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Show iit Telegraphic t Word to Quit Engines and to Tie op the affic Over Two-Thirds . of United States, VEEN LABOR UNIONS WOULD STOP ALL UTAH TRAINS es 25,000 Firemen, 43 Railroads, 0 Mites of Track and Would ralyze All Western Industry. E ? roll lo (2 si in.) At ? arfer, president of Uic f L'oconiolivo Firemen said that a strike of j (5 practically all tho we ipjad been called. kid flic decision to a: reached uL a meet-5i meet-5i iroc members of (lie !: ted board of the L ih member reprcsent-V reprcsent-V road. The cxnet Q the meu are to walk J- buM be decided .upon 115 every member of the is, jhieago and the Pacifie informed by telegraph "Jjjgssucd a. statement do- j prevent a strike they ssary, appeal to the rashington. rtaiu, Says Carter. lias been called that j said Mr. Carter. "It ai.only 23.000 (ircincn, union, will o out, J muuy more employes !j ut in consequence. S the railroads that the 5j i strike and that we fci tr call a strike unless )t lirhitrauon of all ques-4grho ques-4grho railroads refused jjjfy thing but the wacre jjgtonieht we decided it il'iBarlcy further with the a&. We adopted a reso-jgfclrihe, reso-jgfclrihe, 2lic lateness of tbc hour, jjfat tlio meu would hot jjj'siou and not knowinc fafif alTairs. we aj?reod to jj-orrow before tulcurrapli- eu emit work lomor-jgftas lomor-jgftas asked. 21111 quit work within jijrs after the order is ed. ' , public to understand sKbility for this strike ;JJUroads-.'' said Mr. Car-Wjroads Car-Wjroads have inlimated PK'they were trilling to tKtvcrc trying to evade Ktifftisaid that the labor Hllijthc euaernient of the vJWind were always Irving plnr it. " &Ra told the managers ;uwo were ready to arte ar-te P matter and we pub- p to the public to that t?l rer was that they were ,-t ate part of the oontro- ist settle the other uart 2$ ater telling us that. nibhcly that they are i t to arbitrate aud we . ldo not want to :n-iM :n-iM joj a labor controversy is arbitralable. why is not the other part?" From Chicago to Pacific' Coast. The t'ontrovcrsv which has been uu-dcr. uu-dcr. discussion for more than six weeks involves forty-seven railroads operating west, uorthwest and southwest, of Chicago, Chi-cago, and embraces about 150,000 miles of track. It has been stated by both sides that if a strike were called it would tie up practically every freight and passenger train between Chicago and the Pacilic coasi. The railroad managers' committee, composed of ten of the general managers man-agers of western railroads and headed by "W. C. sixou. general manager of the St. Louis & San Francisco road, already had agreed lo submit the wage question to arbitration under the Brd-j Brd-j man act, but had declined to arbitralo j the other two points on the ground that I they were matters of discipline and could not be arbitrated. I The union officials on Sunday sent what they called an "ultimatum," declaring de-claring that if all three points were not Submitted to settlement by arbitration, arbitra-tion, a strike would be inevitable. I The railroads today iuformed Mr. I Carter that notwithstanding tho strike possibility they were-, determined to i stand pat, refusing to arbitrate anything any-thing bur the. wae. question. They announced an-nounced that if all the wage demand was granted, other railroad unions would soonw demand similar increases, and that this virtually would bankrupt the roads. "Wo have figured it out. and it would mean a deficit of more than 4 per cent per annum to every road grnnting the increase," said O. L. Dick-cson, Dick-cson, assistant ro the .president of the Chicago. Burlington & Ouiucy road. "An arbitration board could easily be convinced of this fact. We were willing will-ing to submit the wage controversy to mediation, but not the other questions, which clearlv concern efficiency and authority." Eoads Issue Statements. Chairman W". C. Nixon, on behalf or" the railroad managers, issued the following follow-ing .statement-. "The raflroatli; have not received the answer of the firemen's committee, cim-soijuuiilly cim-soijuuiilly w hesitate to make comments-. Bui it does not seem reasonable that a strike will be ordered in the face of offered arbitration. The railroads offered to arbitrate the wage question January -7, and this offer still holds good. "In case the llremcn's reply is to the effect that a strike will be called, the railroads will Invoke the aid of the Erd-nian Erd-nian act through tho chairman of the Interstate commerce commission and tho commissioner of labor in Washington, to prevent the labor leaders from carrying out their threat." While many communications have passed between the union officials and the general managers, the latter assert they have- not received a direct answer to their offer to arbitrate the wage question. ques-tion. This is the answer referred to in Mr. Nixfln's statement. The committee of general managers, who have been conducting the negotiations negotia-tions with the firemen and all nf whom are now In Chicago, consists of: C. NTixon, chairman. St. Louib and Ran Francisco: l. I. Bush. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; 1". 12. Word. Chicago. Chi-cago. Burlington & Quincy: W. I Park, I'lilon Pacilic; J. E. Hurley. Atchison, Topekn - Santa Fe: .1. M. Warner, Chi--oago Belt: W. D. CanlilJon. Chicago & "Northwestern: TC. H. Simmons, El Paso & Southeastern; W. A. Goodoll, Northern Pacilic: A. W. Trcnholm. Chicago, Minneapolis. Min-neapolis. 5jt. Paul & Omaha. According to Mr. Dickson, a. strike on the roads involved would have the following fol-lowing result: Number of railroads temporarily lied up. A'. Miles of railroad. 1.10.000. Firemen out. of employment. 2u.ooo. Other employees Icinnorarlly thrown out. 1 '5.000. Tcrrltoi-y lnvo1ved--tlir entire country weal of h line drawn from Chicago to New Orleans. "It would lie a greater lrike than lhat of IS!M, which coat the country over ilon.000.000." Id Mr. Dlckcson. "Tho money loss would be beyond estimation, but an Idea might he gained from the fact I hat. the recent switc.luncn'n ulrJke. on thirteen northwestern roarit;. cost, for the nlnely days of its existence, moro than 5.".. 000,000." Chief St,onc Is Htlent. CUGvrcr.ANP. ' March IS.-- Officers of ih': Brotherhood of Locomotive En-glneorp, En-glneorp, who liar. Mr. headquarter here, were informed of the strike of firemen called In Chicago, declared that thy knew nothing about it and under no cir-cumMfineeH cir-cumMfineeH would the engineers in their organization go out. They assorted that the engineers would cam' out their contrails con-trails with the railroads, regardless of what action might ba taknn by tho nrc-mcn. nrc-mcn. and if necesH.iry. would employ nonunion non-union labor. The strike is represented here as a fight in tho labor organization and is not regarded as Important. Grand ChW Warren S. Sloti't declined to be quoted. Effect in Colorado. I'MSNVErc. Colo.. March 15. A. D. Parker, vice-president and general manager man-ager of the foiorado and Southern rall7 road and a member of tlv general man-agcrti' man-agcrti' roinnilt'ee stated tcnlgh' that h Continued on l'a' I nu, I ill FIREMEN CALL STRIKE PROM Ji( CHICAGO TO PACIFIC COAST Continued from Pago Ono. , 1 'Ii had received no Information regardlnB tho situation In Chicago other than tho i l Associated Press report and said lie lit ; could make no statement na lo what 1 ; JJ action would be taken by the railroads, it' Local union ofriclals announced that , IT 1 they were ready to strike whenever the ., 1 order was received. I 1 ;i I,, Should tho men bu called out It. Is cstl- ' : 3 mated thaL between 10.000 and 12.000 In ' tylf t,,e operating depurtmentB of rallronds In ' ! SS'I Colorado and surrounding:' states will rc- nui Hponfl. The Denver and Rio Grande, the . it J Colorado Midland and the Cripple Creek ' KhorL Line aro the only roads In Colo- t .t l rado not bound by action of the general i'q X 'inanagers' committee. However, flrc- ;tj j men of the Denver and Rio Grande rall- ; 1 road recently made demands similar to --HI 1 those asked of other western roads and i , llf II negotiations have been postponed pond- f T f JL rja lng a settlement of the Chicago contro- , ': :ij vrfrsy. |