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Show MOTHERHOOD ORDERED BACK IB RffiERS OFFER TO IN MEN TO RUN TRAINS i STOP STAGGERING LOSSES (c States From Canada to Mexico Feel Bitter nch of Railroad Tieups; Producers of Fruit Fear Entire Years Work Will Be Loss Unless Relief Is Granted ICJAMENTO, Cal , Aug 15 Approximately 100 engineer? ni switchmen returned to work today on the Southern, it Roscville and began moving fruit cars in the yards in ac-rath ac-rath a working agreement decided upon early today, the i J iEDOUECed 1CAG0, Aug 15 (By the Associated Press.) Warren S Resident of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers, has no-mki no-mki of his union in the far west that unless the men who Kit on the Santa Fe without authorization return to work . K their places will be filled, according to a statement made Wiyby A. G Wells, vice president of the Santa Fe .Mr. v eu6 mauo puont wufimv from Mr Stono and from D. B Kob-, Kob-, i.. r, chief of the locomotive flrc-mi flrc-mi a in i t-ply to his statement of Monday Mon-day that the road would replace th men unless they returned to work. Mr Robertson said that firemen Should quit work only when their equipment was too defective for safe-t safe-t Standi against the strike previously previ-ously had been taken by V. G. Lee. president Of tho trainuvn's union and I L. E Bheppard, head of the conductors conduct-ors The t xt of the terrain was as follows; DITY tXI'LXTED "In reply to your message regarding situation on Santa Fe, I have wired all divisions of LJ of L. E. on Santa Fe proper and Santa Fe coast Urn s and the cngineer' chairmen on these prop-ertfes prop-ertfes tht men will bf expected to perform their usual duties and take (.nit engines that they would have taken tak-en out under normal conditions. I tiavs told them that unless the men. return to work, their places will be filled! All concerned have been advised ad-vised that there is no lejral strike of the transportation brotherhoods. "Grand ufflcer Montgomery has been unable to reach either Iaa Vegas or N . dies and if posslbl . I Intend to assign another officer to cover that territory. I will appreciate it if your office will keep m- advised of the situation sit-uation WAUKF.N B. STONE " ( s r FEELS TIEUP SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.. Aug 15. (By the Associated Press.) from mo Canadian boundary line south almost to the Mexican border, the Pacific) coast states today felt a bitter pinch from the railroad tieups which have bei n developing, lifted and clamped down again ever since Thursday night. ! Passengers who had been marooned at tho desert towns which serve as terminals for the Santa Fe lines' sout b western divisions. hud beon brought to places of greater comfort, but little in nothing had been done or. apparently could be donei for the fruit growers Of northern Washington. Southern Oregon and Northern California, Cali-fornia, while but little more was be-lrif,' be-lrif,' done for those In the San Juun ! valley of California, farther outh. The strike of Union Pacific trann-; trann-; portation employes at San Bernardino 'alii . was ended Monday night and four trains moved eastward over that ' route's I.os Angeles-Salt Lake line but how far they would get. in view of continued walkouts at Callonte and Las Vegas. New, no one would hazard a guess There was a tense situation situa-tion at Las Vegas, where about K0 i" r:.ns -mn wiio have replaced the striking shopmen, guards employed to ' protect '.he railroad property and the 'I wives and children of some of both 1 cla.ues were virtual prisoners in a railroad enclosure, picketed all around ' i by strikers. STILL TIED I P. Moreover, oven sh'OUld this line be opened the resumption oi transportation transpor-tation thereon would have little orno effect on the situation farther north, i Peri shable freight ombargoef continue in effect on Lh.: Union Pacific lines, ! Sai:. Lake to Ban Francisco, on the Santa Fe from Bakerstleld. Oallf., RSOUtb and east, and on the Southern Pacific to all points ea3t and north ,of Rosevlll; Calif, the latter block-1 block-1 Inf.- through to Portland, Ore., as well aa that east via Ogd n I On none of these sections was there t any appreciable amount of freight of 'any kind being moved. Passenger train were getting through on the Southern Pacific's two routes and, with great difficulty, on the Santa Fe between Los Angole .nd some point (Cuntinuca uu Pace Two.) PACIFIC COAST STATES FEEL STRIKE DELAY AND LOSSES 1(11.1 I (Continued From Page One) I to the east yet to he determined, but the Western Pacific continued "In-definitely "In-definitely suspended." ram grow Kris DESPERATE Fruit growers and others directly nffectod by tln tie-ups took up the cudgels In their own defense Mond iv nlpht ,md meetings at Wonatchi Hash., and Fresno, Calif , made vlg-I vlg-I orous appeals to President Harding I for relief The Wenatehee gathering, asserting that that district's ?2r,,000,-I ?2r,,000,-I 000 fruit crop the product of a whole ..it's work was endangered, off rod to supply and protect men to man trains to novo the fruit. The Fresno I meeting appealed to the president and . the heads of the four great trunspor-l trunspor-l talion brotherhoods the engineers, firemen conductors and trainmen to end the strike and avert what ap- peared to bo an Imminent disaster to J the fruit growers, or. falling that to declare un armistice long onougli to HH permit the fruit crop to be moved. RELIEF Is BOUGHT. Both gathering sought to align I ij public: opinion In their behalf, the Call font tana by urging eastern mm with financial interest in the rops ' brokers, bankers and the like to e;o to Washington and tell their fepre- sentatlves in the national councils and j Jn;, '!m r.cllr.ii.i ( . r- . ' . r ... 1 . r r ;j t i -t !',! 1 what they thought of the affair, while i ! ' the Wenatchoe meeting sent teioprams, j'Jlfj from a number of fruit growing sce-,,' sce-,,' ' tlons. seeking adoption of resolutions, t;ti demanding government action, if eessary. One clause in their resolu-j ( tions requested an immediate :is:iem- : j I'J J.bly of congress to consider relief I liib i!' :.ir. -i si ires. l Southern Oregon, alarmed by tho j ! . southern Pacific embargo, showed ap-. prehension thut the fruit crop of that ij legion might not be moved to can-j nerles with resultant heavy loss to growers. Estimates of the loss varied widely pit . "nr K"liifT 3" t;ir an to place that In t California at $37,000,000 to growers 1 : . alone but all apred that on account! ;.of the delicate nature of the crop thoi I ; damage due to lack of transportation HHj ; had been heavy already and was in-1 ' ireaslng by thousands iir.urlv. MILLIONS DAILY. H. m. Romingto; manager of th m ; Growers' and Shippers' Protective, HU league, said the strike Is costing ,, . 1 I ciduous fruit growers of the state 57.-! vOKn : 000,000 to J10.000.000 each day tl'jj I embargo is on A new factor in the situation end j one which experienced railroad men .said might well be viewed with nppre-! henslon, was the refusal of pumping! plant employes along the Santa Fe lines to remain at work. An lnspec-' tlon by an Associated Prrs3 corro -1 pondent disclosed that some of the! water tanks at t deeeii points along' ! i the road's line between .Needles and San Bernardino apparently were dry, ! and others nearly so !jv Should these tanks be unable to' provide their vital supplies for lot 0-motives. 0-motives. It was asserted by stril.. rs that not oven such trains as could be manned by officials would K'.-t i hrough. RETURN AT ROSEVH&tE Tho situation at Rosevllle', Calif brightened considerably with thi announcement an-nouncement this morning that the brotherhood men wi been n strike here Blnce Sundav had reached' an agreement with Southern i clfle officials to return to work Thi tiement, it is believed, will prevent a crisis for the fruit growers of North California, as Rose vi lie has been tlio 1 key-block in the jam on tho South-ern South-ern I'arlfic. Also railroad clerks at Needles vot-; vot-; ed not to walkout, although authoriz-I authoriz-I ed to do so. Federal inquiry Into a possible conspiracy con-spiracy basis for the walkers went forward In southern California and the federal district attorney for north-, north-, ern California held a conference with his subordinates on the same subject, sub-ject, but no action was announced, i Both northern and southern California Califor-nia inquiries were on instructions I from Attorney General Dougherty who also telegraphed tho federal district j attorneys for New Mexico and Arl-I Arl-I zona to act likewise and to bring the 1 matter before grand juries if evl-I evl-I denco warranting that step was found. BROTTIKRIIOOI) IVQVIRY W. G. Lee, head of tho trainmen's ' brotherhood, directed two vice prcdl-i prcdl-i dents of that body to proceed to tho Banta Fe lines to Inquire into the situation. sit-uation. A G Wells, vice prcsldont of tho Bant I Fe In a vigorous statement called call-ed mi Mr l.ec and the other brotherhood brother-hood heads to inform him whether they Intended to see that their men lived up to their contracts with thej roads and suggested as an alternative that the roads OtherwlBt would take what steps they could to operate tho trains regardless of the brotherhood I lie denbd that equipment on his road i was In an unsafe condition, as has I been charged by some workers. With all Its marooned trains moved . out of tho desert section or in a fair way to be moved today, the Santa i i'e initiated arrangements for moving westward come of the trains which have been piling up at Alburquerqun since lasi Friday. t SF- Of SICKM 58 Six westbound through Santa Fe trains were tied up there Rnd five at Lns Vegas railroad officials reported. report-ed. Six cases of sickness on the trains I stranded at AlburOiUerque Monday ) Bight Is causing attention by Santa' Fe officials. Two serious cases were t a I; en to the Santa Fe hospital Th Were Mrs W. A. Noble of Pasadena. Calif., and II. Koplo. Philadelphia. Pa Passengers on these trains sent a Second telegram to President Harding Monday night and dispatched copies to the governors of California and New Mexico, urging the use of "every means at your command to end this Intolerable condition " The message described the railroad management as "anxious to act " Co-incident with the movement of passenger trains. Santa Fe officials turned their attention to cleaning up the congestion of freight tars. Four freight engines with cabooses left Los Angeles Monday night for Yerrno. Calif, and were to commence the movement of stranded freight trains, It was announced. I. OS ANGELES. Calif. Aug. 15. All passenger trains stalled on tho lines of the Santa Fe railway by the walkout of members of the big four WOIH moving today, it was reported; efforts were being made to move all freight tied up from the same causo n the K'niie line and tension following follow-ing the railroad labor troubles in tho southwest would be lightened. It was hoped, by dispatches from San Bernardino. Ber-nardino. CiiMf., and announcing the nd ol the brotherhood strike there on the Union Pacific system. The Santa Fe officials planned to start at least one passenger train sj day from Los Angeles to Chicago. PROBE PROGRESSING The Investigation of federal offl- j rials of the report trains were aban-J doned at desert points, with resultant suffering to passengers as a result of c -onsplrr.cy. wa-, said to be progre.s-Qg. progre.s-Qg. Department of justice agen.'s dispatched from Los Angeles Mondav were expected to begin an Inquiry today to-day at Needles, Calif. (l neCHHSlI rv it una eol.l a. - - V . " ,u. nil- U 1 1 1 i. d States grand Jury would be calloil , nto session to hear testimony on the conslracy inqulrv in "f!"-" .'-nnounrcd ' berr th ",Cf th situation tho VIZ,00? hr ,n"t"lfag motor "J' "'TM - tO points sol;,l...J ,v th . non-movement of trains. I GREEN BAjTwitZ Aug 1 "Train I men and switchmen of the CWclio I Milwaukee and SL Paul left work t-day follow-?? an outbreak late ; Monday nlht In which non-union shopmen were stoned. : tn?cKwdflrS "tto,the n,r to dlPee , me crowd. TJu- trainmen and swltcb-men swltcb-men immediately left work a . iyarda ' sUtloned In tho |