The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-08-30
RAILROADS ARE
REFUSING TO TAKE
PER|SHAbLE FREIGHT
Nation Wide Strike is Certain; No
Power Can Stop Strike, Say
MINNESOTA STATE FAIR
NOT TO BE POSTPONED
Interstate Commerce Commission Sus-
pends Proposed Increase
UNION PACIFIC MEN ARE
RESTRAINED FROM STRIKE
Embargo Placed on Goods Which
Cannot Be Delivered on
Saturday.
UNION PACIFIC MEN ARE
RESTRAINED FROM STRIKE
(By United Press)

washington, Aug. 3O.-NO power
under heaven except the railroads &C
cepting the brotherhood mems propo-
sition can prevent the big rail strike,
according to Strike Leader Lee to-
day.
President Wilson made an attempt
to get the brotherhoods to see that
if they strike Monday with congress
considering favorable legislation that
they would get public condemnation.
The brotherhoods were unmOved by
=. his attempt and insist upon strike.
God Forgive You"
"God forgive you, cannot Will
son told the rail executives last night
after they had formally rejected his
proposition.
Congressional efforts for strike
legislation are deadlocked. Senators
are charging that each other is at
tempting to make political capital
from the strike.
1t is believed that congress will
not act Immediately upon the presi-
dents suggestion for an increase in
the membership of the interstate
commerce commission and the auth
rates. All parties seem to have
agreed that these amendments will
not be adopted until later.
Suspend Increases.
The interstate commerce commits
sion today suspended the proposed
increases in transcontinental freight
rates.
The senate interstate commerce
committee today announced that a
formal hearing of brotherhood men,
rail managers and shippers would be
held at nine o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. Suggestions will be heard in
regard to the proposed legislation.
Twenty-eight companies of coast
artillery recently to sent to the Mex
lean border were ordered to return to
their coast defense batteries.
Strikers Have Money.
Fifteen millions of dollars bulge in
the war chest of the railway brother
hoods.
This amount, about equally divided
among the four unions, is ready to-
day for distribution among the men
: should they need strike relief 1t is
to be doled out in portions of $40 a
month among the 100000 men who
would be involved in a national rail-
way tieup. How long it would last
is problemetical, for relief might
start with the opening of the strike
or might be delayed until later.
AS the brotherhood men view it,
their mighty war chest would prob
ably not be touched in the forthcom-
ing strike, for they believe it will
no cn Of tbot "a mon will not fool
the pinch of unemployment.
Weekly Assessments.
The great war fund has been gath
Grad through weekly contributions,
covering a long space of time. The
assessment varied, according to the
members earnings, but the total sum
per year is written in fixed thou
sands
One little code written from Wash
ington to every railway center in the
country is suff lent to precipitate the
threatened strike. The more than
500 brotherhood delegates who left
for their posts yesterday, carried with
them instructions for running a
strike. Trains on the lines will be
run to the nearest functions, fires will
be banked and engines oiled. The
engines and the cars will be deliv-
cred to the companies in perfect con-
dition and every union man will then
quit the property with orders to avoid
violence or trespassing.
Only "a of the biggest brotherhood
men remain here today. According
to their version, they must stand pat
on the eightl9eur day. with 10 hours
To Open Fair. q :. =
St. Paul, Mimi, Aug.- 30.-The