Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-08
SHOPMEN'S STRIKE
|. HALTS TRAFFIC ON....
VIRGINIA RAIL WAYS
Freight Refused and Many
Schedule Changes Are -.
Announced. =
FAST TRAINS ORDERED TO Z,
STOP AT WAY STATIONS
Express Traffic Manager Snead
Predicts Further Cur
tailrnent.
$500 MEN ATTEND MEETING
Ranks Of Federation Are Augmented
by Foremen, Negro Laborers
and Car Cleaners -.
$500 MEN ATTEND MEETING

Freight embargoes have been an
noanced on three Richmond, railroads.
and, in addition, the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad discontinued several
trains yesterday, and announced the
annulment of many others. commerce.
Ing today. as result OF the .strike
OF shopmen on the company's lines
Freight embargoes were announced
early yesterday at the local freight
offices of the Chesapeake and Ohio,
Seaboard Air Line and the Richmond,
PEredericksburg r and Potomac. Ths
the Atlantic Coast Line were rushed
were being made in anticlpa ton OF an
ernDarSo on those lines. 1t is declared
ply to all shipments except those "fo5a
tor human consumption" PSs
Discontinue Passenger Trains 4.
The Cheaapeak. and Ohio Ratiroad
yeSiterday eis announced that. effecttXe
would Be discontinued: Train leayins Stns
Richmond at noon for Norfolk and Cid
Point: leaving at 4. NJ for Newport
F., NJ; for Charlottesville: leaving at
5:l5 r: NJ. for Lynchburs. Also the Trains
arriving at 3;35 p. NJ. and s:30 r. II.
and $50 p. NJ. from charlottesville.
and the one arriving at $40 A. NJ from
Commenting. on the discontinuance
OF trains, r. II. Snead. express traffic
manager OF the Chesapeake and Ohio.
Stated S,x yesterday afternoon that on the
a.nh sine generally at least one local train
branch, branches and on each division. lie de-.
arer had issued instructions that ali
cast passenger trains stop wherevsr1it
Is Is. necessary ,,,i to handle passenger traf-
count of the discontinuance of local
Trans. This Is taken to mean that the
"a sast trains Will now stop at practically
al al stations. and that. therefore there
wili be consequent long gtheninE z : OF
their schedules. -
~ Public Ver.us Employees.
Mr. Snead said that the future could
NOT ne foreca sted. and that there WIS
no guarantee that even the service al
e1r'ailed Gu sha ;s,, corld be continued He warm
scheduled TO run today might have to Ia
taken Off without moments warning
Mr; Snead said further that il was
condition every engine after IFS r,,n
ana ana that the men who did this havins
.ent, the work was now being done So
-, While railroad officials declare th.+
tney intend to do their full duty to tfs
punitc mmnh I'll, there does not seem to be, as
Nious strikes. Indeed. they decIaEs
mat there Is nothing that they can do
and an sebne sb.t the existing unpleas SIS,
oetWeen the employees on the one hand
and the public. represented by the EoWf
ernment, on the other ~
Hold Mass-Meetinr.
=, Members OF the RichmoIld Rai,.osx
snops Federation held their second
EEsh1erai En1fr me meeting yesterday morning.
ranks OF the federation being ans
nmShted me ny a number OF foremen' aboSt
orod oro negro @ laoorers and by some col
\ brief address was made bv G.n. =.
ff.u.nsr fa wilcox. who was .nominatsS
nri,,ne, not me General Assembly at the recent
bor shoHn.i RE advocated organized Ia
III nrged the election OF Chairman Morton
60, sG congress and of labor leaders @ Etn
s,,te eaTc,es Iah IN the City Coun,iI.
be bberE predicted that the strikers would
os victorious. and offered the macHjn1
tiemo1 OF MS department to effect set