Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-19 | Page 12 | Yardmen Back 100 per Cent on Salt Lake Division; Freight Trains Started on Way East

! YARDMEN BACK 100 PER CENT ON I SALT LAKE DIVISION; FREIGHT TRAINS STARTED ON WAY EAST With announcement that the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific railroad was now 100 per cent strong in regards to returned yardmen at I Car tin, Montello and Sparks, tho striko situation assumed a different aspect today, according to information from the offices of the Southern Pacific company In thi3 city. Perishable freight, livestock and such dead freight as Is needed for emorgoncy is being handled now, It la reported, but as a general rule, no embargo em-bargo restrictions ure yet lifted. Freight traln3 were started regularly regular-ly this morning, one train departing from Sparks, while the other train left Ogden. Tho Ogden Union Railway & Depot company officials report practically no change In strike conditions. Thirty-three, Thirty-three, men continue to handle freight and such freight as arrives in Ogden yards Is adequately handled, it is I stated. Perishable goods and livestock have I formed tho greater part oof the loads - sent out of the yards. Shipments have Hw. 1 been made over all roads running Into Ogden during tho last two days, and 1 It is predicted that embargoes on 1 freight will be raised immnrltatolv if U striko conditions continue to improve. , An effort Is being made by tho O. U. i R. & D. company to hire men to re- place switchmen who left theor Jobs. H. V. Piatt, vice president of tho O. U. R. & D. company a.nd general manager man-ager of the Oregon Short Lino, announced an-nounced today that rumors to the effect ef-fect that he had agreed to meet a commlttoc of insurgent switchmen was erroneous, and was being circulated circu-lated in an effort to have men stay j away from work who othorwise would return.