Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-31
All Live Stock Selling at
Marked Advances Owing
to Tie-Up Prospects.
SHIPPERS WARNED
TO HOLD WHEAT
Railroads Make Plans TO Meet Emer-
sency Despite Lessening Of Proba.
biIity Of Strike-Railroads Plan to
Move at Least One Passenger Train
Per Day-Thousand Strikebreakers
Already MarshaIed in Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. 31.-While the state
ment of w. G. Lee, of the order OF
railway trainmen, that passage OF
President Wilson's eight-hour day oil
would be regarded as satisfactory ad-
justment of the wage disagreement
was received as lessening the proba-
bility Of strike, work went forward
in preparation to meet conditions IN
the event the trains were stopped.
The wheat market, which broke an
extreme Az points on the Pennsyl-
vania railroads embargo yesterday
opened without important recessions
today. The Chicago Grain Receivers
Association notified country Shippers
to withhold shipments for the present
Hogs advanced % cents; cattle ~ tc
20 cents, and sheep 90 to Az cents
above yesterdays figures.
To Run Few Passenger Trains.
Most Of the roads also gave warn
ing to passengers that they should enc
their journeys before I I. m. Monday
or be subject to indefinite delay.
Railroad officials planned to run al
least one passenger train a day on
every road, and in each case, il was
said, preference will be given 70 InilR
trains.
Railroads will not carry on the fight
single handed, but according to tenta'
tive plans will pool their resources
Strike breakers, it is understood, will
be hired not by individual roads, but
by a central committee of all the
roads and distributed where most
vitally needed.
If one road succeeds in movine
trains while another is stalled, the
successful road will lend hand to
the road in distress.
Thousand "Breakers" Ready.
Chicago detective agencies are ad-
vertising for strike breakers and re-
port LOCO now ready. 9Es.s.
Independent of the transportation
strike, the roads are now facing new
difficulty in the threatened. strike oi
$4,000 shopmen on roads west Of Chi
cago. Unless their demands for an
eight-hour day and cents an hour
increase are granted they will take !,
strike vote on Sept. .. they announce
Chicago city officials will meet to-
day to tabulate the city's food supply
and discuss local transportation.
1t is understood in FL Paso, Tex. In
the event Of a strike. military authorl-
ties intend to run supplies between the
gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast.
in order that troops along the border
may be furnished with all necessities
Many guardsmen on the frontier are
experienced engineers and have ex-
pressed a Willingness to run supply
trains.
Shop Strike May Be Averted.
A strike Of $4,000 shopmen employed
on nineteen railroads Of the middle
west will be averted said J. w. Toller-
ton. chief of the mechanical depar.
ment Of the G. r. I, & P. today, fol-
lowing his conference with representa-
tives of the Rock Island shopmen. who
demand an eight t-hour DAY. and an in
crease OF 5 cents an hour in wages.
1--WE have made a compromise offer
ia the men. which practically amounts
to half their demands. and believe hat
after further negotiations the differ
ences will be settled" he said.