Show POLICE O ON DUTY TO PREVENT RIOTS St SL Paul Dec John J OConnor of the tho police department practically admitted that he consid considered ored ered the tho strike situation serious to toI today I day when he or ordered ered that all 11 mem mein memI I bens or of his day fore force stay on duty at Central station until 1030 tonight to night nigh t The order goes Into effect tonight and will continuo until all danger of ofa a clash between strikers and breakers Is ended I The Tho chief also Issued orders re reI I calling all and officers ab abI I sent on cave cae Substations were no noI I tined tilled not net to permit an men to stay off olf duty cluty except for the most serious I illness I Several conferences between weon th the I chief and officials of oC the tho railroad have been held tOday According to railroad the beginning o othe of the end of oC the strike Is in sight si ht A prominent official said today that the railroads were handl handling ing thirty per cent of aU all business of oC offered Yo We are arc employing now mon as asi I fast as the they come and we are aro moving mo moa i ing a large amount of package In a week the tho public will not know that there Is tt H strike I Dot Between curd and men arrived toLla today from Chicago and were In St lt Paul Minneapolis and Duluth Railway managers claim the they can got plent o of men to take the tho places of oC switchmen and that some now on hand are experienced In the work Some Somo will bu be placed at work In tho yards ards and others will act as aK guards Five Engines Working Five engines are arc working In the tho Union depot yards today todar and others wore expected to bo o put In commission whoa whon needed Ac According cording to a statement Issued by Third Slade or of the Northern Pacific two coal trains were moving today tollay between Duluth and four trains or of grain and other freight were moved moed Into Duluth The ser lIer service vIce he said had been on all lines Some St Paul wholesale grocers re reported ported Way tr day that shipping conditions were Improved but coal dealers and produce men said that conditions were As against optimistic statements or of orthe I the railroad managers strike loaders say 81 that they are In a stronger poll goal I tIon today than ever The They refer reCer to the tho tact fact that the Brotherhood of Rail Hail Railroad road Trainmen and the Order or of Rail Rall Railway way war Conductors In Melrose Minn Yesterday adopted a re resolution to stand neutral and refuse to do other than the work lone Ione prior to the pend pending lal ing trouble This means that trainmen and aatI con can conductors will wUl refuse to Lo do aD any switch fag I except at those stations tallon where It had bad been for train croW cress to switch their trains Reduce Factory Forces Factory ft rc s art are beJ being reduced I of Tb of lies caused b by the height bt tle up and as tb the two hm bin of the Croat Northern I g lA e mn failed t lI n nI I Ali 11 x t 11 lt r i in lI IT r I t I ILu iL L Lu ucil i r Y 1 nil 11 til H L 1 I 21 I hours whether they wi Ol open n their mils fills soon Imported wearing sl special cial police badges were reported on duty duLy at the lie UnIon station yards ar s today by strike pickets and when President Hawley learned learne that these meu had been lIeen he called the attention of the state labor commis commissioner to lo the matter maller Labor CommIssioner McEwen said ald that If men wearing police badges balges were not residents qt they and those responsible for their pres presence once ence In the state were violating the state law McEwen Is investigating the tho report and said this afternoon If he finds non of Minnesota are wear wearing Ins ing special badges ho will at once order their arrest as well as the arrest of oC who brought hem here herl If they appear liable under tho law The law makes it illegal for any ono one not a legal voter oter of tho t e state to act as special police officer detective constable militiaman or patrolman If they have hae been sworn In the they are liable to Imprisonment for one year ear Switchmen Retain Counsel Major Lawler has been retained as legal counsel for the switchmen He held a meeting or of strikers In Miano lInno apolis last nl night ht and said Some of th the papers give the employers side only and state that the railroad man managers agers were not notified until too late of the contemplated of the lie switchmen But I state stall here and now that the they know to a man that the strike order was Issued and that they ma made e no offer of oC a settlement to avert the Impending trouble When Hawley of oC the Union was shown the statement or of the tho general managers regarding the tho refusal of oC the me men to arbitrate their differences he said saidI I I do not care coro to make a formal answer to that lint until I consult with Mayor Lawler Mr Lawler however has hilS answered every point raised lW by bythe the general managers committee In his statement which was made pub lie here hore today todar Mayor IBOr Lawler this afternoon Issued n a statement defining the position of the men and the refusal to arbitrate under the tho Erdman law The maor sa says s that the tho railroad managers making concerted action through the press to create creato public opinion in their favor faor are not In a position to charge chargo the men with un unfairness unfairness fairness in refusing to arbitrate under that law for the reason that lint from the beginning of the dispute tho man managers alters agers refused to consider a suggestion relative to an Increase In wages for Cor Corthe forthe the mono mon Arbitration Difficult Mayor Lawlor Lawler says the Erdman law lawis lawis is so hedged that should the tho switch switchmen switchmen men agree to arbitrate under It thO they would be stripped of all legal power to press their claims and aud It would put thom them completely lit In the power or of ortho the tho railroads Mayor ol Lawler says that admitting g I i that the tho decision were favorable to tolie the lie switchmen the railroads night might appeal to Lo tIle the courts and delay delar a tin al decision for one or two years In which the men would be compelled to work under tinder the old schedule or of wages and It would be illegal for or them to strike or in an any way 3 aid in i a astrike strike I i |