Spanish Fork Press | 1907-08-08 | Page 1 | Every Railroad in the West May be Tied Up

VERY RAilROAD m 1 WEST MA BE Tim UP Strike on the Colorado Southern Railroad Rail-road May Spread to Other Roads Unless Settlement 13 Reached DenverIt Is nut cxpecttMl that Martin A Ktwpp chahmau of thu Interstate In-terstate CoinmoiTP romtnlsalim and Charles P NHII commissioner Of la i hOI will cotno to Denver In rennet i thou with the fctrlkf hhualhm on the Colorado SoiiUiom mill oall So far no progress toward a settlement has keen mailp and tin outlook is that the strike will spreud Grievance committees of this Den vcr HIo Grnmie and other roads are In the city and they will make a ilc mnnil for nn addltlnnal 2 cents an hour for the yardmen If this Is done It will either end tin present strike or cause It to spread to other roads Every railroad in tin west Is threa coed Sixteen of the larger mints near Tilnldad depending directly on tho Colorado Southern fur handling hand-ling their product Wednesday closed own iniUflnltoly as a result of the iwltchracns stilke The shutdown will throw Borne 000 men out of employment em-ployment To prevent the closing of their mines which would entail n loss of thousands of dollars and to relieve a threatened coal famine ac Central City ten of Central Citys most prominent prom-inent citizens turned hrakies and manned n train of fuel destined for that district They took charge of the freight at Gulden where It had heen laid out since the calling of the general strike of trainmen on thu Colorado S Southern last week