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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17

groups. Others asked the leaders
whether they could get their jobs back
if they stayed out longer, still others
criticized the way the strike was be-
ing run.
Reply to Palmer
The former service men among the
strikers passed resolution during the
afternoon replying to Attorney Gen
eral Palmer's charges that the strike
had radical backing. The resolution
states that the signers are not y. w.
WIS, Communists, or radicals OF any
kind but merely workingmen seeking
living wage" 4 s. cory py. Of. Of the resolu-
The day was full Of conferences
which produced no visible results.
Mayor Hague Of Jersey City had an
hours talk with the representatives of
the brothe rhoods, but none of the strik-
ers was present. After the conference
it was stated that nothing had been
done except to "go over the situation"
A committee of seven men from the
strikers of the Waverly yards of the
Pennsylvania called on Mayor GilleE
Of Newark and asked him to intercede
with Governor Edwards and President
Wilson to get prompt action from the
Labor Board and end the strike James
+. Winters, spokesman for the group,
said the men would go back if assured
the board would do something for them
within ten days, but did not want any
glittering general promises.
He declared the men were as anxious
as the public to see the strike ended;
that their present wages did not meet
the cost of living, and denied that there
was any radical influence behind the
strike. If Attorney General Palmer
wanted to arrest all the leaders he
would have to take every striker, Win
ters added, because there are no lead
ers. Mayor Gillen promised to wire
to the Governor and President.
S. c. Cowen, deputy president of the
conductors brotherhood, sent out a
call to tho men to return to work at
once. 1t reads:
"All qualified conductors holding
seniority rights in either road, passen-
ger or freight service, who do not come
within the scope of the restrictive
clause Of the resolution in the notice
of the General Managers Association
of New York, addressed to the four en-
CINE and train service organizations.
shall be Immediately called for serv-
ice"
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and if the government officials want to
put me in Jail | won't hinder them"
Reading declared cts principle that
prompts INC to go TO Jail rather than
give bail"
"The organization will not disband."
he said. "Another set of officers will
take the places left vacant by those
who choose to 60 to Jail with me- There
will be no let-up in our campaign.
What we are fighting is the old auto
cratic rule of the brotherhoods
"Our only compromise will be for
them to accept our constitution, in
GLIDING the initiative, referendum and
recall as applied to the administration
Of the brotherhoods"
Martin Kenney, Shannon Jones, John
Logan and Hugo Radke. who also were
arrested, said they would 80 to Jail
rather than furnish bond Fourteen
others, who were released yesterday on
thel. own recognizance, gave $4,000
bond to-day.
R.. S. Murphy. spokesman for the
Yardmen's Association, blamed broth
erhood officers for the arrests. He said
the men merely quit their positions.
FIVE men for whom warrants were
issued have not been arrested
Grunau, Reading and five others were
released tonight from Federal custody
on their own recognizance. They prom
ised to report for preliminary hearing
April "a.
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its nine members present, elected Of
ficers and determined to take up, be-
ginning tomorrow, the whole question
or railway wages.
While tactics OF the rail strikers
were wrong and disavowed by organ
ICED labor, Mr.. Morrsons statement
said, this should not prevent an "hon-
est" understanding of the facts. HIS
own viewpoint as to causes Of the
strike, he added. was based on reports
gathered by employers representatives
not in sympathy with the strikers.
81 point to these reports and the evil
dence they contain as an evidence of
governmental stupidity in dealing with
the situation" MIR. Morrison continued.
"While the government, through the
Attorney is contemplating re-
preston and punishment, treating the
strike as a crime, the real employers
know the strike is an outbreak against
economic conditions"
New York and New England investi-
gators reported they had found strike
sentiment strongest among the intel
ligent and conservative men," Mr.. Nor
rison said.
Many OF the strikers have served
for long periods on one railroad, he
added, and never before were known
as agitators. Other observers found
"no virus Of disloyalty or revolution in
the ranks of the disaffected workers.,
except the usual evidence of eNtrem-
lists who are riding the strike, as
sometimes happens. to be the case"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Hudson Tube Officials
Keeping Strange Silence

What's the matter with the Hudpn
Tubes?
with thousands of commuters eager
for any scrap of news touching on the
resumption Of traffic on the railroads
affected by the unauthorized strike, Of
fcials of tho Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad Company alone have for some
reason remained strangely silent to all
requests for information.
The public was told week ago that
crews we're in training and that empty
cars were rumbling back and forth in
the tunnels on regular schedules, but
without passengers. Since then off,
cials of the company have kept under
cover, leaving the public entirely in
the dark as to why traffic is not re-
sumed or when it might be.
This silence has given rise to all
sorts of rumors. When clerk in the
Office of President Oren Root was asked
if it was true that the company re-
ceives handsome sum, from the gov
eminent, despite the fact that the
tubes are not in operation and if the
continued suspension had anything to
do with a request made by the COM
pany for permission to increase it's
fare, he replied that "no statement
could be issued concerning such a
question at this time"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Heavy Breaks IL, Ranks
OF Western Strikers

CHICAGO, April 16.-The traffic sit
uaton in the countrywide strike Of in
surgent railway men improved .o-oay,
strikers in Toledo, Pittsburgh and other
Pennsylvania cities and Baltimore and
an extension of the walk-out reported
from only one city, Jacksonville.
In Toledo 1000 switchmen voted to
return to work Immediately. In Penn
sylvania all striking firemen and some
of the striking switchmen in the Pit
cairn yards went back to work. At
Steubenville, Ohio, the striking switch
men on three roads returned and the
strikers in Cumberland, Md, went back
At Derry, Pa, strikers from the
Youngwood yards of the Pennsylvania
them to strike, were escorted out of
town. In Baltimore the backbone of
the strike was broken when two local
brotherhoods on the Pennsylvania vote
to go back to work. Baltimore & Ohio
mon were expected to follow.
In Cleveland and Columbus the rail
roads threatened to dismiss the strikers
from the service unless they returned
within forty eight hours. Five hundred
striking yardmen in the Pennsylvania
yards in Cleveland voted to stay out
lHulanapOllS ydrQmen also refused TO 60
back.
A Jacksonville dispatch said all
switchmen on the Florida East Coast
Railroad walked out Unexpectedly, and
added that reports were current that
all switchmen in the FLORIDA district
would quit tonight
In Detroit an appeal by Mayor James
Couzens for resumption of work by
the striking switchmen was unavail-
ing. The Mayor, a former switchman,
urged the men to go back to work
and await the decision Of the Labor
Board, which, he told them, could not
be long delayed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany issued orders, effective on all
parts of its system, to give newsprint
paper preferential handling in transit
on the same basis as is accorded
rerishable food products.
A settlement OF the railroad strike in
Buffalo seemed to be in sight.
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Citizens Form
Unions to End
StrikeTie-Ups
(csntInued from page one)

become necessary these names will be
turned over to the proper official au-
thorities."
With the announcement of the forma-
ton of the Citizens Protective Union
in New York comes word of similar or
CARNATIONS which have sprung into
being in dozens of suburban communi-
ties whose citizens have been hard hit
by the tie-up. In Englewood they are
calling it "Thc Public Safety Commit
toe" and referring to the movement as
1.-The Plattsburg of industrial prepared
ness" In Nyack it is dubbed "The
Mutual Welfare Association"; Staten
Island and Long Island lean to "Vigi-
lance Committee" and "vigilante" no
menclature, but by any name the idea
represented by the various organiza-
tions is fundamentally the same-the
protection of the public interest
against selfish or revolutionary inter-
ference.
Not only ara railroad workers being
recruited from the ranks of the Com
mon people" in the new movement, but
streetcar volunteers, telegraph and tel
ephone workers and chauffeurs are also
being enrolled. Each individual is
classified according to his or her stated
preference and experience The ulti-
mate aim of each organization is to
make sure that in future any public
utility may be operated regardless Of
any interruption.
Women to Help Cause
Women as we'll as men arc coming
into the circle of aroused public senti-
ment. Hundreds of cx-telephone OPP
orators and strectcar and elevator
workers as we'll as chautfeurs are al
ready enrolled with the various organ
izations. Yesterday two Jamaica young
women reported to the Offices of the
Long Island road and volunteered their
services as "tirewomen"
With the men who have already vol
unteered to serve the roads and the
help secured through the various pro-
tective organizations, the New York
terminals everywhere yesterday began
to make vast strides toward resump-
ton of normal conditions. Suburban
communication traffic over all lines was
better than at any time since the walk
out began. In the New Jersey yards
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some freight was moved and many
trains were made up by volunteer crews
composed largely of students. The
morning and evening suburban services
were materially strengthened and the
incoming and outgoing trains were
again fired by substantial citizens. who
found the exercise to their liking. The
old war spirit of general service was
everywhere in evidence.
Sixteen suburban trains carried 10,-
618 passengers in 122 cars from vari-
Gus Erie stations in New Jersey to the
riverside terminals yesterday morning.
and in at least one instance the 10y
atty of the volunteer crews was sub
stantially rewarded. Passengers on the
train from Suffern and Mahwah which
landed it's load of eleven cars at the
Jersey terminal at 1874 made up a
purse of $3.50, which was presented
to the crew which brought them safely
in. An equally efficient service was
operated at night, when another TO-
900 commuters were returned to their
homes.
Service on Lackawanna
The Lackawanna set up a similar
record, sending out twenty commuta-
ton trains last evening, every one of
them filed with passengers and every
one operated by crew Of volunteer
tiremen and brakemen. The Lacka-
wanna also moved seven carloads of
meat into cold storage during the day
with the aid of student crews, and
student crews made up the passenger
trains and shunted hundreds of freight
cars around the yards. The volunteer
force is being constantly augmented
from the men in training Inc Erie
and Lackawanna officials both reported
commutation service that was ap-
proximately so per cent normal The
Lackawanna ran noon communication
train on its main line for the first time
since the strike started. Five volunteer
crews worked throughout yesterday aft
ernoon in the Erie freight yards and
were prlnclpally occupied in moving
coal, the lack of which is being felt
by all the roads.
The Long island Railroad operated
slXty-tive passenger trains yesterday,
which is 95 per cent of its normal steam
service. Donald Wilson, an official of
the road, opened recruiting office in
the Pennsylvania Terminal and in two
hours had enlisted fifty business men
and students as freight handlers in the
Long island City yards. A special
ehort Will be made to get fertilizers,
coal and potatoes TO the eastern end of
the island, where planting is being
held up. Of the fremen who operated
Long Island passenger trains only five
were regular hands; the rest were stu
dents or business men volunteers.
SO great has been the rush of stu
dents from Stevens Institute, Hoboken,
to the railroads that the school de-
clared temporary indefinite vacation
Yesterday afternoon, to last until the
students were no longer required on
the trains
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Circulars Urge
Men to Reu0lf

Hundreds Of circulars, signed by the
Central Revolutionary Council of
America" appealing to the ".ailway and
port workers" to cite up the whole sys-
tenn and show your mass power" to
strike to take over the industries and
the country" and to prepare to fight
the government" were turned over to
the Jersey City police yesterday by
"outlaw" strikers.
The papers, which attack the regular
union leaders, capitalism and the gov,
eminent in approved revolutionary
style, were left at the headquarters Of
the railway men at Grand View Hall
end at the Office of the Port and
Terminal Workers by unidentified boys,
who promptly disappeared. The strikers
who brought them down declared thew
did so because they repudiated both the
sentiments and the statements of the
circulars, and "as protest to show we
have nothing to do with such persons"
President Alfred Abel and Secretary
Frank Canary acted as messengers to
the police from the port workers. The
committee of railway men included Ed
ward Hamilton. William A. Keller. Ed
ward J. Markey, Frank O'Hare, Thomas
Landen and Richard A. Mcleod.
The circulars were headed, Railway
"oii anu 1oIt WoIhcfS, and read, IN
part;
"Your enemies are bowling loud.
"Your leaders and bosses, the unions.
the newspapers and the government are
against you. That is to be expected.
But you are prepared for it,
THE government is going to issue
injunctions against you, it will prose-
cute you, Jail you, ana then will come
government troops.
Get powerful number Of your fell
lows rebellng at the ssr. .ime and
show them who you are L. up the
whole system. Show You 49, power.
strike. You have got to learn to strike
! for more-for everything. Higher
wages and better conditions are not
going to free you-y0u will be the
same wage slaves as ever, and every
penny you gain will be swallowed up
by the higher cost of living, higher
rent, etc.
Strike to put an end to the whole
capitalistic system. Strike to take over
the industries and the country for the
benefit of the workers and the work.
ers alone. Agitate for the one big union
and shop committees and workers
councils in all the industries. Make it
single revolutionary organization
prepared to fight for the overthrow of
the rule of the bosses--the millionaires
Of Wall Street.
1T is the bosses. the owners, the
banks and the big sharks who take the
profits. And the government, their gov
eminent, backs them up in bleeding
you BY means of the army, injnnctions,
fake industrial courts, etc. Your work
srs councils and your one big revolu-
tionary union must get ready to fgns
the United States government. Pre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Big Army to Guard
Washington Urged
FreIinghuysen, Opposing
Cut, Says Dipision Is
Needed for the CapitnE

WASHINGTON. April 16.-Senator
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. voicine
his opposition in the Senate to-day ia
further reduction in the size of tina
army. said one division of approsi-
mately 27.b00 men should be stationed
near Washington to protect the capital
against any possible emergency. He
recalled that an army of 1000 captured
Petrograd, and insisted that there
should be no reduction in size of the
American army when we know tho
forces that are working at this time in
the country"
Opposition to a cut in the army he
low $50, 900 enlisted men and Is. 900 Of
hcers also was expressed by Senator
Wadsworth. of New York, whose mo-
ton to strike out the provision Of tho
army reorganization bill for reduc-
ton annually for five years of 2 per
cent of the commissioned and 5 per
cent Of the enlisted personnel, was
adopted, 30 to II.
A motion by Senator Reed, of Mis-
souri,. to reconsider. because of the ex-
pense of maintaining such large army
was defeated.
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frank Morrison
Assails Palmer.
Il. +. OF L. Official Denies
"Reds' Caused Strike ;
Hits at BLunderine

WASHINGTON, april 16.-Attorney
General Palmer's conclusions that the
OUTLAW" railway strike was traccable
to activities of radicals and revolu-
tionists were sharply challenged to-
night in statement issued by Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor. An independent
investigation of strike causes by the
railway executives, the statement said,
revealed Just a plain, ordinary strike
for more pay"
"If there were enough revolutionary
power in the United States to create
such an outbreak as this" Mr.. Morri-
son said, "the condition would be seri-
Gus indeed. But there is no such power.
The absolute failure of the Attorney
General to grasp the true situation is
amazing"
The Department of Justice had no
additional announcements to make TO-
night to support its conclusions. The
only development of the day was the
organization meeting of the railway
labor board, which net with seven Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Gloom Peruudes
Strikers Ranks

Deeper and deeper gloom descended
on the outlaw" railway strikers who
ccngregated at Grand View Hall. Jcr-
sey City. yesterday. after about a
hundred Of their number had marched
out OF the hall with the announcement
that they were going back TO work. /,
was the first open desertion of large
group and the leaders oratory failed
TO dispel the gathering blues.
The men left as II they were in a
hurry to get to work. Catcalls and
hisses and two or three agitators fol-
lowed them from the hall, but thew
paid no attention to either. marched TO
Inc nearest streetcar and disappeared
sihey included contingents from the
Hudson tubes and the Lackawanna AMI
Erie yards.
Edward McHugh, chairman of the
executive committee of the United
Railway Workers OF America who pre-
a'oed az the meeting, had no statement
to make when it closed
II Smallest Meeting Yet
There are many things would like
20 give out to the press" he said, "but
my colleagues won't let me-"
Ine meeting was the smallest since
me strike began, barely 1000 appear
ing throughout the day, though tho
f ZU0
yomen and other strikers from anon,
me clerks and station employees. who
f.ruek early in the week and attended
Tor the frat time. The men were de.
pressed from the starr and there
sseemsd to be feeling that there was
!itsie sense to their Vacations" anv
longer. In spite Of the efforts Of the
leaders to rally fighting spirit. Wv
s. Irving G. hunt, president 81 IN.
local which includes the tube men. de-.
eisred Just before they deserted that
we VIII all stay cut TN we get our
aemands. He had nothing to say after
The uproar in the hall continued for
zone time after that. One Of the
leaders who followed the deserters to
shs s, ssr "as called to the platform.
we're those men going back to
vork7 :" he was asked. '"
:. Yes, the damn fools" he replicd
shortly after this the men remaining
IN tpe nall began to drift away in small
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Labor Organ Sees Red
Menace in Rail Strike
Grave Peril to Government and Workers, Declares
Labor World; Urges Employers and Employees
to Unite to Crush Foster and Radical Leaders

Revolutionary purpose and backing
are seen in the "outlaw" railway strike
by "The Labor World" of Pittsburgh
the oldest labor paper in the United
States, which in it's current issue de-
clares that Bolshevists and anarchists
brought on the strike, and that they
are aiming at the destruction of both
the labor union movement and Of
America. 1t calls on employers and
employees of the "real American kind"
to get together to fight the menace.
"'The Labor World has reliable in
formation that W. z. Foster has been
directly connected with the promotion
and Inauguration of this OUTLAW
strike it says. ut is stated in govern
ment circles that he will be arrested
the steel strike which was exposed by
The Labor World after which he
stepped down and into secrecy. Now
he bobs up again"
"Direct Action" Energies
The editorial says, in part:
"Direct Action and Boring From
their hydra heads throughout the
United States. They have been forced
to the front by organized hosts of rail
road employees, and at this writing
the nations activities are threatened
in every respect whatever.
cat last we are face to face with
what has long been promised by the
agitators of the Reds that the gen
cral strike would one of these days be
applied with vengeance and the pro
letariat' would force it's way into it's
own.
at is a fact that in this instance
RI Inh II
den and dastardly outbreak of the
Bolshevik and the l. w. w. methods
that have been let loose among the peo-
pie of the nation.
eve do not believe that the Anne RI
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can people will tolerate such attempts
to control the nation as is being en-
forced by these railroad employees;
their theories are absolutely of the
Bolshevist and anarchist kind; their
design is to place the government Of
the nation in the hands of the prole-
tariat, as they term themselves; they
are outlaws in the labor world, and
led by proGerman who was trail
tor to the United States in time of
war. These men are actually Com
only trying to control all labor
unions, but to assume command of
the country. Their object is to dis
rupt, disorganize and destroy.
"The inauguration and methods
adopted previously to prepare for the
strikes commencement are strictly in
accordance with the boring from with
in methods preached by w. z. Foster,
the chieftain of syndicalism; Jay Brown
and others. 1t is known that for some
time there have been boring from with
in tactics going on within the forces
of the union, from which the outlaws
preachments going on in stealthy fash
ion for long time-that is, the agents
of the I. w. W. and syndicalist forces
have been spreading their doctrines and
methods from one to another of the
workers and Urging that the present is
the very best time to try and paralyze
the industries of the nation by tying
up all the railroads.
Make Them Marked Men
"There is one sure way of Destroy
ing the force and even the very eX-
istence of such agencies as we are
discussing, and that is for both en-
ployers and employees, of the true
American type, to get together and
eradicate these characters from our
industries so long as they are actively
engaged against the welfare Of our
country"
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pare to take over the government and
run it for the benefit of the workers
alone.
Our members are supporting you in
their unions.
"Out with the bosses.
"Out with your fake leaders.
ION with your revolutionary work
ers' councils.
Cali power to the workers.
CENTRAL REVOLUTIONARY CQUN-
GIL OF AMERICA"