Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 2 | U. S. Troops Called out to Unload Mails

Freight and Passenger .Traffic in New York City Paralyzed Para-lyzed By Strike PLEA FOR VOLUNTEER - WORKMEN TO BE MADE Mayor of Jersey City Sympathizes Sympa-thizes With Strikers, But Urges Arbitration NEW YORK, April 12. Tho strike of railroad workers here tonight presented pre-sented the ruoso menacing situation the city haB faced since the unauthorized unauthor-ized walkout began. Freight service virtually was paralyzed and passenger services, already curtailed, was further furth-er crippled. Today United States' troops went into Jersey City to unload stranded mail trains and department of Justice agents extended their Investigations alLovor the New York area. Appeals by railroads for volunteer workmen and the ' campaigns of tho strikers to recruit their ranks from men still loyal had become more insistent. in-sistent. Tho situation tonight was: Only freight shipments received today to-day were "war jspecials" of solid food trains brought from Chicago by the Now York Central, and a few oars which cre.pt in over tho New Havon, and Pennsylvania roads. Commuters Unable to Reach Home J i Mail train schedules wero generally disrupted, and motor trucks were used. Hundreds of thousands of commuters commut-ers living In New Jersey wero unable to reach their places of business in Now York. Strike sympathizers committed their first act of violence when an iron bar was hurled through the window of a Central roaldion of the New Jersey train, injuring a peasenger. Train crews of four mail trains of the Erie were attacked at Port Jarvls, N. Y., and railroad officials announced Port Jervis was controlled by strikers. Timothy Shea, first vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men arrived here accompanied by J. G. Walker, secretary of the bureau of information in-formation of the eastern railroads, to; arrange a Joint conference of railroad managers and the four brotherhoods. Other labor leaders were hore. Mayor Hague of Jersey City, who had expressed sympathy for the strikers, strik-ers, appealed to them to arbitrate. A committee of 14 men representing the I strikers, refused to urge strikers to return, re-turn, he announced. ' Warning was issued by Liridley M. Garrison, federal receiver of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Rapid Transit oompany, that agitators agita-tors were urging employes of the Rapid Transit lines in New York to strike. Railroad officials sought in vain, to learn the source of maintenance of the strikers. ' The department of justice began" an inventory of food stores and b'lg warehouses, ware-houses, searching for hoarders. Meat dealers announced an increase of a cent a pound in wholosale prices'. . C. P. Wallace, president of the ymu and Produce Exchange commission merchants and market men, said perishable per-ishable food wag gradually being exhausted ex-hausted and the situation w.13 becoming becom-ing grave.