Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
Conditions Due to Railway
Shopmen's WaikOut
Improving.
NORTHWESTERN TO
ACCEPT ALL FREIGHT
Conditions Almost Normal Except in
Immediate Vicinity Of Chicago,
Boston and Atlanta-Car Builders
Reconsider Strike Vote and Decide
to Remain at Work-Embarso on
PerishabIe Freight Lifted.

Chicago. Aug. 12-Conditions due to
the strike of railway shopmen were
reported improved today in practically
every district of the country except
Chicago. Boston and Atlanta,
According to reports received by
railway officials in Chicago all shop
men on the Norfolk & Southern rail-
way returned today andlon the Louis
vile 4 Nashville road a number of
men are back at their posts.
Every shopman of the Seaboard Air
Line has obeyed President Wilson'S
edict and returned to work and 1000
men employed by the Baltimore &
Ohio road at Baltimore are back. Con-
ditions at Cleveland and Columbus. o..
are reported as nearly normal.
Five hundred shopmen on the Chi
cage & Northwestern and Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul roads in the
northwest, returned to work which
enabled the former road to remove its
recent embargo on perishable freight
consigned to points in Iowa.
One thousand car builders who
voted to go out yesterday reconsidered
their action today and decided to re-
main at work.
1t is estimated there are about $4,000
shopmen out in Chicago and its vicin-
ity. International officials today ad-
dressed a mass meeting of boilermak-
ers. urging them to return to work.
All car repairers In the Blue Island
shops of the Indiana Harbor Belt line
took ND their tools, A. r. Ashton
northwestern regional derictor an
nounced.
likewise did a scattering Of strikers
punch timeclocks at the Wisconsin di-
vision roundhouse on the Chicago &
Northwestern, the Chicago shops and
power house at Nelson, Sterling anc
Barahoo.
Strike Breaking Everywhere.
Thirty men resumed their labors In
the shops of the New York Central
lines.
Elsewhere than in Chicago the
strike showed signs of breaking. The
distressed condition of the Chicago and
Northwestern road in Iowa was re-
lieveds when 901 shop employees re
turned to work at Clinton and s22
others were back at the. benches in
Belle Plaine. .
Some of the strikers also returned
at Toma, Des Moines, and Mason CITY
Iowa. e..
The Chicago. Milwaukee and 81
Pan, line announced the appearance
NJ shopmen in large numbers at NAL
den. wash: Yarmouth. N. D.; Mo-
bridge. 6. D.: Savannah, ILL.,: Otheilo
Wash. Ottumwa Junction, io"
Avery Mont; Atkin, Iowa, and Kan
sas City, Mo.
so far as the Northwestern is con-
cerned the situation Is well in hand e&'
cApt for the shops at Chicago Coune'
Bluffs and Boone, Iowa.
car,.t,on Argues For Plumb Plan.
wa shington, Aug ia. b. Garret
son. former head Of the Order or Kan
road Conductors. told the house IN
terstate commerce committee TO-DAY
that operating officials in charge o
railroads during government contro
were actuated by the one desire
demonstrating that government own
ensh,n was not best for the country.
ExactIv the same operating force
+,ot huiJt ND great surplus before
the war created this big deficit Gar
retson said.
"There could be no real test as Il
government operation so long as IN
future disposition Of the roads had no
heen determined. Every effort wa
made to convince the people that pri
yate management was best
"When the railroad official prays n
turns h.s face to Wall street, but ono
r. "a demonstrated. for instance. tina
management in future will center II
washington. 7 am sure he, will serv'
the government as earnestly as n
served the old masters in the past.
Discussing the Plumb plan for tri
nartitc control of the roads Mr.. Gar
retson said 1t utterly demolished cap
,taI account, while the other plan sub
mitted to congress added to 1t unit
the grandchildren of the present gen
Grafton would stagger under the load.
Mr. Garretson generally was cred
tied in having been the prime factor u
having congress enact the Adamsol
law in 1916 and his appearance>is caus
ing keen interest. Departing from hi
.esi ;rn,,n- TIC Witness said he wfshe
to deny that the railroad men with
gun in one hand and a stop watch Il
the other"phad forced congress to en-
act the 5Adamson law.
Mr. Garretson was head Of the com
mittee which handled that situation
reference had been made to tn
Adamson law" said Mr.. Garretso'
because am no longer in an officif
position; can make statement whicl
I could not before.
Lash Of Public Opinion.
"The brotherhoods and myself wer
pilloried from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific as compelling the president an
congress to do certain things.
"The four brotherhoods were Iorcs