Show I R. R R R. R Strike Still Holds All Trains in Los Angeles r LOS r os ANGELES Aug 24 LJ Steam railroads failed to move trains in or out of Los Angel Angeles Angeles An An- gel geles s today because of the strike of switchmen and brakemen in I sympathy with the strike of f trainmen on the Pacific Electric Railway company company an interurban system All Southern Pacific trains for Los Angeles from the north are are being stop Stopped d at Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield and trains for forthe forthe forthe the east are being held at Yuma Ariz f Striking platform of the Los Angeles Railway corporation who went out with I the Pacific Electric trainmen rejected the company's offer to re v TV t a r I onn discipline nece necessary to military success which is the tho first purpose of oC aza an az a army The Thc report criticises the tho pending Chamberlain bill which would woul take taka from the Pre President and anel war tiar ar department depart depart- meat ment heads the tho power to review court- court martial findings and place appeals in iti civilian hands hand pure and simple that thal thatIs thalIs Is is In iii the court of military appeals or orIn orIn orin In the tic quasi civilian legal hands of ot the Judge advocates provided for un undEr under under un- un der general and aud special court mar lIat Under such a system tho the re report report re- re port holds hold the tho ho to discipline effectively cl separated from rom the power of fir if effective command would bo be pamI paralyzed para pam I e ii Referring to charges that sentences imposed ed upon soldiers for minor offenses of- of ho have v e been grotesquely u e I seven erl tho report takes the Lh view lew Ie that nl- nl though such were the tho po possible effects of apparently trifling misdeeds other factors just Justified t th the h fl findings nd In joI General 1 an and the tho other members mom mem I bc hers bers rs of th thEm th hoard board express cs MS strong opposition opposition sit Ion to tho the Chamberlain bills bill's pro- pro that enlisted men mn be appointed to sit sll on ou courts on thi tho ground round that It l I 18 out of harmony harmon with tho the American Ameri merl can conception of ot democracy jn and of or our confidence In our Institutions |