Show ill y I Ao A TRAFFIC COMPLETE i IMf I I N Rf I I ODES D f If I i Despite Instructions i r to toI I j 1 o o Si I Wor Workers R Remain rp ln Out OutI and Traffic Is Is Halted I I LOS ANGELES ANGELE Au Aug 26 All All All st striking railroad men here I will ignore instructions of their I national chiefs that that- they should j I return to work and will ill continue continuo j I their strike according to a decision reached today after an all night II meeting The men based their action I on a phrase of t e orders to return I to work which said they need not notI I submit themselves to danger of mob violence They said to return at present would be dangerous In that I respect Just one train reached Los Angeles yesterday a conso Santa FeI Fe Te overland train brought here from I Yuma Ariz by the grace of strikers Another nother train is expected here today also through the action of the brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood broth broth- members from Yuma where two Southern Pacific trains were halted i DELAY OF MAILS The federal grand Jury is to meet today to consider the strike according to the district attorney who said delay of mails malls would be investigated The Pacific Electric company an interurban road announced it would I have normal daylight service tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row and the Los Angeles Street Railway Railway Railway Rail Rail- way company in a statement assured its patrons it was restoring normal daylight service I The strike began with the platform men men of the street railway company spread to the Pacific Electric and as the men of the latter are brotherhood members their strike received the sympathetic support of the brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood brother brother- hood rien of the three transcontinental transcontinental railroads entering Los Angeles I TRAFFIC STOPS I Rail transportation r u bout southern t i far ar as Fr no noon on the nort north nd nil as far as Yuma Ariz today The e strike spread last last- night northward north- north ward rd to Bakersfield Cal and eastward lo to Yuma At the former place Southern Southern- p Pa Pacific Pacific Pa- Pa and Santa Fe Pe switchmen walked out tying up train service b bath to the north and the south At Yuma thirty thirty- six aix Southern Pacific switchmen quit and trainmen refused to take out two trains for the East which had been made up by officials I IGNORE ORDERS Switchmen and trainmen who me met here last night took no official action it U was said on orders from Warren S Sv So Stone Slone ne international grand master of or tr InV Brotherhood of Locomotive Engie Engi- Engi 1 e s and W V G G. G Lee of ot the railway tr to perform their usual dues dup du- du p es and carry out their contracts Commenting on the orders M M. r. r E E. l mery international vice president president dent of the locomotive engineers saId sald-rf We Ve are urging the men to return i to o work only on the thai conditional they return they will n noibe iba re- re Ired to do anything t th thay Y did not l ve to todo do before they struck k and only w wh is Q quite sate r them to do so HO U Uno conditions It Is un unsafe un- un safe safo for the men to return to work they stand in danger of ot being mobbed As long as that situation exists they will not be ordered back to work work SITUATION CRITICAL Officials of the three railroad companies companies com com- panics affected by the tho various walk walk- the outs the Southern Pacific Lake and Santa admItted Fe le admitted the tran transportation por- por tallon tation situation was critical FIve rive Continued on rage page 8 S. TRAINMEN FEARFUL I OF VIOLENCE IF 1 i. i Continued from page 1 overland verland trains on the Santa Fe were were- halted at Barstow on the Mojave desert desert desert des des- ert about sixty miles east of San Bernardino Bernardino Ber- Ber nardino today Passengers were discharged discharged dis dis- dis charged and the train equipment returned returned re- re turned to the East A train of three express cars two baggage cars one and seven I day coaches was dispatched from San Bernardino to Barstow The train took on n the marooned passengers express and mail mall and came to Los Angeles No other trains moved on any of the three lines during the day ay officials said SETTLEMENT RUMORED A settlement of the strike of the conductors con- con and motormen of the Los Angeles Angeles An An- I An-I geles g-eles railway which preceded the other walkouts is a possibility within forty forty- eight hours according to a statement I issued by Mayor Snyders Snyder's mediation commission Both the strikers and the company officials declared that they knew of no change in the situation and scouted the commission suggestion that a settlement was growing more probable STRIKEBREAKERS TAKEN OFF TRAIN LAS VEGAS Nev ev Aug 26 Forty Forty Forty- I two men bound for LOS Eos Angeles admittedly admittedly ad ad- ado to replace striking trainmen there were removed from om a Salt Lake I Route train here yesterday esterday and de detained de- de tamed with twenty sIx lx halted Monday night I The men were taken In charge by the I sheriff and special deputies There was no disorder in connection with the ac- ac acI I I of the strike sympathizers I |