The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-15
STRIKE HEAD
ARRESTED BY
FEDERAL men
Grunau, of Chicago, Taken as
He Addresses Meeting =
End of Crisis Seen as Men
Return to Work.
.PENNSY IS RESUMING
(By Associated Press)


association, "the outlaw" organization.
which started the nationwide strike
of railroad workers was arrested by
federal agents who raided a meeting
of the strikers here today. Grunau was
arrested while he was addressing the
meeting. Six others also were ar
rested.
The warrants were issued by United
States Commissioner Mason, charging
them with violating the Lever act.
Warrants have been issued for several
other alleged leaders in the insurgent
railroad strike, it was said at the
federal building.
Department OF justice agents expect
10 arraign the men arrested today, be-
fore Commissioner Mason.
Reports Conditions Improved.
Reports from rail centers in the CEN
trail west and on the Pacific coast to-
~y bore out assertions of railroad
brotherhood and railway officials that
the insurgent strike was dying out and
that traffic conditions were improved
materially. In Ohio and Michigan
thousands Of men were idle as result
Of industrial tie-ups by stoppage of
transportation.
Strikers were reported to be return
ing to work in number of cities and
in Chicago. where the unauthorized
walkout had it's origin, brotherhood Of
ficials said the backbone of the strike
was broken.
Switchmen employed in the Chicago
terminal of the Rock Island system,
firemen and engineers on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and groups of strikers
on the 500 Line and other roads voted
TO end the walkout in Chicago and
were returning to their jobs today.
Freight conditions, the railroads an
nounced, were being restored rapidly
to nearly normal and embargoes were
lifted by several roads.
Deny Radical Charge.
The insurgent leaders, however, con-
tinued their claims that the position OF
the strikers remained unshaken and
denied charges of Attorney General
Palmer that radical influences were be-
! hind the strike.
| Reports from Ohio cities told of in
dustrial plants, steel mills and coal
mines closed at many centers, throw
| ing 100000 workers out of employ
ment Efforts TO break the strike on
all roads at Columbus were being
made.
| In Michigan the industrial situation
was regarded as serious and 100000
men, mostly in Detroit, were reported
idle.
Strikers in Toledo voted not to af
filiate with the insurgent union and
that was believed to have paved the
way for a settlement of the walkOut.
Return in SO Cities
Brotherhood officials announced at
Cleveland that 500 men voted to re-
| turn today and that all the strikers
employed by the Erie railroad and 40
! per cent of the men employed in the
| Collinwood yard OF the New York
! Central were at work. Brotherhood
| of railway trainmen officers gave out
list OF telegraphic reports received
there naming more than so cities in
which strikers had resumed work.
! All switchmen on strike at Dayton
were reported to have voted to go
back today.
In the far west traffic was much
| improved and overland passenger
trains which had been stalled at vari-
Gus points in California and Arizona
were moving again.
| NEW YORK, April 15-Gradual
subsistence of the unauthorized strikes
| in New York and vicinity was seen
today by railroad officials, although
they admitted the situation still was
serious.
! Return of groups of strikers on sew
eral lines at nearby towns and the
steady improvement in passenger SER
vice, due chiefly to the success of
volunteer crews in operating COM
muters' trains gave the road officials
much encouragement.
| The trains carried $4,000 persons
yesterday. Convinced that the crisis
had been passed, so far as the pas
| senger service was concerned, the
railway executives planned to begin
operation of freight as we'll as pas
senger trains with volunteers.
| Strike leaders, in making peace
overtures to the new railroad labor
board last night empha tically denied
that the strikers were weakening,
claiming they were stronger than
ever.
PHILADELPHIA April 15-The con-
ference of representatives of striking
Pennsylvania railroad men in the
Philadelphia district. officers Of the
railroad brotherhoods, G. S. Krick,
general manager of the Eastern re-
gion of the company, and William j.
Tracy, chief of the state bureau OF
mediation which met here at 9 o'clock
last night in an effort to end the
strike in this vicinity, adjourned early
today without reaching any definite
conclusion.
Officials of the company, however
appeared optimistic and expressed the
hope that as a result of the meeting
a recommendation would go out for
all men to return to work pending
action of the railroad labor board,
which, under the new transportation
law has the sole power to adjust wage
matters