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Show JOHNGRUNAU IS LANDED IN JOUET PRISON I Refuses to Give Bond and Violates Promise to Remain ' Avay From Meetings. jlVlORE WARRANTS FOR MEN HOLDING OFFICES i t Freight Handlers and Clerks Now Threaten to Strike or Get Advance. CHICAGO. April 10. John Grunau. president of the outlaw Chicago Aard men's association was taken to jail al Jcliet today by federal officers after he had refused to give 510.000 bond on a charge of violating the Lever act for I which he was arrested last Thursday with 21 other strike lenders. Ffdfral j officers said he had violated Vis pr . is? to remain away from union meet ings. P.. V. Miller, organizer for the 1'nit id Rng'nemen's nssoc a.iion. snotkei .oan arrest d last week, wk ordered ! awaiting bondsman. Miller the district attorney he had not io lhted his agreement not to attend . eetings until auvlsed to do so In hi" ; ttorney. Following the issuing of net.- T.ar n-nts last night ."or ten strike leaders Pistrlct Attorney Clyne indicated 2r others would be served on men who succeeded to tlus offices vacatnl b leaders a rested. Harold E. Reading it. officer of the englnemen's association, associ-ation, re-arrested last night, is in Jail :t .heaton. He refused to give bu yi for his release. The cases wll b hoard A.iril 21 While railroads announced todn.' traffic conditions here were approach ing normal, a new menace to railrord ??rvice came in the form of a riLr tl reat from thirty-rive thousand freight handlers and railroad clerk George A. Won ell. chairman of the i.rothorhood of Railway Clerks on h Chicngo and Northwestern railroad, sr.ld today a delegation of workers would confer with railroad 'neads n a demand for a wage increase If the demands were not met a strike ote would n taken. At the national headquarter? of the Urolherhood of Railway Clerks in Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, it was announced no 'strike vote had been authorized. The roads announced 528 switching crows were on duty today, as compared with JDo last Saturday and the normal nor-mal number of 7G5. The movement of r.'estock was reported normal, 1,112 r:irs being received today. A -meeting of heads of the new Yard-rien's Yard-rien's association from strike center? .'.roughout the country was held today but no announcement was made ,of ac-'ion ac-'ion taken. The session was called' by iGvunnu to consider plans for continu-i continu-i .g the strike, but Grunau was unable , to attend. , iSugene C. Kstey was indicted today j charged with "influencing others io I injure the railways" He was arrested , rlter he boasted al a meeting of strikers strik-ers of his activities during a railroad jtirlko at Minneapolis and St. Paul In The railroad manngers announced tonight that although consideration was given demands of local freight house employes, they could not act, as the matter had been presented to the railroad kihor board. They said they could not "inject themselves into the 'matter at this time for this obviously !vould mean the breaking down, or i crossing with, the regularly establish-' establish-' ed board now handling the subject." j Two more strike leaders were placed tin jail tonignt. It. W. Radke, was tak-in tak-in to Waukegan. and Samuel Car(-! Car(-! wright, an organizer for the United Et ginemcn's association, to Geneva, i Cartwright refused to make an effort to obtain bond and informed District ; A. torney Clyne . e d. not enre whether wheth-er he went to jail. He said he had v'oiatcd no law. H. A. Daley, an organizer for the En-ginemen's En-ginemen's association, for whose ar-lest ar-lest a warrant Was Issued last Thursday, Thurs-day, surrendered today. He had been I cut of town. , oo |