Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-12
CHICAGO STRIKERS
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Erie, Baltimore and Ohio, and Akron
canton and Youngstown railroads voted
A. mass meeting TO return to work At
Fort Wayne $50 of the 300 strikers voted
to return TO the yards this morning and
inc remaining workers, employees Of the
New York Central, will meet today TO de-
eide their course.
At Saginaw 100 Pere Marquette switch
meh decided to return to work today and
volunteered to 20 To Detroit, Toledo
LudIngton and Flint totaid in restoring
normal service.
In the far west and various other cities
in the middle west local unions voted not
TO join the strike, Seattle, Tacoma,
Everett and Auburn, Wash, and Cincin-
matt, Little Rock, Ark, Memphis, Tenn,
and 81. Joseph, Mo, switchmen register
ing that intention.
fardmen at Duluth, Mimi, and Su-
perlor, Wis, decided to continue at work
and await developments.
CONDITIONS BETTER AT sr. LOUIS.
Officials of the terminal railroad as
sociation at st. Louis said conditions were
improved. The eompanys engineers
voted To remain loyal.
The first vote ON sympathetic strike
IN ,hHsthH WIS HtttttNf, tlt W iifllIppEs
Manitoba. branch Of the international
Switchmen's Union deciding not to sane
tion any sympathetic walkout.
Thirty switching crews in the Erie
yards at Kent, o., voted tcresume work
today
Despite these reports, however Grinau
declared 1--WE are going TO win
"All reports that | have been able 10
gather are the entire country is tied up"
he declared. Il have received messages
from st. Louis, Kansas City, Columbus.
Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco. san
Antonio and other rail centers. Many Of
these communications report that even
more men are walking out.
MORE sToCK ExrrcTED Al CHICAGO.
In the Chicago district and Of neigh
boring steel centers thousands Of men
were idle today because of the strike. At
the Chicago stoekvards promises Of a
minimum deliverv Of ls6 carloads today
brought more optimistic outlook al
though hundreds Of men still would re-
main idle.
Because eastern shipments were cut
off, killing necessarily was reduced said
Everett G. Brown, president of the Chi
cago livestock exchange.
steel mills at Youngstown, Ohio, were
idle today because of coal shortage and
steel mills and coke ovens Mt Gary, Ind
we're crippled seriously. Nine thousand
men were idle at the American Sheet and
Tin Plate plant at Gary.
The Lake Charters Association at
Toledo announced that the opening Of the
lake navigation had been postponed be-
cnt of the rail tio-up.
Il, fequesting negotiations looking tow
ard ending the strike. President Gr,lnau
OF the local switchmens new assocle-
tion said contracts the railroads have with
the Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen.
and the Switrhmen's Union Of North
America do not apply to members Of his
union.
They do not affect the membership
Of the Chicago yarolmen's association.
Grunau said. AS our members who were
mgnbers Of the other organizations have.
in nearly all cases their designations on filo. .
Therefore no contract signed IN the
past has any bearing on the present walk
out /"
Should his demands be met, Grunan
added, Il would be stipulated that the
grants applied only to G. y A. men and
bot the older organizations