Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 12 | Coast Rail Strike Shows Improvement

Coast Rail Strike Shows Improvement i SAN FRAXCISCO. Cal.. April 1,3. Xlailroads announced improvement la the strike situation In northern and central California and OregOH, but no change in southei'n California, whero t:ie striking switchmen are refusing- to return to work. Freight traffic was at a standstill and passenger tralno were moved with difficulty at Los Angeles. Motor trucks were used to relieve the food situation in the Ios Apgeles district. The Southern Pacific reported operations oper-ations In Oregon were CO per cent normal. nor-mal. Twenty-fiVtf experienced switchmen, switch-men, some of them strikers, reported for work at Oakland. Cal., seventy switchmen on the Great Northern railway rail-way at Spokane, Wash'., remained out today, and almost 100 men umplo: td by the Northern 1 aclflc at Urit p! i'.'-are. i'.'-are. to meet tc tanc" action on tha question ques-tion "of s'rllcir.s.