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Show MIL SN0F1EI HEHEWSTH1KE W alkouts Are Reported at Nebraska and Maryland Mary-land Points. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 2. A majority of the shopmen employed at the shops of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad rail-road company at Havelock, near here, walked out today for higher wages, a report re-port from the Havelock shops received here said. Boilermakers, machinists and blacksmiths black-smiths with few exceptions, went on strike, Thomas Roope, the road's superintendent super-intendent of motive power, said. The woodworkers and electricians, he said, remained at work. Mr. Roope added that the men who stayed on the job said the j' had received no authorization from their grand officers to quit work. No I notice that the men were to strike was I given the company, he said, nor did the j men make known to the company their j demands. I No statements were made by officers! of the Havelock shopmen's federation aa to what the men's demands were, or why they walked out. About 9u0 men were said to be affected by the walkout. walk-out. CUMBERLAND, Md., Sept. 2. AH the Baltimore &. Ohio railroad shopmen here, including machinists, boilermakers, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, blacksmiths, black-smiths, car ropalr men and foremen, about 1500 in all, struck today, having rejected the president's plan of settlement, settle-ment, WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Partial re- ! turns from the strike vote now in progress prog-ress among the railroad shopmen indicate, indi-cate, union officials said today, that the men will accept the advice of their officers offi-cers and leave the matter of a strike In their hands, pending the result of governmental efforts to reduce the cost of living. This was the day originally set for a strike and it was feared that some of the more restless element might quit work. OMAHA, Sept. 2. Frank A. Peterson, assistant United States district attorney, today received instructions, similar to those sent others throughout the country, coun-try, to prevent disturbances at railroad shops where unauthorized strikes may be In progress. Marshals are empowered to swear in deputies sufficient to preserve order. Offenders would be prosecuted under the federal rail control act. |