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Show TRAINS ANNULLED BI IIJJILE Salt Lake Route Suspends Traffic; Service Out of Los Angeles Stops. SA2T BEBNARDINO, Cal., Ang. 23. Lodges of the four great railroad rail-road brotherhoods located here ordered or-dered a strlko today effective at once. These lodges control the brotherhood lnon of all of southern California outside the city of Los Angeles. They said their orders had not been sanctioned by their national officers. IOS ANGUl-.ES, Aug. 23. The Southern r.iclflc company attempted to send out Its "Shore Une Limited" train for San Francisco today. Strike sympathisers boarded the engine In the yards, stopped the train and took the rear brakeman from the coach. The company officials sent automobiles out to bring the passengers passen-gers back to the depot and annulled the ""The Southern Pacific Railroad company announced at !::o o'clock that, because of strike conditions, it had annulled all trains from the city. It further announced It did not expect there would be more Incoming In-coming trains, with the possible exception of a few inbound on the divisions center- "'AIM'iassenger and freight and express traffic out of Ixs Angeles was at a standstill stand-still with the exception ot a few passenger passen-ger 'trains which may leave over he ?anta V. The Salt Uake line annulled Its trains following the lead of the Southern South-ern Pacific. One limited train was run bv the Southern Pacific. -The trainmen and yardmen continued to resign as individuals. Officials of the transcontinental svslems are awa, ting word from Hale llolden. regional director. To whom the demands of the men were referred yesterday. STONE DEFENDS COURSE TAKEN BY TRACTION WORKERS l-t.BVnUNP. Aug. I.". The chief executives ex-ecutives of the four railroad brotherhoods conferred here lodny over th s.tnation tn (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) TRAINS ANNULLED BY RAIL TROUBLE (Continued Txom Page One.) Los Anpeles, where more than 1500 Pacific Pa-cific Electric company train engineers and yardmen are reported to have left the service, and that employees of other companies In that immediate territory, squired to exchange trains with the Pacific Pa-cific Electric, have done likewise. Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and William G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, issued the following signed statement: "Pacific Electric employees have been refused the right to negotiate, through their committees, rates of pay and working work-ing conditions similar to those paid other employees performing the same service. Pacific Electric is owned and officered by the Southern Pacific railroad, but this portion of the Southern Pacific (Pacific Electric) is not under government control. con-trol. "Several months ago employees of Pacific Pa-cific Electric attempted to handle the situation according to the rules of their organizations, whereupon an injunction was secured by Pacific Electric officials, j destroying the chief executive's authority to control the situation. "The entire matter has been taken up with the director general of railroads, and we hope the railroad administration will either take over the Pacific Electric or authorize Southern Pacific officers to make satisfactory settlement. "We are not at all surprised at employees em-ployees of connecting lines sympathizing with the Pacific Electric employees, who have been denied the right to negotiate rates of pay and working conditions similar simi-lar to those in effect on other lines for the same classes, and who have also been enjoined from securing the the assistance of their grand lodge officers, and who are being arrested and jailed because of their attempt to better their conditions." Referred to Hines. CHICAGO, Aug. 23. Hale Holden, regional re-gional director of the western railroad region, re-gion, said today that he had referred the entire strike situation at Los Angeles to W. T. Tyler, director of the division ot railroad operation at Washington, D. C., for settlement. Mr. Holden declined to discuss the strike, and said that any statement on the situation in California would have to come from Mr. Tyler. ROADS WILL WAIT ACTION BY HOLDEN AGAINST WALKOUT The Los Angeles . strike situation has been referred to the regional director of the railroads, and until he takes Home action the railroads affected by the strike will take no steps to end the trouble. This information was given out yesterday by H. V. Piatt, general manager of the Salt Lake railroad and the Oregon Short Line. "So far as our line 1s concerned, the trouble is confined to Los Angeles," Mr. Piatt said. "The matter has been re-. re-. ferred to Regional Director Hale Holden in Chicago, through the San Francisco director, William Sproule, and we are not advised as to what action will be taken." That the strike will not affect the men on the Salt Lake division is the opinion of the local railroad officials, and, as far as can be learned, no instructions have been issued to the men by the unions. Will Refuse Shipments. PHOENIX, Ariz.. Aug. 23. Officials of the Arizona Eastern, the Southern Pacific Pa-cific subsidiary line operating into this city, today were notified that the road would, until further notice, refuse to accept ac-cept shipments of perishable freight or livestock for Los Angeles and Colton, or to points which would necessitate such shipments being routed through those points. |