Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-08-07
ENG|NEMEN WILL
STRIKE AUG. |.
Fifty-fMe Thousand Win Quit I'm.
less Roads Yield.
LAST EFFORT BY PRESIDENT
liz VIII Endcavor to Persuade the
Western Railways to Accept Fed
erai Mediation Boards Plan
Of Settlement

Chicago, Aug. IA strike of 55,0 600
railroads has been called for Friday,
August Z, it was announced here by
union officials, unless the railroads
accept plan OF settlement proposed by
the federal board of mediation.
Wilson Seeks to End Strike.
Washington, Aug. President Viii
Q win today make one final effort to
bring about a peaceful settlement OF
b wage controversy between locomo-
tive engineers and fremen and So rail-
roads west of Chicago. The efforts
al III United States board of medi-
xtion and Cancellation have failed. For
aen days the members have labored
10 bring employers and employees to
an agreement to arbitrate their differ
enees. and for the first time in the his
tory of the board their efforts have
come 10 naught.
On Wednesday the federal media
tors. abandoning further hope. tele-
graphed to the president Informing
him of the seriousness of the situa-
ZION The president wired back in
ylting representatives of both sides
To meet him today at the White House,
when a last attempt will be made to
hiring about an agreement to arbi-
trate.
II the attempt fails union officials de-
clare that a strike will be called on
Wednesday or Thursday Of next week
which will man the walkout of SIS, 900
engineers n fremen, affecting 160,-
600 railroad employees, and paralysis
ri central and western transportation
William L. Chambers. commissioner
al mediation, and Judge Martin A.
Knapp. chairman of the board. left
chicago for Washington, and will lay
before the president the developments
and facts OF the meetings. G. w. w.
Hanger. the other member of the fed
eral board. remains in Chicago to keep
ia touch with the situation at that
and
The representatives of employers
xnd employees are on the way for the
capital A w. Trenholm, general man
ager Of the Chicago. st. Paul, Mime
npolis G. Omaha railroad, and chair
mar Of the conference managers com
mittee, heads the railroads represent
ntiyes- Warren s. Stone. grand chief
sngineers OF the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers. and w. S. Carter,
president OF the brotherhood Of Lo
pemotiye Firemen and Enginemen, go
% represent the men.
Ninety-eight railroads are involved,
inEinding practically every line in the
country west Of the Illinois Central
nprth and south line, and lines in Can
a1a west Of Fort William.
May Call international Strike.
Paris, Aug. 1.-The International
SOCIALIST congress. representing H.
100000 workers, may call an interna-
x70nal strike of the mining and trans
p~ortation Industries on account Of the
European war. according to a state
menf made here. !
The congress. which is bitterly op-
posed to war. feels that such a threat
may cool the ardor Of those who want
wzx. az a strike of this kind would tie
M practically every railroad system ON
kas continent and would force the clos.
Eng OF every industrial plant in q
abort time BECAUSE of the lack OF coal
md steel Z
Further than this, the tying up Of
zhe railroad systems would mean star
xzfion for millions living inland who
sepend upon railroads to bring to
them the largest portions of their food
supplies,