Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-13
UNIONS PLEDGE
ASSISTANCE TO
BREAK WALkOUT
-Four BrotherhoodS Win Aid
Eastern Roads in Putting
An End to Unauthorized
Railroad Strike.


IsN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL trhsEo,wraEl D
New York, April 12.-Union Ia
bors cooperation in an effort 20
break the unauthorized strike OF
railroad workers here was pledged
tonight by representative Of the
four hrolherhoods in conference
with representatives of the east
ern roads. A statement given
out after the meeting char
acteri2ed the strike as "a mob
movement" and asserted it was
bound to break"
John G. Walker, secretary OF the
bureau Of information of eastern
railroads, said it was the consensus
OF opinion of the brotherhood
leader that the strike would burn
itself OUT
The strike of railroad workers
here tonight presented the most
menacing situation the city has
faced since the unauthorized walk
out began. Freight service virtually
was paraly2ed and passenger serv-
ice, already curtailed, was further
crippled.
Today United states troops went
into Jersey City to unload stranded
mail trains and department OF
justice agents extended their in
vestigations all over the New York
area.
Appeals by railroads for volun-
teer workmen and the campaigns
of the strikers TO recruit their
ranks from men still loyal had be-
come more insistent.
situation Summarized.
The situation tonight was:
Only freight shipments received
today were war specials" of solid
food trains brought from Chicago
by the New York Central, and a
few cars which crept in over the
New Haven and PENNSYLVANIA
roads
Mail train schedules were gen
orally disrupted and motor trucks
were used.
Hundreds of thousands OF COM
muters living In New Jersey were
unable to reach their places OF
business in New York.
Strike sympathizers committed
their first act of violence when an
iron bar was hurled through the
window of a Central Railroad OF
New Jersey train, injuring a pas
senger. Train crews of four mail
trains of the Erie were attacked
at Port Jarvis, N. Y, and railroad
officials announced Port Jarvis was
controlled by strikers.
Appeals TO Afbltrate.
Mayor Hague. of Jersey City
who had expressed sympathy for
the strikers, appealed to them To
arbitrate. A committee of fmttt9en
men representing the strikers re.
fused to urge strikers to retarn ne
anppunced. ....
Warning was issued bv LindleS
NJ. Garrison, federal receiver OF
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany, that agitators were urGna
employees of Rapid Transit lines
in New York to strike.
Railroad officials sought In vain
TO learn the source of maintenance
Of the strikers.
The department of justice be-
gan an inventory of food stores
and big warehouses, searching for
hoarders. Meat dealers announced
an increase of cent a pound In
Wholesale prices,
G. p. Wallace, president of the
Fruit and Produce Exchange, com
mission merchants and market
men, said pelisnable food was
gradually being exhausted and
the situation was becoming grave
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad tonight issued
a statement that the prostration
of freight, traffic has seriously in
terfered With distribution Of empty
coal cars to the mines.
To Work Through Families.
Railroad officials announced
committees would be organized to
visit families of the strikers and
urge that they advise their bread
winners" to return to work.
Strikers in a meeting in Jersey
City tonight refused to listen to
Timothy Shea, vice president OF
the firemcn, when he tried to
urge them to return to work pend
ing settlement Each time he
attempted to speak Kisses and
"booes' drowned out his voice, A
striker shouted; shit up, sit
down. or get out"
1t was learned at the Lacka-
wanna office that a millionaire
special was run from Hoboken
to Morristown, n. j., late today.
The train was manned, except the
engineer and conductor, by five
wealthy residents of Morristown.
Strikers on the New York Cen
trail and New Haven roads have
agreed to supply crews for milk
trains. The strikers declared they
were mot fighting the babies, the
and tha ,An,,