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Show : ORDERS STRIKERS TO RESUME WORK GOVERNMENT MOVES TO PUT AN END TO SYMPATHETIC STRIKE ON COAST; Railroad Men Told 'by Union Chiefs That They Must Resume Work or Face Suspension and Severe Punishment. Washington. This striking trainmen wlio have been causing 110 end of grief to shippers on tho Pacific const hnvo been wurned by the government, and the head officers of their union, that the. strike must end at once. Should the men persist hi remaining out, they liavo been wurned they will bo debarred from tho union and union men will take their places, In order to resume operation of train service suspended sus-pended when an uimuthorlzcd Hympu--thetle strike was sprung by radicals In California. Director General Hlnes 011 Thursdny served notice on "public officers, railroad rail-road officers and employees anil citizens cit-izens generally In California, Arizona nnd Nevada," that tho railroad administration admin-istration would undertake, to restore full railroad service In those slates 011 ami after 7 o'clock Saturday morning, and that all striking employees who do not return to work by that time will find their places filled." This action, coming after the announcement an-nouncement by the four brotherhood chiefs thnt the brotherhoods would assist as-sist thu railroad administration In operating op-erating tho lines If the Illegal strike was not terminated, Is thu most drastic dras-tic ever taken by the government In u labor controversy. Orders wero Issued by W. O. Lee, president of tho Drotherhood of Hallway Hall-way Trainmen, and Warren S. Stone, Chief of tho I-oroiuotlvu Engineers, Instructing In-structing tho men to return to work ut once. "Unless thero Is decided Improvement, Improve-ment, the government will tnku steps to operate the lines," said a statement received from Wurren S. Stone, chief of thu locomotive engineers, and madu public simultaneously with the order from Lee. As tho result of thu receipt of the telegram, local officers of the brotherhood brother-hood Thursday posited the following announcement an-nouncement signed by Leu: "Advise all men of the brotherhood that wo will not engtigo In sympathetic strike, and tell our men that less than two months niro i!."S members of tho brotherhoods wero expelled from the organization ut Winnipeg for sympathetic sympa-thetic action, whllo many of them lost their positions. Our members must return to work and uphold their contracts con-tracts If they expect to retain membership mem-bership and support of this organization." organiza-tion." Simultaneously, tho followlug notice, addressed 'to engineers nnd signed' by Warren S, Stone, was ordered posted : "Effective at once Inform all members mem-bers of division Unit strlko Is Illegal from start to finish. All members of the llrotberhood of Locomotlvo Engineers Engi-neers will he required to nbldu by the laws of tho organization and carry out tho contracts madu In good fulth, both by the Individual roads and thu federal fed-eral government. Falling to do wo, .they will bo expelled lusldo of twenty-four twenty-four hours. Unless there Is decided improvement the government will luku steps to operate tho rends. You all know what this will mean. Impress on everyone tho necessity of using sober thought and exercising common sense and not bo carried away by a wave of mob law." The first break In tho ranks of the striking trainmen at Los Angeles eiimo lute Thursday, when nbout a dozen engineers en-gineers and conductors reported for duty ut tho Santii Fo depot. Santa Fe officials said they had u train mado up, ready to move and lucked only ono briikeumn of having u full crow for 4. Mr. Hlnes ou Thursday sent telegrams tele-grams to the governors of California, Nevada and Arizona, uml to thu mayors may-ors of principal cities In those states, asking co-operation In maintaining truffle anil lo preventing interference with tho movement of trains. Anyone who Interferes with or molests mo-lests the use of railroad property, Mr. Hlnes said, would bo dealt with for having committed nu offense against the United States. |
