Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-11
SPREAD OF STRIKE
TIES UP NEW YORK
Freight and Express Embargoes
Halt Traffic To and From
Metropolis.
FORM NEW ORGANIZATION
Railroad Strikers Announce
United Railroad Workers"
as Name of Body.
fBy Associated Press. ]

by Associated t'rcsS.
NEW YORK. April 10.-AIost of Its
arteries blocked by the railroad
strike. New York passed through the
third day of its local tic-up without
feeling the pinch OF hunger and to-
night began taking account OF stock.
With freight embarGoes .ciamned
down by all roads serving this dis
trict. and an express embargo in eff
feet except to New England and most
New York State points. survey was
started to estimate amounts of food
stored here. which would be dra wn
upon If the de-up proves protracted.
City Commissioner OF Markets.
o'Malley late today sought to set at
rest fears Of an imminent food
famine. Warning against panic, he
declared there were enough supplies
In New York warehouses ito meet
the needs of the city for six months"
Meanwhile. with the New York
Central and New Haven lines still :.
able to bring In few food trains
railroad officials set at work to bring
in all supplies possible. other lines
reported little success In efforts to
bring perishable freight here. Tho
Pennsylvania announced that 200 car
londs were mnrooned In the yards at
Wiimlngt tom. Del. and TINT $4,000
carloads OF, freight 4 OF NIL Kinds
booked for New York were stalled
all along it's lines.
Officials OF the Pennsylvania rail-
road tonight announced tho freight
n In
complete paralysis" and shipments
of freight over the road into Greater
New York had ceased.
City's Workers Marooned.
This morning New York City found
IL was facing not only tho threat OF
fuel and food famine. but an actual
shortage OF workers. Many thousand
men and women who daily coft 3,utes
from New Jersey were unable 10 run
the strike l.ockade.
Those wha were able to reach tho
Jersey shore from the interio- of tho
STATE found that workers on the lIud-
son tubes had fulfilled their threat
10 strike tn's morning and thai the
only Means of reaching Manhattan
lay in fer:.cs irregularly oper tied be-
cause of tho strike of railroa., ma ire
workers rllied last week. These
strikers redo ablcd their Efforts to
call out more crews and e,mrl. :e
isolation of Manhattan Island.
Federal Agents Investignte.
Agents OF the Department of Jus
lice today conferred with J. j. Man.
tell, representing the railroad man
ayers organization here, regarding
the strike u CHI has Virtually ticI up
this distri:'./ While MIR. Mant.l! would
not com nen' on the conferences It.
was reported Federal gents had been
sent to New Jersey yards to invest:-
gate causes for the walisout., No
S''tement was obtained at ..DeDar.
ment of justice headquarters here ar
in Newark
Unable to l.ocute Leaders.
Railrond managers have been. un-
able to locate any leaders of Tho
strike in the New York district. il
was announced following a confer
cnce OF the Railrond General Nam
ayers Association at noon. No de-
mnnds haye been presented by the
men. and no cause has been stated
FOR the walkout, the managers said.
apparently officials OF tho Brother
hood or Railway Trainmen are doing
everything in their power to break
the strike" Mr.. Mantell said.
Earlier in the day Oren Root. pres
ident OF the Hudson and Manhattan
railroad Company, which operates
tho tubes under the Hudson River.
said that no definite explanation as
to why the tube conductors. guards
h,nnI.nu,tl ON Parn CIV