The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-06
RAIL MEN TO STRIKE
FIFTY-FlyE THOUSAND WILL
QUIT UNLESS ROADS YIELD
TO DEMANDS.
LAST EFFORT BY PRESIDENT
Wilson VIII EndeaVor to Persuade the
Western Railways to Accept Federal
Mediation Boards Plan Of Settle
ment.

Chicago, Aug "A strike Of $1,000
engineers and firemen on 81 western
railroads has been called for Friday,
August Z, 1t was announced here by
union officials, unless the railroads
accept plan of settlement proposed by
the federal board Of mediation.
Washington. Aug. 3.-President Will
son will today make one final effort to
bring about a peaceful settlement OF
the wage controversy between locomo-
tive engineers and firemen and 9S rail-
roads. west of Chicago. The efforts
of. the United States board of medi-
alton and conciliation have failed.
For ten days the members have la
bored to bring employers and en-
ployes to an agreement to arbitrate
their differences, and for the first
time in the history of the board their
efforts have come to naught.
On Wednesday the federal media
tors, abandoning further hope, tele-
graphed to the president informing
him Of the seriousness of the situa-
ton. The president wired back in
viting representatives of both sides to
meet him today at the White House,
when a last attempt will be made to
bring about an agreement to arbitrate
If the attempt fails union officials
declare that a strike will be called
which will mean the walkout of 55,-
900 engineers and firemen, affecting
100000 railroad employees, and paraly-
sis of central and western transpor-
tation In the United States and Can
ada.
William L. Chambers, commissioner
of mediation, and Judge Martin A.
Knapp, chairman of the board, left
Chicago for Washington. and will lay
before the president Of the develop
ments and facts Of the meetings. e..
w. w. Hanger, the other member OF
theN federal board, remains in Chicago
| to keep in touch with the situation at
that end.
The representatives of employers
and employees are on the way for
the capital A. w. Trenholm, general
manager of the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis G. Omaha railroad, and
chairman of the conference managers
committee, heads the railroads repre-
sentatives Warren S. Stone, grand
chief engineers Of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers, and W. 8. Car
ter, president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
go to rpresent the men.
Ninety-eight railroads are involved
including practically every line In the
country west Of the Illinois Central
north and south line, and lines in Can
ada west of Fort William.
Paris, Aug 3.-The international
Socialist congress, representing H.,
100000 workers, may call an interna
tional strike of the mining and trans
portation industries on account of the
European war, according to a state
ment made here.
The congress, which is bitterly op
posed to war, feels that such a threat
may cool the ardor of those who want
war, as a strike Of this kind would tie
up practically every railroad system
on the continent and would force the
closing of every industrial plant in q
short time because of the lack Of Goa
and steel.
Further than this, the tying up OF
the railroad systems would mean star
walton for millions living inland vhc
depend upon railroads to bring tc
them the largest portions Of their foot
supplies.