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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1922
Page
3
General resentment of federal action prompts unions to demand a general strike. Gompers flooded with appeals for nationwide action. he says no authority to call such strike. Council to review executive body requests Saturday.
Federal authorities served temporary restraining order notices on John Scott and B. W. Jewell, leaders of railway unions, amid a nationwide manhunt for evading service. About 500 notices were printed and over 200 individuals received them as 5,500 deputy marshals mobilized for the strikes.
Samuel Gompers said the American Federation of Labor cannot call a general strike but its executive council will review hundreds of local union appeals. He described labor as inflamed with demands and resolutions, noting many came before a Chicago restraining order was issued yesterday.
Chicago reports the 300000 railway shopmen who walked out July 1 enter a new era of nationwide action as a drastic temporary injunction bans interference with rail operations and propaganda. Judge Wilkerson will consider a permanent order on September 11 while AFL leaders meet September 9 to assess routine actions and possible broader steps.
Chicago dispatch reports new outrages during the nationwide rail strike as federal injunctions restrain participants. Incidents include a derailed passenger train near Brownsville Ohio injuring a worker, a bombing at a shop foreman’s home in Little Rock, and attempts to dynamite or derail trains on lines including the Texas Pacific and Atlantic Coast Line.
Members of the local YWCA held their regular quarterly meeting on the Friends church lawn last night. The program featured songs by Girl Reserve clubs, followed by constitutional revisions and the election of directors. Officers' results were not yet released. the gathering was well attended and enthusiastic with refreshments served afterward.
In Los Angeles on September 2 an independent inquiry into the February 1 murder of film director William Desmond Taylor is being conducted by his former wife and her daughter. They say new evidence has been found with help from local film figures and claim the slaying was instigated by a woman.
Monday is Labor Day and it will be observed by suspension of business activities in many sections of the city. The post office will be closed all day and there will be no deliveries by city carriers. The two freight stations will not handle freight and banks will remain closed.
A petition filed by Equitable Trust Company of New York asks Greensboro superior court to order sale of Carolina and Yadkin River Railway assets for defaulted interest. First mortgage holders seek $1,288,600 and name L H Hole Jr as receiver to sell assets and apply net proceeds to bond debt. The case joins with a similar North Carolina Public Service Company complaint. local interest is high.
Piedmont Woodmen of the World members and wives will hold a Labor Day outing at Golden's on the High Point Greensboro boulevard from 3 to 7 PM. Cars will converge from East Commerce street, with entertainment, a field drill by the famed Piedmont camp team, and invitations to local residents to join Woodmen.
In Jackson on September 2 officials report another attempt to build a platform at the 2,500 foot level to establish an air relay to the Argonaut mine. The goal is to aid rescue work and reach lower levels where 47 men have been entombed since Sunday night. Officials fear the miners have perished.
Riga dispatch to the Times cites official Bolshevik figures claiming 1,766,118 executions before the February renaming of the Cheka and lists counts by profession including professors doctors priests officers soldiers policemen landowners workmen and peasants. The report notes deaths exceed World War I Russian losses.
Rev Stephen A Stewart, missionary to Hiroshima and head of a leading girls' school in Japan, will preach at both services tomorrow at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. He will be accompanied by his wife and two children and will sing Japanese hymns. A joint missionary society meeting follows Monday at 3:30 pm in the church auditorium where Stewart will speak and share insights on Japan activities.
Lenoir Sept 2 John A Bush was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Caldwell county jury and sentenced to die in the electric chair on October 13 by Judge J Bis Ray. An immediate appeal to the supreme court was filed by his counsel. Bush showed stoic calm as the death sentence was read.
Asheville Sept 2 The walkout of local firemen halted freight traffic last night. A temporary agreement restored work under the condition that armed guards be stationed around railroad yards rather than inside them.
M A Walker long prominent Winston-Salem tobacconist dies at his son M A Walker Jr s home in San Juan Puerto Rico after three weeks there for health. He was sixty six and survived by wife two daughters and two sons along with siblings and nieces and nephews. He served on Winston Salem boards and in civic church life. Funeral details not yet announced.
The Herrin grand jury probes responsibility for the 22 deaths and the delay in calling troops. Prominent citizens are questioned. If dereliction is found, impeachment recommendations may follow, with scrutiny of the adjutant general's troop request.
Members of St Marys Episcopal Sunday school with the vestry outlined plans for a Rally Day service at St Marys Church on Sunday at 9 30 am. Rev Norwood Bowne will lead the adult Bible class and a new curriculum committee will form.
Evening News dispatch from Dublin reports the city endured its severest fighting since the irregulars surrendered in July. Strong detachments attacked Free State troops across Dublin with continuous firing through the night.
Charles Lanier a non-union retail road shop worker was shot and killed today in Memphis. An automobile taking him from his home to the saloon where he worked was fired upon. another man in the car was not injured.
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