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Show II j - . . BBH I 8 & 2 a a a , IDLE "jo BIGJPUT Embargoes Are Placed on Incoming In-coming Freight When 150 Ogden Yard Workers Quit PASSENGER TRAINS ALLOWED TO MOVE Salt Lake, Pocatello and Other Western Cities Affected By Conditions Freight traffic throush the Ogden terminal was paralyzed today. by reason rea-son of the strike of about .150 switchmen, switch-men, who left their posts last night. Tho walkout In Ogden Is a pavt of the natlon-wldc movement, which is unauthorized by tho union to which the men wore afflllatod, but which union, the men say, has not got them tho wage increases they have demanded. demand-ed. The Southern Pacific, Union Pacific. Paci-fic. Oregon Short Line and Denver & nio Grande roads are affected in Ogden. Og-den. Passenger trains wero being operated oper-ated by the few crows left In the yards py the strikers. '. , 'Kmbnrgo 'rcolared - , . - Embargoes on all Incoming perishable perish-able freight were declared by the railroads rail-roads and other freight ia accepted subject to delay. About fifty freight handlers wero The strike has also hit Safc L.aki and Pocatello. Passenger trains are running about on, time but the movement of freight Is at a standstill. Seldom has the local terminal been as qUIet as it is today. Besides the 150 switchmen who went out, members of nineteen other crews at work In the yards aro Idle. Tho strike also had widespread effect ef-fect on employment of hundreds of other trainmen on the roads center-In center-In at Ogden. whoaro affected by the embargo orders. Conductors "Warned A telegram was received today by D. L. Boyle, secretary of the Order of Railway Conductors" local, division No. 124, warning members not to bo-come bo-come involved and to use every effort to sec that contract agreements are held sacred. Copies of tho message-were message-were posted at many points where members congregate. The message read: "Vice President Gregg and the general gen-eral committee Instructs that you notify no-tify all ,our membership by posting notices or otherwise, that, the yardmen's yard-men's strike is Illegal, and not to bo-come bo-come Involved In any manner but protect our membership and our contract con-tract by staying on their jobs and performing per-forming the servlco heretofore ro-rmlrod ro-rmlrod of thorn." Sprout's Statement "William Sproul, president of the Southern Pacific company, In reviewing review-ing condition leading up to events last evening, today sent the following statement to Tho Standard-Examiner: "To the Public and Our Employes: During the day, switchmen and yardmen yard-men have been leaving the servlco of this company and of other roads in southern California and In all our yards on both sides of San Francisco bay without any notice and without ; presenting any grlovance. Tn thus j abandonlng.thcir duties they have vio-'latcd vio-'latcd tho provisions of the transposition transpos-ition act of 1020 and the orders and Instructions of their own brotherhoods. brother-hoods. They have Jgnorod the public inlorest In the movement of passengers passen-gers and mall and of freight whether poiishablo or not. "Tho action of theso men, who arc a very small minority of the employes has. the effect of preventing railroad operation in tho principal railroad terminals of California, this Injuring tho business of tho public on the ono hand and affecting Injuriously the great majority of tho employes on tho other hand. Reason for Strike "Tho day has passed and yet after diligent Inquiry both among tho men and among the brothorhood officers thoro Is no knowledge of -why these men struok and what they expect to gain by striking. "Under tholr circumstances we arc forcod to notify tho public that the company at present cannot accept perishable per-ishable freight or llvcstoak to be moved to, from or through tho scenes of trouble, and can accept other freight only subject to dolay. "We hopo the delays occasioned by iheso embargoes will bo brief, because the great body of experienced and thoughtful employes tnko no part hjf this strike and have no sympathy with it for St Is wholly without warrant. war-rant. It is in such conflict that the reasonable expectations of. l'e 1 1 bile that we believe the men on sober second sec-ond thought will revise their views and return to their work. "We prefer thnt they return, but In any circumstances tho servlco must bo restored. In this we roly on hc support of the public and of thai great body of our employes who recognizor their obligations and live up to them." |