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Show If More Than Twelve Thousand Mm AS- ready idle; More Most: Suffer UraSess j Settlement of Controversy is If Speedily Accomplished. if MANY 'LINES OF BUSINESS N THE II NORTHWEST NOW SERIOUSLY AFfECTED C& ; I - ill; Flour Mills of Minneapolis Close; Small Towns in Mining Region WIS? Face Famine Unless as; Transpor Nation Ss Had. 5t I ST. PAUL, Dec. . Every lice of in-M in-M ; i dtistry in the northwest dependent on l the movomcut of supplies is seriousby af-i; af-i; 1 fc.-t'"l by the strike of the railroad ? J switchmen, which began at (5 o'clock fe 1 ast evcuin- i j : It is estimated that upward of 12,000 mon arc. idle tonight on account of the I fi'r'kc or"cr thousands of freight handle hand-le i Icrs and teamsters arc losing time be-gj be-gj ' cause of tho freight blockade, and a con-?5 con-?5 - tiuuaDce of the strike for several days ;! ; r will throw additional thousands out of ira r , ! work. The railroad yards in all terminal iSftf c,tics "rc lillec "ivifch sallc :Cre,ht m k trains and an attempt to move a few by ikqithe aid of the offico men drafted as switchmen is making no impression. i arc Ett:l Bringing in New Men. m J. no rn''roa managers' committee an-Bfnounced an-Bfnounced today that they were bringing to St. Paul new switchmen to take the rail! f places of the strikvrs. rii' To this President Ilawlcj' of the $ Switchmen 's Union of North America UEai(l: wll "All right, let them come, we will not oh.iccl." "' Tiir I T?usiuoss men generally arc beginning m fto I'ofl (he result of. the strike The first iTto be affected were the wholesale and iconi mission honss. ut'. WhnWnle grocers report that nothing liH iis mn mg. The commission houses arc ig ' doing nothing and their ousjomers in i. I he small towns who get their supplies JOl-froni flay to day will soon ha unablo to iftSfr serve fresh vegetables and fruit. il' Widespread Effects, a Dg f Some of the larccr commission houses PI2? etortav reduced their working forces and iftti hvill make further reductions if the strike pidreftlong continues. SFj- 1,1 "Minneapolis, the flour mills closed nig" j tonight and it is estimated that uHOO tJB.'f uicn employed in them are idle. PM A continuation of t lie striko will fQ throw out l."500 more employed in the $5?, f cooperage and allied trades. iSJjl In South St. Paul, whore the stock ssnjt-jards are situated, only ."00 head of cat-..Otitic cat-..Otitic were received today. The daily av-crngc av-crngc is 1800. Manager Bangs of Swift otjj&.Co.. said that the question' of reduction if t win the packing house force depended erJ- J Stirelv on the duration of tho strike. 1 -I "If we cannot sot stock, wc will have caiSl0 dose," ho said, llo would not say jfMiow long the plant could run on the pros-"ftPw pros-"ftPw ent suPPly s'ock. r-raK " 10 ,ron ran"r ,n tuG northern part ril3h Miuuosota. small towns will soon bo ft?! !XCia" a famine unless food stuffs can jpo scut in. Tn Superior, three hundred ujtjjjamon were laid off in the Great Northern Drrf Will Affect the Mines. - -Mines Trill bo affrclcd by slopping il'frpigtit traflic. On tho oro docks at Io:UH;TJiihilh and Superior, within forty-eight cFtfsil'Oiirs. 10,000 men will bo out of work, is;t&'tarid tho general business loss will run y';ij.Hinfo thousands of dollars. Dr.ii St. Paul and Minneapolis are the dis-BUJ'itri dis-BUJ'itri lulling points for the entire North-j-(leJ jwest, covering -MiDncsota. northern o'uB'f;,1." isconsin, nort hern Iowa. North and jWonth Dakota, Montana. Idaho and a 0D,'S?piirge part of Washington and Oregon. - j .In all cities in theso states tho striko ity.j'.s v'1 fclt. Tho most serious effect isfH'"1 v'H be in Montana, particularly in Fox''putle. Anaconda and Great Falls, where aiuii? copper mines and smelters aro situ- J. FP :atcd. nr, S;j Tn Montana and eastern Idaho freight 'crro?',;!rafnV is lied up. About sixty freight n,St)J. trains are stopped, as tho switchmen arc untti'lu,n1f).ntro1 (,f terminal points;. rsoDj! This territory is tnken caro of bv rsl'iMi , Great Northern. Northern Pacific KolaOjJ nn.l C'hicayo, Milwaukee & Puget Sound CIibtW railroads. Unless tho roads can carrv Dr.1; ?0;d and ore to smellers, operation's fi.-iE niiiBt cease. Tho smultors will be hit SalLj4' as their coke fcupply is limited. n0 ma-v 1,e !l,)lr! 0 coiitinuu opera -for a while and storo tho ore in (717 .yh "in:i '',nr3 011 tlM-' dumps, but not for ftl-Svery long. A M.' Eutto May Suffer Most, -'M i ui, p absolutolv d? pendent on the ' 0 liS "J.ratio. of the iniuoH and smelters. 'ctJSj'N thov Etoji. overvthing .stops. All c3jrJLIn"dstufj"K are imported. Main- big min-Oi'.l,1g min-Oi'.l,1g companies run company storos. A I anOftnuiinr's crodit ts good th'ero a-; lon PaiRK he works. When he is out of work" ,ocfcniH credit stops. ifkcdrjj" Sn'clti'vs in Anaconda employ 2500 ll0U"''iiti n-D , 7I,ero 'e larce smel'tors ii fiii V,- employing :1000 men, who ;tc UTJ!:t 'f1051 of a Fpecdy settlement ild A-j f,1 tl'o striko. are gone is indicated bv 'c 't 'Parturo for Washington tonight rv UT Nlart'" A. Knapp of the iuterstato "'iJfi fti1110' ccomniusinn and United HcHMti ,','-'s '"'ibcr (Jonunissicnor Meill. 'xL:r l Kns,lP &aid he could do uoth- rcttei ii n'.,r "nor his son ices, anrl that at uH8i k mn vv",' 110i wanted, -jst.lv Acoruiag c biatonient ittued lo i night by George T. Slade, general man-nqor man-nqor of tho Northern Pacific railway, who is acting in behalf of tho managers' man-agers' coinmiT.lcc, railroads afi'ecled hy tho switchmen's strike will receive a limited amount of freight tomorrow. This they have refused to do since the strike order went into effect, Tuesday night. Strikebreakers wero imported from the East, it was announce'd tonight. Tl was said that more men will bo imported import-ed to take the places of the strikers. Former employees and former switchmen switch-men emploj'cd in other capacities will bo pressed into service. With this working work-ing force railroads hope to bo able to relmve tho congestion. Mr. Slade tonight gave out a statement, state-ment, saying that tho situation shows improvement and that I he railroads tomorrow to-morrow morning will generally accept less thau carload freight for those outlying out-lying points to which such freight can now be promptly handled. President Frank T. Hawlev of the Switchmen's union said that ho had received re-ceived a telegram from President W. F. Leo of th" Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, announcing that tho organization organ-ization had been instructed to act "in line with tho established policy of the brotherhood." This. Mr. Hawlcy said, means that members of the brotherhood working in territory affected by the srjjje. will act asmem"bcvs of tir6"SwiTclimcn",s union, as it is agreed that whore members of the two organizations work together, tho decision of the majority governs. Latest reports indicate that freight traffic is still demoralized. STRIKERS ARE FIRM IN STAND THEY TAKE SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 1. Although the movement of freight on tho Northern North-ern Pacific and Great Northern lines is suspended and passenger traftic delayed de-layed because of the switchmen's strike, there has been little coinmotiou today in business and railroad circles. On all tho bulletin boards of theso railroads, rail-roads, notice of an increase of 2 cents an hour in switchmen's wages was posted post-ed today, but not one switchman returned re-turned to work so far as is known. No freight trains are running. Perishable freight is refused and other freight is accepted subject to dolay. Passenger trains arc leaving their stations an hour or two late. Yard-masters Yard-masters and station employees are making mak-ing up tho trains. Good order has been maintained by tho strikers at all points. Bailroad ofiicials say they are assured as-sured by membPiK of iho Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and the Order of Conductors aud Trainmen that there is no possibility of a sympathetic strike. Nono of tho railroad employees not on strike has shown the least wish to delay traffic. Operating olliciala in the Northwest have made no attempt to hire new men, and arc awaiting instructions from St. Paul. Tt is said at the Northern Pacific Pa-cific offices here touight that new men would be employed as soon as it was decided to begin the movement, of freight, and thai it was not feared that the strike would spread when the new men went to work. Tho Chicago, Milwaukee it Puget Sound railroad has not been affected by tho strike and is handling all kinds of freight. Ah most of tho cities in the Pacific Northwest are reached by other railroads rail-roads besido the two whose switchmen arc out, it is not, likelv that a short-ago short-ago of ooul and supplies would result, even if the strike wero long continued. SMELTERS AT HELENA NOT YET AFFECTED HELENA, Mont.. Dec. 1. Twenty employes of the Northern Pacific, eight-een eight-een of whom are members of the Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Railway Trainmen, v.-ho have been on dut.v on switch engines in the Helena, yards of the Northern Pacific, joined the strike carlv today. Manager Frank M. Smith of the American Smelting and Refining company com-pany at Helena, said touicht that his plant could run a month without inconvenience, incon-venience, as the oro supply now on hand j will last that long. The smelter is well supplied with coke, coal ami fluxes. The smeller maintains its own switching switch-ing crew, which is not affect ml. Bullion will bo loaded into cars and lipid until railroads aro ab'le to move them. PORTLAND WILL SUFFER TO A GREAT EXTENT PORTLAND. Ore., Doc. 1. A tioup on tho Northern road? at just, this timo would have a seriou? effect on business in Portland among jobbers and manufacturers. manu-facturers. Local house:: to a great, extent ex-tent are the sources of supply of retail re-tail Htnrct doing business between Iho ('a:c.adrt mountains and the eastern lino of Idaho. At present, in addition to an unusal-ly unusal-ly hoaw normal trade, laruc shipments Continued on Page Two. WHEELS OF INDUSTRY TIED BY STRIKE OF SWITCHMEN Continued from Page One. of Christmas goods aro being made. These latter must bo in tho hands of retailers bv December JO at. the latest. lat-est. Should the strike result in any serious delay in deliveries, heads of Portland houses estimate the loss in cancelled orders would be heavy. They state, however, that today (he railroads have been accepting everything, every-thing, except perishable goods, and .have given assurances that there will bo no material delay. Retail houses of this city roccived virtually all their fall and Christmas goods prior fo November 15 and at present pres-ent have but few shipments en route. |