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Show I eu J tFh A A A. ja. jr. 9. A M - HILL CLEARED I B! POLICEMEN ..: 1 10 END BEDLAM ' f - , Striking Railroad Men in Chi- cago District Refuse to Vote on Return WAVING OF AMERICAN 1 FLAG IS HISSED President Grunau Unable to j .. Get Out of Jail to At- i yv tend Meeting. CHICAGO. April 21. Striking railroad rail-road men In the Chicago district to-fused to-fused today lo vote on the question of returning to work. All efforts of a committee of strike leaders to obtain action failed. M. J. Kenney, R. S. Murphy and Shannon Jones, three of the strike leaders arrested last week, made the appeal for a return to work at a muss months nf striklnrr vardmen. I They were greeted with cries of "sold," "outside," and Where's Gru-ilau?" Gru-ilau?" Jones explained that efforts to obtain the release of John Grunau, president of the Chicago Yardmen's association, from Juliet jail on bond ',' had not succeeded. )p j . '" Murphy is Kissed. Murphy, waving an American flag, m - took the floor to declare he "wouiu V not fight the American government." if0 Was greeted with catcalls and hisses. I ft Union leaders declared after ths . 9 meeting they were helpless to order S . the men back to work. . S ' A police lieutenant declared the ' ft meeting adjourned after the strike l ft leaders had been rofuscd a hearing. J W a. Ho announced that no "rump meetly meet-ly would bo permitted, and the hall - W? was cleared under police Supervision. Bedlam Follows. ggt ; Bedlam followed the attempt of tns union leaders to address the men. Shouts were interspersed with cries of , ""adjourn." The speakers filed out and resumed "f1"' the session at their headquarters. 4 I' Many of the men declared Kenney, 1 ' Murphy and Jones had no authority ; K to" advise them to return to work. Only I j dclareclT(Jruimu, at whose request: i '"- Uic mass'meetlng had been called, cx- 3 J pected to arrange for his release from . jail to atiend. Failure of his plans to j ' furnish the 1,000 bond prevented his , appearance. . i j Nev Yorkers Returning. ! WASHINGTON. April 21. An agreement with railroad brotherhood . unions, under which the striking rail- ;.. I, road workers in the metropolitan dis- . J Irict of New Yprk will return to work ',! immediately, was announced hero to- ' day by Edward McHugh, spokesman ' 2 U for the strikers. M J Mr. McHugh said he had abandoned r9 f . efforts to havo the case of the New A JS York men taken up soparatoly by tnj jn ' railroad labor- board, and that his & committee would return to Now York .'; . today, leaving their case in the hands : I , ' of the leaders of the rogular brotherly brother-ly Y' hoods. jgj '. Service Improved. I . - NEW YORK. April 21. Freight & traffic, almost completely throttled jt last week by the unauthorized strikes Sri o railroad workers, had reached Jf) ?; J to 50 per cent of normal today on lines fe j entering New York and Jersey City, fis t according to a statement issued by J. g. K J. Mantell, spokesman for the lines, jjj . ' Passenger service is virtually normnl, fe Mr. Mantell denied claims of strike Kj leaders that 70 per cent of the strlkirs wore still out. |