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Show RAIL WAR PEACE PROSPECTS I DIMMER AS 100,000 MORE I MEN JOIN RANKS OF STRIKERS I Maintenance of Way Workers Quit in Defiance of X, Their Leaders and Clerks and Freight Handlers I' Walk Out in Isolated Groups; Topeka M Brotherhoods, Also, Would If Leave Their Trains R I CHICAGO, July 17. Approximately 25,000 maintenance of way K men have struck without premission from President Grable, J. 0. W& Smock, vice president of the union, announced today. Mr Members of the maintenance of way union who engage in an Wfc unauthorized strike will not be expelled from the union "for the E. moment," but brotherhood organizers will be sent to interview the strikers and attempt to persuade them to remain at work pending K final decision as to a national strike, E. F, Grable, president of the H United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and railway K shop laborers said this morning. k ' CHICAGO. July 17 (By the Asso- R? ' 1 ,-!;, t.H i.- . r - . .. Bn iaiea fress; Peace pro.spects in th K rtllroad strike were dimmed today by WL the additions of approximately 100,- 000 men to the forces of the tstriker. Wfc Negotiations tor a settlement werS Rtt temporarily at a Standstill, with nj W& positive indication as to the rlghl TO move, or its possible result. K Bj many, it is believed that the na- H- tlon tills ueek will meet trie major iu- BK- dustrlal crisis of its history. B Seventy-fivo thousand maintejoanos 01 way workers Jn New l ork switch- 'firing 'fir-ing area were scheduled to leave then K: posts in answer to a regional stnk m' call. To this number were added clo ft-to ft-to 10,000 oilers and stationary firemen. SE7 and engineers throughout the country. H& whose stnko call last week fixed this Eu morning as tha hour for cessation al work Clerks and treight handlers in R; various sections planned to leave the I wok in groups ranging from less than a hundred upward. tt'i THURSDAY BIG DAY Rv Barring the unforseeu, Thursdaj Is expeetcd to bring the first impoitaut Ife development in the strike. uo Ihat w day. President E. F, Grable of thu Kr, maintenance of way unions will meet R In Detroit with regional chairmen tu fix the policy of the national organize - tion In the dispute. With approxi- Bi'. mately 100,000 in the maintenance K crarts involved, the ultimate resuli oi the strike is regarded as bound u vn ' session. A determined effort to ' keep tiie men at work Is fortcast , j R. '.' Mr. Grable's part In the meeting, b'c with such a sentiment for the walfc- H out as is evidenced by the suspension ol the maintenance of way men In eaai Bp today the outcome or the conference m E. entirely conjectural. E- Ft'LL .SITUATION fc The pressure of" fuel supplies n many Ofr'1 sections is an aggravating factor a W",- the industrial situation. Son-union R oal which had been an adequate uj. n ply since April 1, to keep abre ISt of S"; current consumption demands, hu Kv been shut off In many sections by ih p- shortage of freight equipment due Lu H the shopmen's strike. f Hopes tor a railroad settlement tt an early date, appeared to be bas64 f" Chlefl) upon tlic attitude of Mr. Jia- ble, who came to Chicago tod y front p Washington, W liore. on Saturday, lw bold a conference with President Hai- dingi -Mr Grable said he would confer t with members Of the railroad lute if lioard in an effort lo get support of an P, order to prevent carriers from requir L ing mainienanco men to do Stikers' f A NOT HER INDICATION Another Indication of a drift toward jr peace was seen in the statement of p i;, A Hennlng, general chairman tt p thfi federated shopcrafts of the norta- t, the only tho refusal ol eastern ' r roads to agree to reinstate striking Shi p cralLs workers with then- full H soniorit) r.o'hts. was preventing a s .- I' tlement on the roads in the northwest r. section of thu country. t A message to ES. n. Fitzgerald, head I of the Clerks, Kreignt Handlers, fcs- I press and Station Bmplojes' union, i' salil a strike vote of 80'JO clerks on tt. y Chicago and Northwfestern railroad ho ed it per cent of the men favor- r- Ing a walkout and asking for attfhor- w Ity to strike. A canvass of tho strike K vote of the same organisation on the ChlcagQ and Eastern Illinois road H showed ',' 1-2 per cent of the work- ' era favoring a walkout, according ta 1 representatives of the union. $ Strike ballots are being circulated by the Brotherhood of Railway Steamship rks, Freight Handlers and EJapreSS Kmployes, to Its members employed L' by t tie Southern Railway and its affil- I lated lines. The employes charge that t tho company reduced wages in deft- t ance of the railroad labor board. L MOKE WOULD STRIKE The Tokepal (Kane ) unions of the p big four brotherhoods and the switch- H rh tt's union, petitioned their officers H (Contiuucd ou Page Two.) f i T Rail War Peace Prospects Dimmer as 100,000 More Men Join Ranks of Strikers (Continued from Page One) for permission to go on strike July 20 Clerks and station employes on more ban 60 of the 2ol class one roads have taken strike votes, according to Information Infor-mation received here. Reports of cancellation of trains bo- lcontTnuedah0rtae f 1' Reports have been received in Washington Wash-ington by the war department and the postmaster general on the situation at Dennlspn, Texas. There, has been buTl, I ni V19 d'-1Jverv of malls, , but no actual interruption, and public .need no feel disturbed, according to Postmaster General Work Governor Ncff. of Texas, has ordered Captain i Hickman, of the Texas rangers back ,UonDefn" ao.n' but h tfvsa no Indira-'soon Indira-'soon would send troops thcr I Arrangements for the use of all airplanes air-planes available for mall service have ,tIfnLnKA,1rKSh0uJd tho advice bo curtailed cur-tailed by tho railway strike, Arthur C louder postmaster of Chicago, announced an-nounced today, after conferences with , heads of airplane operating companies No exigency as yet makes nocessarv the use of additional planes." Leuder sald 'but Tho department should be ( ready to maintain Its service in the' face of all conditions ' |