The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
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genereI plan Of procdeur. Repre-
sentatives Of the managers commlttee
were present at the conference
Earlier in the day executives were
expected to clip from all available pa
pers, editorial comments on the presl-
dents recommendation. The presi-
dents are trying to get the trend OF
public opinion, which they freely adj
NIT is an important condition.
For their part the brotherhood rep
resentatives through A. B. Garretson,
made 1t known today that they do
not intend to deviate from the presi-
dents plan.
Answering persistent suggestions
that the executive will offer a COM
promise plan Of settlement, Garrison
said:
The president has announced what
he regards fair plan and said II
there be any deviation, 1t will, not De
on our side. Final decision OF the
railway executives and final action
taken by the president, It would ap-
pear from Garrison's statements, de-
JULIUS OH WucLASI IASoSoh0o "a AAAAAS
are likely to stop. cities face fuel and
food shortage and the entire country
become Frustrated before what is be-
lieved to be the greatest struggle
between capital and labor in history.
Various cities have estimated they
would face food and fuel shortage
within a week after general trans
portation tieup.
IN Y,rn nQr1GhQDlA
and semi-perishable commodities
would be so great that approximation
is simply impossible. it was said at
the department of agriculture today.
ANY computation of figures. how
ever conservative, would be so that
the average citizen could not appre-
hend," said A. G.. White Of the office
of markets of the department today.
A strike within the next few weeks,
even II 1t lasted less than week,
according to White, would work al
most imm easurable havoc to peach
and apple growers of the northwest.
This crop is just beginning to move.
AS it is now, with conditions normal,
there is freight car shortage that
is annoying fruit growers and railway
men. Tomatoes, waterInelons and
by the millions would re-
main in fields or at terminals and rot
should crop movements stop. Ter
minal cities, officials said, have sufi-
cient to last few weeks, at the most.
Pittsburgh is typical case. Terri
tory within 100 miles OF Pittsburgh
doesn't produce the amount used
there. It would be out Of the Ques-
ton. White believes, to relieve the
situation with horse drawn or motor
propelled vehicles.
Hundreds Of Cities" said White.
would be reduced to a bread and
meat diet and this diet could not last
long in some localities"
White declared industrial plants in
every section of the country would be
forced to close down through absence
of raw material. Millions of workers
in such plants would be forced out
of work With salaries thus cut OF,
they would be unable to purchase
necessaries Of life even were they to
be had.
Movement OF grain crops which
begins in the Texas panhandle early
in June and continues through Sep
TENDER and October until the monster
yields of the northwest fields are in
6lSVdLOIS VI at luO Lu1AlSs oONAOoSiy
would cease" said White. "At this
time some 100000 bushels of wheat
have Just started moving from the
Pacific northwest-Oregon, Idaho and
washington-to Pacific terminals for
shipment via the canal and the horn
to Europe. It is easy to see what
would happen to these crops, were
the railroads to stop operating.
"Of course grain now stored in ele-
vators would not be lost. but without
the railways these grains could not
be moved to the mills and elevator
storage for crops already harvested
or about to be harvested would be
out of the question. Complete loss of
these million bushels of grain, there
fore, would be threatened"
Uncle Sam is getting ready flnan-
cialy to move the nations crop.
The federal reserve board is get
ing requests from its agents for cur
rency to meet the demands for
money. The threatened railway strike
is menacing wheat men who have
thousands of bushels of oats at rail-
way stations in the northwest states.
gambling on their chances of getting
their crops to market. Meeting brief
ly this forenoon the employees heard
approving kilograms from labor bodies
and individuals and then adjourned
to 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.