Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-04-08

~. l., 10 LOS angeles,
Calf, have so disrupted
the established unions that the lead.
ers have lost all control.
Railroad officials and union off.
cials agreed today the real test would
come today between the strongly en-
trenched group of brotherhoods and
/ the outlaw unions, which have sprung
/ up. under leaders who voice their dis
| satisfaction at what they declare Is
/ the failure Of the brotherhood officials
! 10 get more money for their men
In the Chicago district where the
strike started eight days ago the
railroad general managers association
| has set today as the last day for the
striking switchmen. engineers and
tiremen to return. II they fail to
! heed the ultimatum strike breakers
will be brought in and the vacancies
filled, il is said
Reports that President Lee of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
had telegraphed headquarters Of the
switchmen's union at Buffalo. that
the Chicago strike had been broken
We're secuted by union leaders here.
A review of the situation shows:
Chicago: 5000 to 10000 rail-
road men out: freight service re.
duced about to thirty to fifty per
cent of normal; $4,000 packing
house employees forced out OF
work
Kansas City: $500 men on
strike; nine of the thirteen roads
entering Kansas City affected.
Buffalo: 200 men idle; seven
railroad yards tied up and em-
barge in effect against all freight.
Los Angeles: l200 men on
strike; three trans-continental
systems affected
Toledo; 900 switchmen; all
traffic expected at a standstill in
"A hours.
Gary, Ind. 300 men out and
strike spreading
kankakee. A. men out.
Joliet 80 men out; four roads
affected.
Detroit: 40 on strike; police
guarding yard.
Cleveland: 1900 men to meet
tonight to consider strike.
St. Louis, f. St. Louis and
milwaukee, men are holding meet
lngs to consider organization of
branches of the new outlaw un-
ion"
Chicago faced a serious food short
ae" Potatoes which made a new
high record of $500 per hundred
Wholesale jumped another 81 today.
Prices of meat advanced seyera,
cents az a result of suspension of
work at the packing plants.
Out at Decatur
Decatur, Ill., April S-All switch
tenders in the Decatur Wabash wards.
enc OF the main yards OF the system.
Mere out on strike today, completely
tying up all freight traffic Only one
stock train was moved Road officials
We're working in an attempt to keep
passenger trains runnins Wages was
said to be The cause Of the strike
Spreads Thruout u S.
Chicago April The "insurgent"
railroad strike which began IA week
ago in Chicago had spread to other
parts OF the United States today.
Fast and west bound freight NOV
meut across the contint already
restricted by tn" Chicago strike. was
hamperrd further by sWitChmen strik-
iD@ at such strategic EateNays as Buf-
iaIo ana Kansas City, and at such in.
duslrial conters as loliet and Deca.
ur H. and Gary ind
Strikes We're threatened today at
Milwaukee, st Louis, and East st.
Louis GatoVays to the northwest and
southwest.
strikers predict also. that 25.coo
men in northern New York would
ton th"m cutting off freight from Bu-
Ualo to New York and Boston
Tho yardmen's association, insur.
gent organization which called the
strikes WIS forming branches in mum
eruus terminal ceuters, reports indi-
Gated
A. Z. Reading. general organizer
OF the vartmcn's association annouuc-
ed that the clerks ana the freight
handlers brotherhoods would take
strike votes Saturday AT Cincin-
natl 1900 freight handlers. served
notice that they demanded an answer
by Saturday midnight ON their de-
mauds for an increase in pay from
Y TO IL cents an hour
Railroad brotherhood officers who
came to Chicago TO assist railroad
managers in an endeavor to break the
strike, declared that reports for to-
day would reveal traffic In Chicago
yards to be at least GO per cent nor.
NAL
Officers of the yardmen's associa.
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