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Show E'looSSl Salt Lake Switchmen Arrested on Warrants Issued by District Attorney SALT LAKE, April 21. Arrest of S switchmen who walked out of the Salt Lnke yards April 8, was made yesterday yester-day on warrants issued by Isaac Blair, Evans, United States district attorney following orders from Attorney Gon-eral Gon-eral A. Mitchell Palmer. The arrests came as a result of an investigation conducted by Floyd A. Jackson, special agent for the department of justice. Tho men were given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Commis-sioner H. H. Van Pelt. Tho hearing dates was set for next Monday at 10 o'clock in the United States commissioner's office. Tho men arrested were: G. G. Sherman. A. B. Hill, William Moore, W. J. Rodda, W. J. Lemon, W. G. Hill, J. A. Smith and C. P. Wise. In the case of Sherman, Moore, Rod-da Rod-da and Lemon, the bail was fixed at $5000 while in tho case of A. B. Hill, Smith and Wise, the bail was flved at $3000 by Commissioner Van Pelt, who stated that the latter were married men living here, and therefore as heavy a bail was not required to assure their appearance before him for the date of hearing. J. A. Smith I furnished bail. Five hundred former members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, No. 388, reorganized under the name of the United Railway Workers association, asso-ciation, held a meeting laat night at Musicians hall, and voted not to go to work until the eight switchmen and yardmen arrested in Salt Lake yesterday yester-day were releasced. The action of the new organization was reported at tho close of the meeting by G. B. McLel-land, McLel-land, secretary of tho association. Each of the eight men pleaded not guilty after Attorney William S. Dal-ton, Dal-ton, whom they selected to .defend them, had pleaded with the commissioner commis-sioner to have the ball fixed at $3000 and $1000 respectively. The arrests were made by D. S. Dor-rlty, Dor-rlty, acting chief deputy United States marshal of this city, who found five of the men m Moose nan, wnere me switchmen's meetings have been held, and tho others outside. Tho charge against the switchmen and yardmen I& the violation of the Lever act and the transportation act. Conspiracy to prevent transportation of fuel and food Is alleged. Tho complaint goes on to state that "tho defendants combined, conspired and confederated and agreed together in violation of tho Lever act and the transportation act." It states that Salt Lake is nn Important railway center In interstate commerce, a large amount of food and fuel passing through here. It further sets forth that the services serv-ices of railway yardmen and switchmen switch-men are particularly required to make up tho interstate freight and passenger passeng-er trains, and that without tho services serv-ices of said railway switchmen ar yardmen, It is impossible to move food and fuel. It says further that the said defendants defend-ants conspired, combined, agreed and arranged together to restrict the distribution dis-tribution and limit tho facilities for transportaton and supply of bituminous bitumin-ous coul and food of all sorts by declaring, de-claring, enforcing and maintaining a strike of cessation' of labor on the part of railway yardmen and switchmen, switch-men, as well as of other railway employes, em-ployes, in interstato commerce, tho object ob-ject of said strike being to secure the withdrawal from work of all men employed em-ployed in interstate oemmcrce at tho rail junction in Salt Lake and to prevent pre-vent men taking tho places of tho withdrawing employes, all to tho end that coal, food, or other freight should move and be carried in interstate commerce com-merce by railway carriers into and out of the state of Utah, said strike to bo maintained by the new organization of switchmen. mmM |