The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-20
Maintenance Of Way Employees
Threaten to Quit Work I'm
less Wage Demands
Recognized.
WANT 81 PER DAY MORE
Swtchmen's Strike is About Finish
ed, With Railroad Conditions
Rapidly Approaching
Normal.

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CHICAGO, April 20.-Maintenance
of way employees, who threatened
nationwide strike last February, will
walk out individually in large mum.
bers April 2S unless their wage de-
mands are recognized, leaders here
declared today.
e. F. Cradle, of Detroit, president
OF the organization, has petitioned TO
make a request of President Wilson
for temporary increase OF 81 a day,
with time and half for overtime,
pending a decision of the railroad
labor board on the employees wage
demands The General Chairmen's s
association of the northwest district
! made the appeal in a telegram las,
night. a74-
REPRESENTATIVE of $4,000 railway
clerks and freight handlers favor
pursuing legal methods instead OF
strikes to force their wage demands,
they announced today.
Reports of conferences with rail,
way managers, made at meeting
! Of freight clerks and handlers, here
last night, showed the railroads IA
yor increases asked. The meeting
voted to hear further reports next
Saturday.
No strike motion was made, repre-
sentatives said today. The tone OF
the meeting was temperate, dele
gates said.
Arrest of twenty-five other lead
was expected today following an
nouncement by District Attorney
. Clyne that he would seek new war
rants. John Grunau, Harold Reading,
r. w. Radke and Samuel Cartwright
alleged leaders of the outlaw strike,
were in Jail today fer rcfusa! to fur
nish bail. The rearrested strike Off
cials, according to Clyne, were taken
because they violated agreements not
to attend meetings of strikers.
Railroad conditions in the middle
west were rapidly approaching nor
NAL today following the strike.
Seventy Per Cent at Work.
NEW YORK, April 20.-Railroads
in the New York district today re-
ported approximately seventy per
cent of OUTLAW" strikers back at their
Jobs. Passenger service was said to
be ninety per cent normal and freight
service more than 25 per cent normal.
The railroad general managers as
sociation issued a statement declaring
the strike broken. 49,
Railroad Chiefs appear.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-Chiefs
of the established rail unions TO-DAY
appeared before the railroad LABOR
board to present their arguments sup
porting their demands for wage IN
creases totaling $1,10O,00O,oOO annu-
ally for 100000 workers, including
most of the OUTLAW" strikers.
Among those who appeared at the
hearing were President l.. E. Snep-
pard. Order of Railway Conductors
Vice President Doak, Brotherhood II
Railway Trainmen; President Ilmo-
thy Shea, Brotherhood Of Railwa?
Firemen. and President Warren 5.
Stone, Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers.
Meanwhile chiefs Of newly organ
ized "outlaw" unions were also here
preparing a written statement OF Ge-
mauds to file with. the board.
Edward McHugh, representing Jec-
sew city "outlaws," said they would
NOT return to work until assurances
were received that the board would
give immediate attention to their
case.
Strike Ends Tomorrow.
CHICAGO, April 20.-The outlaw
rail strike will end tomorrow, officials
of the Chicago Yardmens' association
announced today. An effort will be
made, they said, to pursuade all strik-
ers affiliated with the Chicago organ
ization to report for work.
Many public officers will address
mass meeting here tomorrow to tell
the strikers they are not fighting in
dividual roads. but the government.
Federal Judge Lands and Police Chief
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