Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-09

6liAtiutn WnlcA SIdrLeO III the OnlcdBO ! district and spread today to several | cities, will be broken within the next | forty eight hours, A. F. WhiiRey, vice | president of the Brotherhood of Rail- | road Trainmen, and S. E. Heberling. | international president of the Switch | mems union of North America, pre- dicted tonight
 The strike situation in Chicago | showed some improvement during the 1 day but Whitney said that the trafiici handled was still less than 50 per cent. of normal One thousand brotherhood men from other cities have answered the call to come here as strike break CTS. he added.
 The Railroad Managers association reported that more engines were op- erated today than at any time since the strike tied up the switching dis trict
 While conditions here showed inn provement the strike was spreading throughout the country from coast to coast. Reports tonight sur = ;rized the situation as follows: Chicago-S, 900 men out: freight l traffic 90 to 40 per cent. of normal | 40 ,000 packing plant workers thrown out of work, with complete suspension of the plants, employing 5o,0Oo men. in prospect tomorrow.
 l BufIalO-l.9UU 10 LtlVu Hltn 4AACf | embargo on all freight in effect. Kansas City-200 to 500 men out; | freight embargo in effect. i Los Angeles-1, 200 men employed by l trans continental lines on strike | Toledo-60o men out; complete freight tieup with twenty-four hours i Detroit-1,ooo men out. and 800 more
 expected to follow tonight.
 Gary-300 to 400 idle; $50 Brother
 hood of Railway Trainmen members vote to remain loyal to their union-
 East St. L.ouis-2o0 out 5000 In St.
 Louis vote 10 resign" at midnight
 unless demands are granted ! Decatur, Ill.-1o7 on strike; vote 70 stay out until demands are granted. Joliet, Ir.-50 on four roads strike:
 Chicago outer belt men refuse to join walkout Springfield, Ill.-Baitimore and Ohio switchmen out.
 Cotton, cal.-so Southern Pacific
 men quit: freight tied up. strike issue. f Sheridan, Wyo-Men vote to remain 2 at work and send delegation to Chi
 cago to aid in breaking strike.
 Niagara Falls-Swifchmen refuse tl k strike after listening to appeals iron t SO Buffalo strikers. ! Elmira. N. Y-Yardmen of the Del . aware, Lackawsnna and Western. Ney
 York Central and Lehigh Valley order
 ed out. Pittsburgh-2.Ooo Pennsylvania em '' ployes at Conway yards vote to strik e at midnight if demands are not grant . ed.
 Memphis-Yardmen on all but tw
 roads entering city vote to strike at !. D. m. Friday If demands are no ' granted.
 e Fort Wayne-Strike of 3.20o Penn ' sylvania shopmen believed settled Strike had no connection wit
 switchmens walkout.
 fl San Francisco-Twenty switchme 's quit work.
 n Jersey City-All Erie yard brake if men out.
 The Erie men walked out just bt
 fore the evening rush of commutel le began. Railroad officials hastily rt Ie cruited a few employees familiar wit l. the operation of trains and succeeds e. in making up some of the suburba
 trains and moving them into the sts
 ton. The congestion at the raiiroa a and Hudson tube stations became [ a great that 15O policemen were SCI 70 out to preserve order.
 n Railroad officials reported tonigl
 that not more than 75 men went (
 strike here. Only five out of l. '- trains were delayed, they Said. le J. J. Mantells New York region 'f director of the road, characterize l. the strike of the men as being q e, violation of the rules of their own ol
 ganization as well as the laws of the
 country as covered by the transpo le tation act" W. G. Lee, president 'e the Brotherhood of Railroad TraiI
 men, also condemned the strike |; 5 "irlegal." and pledged the support II his organization to keep trains mo-
 ing.
 n A free for all oratoricaI conte in developed today when $. E. HeberliI .- international president of the switcf IF mems union, attempted at meetiI Is to persuade 500 strikers to return
 work. The meeting at first broke u
 reformed and then melted away wh, -e Heberling. departed. Many times u n union official was forced to quit tall a, ing while the crowd hooted. l. Wall Street, and Are you with a or against us2" the men shouted
 Heberling told them a strike now VI
 unwise. Wait and you will get Il ss increase you need in a lawful fashion h he urged. You are under contra ,, with the railroads and a strike wou er be unlawful Do you think switchm' m are bigger than the government"
 Patrick Henry and George Was
 ington were rebels too. one time sse E. Kerr. Chicago Yardsmen's Associ v tion organizer, answered. You say ' ,e can't strike lawfully. But what |