The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
Managers Won't Receive Com.
mittees From Switchmen.
Passenger Service Now Affected
by General Tieup.
WHOLE COUNTRY is INVOLVED
brOtherhoOds Are Confident Sit
uation Nears Breaking Point.
Between $4,000 and 10000 Are
Now Reported as Out.

Chicago, April 1O-FederaI inler.
Vention unless the railroad strike ia
ended in As hours was indicated as
probable at the federal building To-
day
District Attorney Clyne. following .
conference which had lasted since
early last night. said the government
nao the power TO cope with the situa-
tlon brought about by the interrun-
ton of food shipments.
Mr. Clyne has received instructions
from Attorney General Palmer re-
sarding the course to be pursued. it
was learned.
The. district attorney YESTERDAY con-
ferred with officials of the Bro,ha
mood of Railway Engineers and inus-
uiateiy called q conference of depart
ment OF justice officials and heads of
the bureau of investigation. which
lasted thruout the night.
Won't Treat with Outlaws.
Railroad managers will NOT tran,
win the outlaw" unions and the
only contracts to be recognized are
those with the established brother
noods' 1t was announced at the head
arterS OF the General Managers as
lsociation here today.
committees appointed by the strflS-
erseto wait on the managers and ask
was said -
our contracts with the brother
nooas cover all the men now on
strike" Secretary Snyder. OF the gen
eFal managers, said "If the strikers
want contracts they have only to re-
turn TO their unions. We will recoR-
hize no outlaw organization"
Passenger Trains Affected.
Started as a freight tieup, the rail-
road strike today invaded the passen-
ger neld at New York, where several
trains were cancelled while the freight
blockade continued to spread among
yard switching crews from coast to
coast
In Chicago, birthplace OF the out
law union which called the first of
the Illegal strikes, brotherhood
heads and railroad officials claimed
some slight improvement today. One
encouraging sign was the delivery at
the stockyards of 179 cars of cattle,
almost twice as many as have been
mover on any one day since the strike
was called April l.
While available figures indicate be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 railroad men
have Joined the unauthorized strikes,
railroad managers here estimated to-
DAY that at least half a million work.
ers in other lines have been forced out
of employment by the freight tieup.
In Chicago, $4,000 packing house
workers are idle. Three thousand
packers are idle at st. Louis: At Gary,
10000 steel mill employees have been
sent home and $4,000 in the Youngs-
town steel mills will be idle before
night.
Nearly 10000 Are Out.
the country today show the following
men out: Chicago, 5000: ST Louis,
5000; Toledo. 400; New York-New
Jersey. $500; Youngstown. 1000;
Buffalo. 1000: Kansas City. 1900;
Los Angeles. f.40o; Detroit, 1900:
Pittsburgh, 1000; Fort Worth, SOC:
Columbus. 1000; San Francisco. 44o;
Indianapolis. $50: Gary. Ind. 800;
Salt Lake City. 500; Syracuse. N. Y.
ESQ; Saginaw. Mich. 200: Ogden,
Utah, $50; Pueblo. Colo, $50; Deca-
tur. Ill. 107; Milwaukee. 200; Poca-
tello, Idaho, 100; Springfield. Ill, SO;
Joliet. ILL.,. SO; Scranton, Pa. so:
Bloomington, Ill. Is: Fort Wayne.
Ind. 35; Portland. Ore, no estimate: