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Show S. P. CLAMPS EMBARGO ON FREIGHT; , RAILROAD OFFICIALS DENY RUMORS I OF PROPOSED PARLEY WITH STRIKERS With local strike conditions practically prac-tically tho same as yesterday, tho consensus of opinion in railroad circles cir-cles today Is that switchmen will voluntarily vol-untarily return to their jobs within tho course of a few days. No strikebreakers havo been hired In Ogden yards, it was said, and the yardmastcr and liis assistants continue to handle passenger traffic. In a communication to C. S. War-, ner, local chariman of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Railway Trainmen; S. M. Welch, secretary of that organization, organiza-tion, G. F. Leldlg, local chairman of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Engi-neers, and J. C. Rush, local .chairman for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the following statement was made J. II. Dyer, gerieral manager man-ager of the Southern Pacific Railroad company: "Reports arc being circulated that Southern Pacific officials are about to meet the representatives of the yardmen's new association to discuss tholr proposals for working agreements and new wage schedule. "Wish to .emphatically deny that any such step is In contemplation." contem-plation." Notwithstanding Information rc-recelvod rc-recelvod yesterday to tho effect that. sti-Iklng switchmen had returned to work in the majority of railroad centers cen-ters of California, the most swooping ing embargo which has been placed in operation on tho Southern Paciflo lines since,, tho walkout, became effective ef-fective today, according to word from tho local Southern Pacific offices. Superintendent E. A. Campbell, in a telegram to local officials stated that bocausc of labor troublo that agents would rcfuso to accept freight for transmission between points on or by way of Southern Pacific lines. The embargo includes all freight carloads originated at, destined to,' or to move through Portland, Brooklyn, Dunsmulr, Sparks, Carlln, Montello, Ogden, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Oakland, Port Costa, Stockton, Tracy, Fresno, Mohave, Los Angeles, Colton and several minor points. It also includes all perishable freight or livestock for local movement move-ment between the points specified above. Whilo predictions were made yesterday yes-terday regarding a possible walkout of Southern Pacific shop employes, tho prediction has thus far proved erroneous, er-roneous, it is stated, no. action of this naturo having been taken. Members of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks will hold a mooting this evening, but no vote for an Immediate Im-mediate strike is naid to bo contemplated. |