Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-04

but on the whole the situation in the
East is not serious"
The strike, although it has not yet
become a general wnlkout. is spreading
to all parts of the country today.
When the fourth day of the strike be-
gan 1t had already involved 90. 900
men, and this number has been added
to materially. although in some in
stances the strikers returned to work to
await official orders.
The strike today for the first time
affected the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1000
inen employed on that SYSTEMS shops
and freight yards at Cleveland laying
down their tools at noon.
Await Orders at Harrisburg
Advices from Harrisburg state that
shopmen there of the Pennsylvania and
Philadelphia and Reading companies
will wait instructions from the officials
of the union at Washington before tax
ing any action. The men there are not
disposed to strike, although they have
grievances.
a meeting of representatives Of the
federated employees of the entire Della e.
war. Lackawauna and Western sys-
ten from Buffalo. y. Y, to Hoboken,
\. j.. is being held in Scranton today.
Demands for an increase in wages will
be framed at the meeting.
The Delaware, Lackawanua and
Western employees comprise all the ma :
| chinists, car repairers, car builders and
all other employees not actually con
Ntyith hA
road.
Strike Hits Capital
Shopmen, boilerihakers and eIectri
clans in the Washington yards went on
strike today. Officials at Union Station
estimated about 600 men were out
They said that, while all Washington
repair work would have to cease rail 70
road service in and out of the captal
would not be affected for the present. at
least.
Approximately 300 shopmen left
their place in the Head of the Iakes
shops at Duluth today. Fifteen hun
dred men are on strike in Superior.
1000 at Proctor. about 500 in Dnlutb
ana 700 at Two Harbors. according TO
"iSputCH from Duluth.
"A Kansas City dispatch saws that
railway car repairmen who are on
STRIKE in number of cities of the coun =
try were ordered today to return to
work by Frank Paqun, general vice
president of the Brotherhood of Rail =
way Carmen of America, who declared
that, as legal vote had never been
taken by the brotherhood, the strike
was unauthorized.
Strike Grows In South
The strike Of shopmen is growing in
the south. Workers in the Danville
and Western shops at Danvile. Va,
went on strike today, joining the ma
chinists wkho already were out.
Ht Shceld, Ala, 200 shop employees
of the Southern Railway, including ma
chinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths.
| sheet metal workers, carmen. laborers
and apprentices, struck today.
At Montgomery. Ala, 400 shopmen
of the Atlantic Coast line and the Mo-
bile and Ohio went on strike, demand
ing wage of eighty five cents an hour.
Approximately 1000 shop employees of
four railroads were at work at Louis
vile, Ky, today. obeying, their lead
ers said, orders issued several days ago
from the Federated Railway Shopmen s
headquarters not to strike pending fur
ther efforts to adjust union demands.
No immediate walkout of Detroit.
Mich, members of the railroad shop
mems union is contemplated, according
to dispatch from that city.
The most serious tie-up of industry
caused by the shopmen's strike was re-
ported from Gary, Ind, where eight of
the twelve blast furnaces there of the
United States Steel Corporation were
banked. 1t was said 10000 men were
thrown out of employment as u result
of the shutting down of these furnaces.
Railroad officials. said that traffic
would begin to suffer seriously within
five days to week unless some settle
ment Of the strike is arranged.