Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-08
'bUMP' STRIKES ID AFFECT 25 ROADS,
 THOUSANDS IDIl E
Outlaw Organizations Chal' lenge Rights of the Bro
 therhOods
50. 00G ARE .gOBI.ESS
 IN CHICAGO ALONE
Loyal to Then are Aiding Rail road Officers in Bringing
 Strike ta End

Chicago, April An unauthorized strike of railroad employees which started week ago in the Chicago switching district by the discharge of a yard conductor tonight had spread until it had affected 25 rail- roads and in Chicago had thrown more than 50,000 men out of work either directly or indirectly.
 More than 10000 union railroad men in Chicago and several hundred at Buffalo and at Champaign, Ill.,, were on strike. Many hundred men m Chicago packing houses were thrown out of work for lack of cat tie and live stock.
 Two outlaw organizations, brand ed by the established brotherhoods as "rump' unions. had sprung up to challenge the right of the labor heads to lead their men.
 In the face of this opposition from within the brotherhoods of engineers railway tranmen, firemen and en- ginemen and the switchmen union of North America pledged their sup port to railroad officers in breaking the walkout and to that end union railroad men throughout the country have been urged to report to Chi cago to serve as strike breakers.
 Managers of 25 railroads in Chi cago terminal district affected by the strike today agreed to give brotherhood officers at least anoth- CT day in which to restore normal conditions. and, through their spokes. men, declared themselves confident that the unions would succeed.
 To Spread Movement.
 Wide differences of opinion exist ed as to how many men had joined the walk-out. Charles Ri ley, vice president of the Chicago yardmen's association which called the original strike, said 14G0( switchmen and 5000 engineers were idle, but railroad officers and broth. erhood heads secuted his figures as far too large. They admitted, how ever, that they had no figures or which to base counter claims.
 w. J. Frost, vice president of the switchmen's union of North Ameri. ca, said approximately 2.000 of that organizations members had struck and that the Soo line was the only railroad entering Chicago the unior had been able to keep open.
 Secretary Snyder of the railroad managers association announced af- ter conference of road heads today that between 40 and 50 per cent ot normal freight traffic was being handled by loyal employees union mer imported from other divisions ana office clerks pressed into service as switch tenders. Sufficient crews to operate about 300 locomotives had been recruited in the Chicago area he said.
 One of the Ntoday's developments was the formation of new "out i law" organization, the National Fire mens@association by striking mem berss of the brotherhood of engineers and brotherhood of firemen and en ginemen.
 Announcement was made by tho striking engineers and the Chica go Yardmens' association which en gineered the strike of switchmen that branches of the two new un ions would be formed throughou the country and that strikers would be called elsewhere than the Chi cago' movement in an effort to fore, wage advances which the railroad men had demanded since last August