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Show ISWITCHMEWS STRIKE 10 BE BROKEN B! UNION SAYS CHEF B. R. T. Officer Declares "Insurgents" "In-surgents" Strike Is Illegal; Union to Break Walkout. Chicago. April 5. A break in the strike of several thousand "insurgent" "insur-gent" switchmen in the Chicago switching district was predicted tonight to-night by A. F. Whitney, vice president presi-dent of the Brotherhood of Railway Irainmcn, who said several hundred union switchmen from many points in i he middle west arrived today to take the places of the strikers and that nchers would arrive tomorrow. Switchmen are coming to Chicago m such numbers that the backbone of lhe strike will be broken soon." he said. "Every carload of stock that enters en-ters the stockyards will be promptly handled by a reserve crow of union switchmen and we expect to have the six hundred idle locomotives going in short order." The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Train-men, with which the railroads affected affect-ed have working agreements, has de-' de-' cl?.red the strike illegal and is co-op-crating with railroad officials in efforts ef-forts to bring about a resumption of v ork. Officers of the Chicago Yardmen's association, who engineered the walk-cut, walk-cut, claimed that 9,000 switchmen and ardmen employed on eighteen railroads rail-roads were on strike today but railroad rail-road officers placed the number out at approximately 2,500 and while admitting admit-ting that freight service was operating operat-ing on a twenty-five per cent basis, at-libuted at-libuted the reduction largely to yes-prday's yes-prday's snowstorm. |