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Show foSElBls Attorney General Prepares Charges Against Strikers Engineers Refuse to Go Out SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 Golden Gate lodge of trainmen, affiliated with tho Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Train-men, announced today thaht the members mem-bers of the lodge would be callod-out at midnight. The lodge was said to number seventy mOn employed on! Southern Pacific passenger trains. Eighty yard men, representing al-( most the entire force employed at tho ! Portland, Oregon, terminals Joined the j movement, today. Early tonight It was ! announced thaht all tho switchmen em-. ployed In the Southern Pacific yards atj Sacramento had walked out, leaving i I no important rail center in. California I uuaffected. Striko leaders at Los Agneles as-1 I sorted tonight that 1500 men were outi llit that district. Railway officials es-! tlmated the number of men out in San j Francisco at 440. An ultimatum that striking swltch-imen swltch-imen will be regarded as having "ter-Iminaled "ter-Iminaled their employment with the company" vunless they return to work I by 4 p. m. Saturday, was Issued late 'today by tho Southern Pacific cora-.pany. cora-.pany. At the same time, company of-i of-i ficlals said they were having inserted I lit the newspapers throughout California Califor-nia adverllsemonts for men to take the places of those who fail to return. Similar announcements were mado at Los Angeles by officials of the Santa Fe and Salt Lake companies. Against Strike. LINCOLN. Neb., April 9. Lincoln switchmen and yardmen, following a four-hour discussion tonight, decided i against Joining in tho Insurgent strike at the present time. The proposal was to quit work at 7 o'clock tomorrow i morning and a majority decided in favor fa-vor of continuing at work. |