Arizona republican., 1916-08-28

fSp6CldIly pTOInlIleEl dIlOHS t1le printed instructions IS the warning that the employees shall remain off company property once a strike is declared.
 Insofar as could be learned, the plan of the brolherhoods to continue running supply trains to the Mexi- can border, enough passenger trains to keep necessary business moving and possibly some milk trains, an nounced last week. had not been abandoned.
 The sixty-four small lines em- ployes whose grievances the railroad managers have declined to arbitrate would be included in a general strike order, it was understood.
 fingered byt their futile wait here, the men went to their hall today in sistent that all save a few of them be permitted to go home and prepare for strike. Had the president not been concerned in the negotiations, it was freely said, they would have voted today to withdraw from the negotiations immediately.
 The plan finally adopted was ready for consideration when the meeting | began Every possible scheme that meant the saving of time in conduct ing strike had been included. The committee of tWenty-four, with the exception of the four brotherhood heads. was named from among gen. eral chairmen whose homes are with in twelve hours of Washington. The here indefinitely if a strike comes and they want men about them whose homes are not too far away.
 The proposal to stand by the presi- dents plan in general, and particular ly regarding the eight hour day, was adopted amid wild applause.
 Heads of the four organizations received the leaders from various sections of the country and passed out all of the detailed instructions regarding the conduct of the pro- posed strike. Copies of instructions were mailed to those committeeman who left for their homes last night.
 After the last meeting today it developed that the brotherhood men have suspected for several days that they had three spies in their midst who were reporting regularly to the railroad heads
 Careful investiga ton convinced the brotherhood officials that they knew the trio and several speeches and re- ports were planted" for them in the meeting As the union leaders had expected. these reports soon reached the executives In the subSequen; meetings the alleged spies were up- braided roundly by several speakers but they never were named.
 Samuel Rae. president of the Penn sylvania railroad, tonight issued { statement which, flatly announced that rather than give up arbitration they regarded it as better to face z strike. He declared that for the rail roads to yield would result in 8 tenn porary postponement of the strike and that the issue of arbitration a = stake in the present situation WoulC be left unsettled.
 These Tn brief" continued hi
 statement are the reasons why tn heads of the railways with a full ap
 the solemn and weight responsibility resting on them, a well as of their duty to the publi and to their shareholders, have bee forced to the conclusion that it
 better to face the alternative of
 strike than to surrender"
 MT Rae went on to point out tn IT history of the struggles between rail d roads and their employees, spoke ( lv tho depression. wff,h- he said tn t. railroads had experienced, and asi to that now, since they were havin of their first real touch of prosperit, in for several years they were confront of ed with demands which would mea !" when followed by like demnads frol et their emDloyes. an added burden ( :" from s200,000,000 to sS00,000,000 ne year.
 al "Confronted by such conditions 1e he concluded, what could the hea( ip of the railways do but refuse 1'' yield, and then calmly but resolute 1g face the possibilities of the situatiC
 in the full sense that their action wi
 receive the unqualified indorsemel IDS and support of the business interes t. If the country and the public n- large. who have as yet been denit r. all opportunity to be heard" ey L. F. Loree, president of the Del; a. ware and Hudson, gave out a stat n- ment referring to stress laid
 President Wilson on the conditiC ir- in which the country was likely " find itself at the end of the Eur ze pean war and pointing out that t
 country should remember that Ge no many and Austria would make ho tremendous effort to regain their Q fiji position when peace is declared" |" ad He said there are thirty milli en industrial workers in the Unit he States. and that American Federal we Labor reports showed that in 19 ;ir there were about 1,S47,00 perso " working under an eight-hour bas
 It would be difficult, he declared.
 figure the loss of productive ener
 and the increase in productive cc
 if the rest of the thirty million we
 put on an eight-hour day.
 Preparing for Strike
 CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-Preparatio
 to meet a railway strike on short n ,p- tice have been made by railway opera I ing officials in Chicago while await si results of conferences between Pre-! dent Wilson and l%DOr and ra1lW