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Show iTIEUP SPREADS TO MORE ROADS : Entire Central West Looks; for Walkouts of Brotherhood By THOM -s vrk;li,y International News Service CHUWCm. Ills. Aug 12. The entire en-tire central west seemed set. on a hiir! trigger for wholesale walkouts of "bijl 'four" brotherhood men tonight. "Take away your soldier guards ami give us rolling stock In proper and! -ate condition" was the demand being received by railroad officials WhO j were working feverishly to prevent 'the walkouts and keep trains moving 'on schedule ; Train tleups were reported In several sev-eral places however, while in others.1 th. brotherhood men had been held to their Jobs only by removing armed arm-ed guards around railroad property on' quick orders I Little Jollet where the "big four"! imen on the Elgin. Jollet and Eastern' Jrallroad a short outer ' belt line" rall-l road around ("hlrago. started th walkouts, was quiet and unperturbed TIEUP SPRI.ADs The brotherhood men were still out j the railroad was completely tied up. All conferences have ieen to no a till and the troops still guard railroad property It was the lollei walkout! which precipitated the more serious' walkouts In other far scattered sections) 'and the brotherhood men there who! I "started things" were firm in declaring declar-ing tonight they would not return to I I work as long as the soldiers remained'' 'on dutj Reports of ticups came from the Illinois Il-linois Central at Memphis, tho Louis-T Vllle and Nashville at Evansvitle, Ind .! the Union Pacific at Pocatollo. Idaho. and other points Reports that thei brotherhood men were about to quit 1 at Milwaukee, on the Chicago, Mil- 1 waukee A St Paul railroad were denied de-nied by railroad officials there Trains 1 were moving as usual. At Normal, 1 near Bloomlngton Ills the Chicago Alton yards were abandoned for tho : present because of the cutting of the air hose on all cars in the yards. I At Dupo, Ills., 300 members of the train unions were only held at work on the Missouri Pacific by hurriedly 1 calling off all armed guards around the shops The men were reported at I work. ' nn . |