New-York tribune., 1920-04-13

these men and help bring halt to the
wildcat" strike. Department Of JUS
tsce agents are also investigating the
purpose of the strikers.
Ine governments hand was forced
by the action of the strikers at Port
Jervis. n. Y, ninety miles away, where
tram with $50 passengers, milk and
mail aboard, was abandoned at 5:43
p m. Sunday. while the crew attended
a meeting of workers in that town.
rms train was later brought to New
iork by new crew, arriving here
ABOUT o:l5 a. m. yesterday.
Cleveland flyer leaving the Erie
station at Jersey City at 9:45 p. m.
Sunday stopped at Paterson to take
aboard twelve trucks of mail. A band
OF outlaw strikers attempted to drag
the engineer and fremanl from the cab
but were fought off with poker and
shovel until trainmaster who was in
passenger coach rushed forward and
ordered the train moved without all the
mail. The interruption of United
States mails is felony, with penalty
of a long term in Jail.
More than 100 soldiers from Camp
Merritt arrived in Jersey City during
the afternoon in seventeen army trucks
and undertook the distribution of the
mails along the Erie Railroad, which
has oceH COuDlcteiS SHut GOWN.
AS the commutation service of the
Pennsylvania. Lackawanna, Jersey City
and New York, New Haven e. Hartford
lines have also been affected, it is ex-
pected the Federal authorities will
take similar steps to insure the de-
livery of mail along these lines.
The guards, in charge of Major
Vernon Oldsmith, were armed with
ausomatics. The first mail they
1oI IN,
New Jersey.
sey Central commuters came as a
great shock to the 10000 patrons that
use these lines daily. Signs were
posted in the terminals q this line at
9 o'clock yesterday morning that all
service. both communication and
through. was indefinitely suspended.
At o'clock in the afternoon. how |
ever, the railroad officials were able |
to press about four trains into service
home.
The service, however, was dis
continued about 8 y. M. and no promise
of any trains for to-day could be OBJ
tanned from the railroad heads.
The situation on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was worse yesterday than at
any time since the strike. There was
practically no communication train serv-
ice, and the total number of trains
leaving the terminal during the day
amounted to only so per cent Of the
daily average.
An attempt to get home some sub
urbanites along this line was made by
forcing all through trains to stop at
local stations, so that express trains
to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wash
ington took about twice the usual time.
lone local train left the Pennsyl-
vAnia Terminal about 1 p. m making
the late arrivals were some freight
trains with about 1872 carloads ofspcr-
ishable goods.
% Crews Return
fAt the Pennsylvania Railroad offices
IL was said early this morning that
some of the crews of electric engines
who had gone out or strike had re-
parted for work late last night. The
day trains, it was reported, will be
operated by ten crews, working sixteen
hour shifts. The electric service to
Manhattan Transfer will be augmented
by eight new crews to replace some of
she fifty who had walked out By this
morning twenty-three crews had re-
perted for duty, the train dispatcher
said
$The Chicago mail train. scheduled
20 leave the Pennsylvania terminal at
7s55 o'clock last night, left three hours
ind 21 minutes late. The Philadelphia
|ocal, which was scheduled to leave at
"a p. m, and was annulled, left FIVE I
minutes la.e, when a crew showed up
Unexpectedly, OF the incoming trains
at the Pennsylvania station from mid
night Sunday night to midnight last
night, thirty-fve were annulled. The
ress arrived irregularly.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an
ncunced early to-day that the proposed
schedule for trains leaving Pennsyl-
rania terminal, starting to-day, will be
as follows: