The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-16
Men Refuse to Await Supreme Courts Decision On
Adamson Law With Application Thereof to Be
Adjusted by Commission
SOUTHERN ROADS WILL BE TIED
UP BY ORDER EFFECTIVE SUNDAY
President May Issue Demand to Conflicting Interests
That They Compose Their Differences In Hour
of National Penl-County Looks to White House
For Next Move

New YORK. March t5.--rhc ,
threatened general strike OF 400
aoo members OF the four big
railroad hrothcriioods will begin
M q O'Clock, central time, Satur-
day night, Conferences between
.hc brotherhood chiefs and the
national conference committee OF
The railways ended In II deadlock
tonight.
p.tt, federal Intervention now
ean avert the general tie-up of
the r-,iirnad~ 81 tic country. I'm.
,fittfai appeal from the Wilson
ministration was received I'm
the conference room today when
the brotherhood aud railroad
chiefs we're engaged in heated
iebate. IL was ignored. The
.~-aitrencs' committee OF the rail
read general managers offered to
-ahfntt ali matters I'm dispute to
the Gocti,al~ eight hour day com
mittsc without regard 10 the de-
termination of tho United STATES
supreme court on the Adamson
law. Th. offer was refused.
The strike order. issued ten
days ago and ~ manning In eject
III spite of the conference to-day,
ais for progressive strikes. At
O'Clock Saturday night the
engineers. firensn. conductors
md trainmen in the freight SER
SIC on the following lines will
.t,p work: New York Central,
s.ast and West, Nickel Plate. Bal
tilnorr and Ohio, the yards of
eighteen roads nj Chicago. and
other yards I'm tho Middle West.
Hits south On Sunday.
On Sunday the tie-up Il tn he
f,rs,adenei, affecting the group OF
Northwestern reads and then on
the Hirginian and Southern rail-
reads will he called out. The
brotherhO III chiefs announced
that further steps In the pTOxrts>-
stve strike are uncertain. but de-
ciarcd that they will continue
until next Wednesday. when the
passenger service engineers, fire
men and tFainrncn on all roads
viii ie called ont and the tie-up
made complete.
rs the conferees left To 60 thei
separate ways, w. G., Lee, chairmai
II the brotherhood OF Trainmeu
landed To Elisha Lee, chairman o
he railway managers. the following
with the remark: Tni
$ the order In which the men will e.
,ut."
Order In Which Strike Operates.
The memorandum reads:
Progressive strikes of freight ant
ard service and hostlers have beer
allied, beginning at 8 +. NJ. centra
ime. Saturday, on the New Yorl
'entral EAST and West). Nickel Plate
baltimore and Ohio. the yards o
Eighteen roads at Chicago which arr
represented by the Brotherhood o
hallway Trainmen. switching commit
&c, st. Louis Terminal Railroad as
Merchants Bridge and Wig
rims Ferry Cast four names arr
runk line terminals).
After the first group on Sunda,
lfternoon, the following roads arr
allied: Group Of Northwestern roads
Norfolk and Western. Viz
,inian and Chesapeake and Ohio.
balance of roads uncertain. but I,
ollow in groups every twelve a
wenty -four hours, with passenge'
ervice following.
Embargoes Declared.
After the failure of the conferee'
o agree, Ntit sent OUT ttou
II the trunk line railroads in New
FORK declaring cnbargoes on all per
shable freight All other freight is Il
,e received only subject to delay"
All the conference between tn,
chiefs and the railroads
conference committee, intimationl
we're made that the railroads woult
make efforts to run trains with the
ervices of loyal employees drawn
rom variorI departments. In sup
,ort of this movement. 1t was stated
ederal and state troops would b,
sked for IL necessary to protect the
men at work and the railroad prop
rty.
The big brotherhood chiefs smiled
nd refused to consider anything bu
he surrender OF the railroads to thu
ar,e-A ~ the 100000 members foi
he eight-hour day with ten hours
-
Railroads Issue Statements.
At the conclusion of the final con
erence between the brotherhood mer
nd the railroad chiefs the following
tafement was issued by Elisha Lee
h1irman pf the national committee
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