the
strike called for October 30, in pro-
test of wage cuts.
Announeements that they would not
join in a walkout came from eight of
the eleven “standard” rail unions,
By The Asociated Press
San Antonio, Oct. 22.—The 800
striking trainmen on the L & G. N.
railroad of Texas, who went out at
noon today, are being replaced by ex-
perienced men, according to an an-
nouncement tonight at the office of
f.on, 1-
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W. G. Lee, president of the Broth- ing their play. Several times Texas
erhood of Railroad Trainmen, who threatened the Vanderbilt goal post
London, Oct. 22.— With Prime Min-
ister Lloyd George week-ending at
his country home at Chequers Court,
and Michael Collins, head of the Irish
delegation to London, gons to Dub-
lin, no important developments in the
Irish negotiations are expected until
the conference is resumed on Mon-
day afternoon.__
Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, whaheforswenk hazsebeancisith, same timeit was announced that ad- ‘ cancelledland at the city freight «f-
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git much onten it. Good biskits
beet knowin’ ‘bout the pleadies.
When a yung widder ast you
sf you hev yore life insured —
why. Bud, you air a purty big
dunce ef you dont tumble.
Ef a gurl hez purty teeth en
a pink dimple in hur chin, dont
you think son thet you tole a
reel funny joke cause she laf-
fed.
There is alius a wummun in
the case whuther its good sr
bad.
bomb-like intensity st a time when it
had been believed that the eleven
groups would follow in with the “Big
Four” brotherhoods and the switch
men, although several of the leaders
were counselling delay.
The maintenance of way unions and
the stationery firemen’s organizations
took action following the announce-
ment by the shop crafts. Timothy
Healey, president of the stationery
firemen, met with E. F. Grable, main-
tenance of way president, and B. M
however, that by tomorrow figures
could be given out on that point.
It was estimated there are 1,000
armed guards on the line.
In spite of press dispatches from
Laredo and other points that freight
schedules were being cancelled for the
.ayn
of J. L. King, special egent of the
company, and it was said they were
there, not as a protection against the
striking trainmen, but against any
lawless element that might take ad-
vantage of the situation.
bucked in a fast march tq, the Van-
derbilt goal post and made a first
down on the two-yard line. The'ball
was snapped into play and Stacy had
covered half the distance to a touch-
down when time was called ending
the game.
sending out calls for .
the Hungarian premier, Stephen Pa-
kovaky, president of the national as-
sembly, and Benicsky, former minis
ter of the interior, and other royalist
Chicago »; Princetom •
Princeton, Oct. 22—The University
of Chicago defeated the Princeton
football team here today, 9 to 9, thus
gaining one of the greatest victories
it has aver scored against a first class
Longhorns Are Outplayed By
Fast Tennesseeans From
Nashville
expected labor board decision in re-
_J men were employed. Superin
tendent Jones went out into the yard.
GIVE A STAT
present and only passenger trains
would be moved, officials at the sa-
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snee of the city of Sparta's sinking
fund of 120,000 from tbs bank of.
Sparta. Walker, who was formerly
Within forty-eight hours fr
service will be resumed over the
of the I. & G. N. railroad. This
the announcement Saturday of 1
v . .. Goforth, general manager of the 1
at the noon hour and assisted the following the walkout at noon ol
work of making up trams and doing Iproximately 600 I. 4 G. N. i
necessary switching, ha having had brakemen and switchmen. men
many years of experience in the , the Brotherhood of Railroad T
Superitendent J. R. Jones. J. L. Lan-
dis, chief clerk to the superintendent, --------------
said the road is able to get all ths perintendent’s office in San Antonio
experienced men it wanted and at the 1 said no trains have been or would be
the Hungarian troops.
From Oedenburg he and his army
the town and
Men of Louisiana
Railroad Accept
The “Open Shop”
By The Anociated Press
Chicago, Oct. 22 —The United
States railroad labor board an-
nounced tonight that it had re-
.ceived wqrd that the employes
of the Tremont & Gulf Railway
company, a 67-mile line in
Louisiana, had accepted the
open shop, and that ronsequent-
ly, as there was no dispute, the
board relinquished the jurisdic-
tion it yesterday announced it
had assumed over the road.
fective.
Passenger service over the I. & G.
N. will be maintained despite the
strike, General Manager Goforth de-
clared, adding that he expected these
' trains to keep up their schedules.
Small element of the dramatic at-
tached to Houston’s end of the walk-
out. The first move in what has been
described as a nation-wide progres-
sive strike wss made wth clock-like
wood of Alabama. Senator Underwood is a Democrat and the other three
members above are Republicans.
By The Ashoelated Press
Chicago, Oct. 22.—in response to
a request from Herbert Hoover, sec-
retary of commerce, the American
Mining congress, in final session here
today, passed a resolution providing
for the appointment of a committee
to co-operate with the department of
commerce in the production and dis-
tribution of minerals. Provision for
the eommittee, which will be suffi-
ciently large to represent all of the
mining industries, is an indirect reply
‘ also to President Harding’s request
that the congress create a committee
to work with the department in the
production and distribution of coal.
most serious anti-strike blow yet
given the “Big Five” unions, which
have called a strike. It came with
the governor of Texas for the return
to Sparta of John D. Walker, wanted ' to their first-yard line, Godcheaux
here in connection with the disappear- plunged through right tackle and
do the work of the brakeman on all
trains. - 1
The strike of the Brotherhood of ’
Railmad"rainmen started when the 1
whistle blew at noon today, and the
16 switchmen and yard men then on ।
duty left the yards. There are a ■
total of about 68 switchmen and yard- '
men employed in the local yards, the :
men working in shifts, and about 147
brakemen.
F. H. Frame, general chairman of
the I. 4 G. N. trainmen, said the
strike would be 100 per cent by to-
morrow morning, by which time the
last brakeman, starting on a run be-
fore noon today, will have reached a 1
terminal.
By The Asmoclated Preas
Budapest, Oct. 22.—Charles The
First, former emperor of Austria, is
engaged in his second coup d’etat
with ths object of reseating himself
on the throne of Hungary. He has
reached Raab, where royalists are
gathering about the dethroned king,
ready to march with him and his army
of 12,000 Oedenburg troops into the
old capitol of Budapest, sixty miles
After a sensational flight from
Switzerland by airplane Thursday, ac-
companied by the former Empress
Zeita, he landed at or near Oeden-
burg, which is under allied control,
and gained the renewed allegiance of
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By The Aneodlated Pre
Dallas, Oct. 22.—Texas University
"Longhorns” weakened under the va-
ried attack of the Vanderbilt eleven
from Nashville, and went down to
their first defeat of the season here
today, 20 to 0. In.their furious line
assault and almost perfect aerial
play, in which the Longhorns fought
valiantly during the last of the last
period, they were prevented from
scoring only by the pistol shot end-
ing the game.
The first scobs dims near the end
of the first period, after a continual
interchange of line bucks and punts,
freely interfered with fumbles on both
sides, in which neither team seemed
to have the advantage. Texas took
a spurt and gained ten yards by di-
recting their offensive against each
end of the Vanderbilt line. In two
Houston, Oct. 22.—Manning of
Antonio, calling for experienced
switchmen and brakemen.
Yes, sister, star gazing pays <—e-—. —. .. .
the astronomurs but you wonte -the hands of their watches pointed
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Fort Worth, Oct. 22—No disorder
of any kind marked the walking out
of thirty trainment here today. J. O.
Bowles, yardmaster at Mera yards,
made a short talk to the men, tailing
them that he harbored no 01 feeling
toward them, but believed that they
wore making a grave as iota toe
sympathizers.
Pakovsky, Count Attoini and Gas-
tar Gratz have headed a legitimist .
cabinet at Raab, and the royalists
have taken possession of the public
buildings st Steinamanzer.
[ -' The Budapest government, mean-
while, has received protests from the
allied representatives and Czecho-
slovakia, and has sent loyal govern-
ment troops to serve notice on Charles
that he must leave the country at
once. There is a strong belief, how-
ever, not only in Hungary, but in
Austria as well, that Charles’ second
return has a bettor chance of success
than his first.
By The Associated Press
Cleveland, Oct. 22.—Following
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their men pending the labor board’s
rules decision.
The action was said by the chiefs
to have been almost a personal vic-
tory for Mr. Jewell, who has been
fighting a walkout for a week. It
also was said to preclude the possi-
bility of the American Federation of
Labor taking any serious part in the
proposed strike, the “standard” un
ions belonging to the federation,
while the brotherhoods are independ-
ent.
The shop crafts decision, which ad-
mittedly was instrumental In bring-
ing about the action of the two other
groups, was reached after turbulent
sessions of ths conference committee
of 100, lasting several days. Repre-
sentatives from distant nectiona were
fired by the brotherhood's pronounce
ment to protest against further delay
in calling a strike, which was ou-
thorized by a veto last July. The vote
wss taken, however, only m the wag*
reducton of July, and leaders of tbs
The action of these organizations <—
was said by labor leaders to be the 250
more downs, however, they failed to
if the “Big Five” railroad brother- 'gain, and in an effort to make nm
hood leaders here, which adjourned down, Robertson attempted a forward
late today, Warren S. Stone, presi- Pass, , which was intercepted by
dent of the Brotherhood of Locomo- Vandy's captain, Wade who raced
tive Engineers, said: fifty yards through a clear field for
“There is no question in my mind • touchdown. Smith kicked goal.
The next two periods went score-
Ghe tarshall Etlorning llew
MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—SIX THOUSAND WORD NEWS REPORT RECEIVED DAILY__
Marshall, Texas, Sunday, October 23,1921.
although in most of them the mem-
bers had voted overwhelmingly to
quit work rather than acept a recent
12 % per cent wage reduction author-
ized - by the United States Railroad
Labdr Board. Only one of these
eleven groups is now determined to
stand by the “Big Five,” it was an-
nounced, but two other, have not yet
takeh final acion.
Following announcement by heads
of the six shop crafts organizations,
controlling 600,000 men, that they
would not sanction a walkout, the
leaders of the 370,000 maintenance 01
wiy employes and of the 25,000 sta-
tionery firemen at an executive meet-
ing, voted to withdraw their authori-
zation of a walkout, leaving only the
75,000 railroad telegraphers positive-
ly with the “Big Five.” Chieftains
of the 350,000 clerks will make their
decision tomorrow, and the signal
men, 35,000 strong, also are yet to
make their decision .
Officials of the clerks said tonight
that the probably would not authorize
a strike at their meeting scheduled
tomorrow, thus indicating, union lead-
ers said, that a strike, if it material-
.e. ..._________________ Armed guards with shotguns we
of the country’s railroad employes, stationed about the 1. 4 G. N. devot
and about the yards today, in charge
men quietly gathered personal effects
and made their way off the company’s
property. As they departed armed
guards took station.
Armed with shotguns and pistols
and commanded by an ex-chief of po-
lice of Houston, Captain Searcy Ba-
ker. 20 special officers now walk
beats at strategic points along the
company’s right of way. In addition
Superintendent of Polini Murphy has
assigned eight officers to strike duty.
I Daring the afternoon L A. Greg-
road, elamped on a rigid freight em-
ory, assistant general manager of the
bargo. The order went out to all
agents of the line and to MunioH—
rads, designed, it was explained t
give shippers opportunity to have
their freight diverted via other Hnes,
________________ today will have reached a terminal
At 7 o’clock tonight passenger train by tomorrow morning, and being off
___; duty, will not be entitled to return
rying “two guards armed with pump by passes. utomobiles will be sent
guns. The train, in charge of Con , for them, it being arranged tonight
ductor E. M Lewis, was without a by Chairman Frame for several to 8°
brakeman. It was announced early, to Laredo and others to go to Taylor
in the day at the office of Superin- division points.
tendent Jones that the porter would
amammaarcamamcaazszca.mad naad
America’s delegates to the November conference for the Limitation of
serted in Sunday's newspapers of San receiving freight.
Crews leaving shortly before
' s.
Selling at 16 3-4 to 17 1-2 cents, ac-
cording to grade and staple. Futures
’ dosed 33 points lower on local mar- --;_
ptipopotponbetoratbanzesterdli Strikers Told They
Jan New York closed --------18.30
Dee. New Orleans dosed------17.83
Jan. New Orleans closed ——17.77
Gal. middling spots ---------19.00
Houston middling spots ------18.65
N. Y. middling spots --------1880
N. 0. middling spots ——-1M»
Liverpool market elosed today. Port
sales today, 2300 bales.q,c,
CHAS, A. WELCH,
Cotton Classer.
yards. The yardmaster and ‘r^nmas-I men. 0f these, Mr. Goforth said
ter did the same. By the middle of struck in Houston and 25 at Se
the afternoon, however, Mr. Jones was Union leaders said upwards of
Officials at the division office de- momstad aonved Etoth’rides adnarda
clined to state what per cen tofafulljthe trainmen went out to the man,
force was on duty and what per cent 'making the walkout 100 per cent ef-
of service could be given. it was said
freight and passenger trains by non-
union trainmen will start Monday
morning, E. G. Gorforth, general
manager"of the L 4 G. N. railroad,
stated Saturday night. More than 300
applications for jobs already have
been received, Mr. Goforth added,
among which are volunteers among
business men and employes of firms
of Fort Worth, Ssn Antonio, Wichita
Falls, Galveston and Little Rock.
“The service cannot be started full
blast, however,” Mr. Goforth added,
“for these applicants are unfamiliar
with the physical properties of the
road.
“They will have to be piloted
through yards and terminals and
taught many peculiarities of the read
over which they are run. For a time
these newcomers will be under the
guidance - of officials and old em-
ployes of the I. 4 G. N.”
Every department of the rail:
the general manager said, is r
sented among the mea voluntet
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Monday, generally fair.
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I am concerned is status quo. I am duplicated Wades’ feat by snatching
obeying the board's instructions and Robertson’s pass and making a beau-
issuing no further orders for ths men 1 tiful sixty yard run to ths gold-and-
to leave the service.” j white goal post. Smith booted his
second goal. ____.__ . _____
The third score came soon after, Jewell, shop crafts head, and inform-
Mining Congress Meet
A . . Request Of President
ers. The organizations which decid
ed not to join an immediate walkout
will take new strike votes after an
Former Emperor Of ustria is
Now Engaged la Second
Coop DEtat
(Contimued m Page Eight) to walk Mt M that taw alone.
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