Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-13
INTERFERENCE WITH
MAIL MOVEMENTS
TO Be PROSECUTED
Senator Cummings After
White House Conference,
Announces Early Appoint
nnent of Wage Board :,

WASHINGTON, April 12-Possible
government action to end the rail-
road strike today apparently center
ed about President Wilson.
J. p. Tumulty, secretary to the
president, saw Mr.. Wilson today and
Immediately after tried to get in
touch by telephone with Attorney
General Palmer, who has just re-
turned from campaigning in Geor-
gia.
Senator Cummins. chairman Of the
senate interstate comneYEe commit
tee and w. N. Doak, vice president
Of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, called at the White House.
After returning to the capitol, Mr.
Cummins announced that he had re.
ceived assurances that the wage ad-
justment board provided in the Esch-
Cummins railroad law will be ap-
pointed today or tomorrow.
Mr.. Cummins then called a meet
ing of the Interstate commerce COM
mittee. to consider the situation. He
said he proposed to have the com
railroad law which would permit the
wage adjustment board to get to
work in Washington as soon as ap-
pointed. Under the law as now
drawn the boards headquarters
would be in Chicago.
Postoffice to Prosecute
The postoffice department toda
announced that it will take vigor-
Gus action" if there is any interior.
ence with transportation Of mail as
result Of the strike.
The following instructions have
been sent to superintendent of the
railway mail service:
instruct all chief clerks, trans
FER clerks and others to report any
obstructions directly or indirectly bv
conspiracy or otherwise with pa <
sage of mails as result of strike tn
gether with name of person or per
sons involved, Bring to inmediaL.
attention OF local postoffice inspec;
ors, inspector in charge and United
States district attorney with reouesr
/. that Offenders be vigorously prose.
cuted IL facts warrant
Advices concerning mail move
ments from New York. Chicago ana
st. Louis were described as zen
coura ging."
W. N. Doak, vice president of the
brotherhood of Trainmen. and Sem
ator Cummins, chairman of the SEN
ate interstate commerce COMMITTEES
which is to investigate the strike
called at the White House TODAY tn
olscuss the situation with Secretary
Tumulty. .,f
PoStoffice department officials said
today that thus far there had been
no serious interruption Of the mail
service, but that mails were being
delayed at number of places. in
Guiding Chicago, st. Louis and other
cltles, Mail coming to Washington
from New York is several hours late
as is also that going into the south,
STRIKE SITUATION LOOKS
MUCH BETTER IN WEST
CHICAGO, April 12--Developnent
west of Pittsburg in the switchmen,s
unauthorized strike today were re-
safded by railroad brotherhood Off,
Gals as pointing toward a. gradraJ
dissolution of the insurgent forEes
put in the east, where the walko,,t.
was Joined in several districts nv
tralnmen, the situation assumed
more serious aspect.
In the central and far west nil.
merous reports of OBJECTIONS from
the strikers ranks followed the re.
port of the first important break :at
Columbus, Ohio, where 500 switchs
men voted to return to work 3:
AT Chicago, admitted keystone OF
the Walkout, railroad officials were
presented terms for settlement AZ
the strike" which included recogni-
ton of the new union formed by dis.
senters from the Brotherhood Of
railroad Trainmen and the Switch
mems Union of North America. -
Claim Strike Is Breaking
In addition to the gradual improve
ment claimed by railroad heads in the
Chicago district which the brother
hood officials said presaged a return
w avn mai I'LL OUSlLOuL the country,
the organization leaders pointed to
the votes at Columbus, Fort Wayne,
Ind; Akron, Ohio, and Saginaw.
Mich, is marking definite breaks in
the strike.
In the far west and var'0"1 cities
in the middle west local unions yotzT
not to join the strike, Seattle, Ia
coma, Everett and Auburn, Wash,
and Cincinnati, Little Rock, Ark;
Memphis, Tenn, and ST. Joseph, Mo,
switchmen registering that Intention
Steel CenterB Idle
In the Chicago district and AZ
neighboring steel centers thousand,
of men were idle today because Of
the strike. At the Chicago STOCK
yards promises of a minimum de!ig-
cry of 1S6 carloads today brought -
more optimistic outlook, although
hundreds of men still would remain
idle.
Because eastern shipments Were
cut off, killing necessarily was re-
duced, said Everett c. Brown, pres'-
dent of the Chicago Livestock Elk
1000 SWITCHMEN MAY