The Washington times., 1920-04-10
$4,000 OUT,
LEADERS SAY
Officials, However, Declare Not
More Than $4,000 Have
Joined Rail WaIkout.
STORM CENTER IN NEW YORK
Traffic in City Badly Crippled
As Hudson Tube Employees
Quit Work.
STORM CENTER IN NEW YORK


Of the greatest Industrial tie-uPs
In the histery Of the Pittsburgh
district, even greater than that
which occurred during the steel
and csaI strikes, II inninest be-
cause Of the railroad strike. In
austrial leaders here declared ts-
day.
with approxinately 10000 rail-
road men already idle In the ter
ritsry west Of here the s4eutlawr
waIlksut assumed alarming Drs-
pertisns.
CHICAGO, April 10.-Deflnite
signs of q break In the railway
yards strike, which foF a week
pest has Daralysed freight traffic
Of CAieags snA the middle West.
were seen today when officials
Of the CAieaGs, Milwaukee and 81.
Psui road annsanced that the
freight emharEo en their line
would pre6ably be lifted Monday.
Other Sptinistic slEns lay in
the fact that al enSiaeers and
firemen on the st. Paul Hire were
reported to be back at work and
striking yardmen and others on
the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad have promised to take =
referendun vote today On return
Ing to work.
CHICAGO, April 10.-The coun
rvs railroad strike apparently re
;olved itself today into a coming t,
,rips in what may be a long draw
'ut test of strength, with both side
threatening to make a finish figh
# it.
$4,000 to $4,000 Out.
With some thirty-five cities affecl
ID. and from 5000 to $4,000 men ou
take your choice between the esti
mates of the railroad officials and th
strike leaders-it was believed tha
he trouble will not further spread I
my great extent, and that the walk
,ut, except in isolated and compare
lively unimportant instances, will nc
affect any class Of railroad work
,ther than switchmen and yardmen.
The railroad officials and their q
lies, the brotherhood chiefs, continue
10 put forth claims that the strike
rapidly being broken. and that tn
men are flocking back to wori
while the strike leaders stoutly main
tanned their claim that the walk ou
Is gaining strength and new adher
ents hourly, and that their newl
formed union. the Yardmen's ASS,
citation of America, has gained a fir
foothold in practically all of tn
where strikes have o.
Cured.
New York Storm Center.
The strikes storm center today wa
in New York. New cities to be al
fected late Friday and today wer
Y Youngstown. Ohio, where 5000 me
struck and threw $4,000 steel men on
Of work; Indianapolis, where 1,7U
walked out: Pueblo, Col
with $50 men out: Columbus, Obi,
100 men on strike: Milwaukee. wis
100 switchmen out; Pocetello, Idah,
100 men cut, and Portland, Ore
where 100 switchmen quit on tw
roads.
Thus far the only complete tie-u
to be reported from any troubI
center, with the exception of Ne
York. has been in the movement {
freight, which is hard hit. Passe,
ger trains, while seriously delayed I
many points, are still moving.
The seriousness of the passeng,
service delay, however, was reflects
In interference with the mails. Gel
tain classes of mail are reported q
being many days late, and the congo
ton Is such in Chicago that Postma
ter Carlisle has been authorized
to rent warehouses;
which to store the ever-increasin
mail piles.
Believe Cri.i. Fast.
The general situation in Chicag
from the point OF view of railros
was related in the foliowin
bulletin of the General Managers A
issued today:
"All indications are that the cris
In the switchmen's strike in the Oh
cago yards Ia definitely past.
There was n small further increas
In the number OF switching crews
service. This was due principally I
the fact that on some roads some ,
the strikers returned TO work, az We
~ to the fact that the labor brothe
hoods continued to bring In some ,
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