Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-08-07
STRIKE CONTINUES;
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT

The effects of the Shopmen's
strike is gradually making itself felt
Throughout the country. Wednesday
ii bit Mexico harder than anytime
since the railroad men started walking
ont and it is expected to continue to
develop.
The shopmen at Moberly were the
first to walk out in the middle west.
Since they "Therwe down the glove"
other shops all over the country have
followed suit and the strike is becom-
ing more serious every day. The only
part of the country that has not been
touched so seriously yet is the far
west.
The Wabash railroad was unable to
run any freight trains at all Wednes-
day. The Chicago and Alton did not
have much trouble about freight and
are still receiving cattle shipments. 1t
is thought these will be refused in the
near future as the situation is becom-
ing more serious.
Passenger trains on both roads were
running late Wednesday as a rule.
On the Wabash practically all Of the
trains were late and the Chicago and
Alton trains bound east were late.
The trouble seems to be more in Kan
sas City than in st. Louis.
The express Companies are still car
rying goods as usual. No orders have
been received from the headquarters
70 refuse shipments and until these
come they will accept goods as usual.
The cars in the sidings on all the
railroads which are needed in the
transportation Of wheat and oats can
not be handled by the railroads on ac-
count Of the poor service of the freight
trains. Large number of empties are
in most all Of the sidings but the trains
gan not handle them until the strike
Subsidies,
The coal shortage in Mexico has not
yet hurt the local industries btu unless
delivery is made in the near future,
some Of them will suffer. The Interna-
tional Shoe factory is well fixed with
coal having enough to run over a
month. The power plant is also in no
immediate danger of having to shut
off the power as they have enough coal
20 last over a week. However if no
deliveries can be secured, they will
have to cut down the electricity to
some extent. The A. P. Green Fire
Brick Plant and the Arctic Ice Plant
are almost out. Unless immediate
shipments are secured, it will be nee
essary for them to close. The ice
plant was expecting two car loads in
Wednesday but they would only en-
able the plant to run a few days Ion
ger. The Brick plant is without any
surplus at all. They will be able to
run only 4 day or two without ship
snpHts.
FAgmers today were wondering how
long they could sell their oats, now
ready to be threshed, at 60 cents a
busheI.
Heavy roads early this week made
1t impossible to move much of the
gram already threshed, and grain was
being piled up in elevators with no
EmH ediate prospect Of being moved.
II am discouraging grain men from
selling their crops now" Cortea Ed
monston Of the Pollock Mill and Eleva-
Ear company declared today. "The
situation is just about as bad as it
could be. We can't ship over the Wab-
ash, and are expecting the Chicago
and Alton to shut down on us any
time"
Edmonston did not say to what ex-
tent the elevator men would discour-
age immediate sales, but farmers with
small granaries were uneasy. The
unusually heavy crop this year has
exceeded the capacities of most farm
ers' storage facilities, and many men
forecast losses if they were forced to
dispose of their grain.
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