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Show 10NT0SW I -WITH 75,000 I U, CUUM II Striking Switchmen Launch ' Move While Meeting in 1 Washington ' THREATS TO JAIL H LEADERS IS MADE : H Chicago "Outlaw" Official to ( H Recommend Calling Off of Walkout V WASHINGTON. April 23. Forma-tion Forma-tion of a new national organization of w lf railroad men has been undertaken by I rciresentatives here of the striking ! H switchmen in Chicago, New York, 'H Cleveland, St. Louis and other cltici H R. J. Mitchell of Chicago said cfforla '-''--H would be made to enroll workers in .V- all railroad crafts both in the Unite! ,'j States and Canada. 'M He estimated that the membership would be 75,000 at the start, J. P. Foley of tho Cleveland Yard-men's Yard-men's association, said the commit- tees now in Washington rcresentc.l 11,000 men in the non-recognized is!- 1 sociations, and that elections for a ll grand lodge would be held' in Novem- Arrests Threatened. iH CLEVELAND, O., April 23. Im- )H mediate arrest of railroad strike: lead- jfr ers in Cleveland unless they border d i switchmen to return to work -by to- ! morrow morning was threatened by j nB federal agents today. I( The warning was given io E. J. ft H O'Rourkc, president of the Cleveland .Yardmen's association, by John Saw- ken of tho department- of justice, .just, '. jM -beforoUhe executive committee of the ' fH association nxct'-a.t np.Qji.j-r: '.-'iz''--. , . Admits Defeat. , JH CHICAGO, April 23. Striking ': switchmen and engincmen met today .H at the call of Insurgent union officials in another attempt to bring about it ll settlement of, the unauthorized walk- out in the Chicago district. j Admitting defeat of the outlaw j moveriicnt, John Grunau, president of the Chicago Yardmen's association, said ho would ad!se tho men to re- Jl'il turn to work. ' '-H 'Wc could fight the railway broth- jjH crhoods and the railroad officials," -IH said Grunau, "but we cannot fight the 'il government. So far as our immediate fl demands for wage increases are con- IH corned, the strike has been a failure." Will Still Fight. IH Grunau declared, however, the fight Jl for permanent maintenance of the m- 'll surgent unions would be carried on. ' Jl Federal officials, including Judge K. M. Landis, declined invitations to ,11 be present at the mass meeting.. Rail- 11 road officials took no action toward 11 accepting a similar invitation. 11 Return of additional strikers, ra.L- ' road officials said, brought freight movement in Chicago to SO per cent of the normal. Elsewhere througho u the west to the Pacific coast freiglu ft traffic was roported returning to nor- T |