Arizona republican., 1920-04-08
CHICAGO STRIKE
 SPREADS UNTIL
 10000 MEN OUT
Rail Unions Attempt to Break the Unauthorized Walkout = Spreads to Kansas City and Buffalo -5O,OOO Men Are Out of Work
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 CHICAGO, April 7.-An unau-
 thorized strike of railroad em-
 ployes which started a week age in
 the Chicago switching district by
 the discharge of yard conductor,
 tonight had spread until 1t had af-
 fected 25 railroads, and in Chi
 cago had thrown more than 50,000
 men out of work, either directly or
 indirectly. Twenty five hundred
 railroad workers struck tonight at
 Kansas City.
 More than 10000 union railroad men in Chicago and several hundred at Buff falo and at Champaign, H., were on strike. Hundreds of Chicago packing house employees were idle for lack of livestock
 Two "outlaw" organizations. branded by the established brotherhoods as rump' unions, had sprung up to chal- lehge the right of the labor heads to lead their men,
 In the face Of this opposition from within, the Brotherhoods of Engineers. Railway Trainmen, and Bremen and Enginemen and the Switchmen's 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 Chicago to serve as strike breakers.
 Rail Unions Fight Strike
 Managers of p roads in the Chicago terminal district affected by the strike today agreed to give brotherhood of ficers at least another day in which to restore normal conditions, and, through their spokesmen, declared themselves confident that the unions would sue ceed.
 Some union leaders voiced the same ant he strike fever was 'in the air" that even the most conservative men were quit ting work, and that the task of keep ing the trains moving appeared diff cult Wide differences of opinion were expressed as to how many men had joined the wallxout Charles Riley. vice president of the Chicago Yard mems association, which called the original strike, said 14,000 switchmen and 5000 engineers were idle. but rail- road officials and brotherhood heads secuted his figures as far too large.
 w. J. Frost, vice president of the Switchmen's Union of North America, said that approximately 2000 of that organizations members had struck, and the Soo line was the only railroad en- tering Chicago the union had been able to keep open.
 Traffic Less Than Half Normal
 Secretary Snyder of the Railroad Mana gers association announced after q conference of road heads today that between 40 and 50 per cent of normal freight traffic was being handled. Suf- ficient crews to operate about 300 loco- motives had been recruited in the Chi cago area, he said.
 The brotherhood and the Brother hood of Bremen and Enginemen en- tered into the struggle today a re- suit of the walkout of engineers and firemen on the Chicago & Northwest ern and several other railroads.
 The Brotherhood of Railway Train men declared in a statement that the railroads could not grant wage in- creases demanded by the strikers be- cause the Cummins- -Esch tranSporta- ton act prohibits increased compensa- ton to employees without approval of the railroad board, to be appointed by President Wilson One of today's de- veIopments was the formation of a new outlaw organization, the Ma tionaI Enginemen's association, by striking members of the Brotherhood of
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