The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-17
STRIKE LEADERS
ARE SUMMONED
BY GRAND JURY
New Jersey to Invesh-
gate Actions of Outlaws
Strike Pronounced
Failure in New York.

Trenton, y. j., April 16.---New Jer-
sey went ON record today as the
FIRST Eastern state to institute federal
investiga tons through the grandjury
into the outlaw railroad strike.
Thirty subpoenas for strike leaders
to appear Monday before the United
States grand jury sitting in Newark,
were issued today by Federal District
Attorney Bodine,
1t was reported but without confir
nation, that railroad officials also
will be summoned.
New York. April 1.-THE quick
ending OF the outlaw" railroad
strike was presaged tonight by the
vastly improved operating situation.
The freight embargo Of the New York
Central and West shore roads was
lifted during the day and freight be-
gan to move for the first time since
the strike started on other roads.
Strikers began to flock back 10 their
jobs, the agitators and leaders being
no longer able to hold them back
STRIKE Is FAILURE
The strike was pronounced a fall
ure tonight by railroad officials. The
strikers had succeeded, they said, in
putting the public sto very serious in
convenience and in crippling many
manufacturing industries but so far
as gaining anything for themselves
which could not have been gained by
orderly recourse to representations Of
alleged grievances through recog-
niZations. the net result for the strtk-
ers had been nil
The Inconvenience to which the
public has been subjected will con-
tinue to some extent for several days,
it was said, while normal conditions
are being restored.
The Railway Managers associa ton s
ultimatum was credited with show
ing the strikers a great light. Men
who had been drinking in fiamboy
ant statements by strike leaders were
impressed by the managers deciara-
ton that all who failed TO return to
work by tonight would Scse their
seniority rights while those who de-
layed their return until tomorrow
must start as new enployes--if they
We're accepted al ALL
ELEVATOR STRIKE FAILS.
New DIRK. April 16.-So accustomed
are lawyers. brokers and business men
TO firing and running engines when
railroads cease to function and wo.
men 10 rolling up their sleeves and
toying with the family wash or the
cook stove when laundry women and
cooks are In strike, that today
strike by thousands of elevator opera
tors did not feaze the occupants q
Office buildings at all.
Men and women simply stepped
into the elevators and ran them--de-
rlarations by strtks leaders that the
walk out was effective to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
Business men in large buildings
took turns running the elevators, and
il did not take long for the brains
whose owners earn from $40. 900 to
$50. Zoo or more a year To master the
intrracies OF pushing a lever one way
To make Il car go up and another to
go down. The strikers prediction
that this would prove a walk-up" day
was not fulfilled. In most Of the
buildings all the elevators were RUN
ming.
Managers Of number of large
buildings were said by the strikers to
have sought settlement. among them
being officers of the corporations
owning the Blair building. - Broad
street, and the Farmers Loan and
Trust company building, % William
street.
Thomas F. McGiil. president OF the
Union. said today that accessions by
new members had brought the mem-
bershlp up to 5000,