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Show PRESIDENT OF mm I TEST ARREST I German Says Wc Can Raise Bail Demanded But Won't Do So lH IH SITUATION IN WEST DECLARED BETTER H Conductors Enter Into Agree 31 ment With Southern Pacific Railroad Company fl H CHICAGO,-April 16 John Grunau, )' president of tho Chicago Yardmen' t'l association, and'H. E. Reading, presl- ' dent of the United Enginemen's as- iH sociation, the two "outlaw" railway 1 unions, announced this morning that they would go to jail on tho govern. ment charge of conspiracy to violate il the Lever act. , iH Tho .bvo.--.VIth twenty-two o'thelr ll followers, were arrested, yesterday by Ji federal agents arifr released' on their y own-recognizancQ imti 12 .o',' clock, thin iH altoTnoon to give theni'a chance to J obtain the $10,000 bond sot by Com- I missioncr Mason. $ "I can raise the required bail with i j ease," Grunau said, "but I do not in- ' tend to do it. I question the right of ' the government to arrest me. I have committed no crime against the laws of the country and if the government , officials want to put me in jail I won't iH hinder them." Il Reading declared that "ita principle ' that prompts me to go, to jail' than " give bail." "The organization will not disband,'' he Department of justice officials wore hunting today for five men who cs- 'H caped the dragnet spread over union 'H meetings yesterday. One of the five la H Bennett G. Dolan, a "four minute" 2juuiM-r uuruio uiu war anu ui tuner ll of a former municipal judge. , Speedy disintegration of unauthor-k?d unauthor-k?d railroad strikes in the central , , and far wost was forecast today with i a serious blow struck by the govern- 1 ment at the Insurgents' stronghold in Jl Chicago by the arrest of 25 strike I ' leaders. - The arrest of the Chicago leaders, who were at liberty today under bonds of $10,000 or arranging for bail, 1 with promise to refrain from partici- ! pation in strike activities pending the hearing of charges of violation of the 1 Lever food control act, left local in- fll surgents virtually leadcrlcss. Federal officials indicated that nc '' further arrests were scheduled. Warnings were Issued in tho princi-pal princi-pal strike centers in the west that un- , less the men returned to work by to-morrow to-morrow their positions would be de- j clared vacant and new men employed , In Chicago S50 switchmen returned to' work yesterday, railroad execu- il tives announced. Steel mills at Gary. ! Ind., where 10,000 workers have been idle, were proparing to resume opora-tions opora-tions today. The situation In Michigan ,f and Ohio where several hundred thousand industrial workers have been forced out of employment re- 1 maincd virtually unchanged. Hopes of railway officials for early ,( restoration of freight traffic in Fa-cific Fa-cific coast states wore stimulated by announcement at Los Angeles that the Order of Railway Conductors had i agreed with Southern Pacific offlc-lals offlc-lals to respond to future calls for j train service rcgardlpss of strike con- j dltions. Tho agreement was said to j affect all Southern Pacific lines from Portland, Ore , to El Paao, Tex., and Ogdcn, Utah. ' IH Passenger service on the Pacific , coast was reported practically norm- f IH al. Southern Pacific officials said freight traffic was rapidly nearlns 'H normal. Il Strikers were reported returning to work at St. Louis and at Kansas City Brotherhood chairmen issued an ulti- 'll malum to strikers to report to work llH on or before tomorrow under penalty of losing their seniority rights. oo llH |