Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 2 | Strike Takes Grave Aspect through East

I Walkout Seems Waning in I Middle and Far West Rail- ,j road Centers ll i STOPPAGE OF TRAFFIC J AND INDUSTRIES CLOSE Further Additions to Ranks of Rebel Railroad Workers East of Cleveland CHICAGO. April 12 While the un- authorized strike of railroad employes, I which started here two weeks ago villi the walkout of seven hundred switch men on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad, today appeared grad- ually to be waning In the middle west ' and the far west, the situation east of 1 Cleveland took on a lnorcVserlous as- poet. , The center of development In the walkout of insurgents had shifted to ; ' (he east, further additions to rhe ranks oi the rebel railroad workers had caused a serious stoppage of freight and passenger traffic and the closing ol several industries. I Situation At onicago imfjiwoo The situation at the Chicago yards showed a markod Improvement and , reports from other largo railroad centers cen-ters in-tho middle west indicated that the crisis was past and that the strikers strik-ers are returning to work in considerable consider-able numbors. Officials of railroad brotherhoods who have been lighting the strike, were confident that tht breaking up of the walkout in Chicago Chica-go would be followed by a general resumption re-sumption of work in other areas. ; A pronouncement of the gov.ern-M gov.ern-M , nient's courso In the strike was exptct- ed to be made at Washington tomorrow tomor-row by Attorney General Palmer. Investigators In-vestigators of the department of justice jus-tice were completing an inquiry into ihe, situation. Mr. Palmer said. "The federal government will not shirk its responsibility," he said. More freight moved Into the Chicago r yards today than on any day since the strike started, railroads announced. At I the stockyards 229 cars of livestock h were received and more than 9,000 em-j! em-j! ployes forced out of work by the strike ; loturned. Packing house receipts included -iOOO H ' Rattle, 2,500 hogs and -1,000 sheep. This j was a larger quantity than" received ' ' i ahy day last week. About 25,000 Tstocqyards workers were still idle. ("' i Freight Again Moving. , J The Illinois Central, the Chicago, 1 (Milwaukee and St. Paul, the New York I; JT-entral and other roads reported cars T jaagin were moving in the switching sards and that embargoes had been i: 1 partly lifted, ' Ofifcers of these roads Mi 3iid they had -enough men at work to L I' lake care of all cars arriving. IT" : The General Managers' association, Wj ' loday denied that any negotiations II ' Jwere being carried on with the outlaw K Vardmens' association, and stated no H' parley would be entered into. : Denies Strike Illegal. H " In requesting negotiations looking toward the end oC the strike, Prcsi-' Prcsi-' dent Gmnau of the yardraens' assocla-I assocla-I f tion said contracts the railroads have t vIth the brotherhood of Railroad U i Trainmen and the Switchmena' Union I of North America, did not apply to II : membership In his union. He denied 1 i that the strike was illogaL I t V"Tho brotherhood chiews who accuse I f t'vs should come with clean hand3," he I shid. "Tho Brotherhood of Rnilroad I Jlrainmen tpok a strike vote in secret I wo weeks ago. Ballots were cast at I . .one hundred and forty points and au-1 au-1 jjhorized brotherhood officers to call a I slriko if demands for increased pay Li and better working conditions were 7 not granted. If our strike, called In If tho open, is illegal, what do they call tactics like that?" oo