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Show I. ipis Commanding General Does Not Connect Strike With I. W. W. Propaganda. TRAFFIC CONDITIONS IN CHICAGO IMPROVE Charters of Two Lodges Re-! voked and All Striking Mem- bers Ordered Back. j i CHICAGO, April 3C Major General ! Leonard Wood, commander of llio ccn- , Iral department, U. S. A., who returned ; 10 Chicago yesterday Trom his eastern j t-penking tour, because of the insurg j iu strike of railroad workers, tonigh . J.id he did not find "any evidence of connection between the railway men'.' i rinke and Industrial Workers of the World activities." General Wood do-' dared he found traffic conditions ini proving throughout the department. Attorney General Palmer on Wednesday Wednes-day declared reports from his depart- i. mr-nt linked the "illegal" switchmen's j v r.lkout with I. W. W. plans for "one big union," and a nationwide walkout, j Military intelligence1 ,r.'lcers here j hr.u been unable to find any conncc- J I t m between the two, General Wood i Ij ' 1 am leaving tonight for Nebraska and probably will return Sunday,-' he I", sr General Wood added lhat he would 1 ri main on leave for the present as 3 nothing in the situation here nincit-' nincit-' necessary his presence at department t headquarters. I Two Charters Rcvckcd. I " After revoking the charters of two I CI icago lodges of the Brotheihood or X Rf.ilroad Trainmen, and one San Fran- Cisco lodge, A. V. Whitney, vice presl j. dent of the brotherhood, today ordered ij all striking members of l he orgnnlza-'g orgnnlza-'g tion in the Chicago terminal district f If- return to work by midnight Satur-1 Satur-1 da or suffer expulsion from ihc tin lJ ior. with loss of their seniority rights, j!; With twenty-five leaders of the in-I in-I i mii gent forces under arrest in Chicago I ': charged with violating tho J,ever act, I ) , Ihe movement of freight .ind livestock I approaching normal, and the return of j I many striken to duty, rail chiefs and j I W Motherhood officers declared the walk-1 I iff ( which started more than two I v i eks ago, was definitely broken L; j Grunau Member of 455. i L'J' Among the local unions whoso ch aril ar-il . ' itrs were revoked was lodge 456 of lj hv Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul lL r.iilroad, of which John Grunau, head It! of the outlaw yardmen's association. I I v.as a member. It was the walkout I ul seven hundred switchmen on this 111 rcrd that started the strike which sub-i sub-i r quently spread 10 many railroad een-mm een-mm lt-rs throughout the country. HI John Grunau, Harold Heading, pres-H pres-H ictcnt of the United Engincmen's as-H as-H foliation, and four other men, arrested B jesterday by federal agents, announced W they would not put up bonds for their HJ release. B "I do not know what the other men ft are going to do," Grunau said, "but I A j am not going to arrange bond. 1 am I placing myself in the hands of the I commissioner." Fourteen Men Give Bond. Martin Kinney, Shannon Jones, Jno. Logan and Hugo Uadke said the vould go to jail rather . than furnish j bond, but fourteen others who were J released yesterday on their own recog nizance, gave ?-10,000 bond for ihe'u release today before United States ' Commissioner Mason. R. S. Murphy, spokesman for the yardmen's association, blamed brother-! hood officers for the arrests. Ho said 1 the men simply quit their positions 1 ana were not strikers. Five men for "v.hom warrants were issued have not been arrested. Stockyards Receipts Normal. Stockyards receipts were virtually normal today, the railroads reported, 70S cars being received. The move-' mojit of livestock to eastern points ' V also was reported normal with frost, j ; meat shipments at sixty per cent o normal. There were 4 SI locomotive- l in operation in Chicago today compar cd with 443 yesterday. |