Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-26

It was a determined quaretet from the brotherhoods that visited Presi
 dent Wilson today to deliver theiI
 uitimatum. On Wednesday evidence of unrest among the committee Of 6iC
 became so apparent that their leaders considered the situation grave and il required their best efforts to prevent vote on a proposal to withdraw from the negotiations immediately. Re ports of this situation stirred the ! White House to such an extent that Judge w. T. Chambers, of the federal board of mediation and conciliation. was sent to the brotherhood heads by the President to urge them to re- | strain their men from making any nasty step which might wreck all 1 chances of an ammicable settlement. ! The judge is said to have told the men previously that an answer from ! the railroad heads probably would be forthcoming by last night or today at 1 the latest This news quieted the insurgents for a time. but today. when no answer came, the insu-rection | broke out anew. Then the brother hood heads, believing the situation al most hopeless, communicated with the President their desire to see him.
 Upon reaching the White House they informed the President frankly . that the men did Hot believe the rail road heads were giving them square deal". They pointed to the long de lays that have ensued since the ar rival of the committee of GAO from New York a week ago, and then as climax to their arguments, produced numel0us sO-called back fire" tele- grams which. they averred, railroad heads were sending out urging their agents to have citizens wire the Prcsl- dent at the railroads expense. urging him to stand firm for arbitration Cf the differences. Their ultimatum fol- lowed.
 The president is said to have re- piled that he knew of the telegrams and to have been plainly displeased The possibility of a strike was ais cussed. it is understood and the men left the White House greatly pleased with the reception, but extremely pessimistic over the outlook.
 Further than declaring the situation was unchanged and that they had re- ceived no concrete proposal from the railroads, the brotherhood heads had nothing to say, after leaving the White House. They returned to the employees hall, where the men still were in session and declared to them -ome sort of message which has been kept secret. Adjournment until 10 o'clock tomorrow was taken.
 The men left the hall hurriedly in little groups and all of them declined to discuss any phase of the situation. One or two of them intimated that they have been given no details as to the negotiations at the White House. that they would give out At their hotels they no longer stood in groups about the Hobbies, and hints were dropped guardedly that they would not have use for their reservation after tomorrow night A. G. Lee. head of the trainmen's brotherhood. gave out carbon copies of one of the so-called "back-fire" telegrams which had been forwarded here from a broth erhood member in Spokane. It was signed at the name of a Northern Pacific superintendent and addressed to one of the roads agents.
 Besides urging the agent to have citizens telegraph the President in favor of arbitration, the cost of the telegrams should be taken from the stations money and charged to the railroads account
 Later A. B. Garretson produced 2 telegram from the bIotherhooI in Grand Forks, N. D., which he said declared a great number of messages were sent out giving instructions not only to obtain "back-fire" messages. but also to urge upon prospective signers that arbitration not only means defeat of strike but also will prevent an increase in freight rates
 One of the leaders said tonight that in the event of a strike being called crews hauling trains with supplies for | -cldiers on the border, limited nun Der of passenger and express trains. and possibly some milk trains. would be permitted to continue work.