Show SERIOUS STRIKE It is Threatened By the Locomotive Engineers ST LOUIS May 16A special to the Republic from Benison Tex says The mQst serious strike ever known in the southwest is threatened The grievance committee of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Engineers which has been to St Louis to lay the case of Engineer Will Lanams before the Missouri Kansas Texas officials returned re-turned today After a conference the company refused to Teinstate Lanams and the grievance committee entered into a federation with all the organizations organ-izations of railway trainmen six in number and the entire system of road has been organized and federated A committeeman said today You can state officially unless Engineer Lanams is reinstated inside of five days there will not be a wheel moving on any part of the M K T system We are organized for the fight and every order of railway trainmen is bound with us that every wheel shall stop within five days if Mr Lanams is not put to work The ultimatum of the brotherhood has been sent to the M K T headquarters head-quarters V V |