Arizona republican., 1920-04-17
NJ EVIDENCE OF RED INFLUENCE
 IN RAIL STRIKE
 DECLARES WOOD
NO EVIDENCE Probe of Situation Has Fail ed to Disclose Any Con nection Between l. w. w. and Strikers He Claims
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 CHICAGO. April 16.-Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the cen tral department, United States army who returned to Chicago yesterday from his eastern speaking tour, be- cause of the insurgent strike of rail road workers, tonight said he did not find any evidence of connection be- tween the railway mems strike and Industrial Workers of the World activ ities.' General Wood declared he found | traffic conditions improving through out the department.
 Attorney General Palmer on We'd nesday declared reports from his de- partment linked the "illegaI' switch mems walkout with I. w. w. plans fo. ''one big union" and a nation wide walkout.
 Military intelligence officers here had been unable to find any connec- tion between the two, General Wood said.
 T am leaving tonight for Nebraska and probably will return Sunday" he said
 General Wood added that he wouid remain on leave for the present as nothing in the situation here made necessary his presence at department headquarters.
 Threaten Expulsion
 After revoking the charters of two lodges of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and one San Francisco lodge, A. F. Whitney, vice president of the brotherhood, today ordered all striking members of the organization in the Chicago terminal district to re- turn to work by midnight Saturday O. suffer expulsion from the union with loss of their seniority rights.
 With 25 leaders of the insurgent forces under arrest in Chicago, charged h ment of freight and livestock approach ing normal, and the return of many strikers to duty, rail chiefs and broth erhood officers declared the walkout, which started more than two weeks ago, was definitely broken.
 Among the local unions whose char ters were revoked was Lodge 456 of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road, of which John Grunau. head Of the outlaw yardmens association, was a member It was the waikout Of seven hundred switchmen of this road that started the strike which subse- quently spread to many railroad cen- ters throughout the country.
 Grunau Refuses Bond
 John Grunau. Harold Reading. presi- dent of the United Enginemen's as- sociation, and four other men arrested yesterday by federal agents. announced they would not put up bonds for their 
 T do not know what the other men are going to do," Grunau said, but [ am not going to arrange bond. I am placing myself in the hands of tho commissioners"
 Martin Kenny. Shannon Jones. John Logan. and Hugo Radke said they would go to jail rather than furnish bond, but fourteen others who were released yesterday on their own recog- nizance,. gave s1O000 bond for their release today before United States Commissioner Mason.
 R. $. Murphy, spokesman for the yardmen's association. blamed brother hood officers for the arrests. He said the men simply quit their positions and were not strikers. Five men for whom warrants were issued have not been arrested.
 Stockyerd receipts were virtually normal today. the railroad reported. 79S cars being received. The move ment of livestock to eastern points also V as reported normal with fresh meat sl ipments at so per cent of normal. There were 4S1 locomotives in opera ton in Chicago today, compared with AS yesterday.