Republican farmer., 1920-04-16
SENATE 10 PROBE INTO
 R. R. STRIKE
New York Threatened By Serious Food
 Shortage.

Washington, April 9-An in- vestigation Of the unauthorized strike of switchmen and other railroad employees was ordered today by the Senate.
 Without record vote the Senate adopted Senator McCormick's resolu- tion directing the Interstate Com merce Commission to inquire "re- specting any existing strike of inter state railroad employees not conduct ed or authorized by any recognized organizations of railroads employees, and submit a report to the Senate. A favorable report on the resolution was made today by Senate expenditures committee.
 Supporting his resolution Senator Mccormick said the country was "confronted by very grave situation brought about by the failure of the president to apply the federal labor board" authorized under provisions of the railroad act What is needed now, he said, 'in default of the ap- 1 pointment. of the board is to bring l the facts before the public and to | mobilize public opinion. There is No other way to force the men back to york; he declared.
 | Chicago, April 9-Switchmen who 1 have been on strike here for nine days, began returning to work this morning.
 Brotherhood officials who have been | fighting the ''illegaI' waIlQout, of their men, do not claim that the strike is | broken but were much encouraged by reports from several roads that the men in small groups were reporting for work.
 1 The Chicago Junction railway, the belt line connecting the stockyard and packing plants with the trunk lines, was one of the first to report. Eleven engine crews were at work this morning. the report said as com pared to three yesterday.
 While the switching and freight sit nation showed improvement the con- are the Monon, Erie, Grand Trunk that seven of the eight railroads en- tering the Dearborn street station are unable to run passenger trains down town They are discharging paSsen- gers at suburban stations to complete the trip on elevated or surface cars.
 Only the Santa Fe was running intt the station this morning. The other roads which normally use that depo are the Monon, Erie, Grand Truck Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Wabash Chesapeake and Ohio, and Chicago and Western Indiana.
 ! New York. April 9-New York city
 affected by strikes of railroad marine
 workers, switchmen and freight yard ] employees, is threatened with a serious l food shortage, according to a state l ment today by J. J. Mantell, head O. 1 the Railroad Managers Organiza ton He added that during the night '6s
 carloads of milk were moved into th'
 city to protect the infants" and rail 1 road officials now are manning en
 zines and switches on the Erie, Yves
 Shore and Pennsylvania yards.
 'tThe yard switchmen, conductor
 and brakem in the freight termi naIs On the Jersey shore are all out
 including the following roads: Yves
 Shore, Erie, Jersey Central. Pennsyl
 vania and Lehigh Valley said MT
 Mantell.
 Absences were reported today il
 the Harlem yards of the New York
 New Haven & Hartford. Railroad of
 ffciaIs, however, declared these gap , were not affecting operations and tn , men who failed to appear probabl, had been kept away by illness. Va
 cancies also were reported in Ne1
 York Central yards.
 Several thousand railway striker
 held barley this morning in a hall il
 Jersey City. They were joined b
 200 employees of the Hudson & Man
 hattan Railway Company, which op
 crates the Hudson tubes. This actio 2 of the tube workers. who previousl
 had held a separate meeting increas
 ed fears that a strike might be calle on the tubes during the day, furthe l inconveniencing commuters. ! Working with fellow officials in tn Erie yards, MT. ManteIl expressed be lief that radicals are responsible fo the strike"
 r "These men got hold of our work men and fairly dragged them out c Q our yard. not even giving them a req V son for the strike.'' he said. 9Th
 strikers have violated the rules ( 6 tn elr own brotherhood"