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Show MORE MEN OF I BROTHERHOODS I TALK STRIKE I Walkout of Trainmen Spreads in Last 24 Hours in Several States REWARDS OFFERED Harding Awaits Answers From Both Union Men and Executives CHICAGO, Aug. 12 'By the S90-:clatcd S90-:clatcd Press) Nation-wide paralysis I of railroad transportation threatened I today as Big Four brotherhood men in various parts of the country' called ' I meetings to consider joining the train- I men's walkout which started when i crews tied up transcontinental Santa nl Fe trains In the California and Arizona II deserts and freight traffic on the. El- II gin, Jollet und Bias tern, outer belt Una for the Chicago steel and shipping dis- '! trlcts. ! The walkout of trainmen spread to I other sections during the last j i hours. Switchmen joined tho engineers fire-men. fire-men. conductors and brak' uo-n in pr- ' tests against working where troops, deputy United States marshals end I other guards were on strike- duty at former trouble centers. The threatened tleup of the nation's railways by a general walkout of train men came, as railroad beads, who met H in New York, prepared their reply to II President Harding's proposals for end-lng end-lng the shopmen's strike, which. H July I. A committee representing the II conversatlv o heads of 148 railroads. II who conditionally accepted the president's presi-dent's proposal planned to present II their reply to the White lions, lodaj . REWARD OFFERED Deaders of thc Striking shoperafts and chieftains of the other rallwaj unions continued their conferences in Washington and were expected to make known thc outcome- ot their meeting today. A reward of $1000 for evidence lead- lH lng to the arrest and conviction of persons cutting air hose, Duttlng sand In journal boxes, "Jimmying" e-nglne.i I or maliciously committing any other I I act of destruction or interference with railroad operations, or kidnaping and beating employes ot the company, was II offered by the Chicago. Burlington Ac Qulncy railroad here todav. ANSWERS AWAITED WASHINGTON, Aug 12 Answer of the striking railway shopmen to tho president's "final " proposal for a set-tlement set-tlement was expected to emei s-e today from the general conference of rail-I rail-I road labor. N Ith it. .0 cording to W'arrcn S. Stone, presiding officer of tho conference, will come a statement II explaining the attitude of the non-strlkiniT non-strlkiniT rail unions and thc protest walkouts of train service employes II over the country, which have further complicated the situation. Presumably the Bhppmens' answer will be transmitted promptly to the White House, where a committee of railway executives was due during the day to present the "conditional acceptance ac-ceptance ' of the president's plan voted vot-ed Friday by the meeting of railroad heads in New York. With both com' munlcatlons before him. President Harding will bo In a position to decide de-cide the course of tin- government-MOR1-: SKRIOVS OliTLOOK Pending actual presentation of the replies of both sides at the White House, overnight developments in the protest walkout movement among tho train service brotherhoods indicated that this phase of the problem might overshadow soon the direct effect of the -hop strike itself. It wras authoritatively stated for tho (Continued n Pugo Two.) i more men of brotherhood!- TALK Sim (Continued lYom Paf admlnlst ration Frl.Jay 'ha! nomti ! racter would ir"vealj; eminent from directing protect life and property vrfiSBBB sary. |