AG SAYS THERE WILL BE NO RAIL STRIKE
Columbus, Ohio (JFK+50) On October 22, 1921, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty* arrived here in Columbus after "a secret trip West in connection with the threatened railroad strike."
The Attorney General did not answer questions about his trip, but did say that there would NOT be a general railroad strike.
Daugherty added, however, that in the event of a strike, the government would operate mail, freight & passenger trains.
*Harry M. Daugherty (1860-1941) was born in Washington Court House, Ohio & became a political insider in the Republican Party. HMD served as Attorney General under Harding & Coolidge.
SOURCE
"Daugherty, Back From a Secret Trip To West, Says There'll Be No Strike," The New York Tribune, October 23, 1921, www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
