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Show I' jpiii n ' 1 JL affa 0 A A A A Ab A JL Pr H WORKERS TO BE I TOLD OBJECTS I AREJST1E0 Headquarters of Outlaw Union Says Men Are Advised to Take Old Jobs NEW ORGANIZATION TO CONTINUE, CLAIM Early Resumption of Normal Traffic Looked for As Result of Move CHICAGO, April 17. Hope ior settlement of the railroad strike here today apparently was definitely lost this morn ing- when the grand lodge offi-cers, offi-cers, directors and trustees of the ' ' outlaw ' 1 union reiterated their original demands, and added two new ones to tho CHICAGO, April 1 7. The H railroad strike here will be called off toda', it was report- JH jed at headquarters of the Chi- 1 cago Yardmen's association, : the "outlaw" union, this morn- jH -iing -j Officials of the union are in ' conference. A mass meeting of the strikers, at which, they J will be, advised to return to jH j.jwoi'k, is 'to. be. held .this evei 3 nine? it is said. i The men will be told, it was ijl (reported, that their objective '11 Sjhad been obtained, that their j wage demands would receive -;the prompt attention of the ' new railway labor board and that the new union would con-s. con-s. tinue, with or without the ' - sanction of the railroads. j Among those at the confer- ' ,ence were John Grunau, presi-; presi-; dent; Charles Riley, vice pres-Jident; pres-Jident; A. W. Casseday, secre-tary; secre-tary; William L. Bond", treas-'urer, treas-'urer, and Fred A. Feltner, ser-igeant ser-igeant at arms, of the yard-; yard-; men's association, all of whom were arrested on Thursday ; charged with conspiracy to violate the Lever act. , Union officials pointed out ' that the proposed plan of "ad-'vising" "ad-'vising" the men to return to I iwork is as nearly an order to return to their posts as the 11 i "rebel" leaders can give in View of their contention that the walkout was a movement of individuals and that the ( H union chiefs had no power . H i "to force them to return to H (work." H At union headquarters it H was said that the leaders H would "suggest" that suffi-cient suffi-cient men would return to H work to break the strike in the H Chicago switching district, H where 8000 men walked out H beginning seventeen -days ago. H At a special meeting of the H Baltimore & Ohio passenger H trainmen, at which J. A. Lee, H general chairman of the Broth- H erhood of Railroad Trainmen, H was present, the men voted to H return to -work at noon today. , H Officials said this action would H restore passenger traffic to l normal and would affect sev- H eral hundred men who have H been on strike. jH oo |