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Show & 4 Threats Made &f New Rail Strike WALKOUT VOTE 1 TO BE TAKEN " I INOECLARE ( Railroad Labor Bqard Refuses H to Listen to Strikers' H Demands II EMPLOYES DECLARE I THEY WILL INSIST I Pacific Coast Railroads Op- II erate Without Embargoes On Perishables I CHICAGO, April 19. Threat of a I new strike among railroad employes M in the Chicago district today con- E fronted claims of railroad managers -f and brotherhood olficials that the "in- a surgents"' strike had been broken and If the situation rapidly was returning to j normal. ' If j Eight thousand freight handlers and '3,000 .railroad' clerks employed on J alL lines 4 (entering Chicagovill take ), Hfe-oteto1fl enco today with railroad heads, ! George A. Worrell, chairman of tho j j Chicago and Northwestern railroad J', clerks, announced. He had been em- f powered to speak for all the clerks fj and freight handlers. J Better on Pacific. i Worrell did not announce plans to H be presented, but said "there seemed III little chance of compromise," and IN the men probably would strike Tues- fm In the switchmen's unauthorized H strike continued improvement in traf- H 1 fic conditions throughout the central H !and far west was noted. H ' On the Pacific coast railroads oper- H ated today for the first time since tho H strike without embargoes on perish- H able freight. H As a result of a nw descent by H federal authorities on strike leaders at H Chicago ten wero arrested. Nine were R released on their own recognizance to mm appearance today and make bonds ot M $10,000 each, but Harold Reading, U chairman of ihe board 4f directors of H the United Enginemen's. association, H was sent to jail when he Avould not H pledge himself to stay away from H strike niPotinL-.q. IB Won't Consider Complaints. D WASHINGTON, April 19. The rail: fl road labor board announced todaj 5 that it would not consider complaint I from striking railroad men. I The board's statement said it would I not "receive, entertain or consider" I any application or complaint from V any parties avno were not complying Ik with the transportation act, or who E were not adopting overy means I to avoid interruption of the operation E of the roads growing out of any dis H putes. H Immediately after the statement; 9 was made public, spokesmen from fig striking railroad men. in ew York, X New Jersey, New England and th- 1 middle west were 'received by tin- board. They were accompanied by Representatives Eagan and McGlen- non, of New Jersey. Request for an immediate hearing' by representatives of the strikers waA denied. wm Kule by Board. 19 wiuiiMuui ii;triun saiu umi unuer n the rules adopted by the board writ- ten complaint must first bo filed with U the secretary, showing by express I statement and facts set out that the I disppute was ono which the board was R authorized to consider. Representative Eagan asked tho board to hear Edwin McIIugh of New York, representing Jho strikers in tho .metropolitan district, so. he might take to "them somo word that the board would tako action quickly. W. N. Doak, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, protested, saying the reppresentativea of eighteen railroad organizations wore present to represent the men. Mr. McHugh told the board that ha j had sent by registered "mail . to tho jl I chairman of the board a week ago a M I copy of their complaint )I The board then went Into executlvo 1 .session. jl Declaring there wero 8,000 men out I In New York, City who were waiting III word from him that tho board would ! grant substantial increases,' Mr. Mc- H Hugh said he would try again to get M tho case before the board, as tho men he represented would not return to m work until the board had agreed to M |