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Show CHICAGO POEICE III (I READINESS FOR DUTY IN RAILROAD YARDS I Train Service Through District 1 Tied Up by Spread of Un- jl authorized Strike . LU 2500 EMPLOYES ARE H 1 IDLE SAYS REPORT H Demands of Outlaw Organiza- tion Include More Pay and IH Shorter Work Day CHICAGO. April 5. Fifty thousand j- stockyards' employes will be thrown $ 'out of work tonight as a result of the H ! strike of switchmen in the Chicago .railroad yards, officials of the packing companies announced this morning. jH Five thousand were laid off when they jH reported for work today and others , I will fnllnw ctnnn nc 1hr aninll rn. IH ccipls of animals on hand are disposed jH of. Only 3,500 cattle, 5,000 hogs and 500 sheep reached tho stockyards to-day, to-day, as compared to receipts of forty thousand hogs alone a year ago. IH Cannot Move Cars. . An embargo on all express ship ments was announced. this morning bj the American Railway Express' com-. . pan v.. QfUpialSfiSaid the blizzards yes ; J Lerday, combined with the switchmen's strike, had made It impossible to niove y jH cars in the local yards. . L A. F. Whitney, vice president of thft Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, which has branded the strike as "ille- d gal" and in violation of the. men's agreement with the roads, has taken personal charge of the efforts lo break J , tho walkout. Union Strikebreakers. Brotherhood men from other cities began arriving here this morning In re-sponse re-sponse to Whitney's appeal for union I "strikebreakers," and union officials ' hope to have enough men at work by , night to keep essential business uiov- ) ll Chicago's milk supply was seriously ' threatened this morning, but railroad, officials said the would make every effort to keep milk trains running. IH CHICAGO, April 5. Train service lH throughout the Chicago district, al- IH ready seriously crippled by a heavy H snowstorm, virtually was demoralized jH today by the spread of an unauthorlz iH ed, strike of switciimcn, according to 'H reports from the eleven railroads af- fected. I M Fearing possible riots, John J. Gar- ' rity, chief of police, early today placed " . the entire force in reserve. JFlve hun-, j idred policemen patrolled the switch- ll I ing yards, he said. ,( JH Mr. Garrity said the, situation was n serious and added that "it may bo I necessary to call out' the militia and . I declare military control in the rail- j IH roal yards." jH I Approximately 2500 switchmen were out at midnight, according to strike leaders, and the General Managers' as-soeiution, as-soeiution, representing the railroads.-The railroads.-The strikers asserted that nine thou-sands thou-sands men would be affected today aud predicted a "complete . tie-up of freight traffic and serious impairment jH of mterurban service." . j. Declare No Compromise. After a long conference -with repre- seulatives of the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen with which the switch- ,H men are affiliated and, the Qwitch- 'H men's Union of North America, the i General Managers' association issued a declaration that there would "be no compromise" with the strikers. Ul "Sixty per cent of the switch en--gines in Chicago are out of service," said the managers' statement. "This , has been caused by an outlaw orgam- ! zation which has presented demands j for rates of pay that already had been i presented to the railroad organizations by the Brotherhood of Railway Train-men Train-men and the Switchmen's Union o( North America. "These demands are being handled by tho wage conference at Washing-ton Washing-ton and must, under the transporta-v tion act, be concluded before the labor board yet to be named by tho presl- dent." The statement added that alUrail-roads alUrail-roads centering here have contra zti with the striking switchmen. i Strike Held Illegal. Officials of tho two big unions have declared the strike "illegal," ordered tho men to return to work and are, co operating with the rail heads in at- "j tempting to break the strike. The trouble broke five days ago, switchmen in the Chicago district ' d yards of' the 'Chicago, Milwaukee and. ' , St. Paul railroad going on strike. The ( Illinois Central and tho Northwestern Ii 'H next wero affected, the' strike spreatlr v ii JmM (Continued On Page 4) , mm Chicago Police in Readiness for Duty In Railroad Yards (Continued from Page 1) ing to the other railroads yesterday and last night. The Chicago switching district cov-era cov-era a radius of thirty miles and in It twenty-five thousand cars are handled han-dled daily. The yardmen make up and "break" all trains in that area, also "spotting" cars at loading and unloading unload-ing platforms. Demands Framed. Tho demands of the outlaw organizations organi-zations Micro recently formed in Chicago Chi-cago Yordmcn's association are: Foremen of all yard and transfer engines, 41 per hour; yard helpers 95 cents an hour: switch tenders $5 a day for attending not more than three switches: helpers' rate of pay to apply ap-ply at ninety-rivo cents an hour; time and a half for overtime, Sundays and all legal holidays and where they aro required to work more than eight hours on Sunday or legal holidays double time for all time exceeding eight hours, oo |
