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Show MLI'STiE! AFFECTS 25 OF CISCO MS i CHICAGO. April 7.-n unauthorized unauthor-ized strike of railroad employes which started a weeit ago. in the Chicago switching district by the discharge of a yard conductor, tonight had spread until it had affected 25 railroads, and in Chicago had thrown more than 50,-000 50,-000 men out of work, either directly or indirectly. " ' ""3.1br than 10,000 union railroad men in Chicago and several hundred at Buffalo Buf-falo and at Champaign, Ills., were on strike. Hundreds of Chicago packing Louse employes were idle for lack of livestock. Two "outlaws" organizations, brand-1 ed by the established brotherhoods as "rump" unions, had sprung up to challenge chal-lenge the right of the labor heads lo lead their men. In the face of this opposition from within the brotherhoods of engineers j railroad trainmen, firemen and engine-men. engine-men. and the switchmen's union of North America, pledged their support to railroad officers in breaking tho walkout and to that end union railroad men throughout the country have been urged to report to Chicago to serve as strike breakers. , Given Another Day. Managers of 25 roads in the Chicago Chica-go terminal district affected by " the strike, today agreed to give brotherhood brother-hood officers at least another day in which to restore normal conditions and through their spokesman, declared themselves confident that the unions would succeed. Some union leaders voiced the samei confidence, but others declared the strike fever was "in the air," and that I even the most conservative men were' (quitting work and that the task of; keeping the trains moving appeared' difficult. 1 Wide differences of opinion existed! as to how many men had joined the, walkout. Charles Riley, vice president! of the Chicago Yardmen's association,! whiph. called the or,tn?l strike sniit 14,000 switchmen and 3,000 engineer:; ,v.ic tale, UUI Irtniuau ulllLi... ,nd brotherhood heads scouted his figures; as far loo large. j W. J. Trosl, vice president of die' switchmen's union of North America,! said approximately 2,000 of that organ-1 izatlon's members had struck, and that' the Soo line was the only railroad on-, terlng Chicago the union had been1 able to keep open. j Reoruiting Crews Secretary Snyder of the rialroad managers' association, announced after aft-er a conference of road heads today, that between forty and fifty per cent of normal freight traffic was being handled. Sufficient crews to operate, about 300 locomotives had been recrult- ed in the Chicago area, he said. i The Brotherhood of Engineers, and the Brotherhood of Firemen and En-ginemen En-ginemen entered into the struggle today to-day as a result of the walkout of engineers en-gineers and firemen on the Chicago and North w'estern and several other' railroads. The Brotherhood ,of Railroad Trainmen Train-men declared In a statement thnt the railroads could not grant wage increases increas-es demanded by the strikers, because the Cummins Esch transportation act piohibits Increased compensation lo employes without approval of tho railroad rail-road board, to be appointed by Presi-i Presi-i dent Wilson. j New "Outlaw" Unoin I One of today's developments was the formation of a new "outlaw" organization, organiza-tion, the National Enginemen's association, associ-ation, by striking members' of tho Brotherhood of Engineers and Brotherhood Brother-hood of Firemen and Enginenien. Announcement was made by tho striking engineers aiyl the Chicago jardmen's association, which engineered engineer-ed the strike of switchmen, that blanches of the two new unions would be formed throughout the country, and that strikes would be called elsewhere in sympathy with the Chicago movement move-ment and in an effort to forco wago ad vances which the railroad men had dc-. manded since last August. I "I'Mve dollars a day is the minimum which will support a mnn and his family," fam-ily," the strikers said in a statomenl today. Demands they made to the General .Managers' association, were: Conductors. $1 an hour, present scale 66 2-3 ocnts; switchmen D3 cents an hour, present scale C2 1-2 cents; switch, tenders. $5 a day, present wago 50 cents an hour. From 25,000 to 30,000 workers at ihe: stockyards were idle today! Receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep were small. oo Falsa, hair by women 'was devised In Italy and taken' by England In the sixteenth century. J |