Show LI IJ IJ lJ lJ lEJ i TROOPS P MAY MA MAYBE O BE CALLED TO D TUn TI T I Un Unauthorized Walkout Walkout- Brings Food Crisis and Threatens Loss of Ma Many y Millions CH CHICAGO April 5 Fifty thousand stockyards will be pe thrown out out of work work work- tonight as a a result of fh the e strike of switchmen n in th the Chica Chicago Chicado o r officials of or the pac packing companies announced d this morning Five thousand were laid off wl when en they reported for work toda today and others will follow as soon as the small malI re rec rec re- re c c of animals on hand are disposed disposed disposed dis dis- posed of Only Onry cattle hogs hogsand hogsand and sheep reached the stockyards today as compared to receipts of 40 40 hogs alone t 1 the same day a year ago An embargo on all express all express shipments was announced d this morning by the American Railway Express company A. A F. F Whitney vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen which has branded the strike as il illegal illegal il ii legal and in violation of the mens men's agreement with the roads has lias taken personal charge of the efforts efforts- to break the walkout Brotherhood men from other cities began arriving here this morning in response to Whitneys Whitney's ap appeal appeal ap- ap peal paI for union strikebreakers C CHICAGO CHICAGO April 5 MarUM Martal law may be declared in Chicago's railroad yards as a result of a a astrike strike of switchmen oui on on eleven road which is imperiling imperiling imperiling im im- im- im periling the country's food supply an and wrecking railroad passenger ald ad freight schedules officials said here heie toda today Strikers Strikers' said switchmen were out today and pr predicted a complete of ot freight traffic and s serIous imI impairment impairment im im- im- im of the passenger service Rail Ran officials admitted that freight traffic was operating on a 25 per cent basis but said this was as much due dull to the snowstorm which swept th the Middle l West yesterday as tb to the strike Strikers ers claimed that worth of perishable freight lay in Ch- Ch Cht- Cht cago yards and would be lost Jost unless their demands for higher wages were were heeded MAY NEED TROOPS Chief of Police Garrity assigned 5 O city policemen to patrol railroad yards and Issued instructions to every everyone one of Chicago's fifty police stations 10 lo hold bold an extra squad of ot five tive patrolmen pat olmen for strike e duty emergency It ma may be necessary to call out the militia and declare martial law in the railroad yards said eald Garrity ON ELE ELEVEN EN R ROADS ADS Sixty per c cent mt of ot the switchmen n employed on on eleven roads were on 00 strike f Roads affected the are Chicago Milwaukee Mil MiI- waukee L St. St I Paul ul the E f C Central t al I I I I I I I II I me LiZO anLa s' s u 1 ff el elI Plate Grank Trunk B Belt t Railway Line Llna I of Chicago Indiana Harbor Belt Line Michigan Central l Pennsylva Pennsylvania a. a and the Big Four It I OUTLAW UNION Regular union switchmen denounce the strike e as illegal megal The Toe striking switchmen are members of an ano union Officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the S' S mens men's Union of ot North America who have contracts with the roads s said aid their members are still sUB at t work NO COMPROMISE After Aftel a long conference with of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen with which the switchmen are affiliated and the Switchmen's Union of I North America the General Managers' Managers association Issued a a. declaration that tha t there would be ho no compromise with the strikers Sixty per pel cent of the switch engines engine in Chicago are OU out t of ot service said th the managers' managers statement This has been lieen caused by an outlaw organization which ha hat has presented demands for rates of pay that already had been presented to th the railroad organizations by the Brother Brother- Continued on page 2 I i I TROOPS MAY BE Continued from page 1 1 hood of Railway Trainmen and the Switchmen's UnIon lof North America ILLEGAL STRIKE STRIKE X 1 These demands demanda are by the wage c conference at Washington and must under the tr transportation act be concluded before the labor board board yet to be ba named by the president The statement added that all railroads centering here have contracts with tho the striking Officials I f switchmen of the two bl big unions have declared the Illegal ordered use the men new to return to work and are aUng with the rail heads lit ht attempting to break the tte strike START Of Of- TROUBLE The trouble broke out five dars ago switchmen n In the Chicago district yards of the Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul railroad going on strike The Illinois Central and the Northwestern next were affected ted td the strike spreading to the other I fa railroads The h Chicago yesterday r switching t and gl last district l t night covers overs a U. radius of thirty miles and ir In it If cars are handled bandied dally daily The yardmen make malte up and break all trains In that area also spotting cars at loading and unloading platforms THEIR DEMANDS Th The Tho demands of the outlaw organIzation organ organ- the recently formed Chicago Y Yardmen's association s are gr Foremen of all yard d and transfer engines engines' engines en en- gines gines' lne 1 per hour yard helpers 95 cents an hour switch tenders 5 a a. day for fot attending not more than three switches helpers' helpers rate of pay to apply at 95 cents an hour time and a halt half for fot overtime Sundays and all legal holidays and where they are required to work more re than eight hours on Sunday or legal holi bolt days double time for tor all time exceeding eight hours |