The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-09-06
ORDERS STRIKERS
TO RESUME WORK
GOVERNMENT MOVES TO PUT AN
END TO SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
ON COAST.
Railroad Men Told by Union Chiefs
That They Must Resume Work or
Face Suspension and Severe
Punishment.

Washington.-Th striking trainmen
who have been causing no end of grief
to shippers on the Pacific coast have
been warned by the government, and
the head officers of their union, that
the strike must end Mt once.
Should the men persist In remaining
out, they have been warned they will
be debarrcd from the union and union
men will take their places, in order to
resume operation of train service sus-
pended when an unauthorized sympa-
thetlc strike was sprung by radicals In
California.
Director General Hines on Thursday
served notice on public officers, rail-
road officers and employees and cit
liens generally In California, Arizona
and Nevada" that the railroad admin
istration would undertake to restore
full railroad service In those states on
and after O'Clock Saturday morning
and that all striking employees who
do not return to work by that time
will find their places filled"
This action, coming after the an.
nouncement by the four brotherhood
chiefs that the brotherhoods would as
slst the railroad administration In OPP
Grating the lines II the illegal strike
was not terminated, Is the most dras-
tic ever taken by the government In
labor controversy.
Orders were issued by w. g. Lee
president OF the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Tralnmen, and Warren s. Stone,
Chief Of the Locomotive Engineers, In
structlng the men TO return 10 work
ut once.
Unless there Is decided improve
nent, the government will take steps
TO operate the lines" said statement
received from Warren s. Stone chief
of the locomotive engineers, and made
public simultaneously with the order
from Lee.
AS the result OF the receipt OF the |
telegram, local officers OF the brother |
hood Thursday posted the following I'M |
nouncement signed by Lee:
advise all men of the brotherhood |
strike, and tell our men that less than
two months ago 25S members OF the |
brotherhoods were expelled from the |
Organization ut Winnipeg for sympa- |
thetlc action, while many OF them lost |
their positions. Our members must |
return to work and uphold their con-
tracts II they expect TO retain men,
bership and support of this organiza- J
tion."
simultaneously, the following notice, |
addressed to engineers and signed by |
Warren s. Stone, was ordered posted: |
EFFECTIVE ut once inform all men,
bers of division that strike II Illegal
from start TO finish. All members of |
the brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- |
neers will be required to abide by the
laws of the organization and carry out
the contracts made in good faith, both
by the individual roads and the fed
eral government. Failing TO do so,
they will be expelled inside Of twenty
four hours. Unless there Is decided
the government will take
steps 10 OptIulc inc IohuS' '"u ah
know what this will mean. Impress on
the necessity Of using sober
thought and exercising common sense
and not be carried away by n wave
of mob law"
The first break In the ranks of the
striking trainmen ut Los Angeles came
late Thursday, when about dozen en-
gineers and conductors reported for |
duty at the Santa Fe depot. Santa Fe
said they had train made
up, ready to move and lacked only one
brakeman of having full crew for It.
Mr.. Hines on Thursday sent tele-
grams TO the governors of California,
Nevada aud Arizona, and TO the may |
ors of principal cities in those states,
asking cooperation In maintaining |
traffic and In preventing interference
with the movement of trains.
Anyone who lnterferes with or mo-
Tests the use of railroad property, Mr.. |
Hines said, would be dealt with for
having committed an offense against |
the United States,