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Show SIX ARRESTED 1 ON ORDERS DF I IITEQSTATES Officials of New Railroad Union Charged With Break- ing Lever Act STRIKE SEEMS TO ' " H j BE ABOUT TO DIE j Insurgent Leaders Deny That 1 j Radical Influence Is j Behind Them CHICAGO, April 15.- Six officials tpf the "outlaw" railway unions were ''1 j arrested this morning by United States 'H I marshals on warrants issucd.Ky Unr- ' lf j ted States Commissioner T-Iason, ' jH i charged with violating the Lever .icu ! AVarrants have been issued fur 1 1 twenty-four other alleged leaders in ! the insurgent strike, it was said at the federal building. ' ! j Yardmen's 'association: A. 'YfV Casse- jH j drfy, secretary: Martin J. Kenny, vice- president of lodge No. 2, C. Y. A.; Y, Larrabcll, trustee of the association; J ! 1 red L. Schultz, vice president of tho !H L'nited Engincmon's association, and t'l 'Michael TCllfrns. I rrn unrnr nf tlm 1!n. IH ginemen's association. Department of justice agents expect j to arraign the men totlay before Com- missioner Mason. Among the twenty-four warrants is- '1 sued but not yet served is one for John il Grunau, president of the Chicago Vardmen'o association. Another is for Elmer Bidwell, who 'M , was named yesterday by Attorney , General Palmer as having replaced ! Grunau as leader of tho strikers here. j Both Bidwell and Grunau deny trine the latter has been displaced, or that '1 , Bidwell is taking any part in directing the .strike. J Federal agents raided headquarters of the strikers nnd arrested Grunau, I who was speaking. He was taken to H , the federal building together with Wil- iH liam E. Reading, J. C. Logan and IH Shannon Jones, who are said to be ilH ! members of the association.. 'H Deputies sent to Carpenter's hall I jH .found James H. Dodgion addressing a I meeting of 150 strikers. They arrest-; arrest-; ed Dodgion. Fred C. Lockwood, C. E. JH j Creighton and Michael Plaitke. M Many to Be Jailed. H I Reports at the federal building incli- cate the list of 30 for whom warrants ! j have already been issued is onl a i starter, and that more than 200 mem- jbers of the "outlaw" unions are mark- ;H : ed for arrest l United Stales Marshal Bradley in- jH idicated he would begin arraigning the iH j prisoners before Commissioner Mason iH 'this afternoon. IH 1 Federal agents who culled thr crowd at Conway hall, where Grunaa 'was arrested, took William L. Bond 'H ;R. D. Murpny and H. W. Radke to the jiH federal bu.. ''H As the men left the hall there wert rH cries of "traitor, traitor," from the i!H strikers. They accused newspaper men of pointing out the leaders to ithc federal men. 'H Situation Improved. I Reports from rail centers In the cen-jtrai cen-jtrai west and on the Pacific coast to-fclay to-fclay bore out assertions of brotherhood ' and railroad officials that tho Insur-gent Insur-gent railroad strike was dyin; out In these sections of the country, and that j traffic conditions were improved ma- i tcrlally. j Strikers were reported to be return- IH Ing to work In a number of cities and in Chicago, where the unautnorlsscd ( walkout had its origin, brotherhood 1 officials said the backbone of the , strike was broken. IH Switchmen employed in tho Cnlcago iWM terminal of the Rock Island? firemen M and engineer. on the Pennsylvania railroad and groups of strlkora on the Jl ' Soo line and other roads voted to end the walkout in Chicago, and wero re-- ' turning to their jobs today. Normm ! freight conditions wore being rapidly jH restored and embargoes were lifted by several railroads. Charges Arc Denied. Tho Insurgent leaders, however, continued tholr claims that the posl- i tlon of the strikers remained un-shaken, un-shaken, and denied charges of Attor- ' noy General Palmer that radical in- i fluences wore behind the strike. I In -Michigan the Industrial tie-up i continued serious, with estimates that 150,000 workers, the largest number ' In Detroit, were idle. Additional paa-scngqr paa-scngqr trains were annulled because I of the coal shortage. 1 |