Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-13

Chicago, April 12.-While the unau- | !. thorized strike of railroad, employes, | which started in Chicago two weeks i | ago, with the walkout of roo switch l men on the Chicago. Milwaukee and | St Paul Railroad. today appeared ] gradually to be waning in the middle | west, the situation Ill the territory | east of Cleveland took on more se- rious aspect.
 The center of developments in the walkout of insurgents had definitely | shifted to the east, where additions 1 to the ranks Of the rebel railroad l l workers had caused a serious stop- 1 page of freight and passenger traffic and the closing of several industries | dependent on the railroads for sup
 plies.
 1. The situation in the Chicago yards | showed marked improvement, and reports from other large railroad cen- ters in the middle west indicated that
 the crisis of the strike was. past and
 that strikers were returning to work in considerable numbers. Officers of
 railroad brotherhoods. who have been fighting the strike since it's inception
 were confident that the breaking up of the walkout in the Chicago terri | tory would be followed by a general
 resumption Of work in other areas l More freight moved into the Chicago
 yards today than on any day since
 the strike started, railroads an-
 nounced. At the stock yards 229 cars
 of livestock were received and more
 than 5000 employees who had been
 forced out of work by the strike re-
 turned to duty
 } Packing house receipts included A. 000 cattle, 2560 hogs and 1000 sheep. This was larger quantity than re ceived any day last week. About 25,- 00a stock yards workers were still
 idle.
 The Illinois Central, the Chicago.
 Milwaukee and St. Paul, the New , , York Central and other roads report ed'ti1at cars again were moving in the switching yards and that embargoes had been partly lifted. Officers of
 these roads said they had enough men at work in the yards to take care of , al lcars coming into Chicago. ! No Farley With Outlaws" ] The General Managers Association 9 today denied that any negotiations
 were being carried on with the outlaw
 yardmen's association. and stated that f no barley would be entered into in = any circumstances.
 } In requesting negotiations looking = toward the end of the strike, Presi- Q dent Grunau of the yardmen's asso-
 ciation said contracts the railroads
 have with the Brotherhood of Rail s road Trainmen and the Switchmens . Union of North America, did not ap- : ply to membership in his union. Cru Q nau denied that the switchmen's o strike was illegal.
 y The brotherhood chiefs who ac-
 cuse us should come with clean hands," he said "The Brotherhood ot II Railroad Trainmen took a strike vote , in secret two weeks ago. Ballots u were cast at 40 points and authorized
 brotherhood officers to call a strike IS if their demands for increased pay
 and better working conditions were not granted. If our strike, cleanly oo' called in the open is Illegal what dc IL they call tactics like that?"
 J. A. Farquharson, an officer of the .e Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said Grunau's charge was "a fabrica. ,,e tion out of whole cloth"
 '- A. F. Whitney, vice president of tn, It. Brotherhood of Trainmen. who ha.
 been leading the unions, campaign il
 Chicago against the insurgents. sait E today that the ,cruX of the strike haC
 come and that the rebel movemen -y was steadily weakening
 s- R. D. Murphy, a strike leader is De sued a statement in which he declare, d the original demands stand as frs ed presented" and that wage increase or must go into effect upon the ret1r1 le of the men to work"
 "The Chicago managers associa es tion must come to us" he said. "an, of all negotiations must be in the oDer " We do not expect any intervention ol le the part of the government. Ther at will always be someone to take Cru ny nau's place if they arrest him as on means of ending the strike.' .n n Returning to Duty. iY7 Following the first big break in tn re strike at Columbus, where six hun ,p dred switchmen on Sunday voted { ,ii return to work. strikers in numbe a. of other cities today returned to dut % or decided to go back tomorrow. " At Dayton, Ohio 300 switchme ds voted to end the strike tomorrow of while at Syracuse, switchmen on tn n- New York Central and the Delawar G. Lackawanna and Western Railroad od decided to return tomorrow.
 1 At Saginaw, Michigan, 100 railroa tb workers were back on duty today an e- sixty employees of the Grand Trun on Railroad returned at Battle Creek.
 The striking ranks were augmente
 by walkouts at Bay City. Mich: >Cht yenne, Wyoming, and several plac,
 in the east.
 Passenger service was reporte DE NHluallN HOTHldl aI St. Louis and fl
 strike of yardmen was said to be [ Ter the wane. While freight traffic W, lis still at a standstill. the city h; as enough food supplies on hand to la ay three weeks.
 lot Embargo on Pennsylvania Lines. oy At Pittsburgh an embargo "; placed on all freight shipments orig ie, hating on the Pennsylvania lines ar ieu on all roads connecting with d
 Pennsylvania system. With no SC 'en clement of the strike in sight at D me troit. the Detroit Edison Compar ng shut off electrical energy to factori 'n- late today. About half the cit, 'n- manufacturing establishments wou ing be affected the Michigan Manufa so turers' Association. announced ar One thousand railroad employees lily Pittsburgh today joined the 40 to strikers already out. and 500 shipm , struck at Newcastle. Strike conditlo aie, at. Philadelphia were reported wor
 and at Indianapolis the strikers ran