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Show PERIL TO WEST I POINTED OUT BY LAWMAKER ; Idahoan Declares Immediate End of Strike Only Can Save Crops OUTLOOK IS HOPEFUL Brotherhood Leaders' Declare De-clare There Will Be No Sympathy Action SALT LAKE, Aug. 31. H, V. Piatt, gem rnl manager of the Oregon Short Line railroad of the I nlon Pacirio system, Is to meet lab- tlrls afternoon after-noon with representatives of the shopmen shop-men nnd allied crafts now In the em-ploy em-ploy of the i nlon Pacific with a view to designing n new va?.- schedule. i i ( alvln, rice president in charge of operation or the i nlon Pn-. Pn-. ir - system, who hn been in Salt Lake since the start f the -hop-men's strike has gone to Idaho, mid will not be present nt today's meeting. WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. Declar-j Declar-j ing that the railroad strike was be-I be-I coming "intolerable " Senator Borah. Republican, Idaho, chairman of ths achate labor committee today urged i he committer to hasten a solution, because be-cause of the losses ln moving crops Senator Hoi. ah In a telegram to T. deWltt Cuyler. chairman of the Asso- jtfjl elation of Railway Executives, and in a conference with B M. Jewell, leader f the striking shopmen and William bl If. Johnston, president of the International Inter-national Association of Machinists, asserted as-serted the crop losses to lack of trans-pi trans-pi rl ition were becoming serious. Mr. Jew.-ii, who with Mr. Johnston, called on Senator Uorah at tho lat- ' I r'i offli oi to view the New K York negotiations as hopeful. He and JL tho machinists' head, It was said, again Ha iir. pnted to Senator Uorah reports as ji Ion i . I ,- ,ad i julpmtn: BORAH S TELiEGRAM Senator Borah's telegram to Mr. Cuyler. the substance ot which was H repeated orally to Mr Jewell, follows: "May I respectfully urge all whd iull convene on W ednesday to consider 19 ways of rcttllng the strike, that at this time throughout fruit and potato regions of west, there is a pronounced Liij toge Of Cars . ml ;.n utter Inability to move these p rishable products to Bit the market. Ill IN Will I 'I.I.OW "Thousands ! u. of potatoes ana fr,i:t nr.- ready to move and the most serious and wid' r ad loss and Jam-age Jam-age ro i I soon follow. If relief is not had at once an 1 cars furnished the next 30 dayi ' I witness the ruin of hundreds ' "" . pd potato raisers, w ho must lose their year's work to say ' nothing of the Indirect iocs to tho pi oi!c who ought to have these prodH I ucts. The situation is fast becoming in- IC tolerable and I felt It my duty to emphasize the conditions to those who are to be In attendance at the con-fere con-fere nee." No s mp tm sTR I K I , CLEVELAND, Ohio. Aug. 81. (By (j the Associated Press) There Is no dang' r of the "big tour" railroad Ijx transportation brotherhoods being drawn Into a sympathetic strike even though strike negotiations to end the strike of the shopcrafts should fail, i This was the declaration made by ! Warren S. Stone, president of thu Brotherhood of Locomotho Engineers, and 1 ll Robertson, president of tho I brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Englnemen on their return to their homes here late Sunday from ; New York and Washington, where. i for ten days they have attempted to mediate the shopmen's controversies. . |