The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-08
DAILY STATE JoURNAL-fRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST g. 1919


agents today were holding down Jobs
left by many thousand railway shop
men, enabling moving of foodstuffs
and pehsha Bile freight and a curtailed
passenger service.
r This was the situation reported by
r. H. Ashton, regional director of
railroads, who, while reporting mo
distress yet" admitted there will be
compete tieup If the shopmen do not
return to work at once.
I Twenty passenger trains were dis
continued on the Chicago &c North
western railroad today on the Mil
waukee and Wisconsin state divisions
Wichita Shopmcn Out.
Wichita, Aug. S.-Several hundred
shopmen employed by three of the six
railroad systems operating thru here
lhave struck. The three affected are
the Missouri Pacific, Frisco and Rock
| Island. 1t is likely that the Santa Fe
Orient and the Midland Valley men.
No violence has been reported here
and it is also said no local wage de-
mand has been made, the men strik-
! ing in sympathy and becoming dis
satisfied with progress made by the
railroad administration regarding set
| Element of the wage controversy in
| Washington.
First Break I'm Strike.
Atlanta, Ca, Aug. S.-The first
break in the strike of railroad shop
Il
day when 1900 employees of the Nor
/ folk & Western railroad shops at
Roanoke. Va. voted to return to work
today and await results of the vote
on a general strike order. In the
| meantime railroads generally in the
| southeast were working under q sus-
| pension of freight traffic, except in
perishable goods and foodstdffs for
| human consumption,
! 700 Out at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg. Aug. s.-The men in the
Kansas City Southern shops here
| walked out Thursday at 10 o'clock,
| following the strike action taken by
the six crafts in secret ballot. The
men are creating no disturbance. The
action is termed a protest against the
cost of living rather than a strike.
| Approximately 700 men are affected
| 1000 Miners Forced to Quit.
| Terre Haute. Ind, Aug. s.-Seven
| thousand miners were idle in this dis
trict today as a result of the shop
! mems strike on the G. and E. I. rail-
road. The Pennsylvania railroad is
endeavoring to maintain its service to
the mines. Practically all the mines
located along the c. and E. I. lines had
suspended operation.
Hold Up Ore Shipments.
Duluth, Mimi. Aug. Sore. coal.
and wood products movement was
1 held up here today because of the
strike of railroad shopmen thruout
| the west. r sgional Railroad Director
| E. D. Brigham notified all shippers
| freight of all classes would be &C.
cepted only subject to delay.
Ore trains stopped Thursday noon.
! Coal docks were idle today. Lumber
/ and wood pulp shipments were halted
J Practically the only freight moving
from the head of the lakes by rail is
perishable goods
Stop Suburban Trains.
Boston, Aug. S.-Annulment of sub
urban passenger service on the Bos-
| ton and Maine and the New York,
New Haven and Hartford lines on
account of shopmen's strike inter-
rupted rapid transit between fifty
cities and towns and this city today
The Boston and Albany railroad
/ started it's suburban business as usual
but Officials said it might have to be
curtailed later
| Threatens Boston Milk Supply.
| Boston, Aug. S.-Orders instituting
an immediate freight embargo on the
! New Haven railroad were received
| here today, according TO officials.
Such an embargo threatens the milk
and ice supply of Greater Boston.
which reach the city almost entirely
by rail.
Embargo On All Freight.
| New York, Aug. S.-An embargo of
all freight on the n. Y. N. H. & H. and
/ the Central New England railroads
was announced this morning, because
of the strike of shopmen.