The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
STRIKERS ARE PAID
 WITHOUT DISORDER Precautions Taken By H.
 lin0is Central Needless SUITUATION IS QUIET New Orleans Judge Announces His Intention of Enforcing Respect of
 Federal Injunction = Strike
 breakers Return To Work

Chicago October 1.-The elaborate pains taken Dy the Illinois Central to pro- tect it's Burnside plant in case of trouble with the strikers on payday today proved unnecessary and although the streets were crowded with men all day 1t wa, quiet as If no strike was on, and quieter than an ordinary payday.
 About $2oo,OOO was paid the men from cars outside the stockade. The men were paid by checks, most of which were cashed at nearby banks.
 Special detachments of police patroling the streets and held in reserve in the police station were on watch all da5 fearing an outbreak, but when the strike breakers left the shop at the usual time none was molested.
 McComb City, Miss, october 11.-A to- tai of 24 holders have returned to work in the Illinois Central shops here. The holders union Is not affiliated with the federation of employees, but these men walked out in sympathy with the striking members of the federation.
 Seventy-five additional strikebreakers were brought in here today to take the place of SS who were sent north by the railroad last night. The majority of skilled laborers among the strikebreak- CTS here are machnists.
 There has been no violence since the soldiers arrived.
 New Orleans, October 1l.-Evidencing his determination to enforce respect for federal injunctions, Judge Rufus F. Eos kAI otae oir fa- day held Frank Grotsch. a striking Illi- nois Central freight handler in contempt of the court and sentenced him to 60 days in the parish prison. In strike cases dis posed of last week Judge Foster imposed sentences of from three to 10 days in jaiL but gave warning that heavier sentences would be dealt out in the future to all violators df the injunctions.
 Grotsch was caught in the act of un. coupling a string of cars from an engine and is alleged to have threatened the trainmen with brick if they attempted to interfere with him, thereby violating the restraining order obtained by the railroad company.
 Four other strikers were tried this afternoon on charges of assaulting strike breakers.
 Following an assault by striking milk drivers upon two non-union drivers to- day, almost in front of the city hall, May or Behrman ordered policemen placed upon every dairy wagon of the companies affected by the strike. and told the strikers he would stop violence if he had to put everyone of them In jail.
 About a dozen strikers attacked the two wagons, emptied the milk in tine streets and struck the drivers several blows Two of the strikers were placed in jail. The milk drivers were only re- gently organized They demanded n- creased wages and better working condi- tions.
 Memphis, October 11.-Pending the dis position of the temporary injunction sc- cured by the attorneys for the railroads against the striking members of the Clerks union of the Illinois Central rail; road conditions remained unchanged in the local strike situation today. H
 According to general Superintendent Morris of the Yazoo and Mississippi Val ley railroad, about 80 per cent of the usual freight business was handled in and out of Memphis yesterday.