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Show FREIGHT SUFFERS AS RESULT OF GREAT RAIL STRIKE CHT0AC3O. A"g. T. At the headquarters headquar-ters of the federnted railway shorrm-n's union tndav numerous reports were received re-ceived indicating the prions e'fe-t? of the r.at'.on-wide strike of th1 on?in!zat:on on freisht traffic. Report? fmm St. Louis and Kansas City snM railway- refj.-e to accept live-toe shipments from tr ose points to Chicago. I Word was received from Milwaukee j thnt ail the ronds enlt-rlr.g that city had dec'nrert an embareo on wheat shipments. Unirtn leaders predict. ) t At an envarco; would be declared on wheat at St. Touls, Kansas Citv and other points within fnrtv-e-cht hours. Th- railroads in the middle mid-dle wwst and south have for -vcral dr.vs heen refusing to accent p.-ris'-able noods. Thousands of locomotives anrl cars unfit for service are reoortd to be accumulating accumulat-ing in railroad centers. L. . M. Hawvpr. president of th Chi- cago council ni me irot-ra .m t.ni.i shopmen's union, said todr-v: "ThTe are now ?,, foo of our men out and the nurnVr is ir.-T-'-asir.g da'lv This will s-5on tie tip fn- traffic on vorv road In the rountry. Th srand lodeo offb ers are using evrv ir.fi. i-.-rn-e at th"ir command com-mand to induce o-ir men o rr'tirn to work, but w'.'ho it Kirri. Thtv whl ffay out until our demand for higher wag- is grant I." Hallwav fre'sht ftx'. on the Olrasro ?- North'w's:ern railroad as uprrd-d todav on the Iowa and Minnesota dtvt-Fton dtvt-Fton b" a-M of the nhopmpn's FT'ke. according ac-cording to a .t.itmfnt rr.adf at th. d i- ' sinn office" of the cnm?aiv. Tas-mgor trairv ent'-Ing the rjty on th Northwestern Northwest-ern and other roads are running Irregularly. |