Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-31
EMBARGO Is PLACED
ON ALL SHIPMENTS
Railroads Send Notice That ALI
Freight Will Be Handled
At Shippers Risk.
ASK AID OF THE COURTS

Instruct all agents as follows:
Notify all regular shippers that,
effective at once, all shipments
except live stock and perishable
freight will be accepted without
liability for loss, damage or de-
lay on account of strike. Stamp
or write on all receipts the fol-
lowing: Received without LA
bili.y for loss, damage or delay
by srike. Procure stamp il pos
sible.
Live stock and pcrishable
freight will not be accepted for
transportation if same would not
arrive at destination on our line
or connecting line, on regular
schedule, on or before Saturday,
September 2, and shippers should
be notified accordingly. Notify
connecting lines that no live stock
or perishable freight will be ae-
cepted from connecting lines un-
less same would arrive at desti-
nation on this line or connecting
line on or before September 2.
Effective with this notice, cx-
plosives will not be accepted for
movement from local stations or
connecting lines"
The foregoing, which is oficiall,
designated as an embargo, has beer
issued by all of the railroads oper
ating in and out of Omaha. 1t is til,
first public move upon the part of til,
railroad officials that they recogniz,
the possibility OF strike of the rail
road trainmen being called next Mon
day morning. The embargo motto,
is uniform the country over, il havin,
been agreed upon by the railroat
officials.
Prepare for Strike.
With the issuance of the embarg,
order, railroad officials of the execu
tive. the operating and the traffic de
partments are busy in an effort t,
counteract the effects of the strik
that most of them now admit is Ger
tain to come next Monday.
In the Union Pacific hcadouarter.
officials Of the legal department la
bored all Tuesday night, working OF
two phases OF the impending labol
trouble. The outcome OF one OF tn,
phases developed when officials ap
peared before Judge Sears of the dis
trict court and secured a restraining
order against the company conductor!
to prevent them from going out OF
strike.
The second phase of the legal prop
osition is one in which all of the rail
roads will join and when the tim,
comes will find its way into fedora
court. In reference to this PROPOSE
ton, no action will be taken unit
the men walk out, in the event the,
do, Then, if they go out, blanke
injunction will be sought, rcstrainin.
trainmen and other railroad employee
who are out on strike from trespass
ing on railroad property, from inter
fering with the movement Of train!
and from interfering with men en-
gagged in the movement of such trains
Up to the Government.
II the restraining order is granted
and railroad attorneys say that it vii
be, the whole proposition will be il
the hands OF the government and tn,
striking employees of the railroads
will be amcnable to the provisions o
the federal laws.
II is asserted that in event the mel
out on strike should interfere will
the men operating train, or shoult
they molest, or attempt to moles
railroad property. or trcspass on rail
road grounds, United States marshal'
would take charge of the situation
In the event they should be unable
to cope with the difficulties tina
might arise, the federal soldiers woulc
be called.
The assertion is made that now tina
the state troops have become rcgula
soldiers, they would be brought bacl
from the Mexican border and dis
tributed along the railroad lines ant
at terminals and at such other point
where their services might be needed
While railroad officials assert tina
the application OF such drastic meth
ods is not anticipated, they want TO b
ready for the emergency in the even