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Show New York Food Supply Again Hit by Walkout of Teamsters NEW YORK. April 13 Police reserves re-serves were sent to the West Side market mar-ket district today where several hundred hun-dred teamsters, chauffeurs and porters por-ters had walked out at a time when New York was virtually cut off from its food supply by rail. Several trucks were attacked by strike sympathibers. The strike of the teamsters, chauffeurs chauf-feurs and porters has tended to aggravate ag-gravate the already serious food situation situ-ation here. The men handled perishable perish-able foods from the freight yards to the market. They struck because their demands for higher pay had been rejected. re-jected. Gradual subsidence of the rail strikes was seen by railroad officials, although they admitted the situation still was serious. Returns of groups of strikers on several lines at nearby towns and the steady improvement in passenger service, serv-ice, duo chiefly to the success of volunteer vol-unteer crows in operating commuters trains gavo the road officials much encouragement. The trains carried 54,000 persons yesterday. Railway executives ex-ecutives planned to begin operation of freight as well as passenger trains with volunteers. The Pennsylvania announced that with nino volunteer yard crews at works, movement of coal for New York public utilities was partially resumed re-sumed this morning. Out of tho Pennsylvania station through train-service was reported SO per cent normal, a decided Improvement Improve-ment over yesterday. The ferries this morning made a new high record for passenger transportation trans-portation from the New Jersey shore to .Manhattan, tho Pennsylvania alone bringing in 22.093. The America Railway Express announced an-nounced that Its embargo hal been lifted on shipments to ChlcagoVfor today. |