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Show to Chicago to End Walkout by Outlaw Group I CHICAGO, April C-Railroad man-j agers estimated today that traffic in! Chicago terminals, crippled by an un-j authorized strike of switchmen on ; oighteen roads here and Sunday's! blizzard, would te nearly normal oy I Saturday, following the arrival of 1 yardmen sent by the Brotherhood ol , Railway Trainmen to take the place of! tho strikers. A shutdown at the stockyards because be-cause of light cattle receipts threatened threat-ened to throw 50,000 men temporarily out of work. Morris and company' slated that 75 per cent of all their employes would be laid oXf "represent conditions continued for a few more days." John Gruiiau, leader of the strikers, claimed that 16,500 switchmen had quit in the Chicago district. He said tho strikors were financially able to stay out a month. Railroad managers asserted not more than 2500 men were out. A. F. Whitney, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, said that 600 broiherhood men from Cleveland, 300 from Iowa, together with surplus road crews, were ordered here. Striking members of the Order of Railway Conductors were appealed to to return to work by S. N. Berry, Cedar Ce-dar Rapids, la., senior vice president of the organization. The city's supply of dairy and farm ! products was cut short by an express embargo. TOLEDO. O., April 6 Railroad yard men in the Toledo switching district are meeting here today to present demands de-mands for higher wages. CLEVELAND. O.. April C. W. G. I Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen today Issued tho following statement regarding th employment of brotherhood members j as union strikebreakers in tho Chi-1 cago switchmen's strike: "Regardless of reports issued by! John Gruneau, loader of tho strike of switchmen at CJilcngo. such strike Is illegal nnd members of the Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Railway Trainmen and others will be full protected In accepting ac-cepting positions "as switchmen or switch tenders made vacant by such illegal strike. "The question of increased wages had nothing to do with tho present trouble, but the removal of John Gruneau from a position as yard conductor con-ductor was the cause of a fow switchmen In the Chicago, Mllwaukoo 1 & St. Paul railroad yard, who were members of a renegado organization headed by Gruneau. quitting work. Tho question of increases In the wagqs was later injected for tho purpose pur-pose of playing upon the sympathies of other train and yardmen vlio naturally nat-urally feel that the federal railroad administration did not grant fair and equitable wages during government control." oo |