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Note: John Milton Gaffney: John was 21 when his father died and 31 when his mother died. Columbus, Ohio Newspaper: July 28, 1920 (1/8)-------Cray STRIKERS HURT IN A FIGHT-- Idle Rail-Light Linemen Beaten Up BY Guards---- Four striking linemen were beaten up Tuesday by guards protection strikebreakers employed by the Rail-Light Co., in fixing transformer on the Infirmaru rd near the T.& O, C.R.R. crossing, police were told. The strikers say they were watching the strikebreakers at work. When the guards left in an automobile, they followed in a machine driven by J.M. Gaffney, 238 West Park av, a striker. The guards slowed up thier machine and Gaffney thought they expected him to pass them, he said. As he drove near their machine they pulled to the side of the road and forced his machine into an embankment, wrecking it, he declared. The guards, it is asserted, quickly leaped from their machine and started for the strikers with clubs, guns and other weapons. Gaffney escaped by running thru a cornfield. Five shots were fired at him, he told the police. The four others were beaten up and driven from the machine. After the strikers had disappeared the machine and tires were shot full of holes, it is said. "John Doe" warrants were issued for the arrest of the guards and placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriffs John Reiss and Dick Stewart. Those injured were: C.F. Doyle, Scoito & Walnut St., V.R. Neff, 1074 City Park av., F.R. Brunt, 1004 W. Town St., and William R. Cummings, Grove City. COLUMBUS NEWSPAPER: SIX WARRANTS SIGNED BY BLEEDING STRIKERS- Idle Rail Light Men Assert They Were Beaten and Shot at by Loyal Employees. With lumps on their heads and blood streaming down their cheeks, four striking linemen appeared yesterday at a city prison for warrants against six assailants. A fifth striker also sighned a warrant, accusing the others of firinf at him. J.M. Gaffney, 238 W Park Ave, the mark for three ineffective bullets fired as he darted through a corn field, drove his auto and four striking companions to a point northwest of the city, following a line repair outfit. On it were six men, loyal to the company, ready to repair a break. After the driver of the truck stopped suddenly, Gaffney jumped into a ditch, the linemen jumped out, grabbed clubs and started after the strikers. Gaffney was shot at as he ran. COLUMBUS, OHIO NEWSPAPER-Ohio Star Jounal---- With the city's executives trying to bring about a settlement of the car strike, holding repeated conferences with leaders of factions at war, one of the factions held out against arbitration. It has been lead by John M. Gaffney, president of the linemen's union-a city employee. Yeasterday a truce was patched up with the car men's union and cars began to run again. But there was no truce with the linemen. They are still on strike and after the lapse of 10 days, if the necessity of line repairs is urgent, the linemen may have the saywhether cars shall or shall not run. Recently he led the linemen of the municipal light plant--where he is employed when not directing the Rail-Light linemen's strike-- in a campaign for an increase in pay. He got it for them, although other light plant employees failed to get increases. In behalf of the Rail-Light linemen still on strike, it was explained yesterday that they insist the company shall permit officials of their union, Electric Workers No. 54, to sign the agreement to arbitrate. This was due to a desire to have the union reorganized, it was said. The right to organize and the benefits of greater bargaining power derived them from membership in a union are denied them unless the union is recognized, so that its officers and agents can deal for the linemen and their controversies, it is declared. By recognition of the union, it insisted the closed shop is not meant. "We have repeatedly said we did not object to the company's hiring non-union men; we are perfectly willing to work along with them, although we would prefer, of course, to work with union men only", said member of the strike committee yesterday. "We are willing to atbitrate and abide by the findings of an arbitration board, and see no reason why the desire to have our union recognized should be made a cause for refusal by the company." The company yesterday negotiations took the stand that as its striking linemen formely were members of the car men's union and this union had made an agreement last November for services during this year, the linemen and as well as the car men should live up to it. The company dealt with the car men's union yesterday but declined to deal with the electrical workers union. Company officials said that it could only deal with the linemen as individuals or asd members of the car men's organization. COLUMBUS CITIZEN, DEC.17,1924--Head of the Southern Civic League. Gaffney has been elected president of the Southern Advancement League for 1925. The organization has its membership in the district west of the river and south of Broad Street, and has made rapid strides in the last few years. Gaffney lives at 115 midland ave. He is trouble foreman for the municipal Light Plant. OBITUARY: JOHN M. GAFFNEY 78, PASSES AWAY--- Last rites for John Milton Gaffney of Martinez will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. at the Connely and Taylor Chapel. Mr. Gaffney, 78, a retired electrician, died yesterday morning at a local hospital. His home was at 2906 Merrill Street. He is survived by his wife, Anna L, two sons, william E., Palmdale, and Charles A., Martinez, and two daughters, Mrs. Wilda George of Ohio and Mrs. Gladys Stambaugh of Stockton. Other survivors include eight grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and two great-great- grandchildren. Buried @@ Memory Gardens Cemetary, Martinez California. Charles' Biological parents were Gerald Villers Harrington and Mary May Moore. He has 2 Harrington sisters and 1 brother. Adopted from Gerald Villers Harrington on July 05, 1915. Born Charles Wilson Harrington, it should have been Charles Arthur, Gerald Villers Harrington corrected it with an affidavit in 1944 in Ohio.
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