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Show SHE OF ; Grand Trunk Is Tied Up -Government Offers Arbitration Montreal. July 19. Tho strike order or-der Issued on the Grand Trunk railroad rail-road last, night at 9:30, and obeyed by fully 3.500 conductors and trainmen train-men whose demands for wage Increases In-creases had not been met by President Presi-dent Hayes of the railroad at the final conference yesterday, caused paralysis paraly-sis of freight movement throughout the greater part of tho Bysteru today and tew. If any, passenger trains were put out. All suburban trains on the Grand Trunk railway running Into Montreal were cancelled this morning. Thousands m uuslness men and C'tners were compelled to find other means of, reaching the city, . Milk trains were also cancelled and a large section of tho city is threatened threat-ened with a milk famine. When the l.fiOO employes of tho Grand Tnink shops at Point St. Charles reporied for work today, they found the shops surrounded by 350 policemen and notices posted that the shops were closed In ccusequcpcc of the strike of conductors and trainmen train-men which started last night. There was no disturbance. . Union officials here say tho object of the Grand Trunk in closing Its shops la to force the shop employes, many of whom are old trainmen, to take the strikers' places. The union officials add that If this is tho Intention, it will uot succeed. The "International Limited," the Grand Trunk's fast train, to Detroit and Chicago, left at the usual hour, 9 o'clock, this morning. Offers Arbitration. Montreal, July 19. A new turn was given to the situation in the strike of the Grand Trunk railway conductors conduc-tors and trainmen shortly after noon by the receipt of a dispatch from the minister of Labor at Ottawa, offering, offer-ing, in behajf of the government, to appoint a board of arbitration in tho trouble between the company and its employes, the finding to be binding on both and the government to bear all expenses In connection therewith. The offer was submitted In the form of a letter to Prosldent Hayes of the Grand Trunk and to the head officials of the unions Involved, and Is now under consideration by them. Whllo there la no Intimation of how they will act upon the offer, It is known that strong pressure Is being brought to bear upon both sides to accept. ac-cept. It is thought that from the fact that President Hayes had already mado an offer to arbitrate the difficulty, diffi-culty, the company, at least, will accede ac-cede to the proposal. Advices from all divisional points of tho Grand Trunk In Canada and from Port Huron and Detroit Indicate that the company Is having greater dlfllcul-ly dlfllcul-ly In keeping Us t7alns moving than was at first apparent. At some points no tickets are being sold, because of the Inability of the company to guarantee complete journey. Thus the train which left Stratford. Ont , for Buffalo at 10:45 this morning, carried car-ried no passengers. At Hamilton, a center of trade union un-ion interests, trouble Is feared as soon as 6trlke breakers begin to appear ap-pear and the police precautions have been redoubled. Freight Jams are reported nt Toronto, To-ronto, Hamilton and other points, while the yards at Montreal are lined with freight which the company is unable to move. An official of the company predicts that the entire train service will be resumed within 48 hours, basing his prediction, he said, on the company's apparent ability to get all the men It wants. Many of the men shut out of the shops have taken train service and the union ofllclals bitterly denounce the company for closing tbe 6hops at this time and thereny throwing 10,-000 10,-000 men Into Idleness. They declare that such a move will be ample Justification Justi-fication for a sympathetic strike of the engineers and telegraphers, although al-though there Is no Judication of such a move. The latest calculation of tho number num-ber of men rendered Idle by the strike and lockout runs to 16,000. "We're tho arbitrator now. There has been sufficient arbitration, and I don't think there wn. na any more " said Vice President Murdoch, when the proposition of the minister of labor la-bor for arbitration of the Grand Trunk striko was broached to him. President Borty of the Order of Railroad Trainmen, who Is assisting Murdoch, expressed a similar opinion. |