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Show AWAITING IBEWORB TO : STRIKE; TIEl'ENNSYLfANIA SYSTEM: MAY BE TIED UP . . . ... . - -- - All Trainmen May Be Called Out; Strike at This time Would Be a Costly One to Both Sides. ' ; r - -, - PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 19. P. H. Morrlssey, grand master of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railroad Trainmen, is on his way to this city from Cleveland and will endeavor to settle the differences between the Pennsylvania. Railway company and Its trainmen. He was called here by First Grand Master Lee, who notified Mr. Morrlssey that the situation was critical and that It was Impossible for him to Induce the railway rail-way management to recede from its position. Hay Strike Any Time. Every lodge has been notified to be prepared for a cipher message today which would either call the men out or notify them that the differences had -been amicably adjusted. Grand Master Morrlssey missed his Eastern connection and will not reach Philadelphia before 9 o'clock tonight. Mr. Lee and his associates on the board of adjustment went into session today with the opinion that nothing remained re-mained for them to do but to name a ' time when a. strike would be declared In the event of the company's further refusal to discontinue compulsory firing. fir-ing. Strike Would Be Costly. ' A strike at this time would be costly to the company and trainmen alike. 'For several weeks past there has been a freight congestion on some of the company's lines. The trainmen are in the main satisfied. satis-fied. Firemen receive 13.08 for twelve hours' work, and brakemen are mostly -paid $2.53 for a like number of hours. The divisions which would be affected affect-ed by a strike would comprise the three divisions between this city and Pitts burg. Including all yard , men at Har-rlsburg, Har-rlsburg, Altoona, Pltcairn and intermediate inter-mediate places, the United Railways of New Jersey divisions, between here and Jersey City, and the branches in New Jersey, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington division, between this city and Washington; the Northern Central division, between Baltimore, Sunbury and Elmlra; the Buffalo and Allegheny division, between Buffalo and Pitts burg, and the Philadelphia and Erie division, between this city and Wll-liamsport. Wll-liamsport. Would Stop Freight Traffic. If the strike is declared freight traffic might be virtually stopped In the territory ter-ritory described. Coal traffic might be blocked and' the heavy shipments of freight exchanged between the East and West will be tied, up between New i York, Washington, Pittsburg and Buffalo. |