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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1922
Page
7
Washington dispatches report seven shopmen unions unanimously refuse to end the strike without guarantees of reinstatement with full seniority rights. The unions demanded all strikers be restored and protected, while Harding’s proposal left seniority issues to a railroad labor board.
Washington reports say President Harding has temporarily abandoned his push for congressional legislation to address the railroad strike. Chicago notes a nation wide paralysis threat as the four railroad brotherhoods plan meetings to join the trainmen's walkout spreading from Santa Fe routes in California and Arizona to other regions.
Abilene Texas August 12 The Abilene Daily Reporter reports a thorough canvass of West Texas cotton regions shows production will drop sharply unless rain falls in days ahead. After a bright outlook, drought and hot winds have left moisture nearly vital to saving the cotton crop.
Arthur Griffith president of Dail Eireann died in Dublin at 9 45 am after a ten day illness from influenza. He collapsed while ascending stairs at St Vincent's Hospital where his death followed a cerebral hemorrhage. Griffith had helped found Sinn Fein and the Irish Free State and was a prominent Irish political figure and editor before his death.
In Denison Texas Colonel Nimon reported the first disorder flare up in days after Katy railroad men found air hose sections damaged on a freight train at the yards. The train was delayed for repairs. Guards by the stockade surrounding the Katy car shops fired at a man attempting to scale the fence during the night.
Houston shop strikers in Texas march through downtown streets tonight to promote their cause and seek public support.
West Orange New Jersey August 12 Thomas A Edison explains he is conserving a plug of tobacco given by President Harding during the Cumberland Mountains camping trip with Ford Firestone. An official says his son returned from Washington after meeting Harding. Edison says the gift should last and will not be used quickly.
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