The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-09
UNITE TOCOMBAT.
ILLEGAL STRIKE.
Brotherhood Officials Fighting
"IIIegaI" WaIkout Much
Encouraged.
DON'T CLAIM STRIKE OVER
40, 900 Out Of Work at Stock
yard-New "Rump" Unions
Being Formed Rapidly.

06iHg TOTmeQ hdpluly.
! New York, April 9.--Railroad off,
| cIals and union leaders united today
! to combat the unauthorized strike oil
4 switchmer and yard workers which
| engulfing New York last night
threatened the city's millions WI 8
food shortage. II
This afternoon w. j. WEIGH.
eraL chairman of the Brotherhf r. OF
| Railroad Trainmen. declared = wv
| the first indications of breal IL
| though admitting that 1t v Z Too
| early to make any prediction, q as
serted there was a return M q lent
in New Jersey yards, whereby said
about half the workers had ~ their
posts. He declined to estimI. ither
the number OF strikers or X num-
her OF workers who had r. ned.
Meanwhile there are indications
that the walkout on the New York
shore OF the Hudson, which began
this morning, Is spreading, for OFF,
cialg of the New York Central re-
ported their yards had been visited
by strikers who had driven out"
other yardmen.
WEIGH declared that union switch
men sRd yard hands will be imported
from Outside terminal points to
break the strike here IL the strikers
do not go back to work
While railroad officials late today
continued to regard the strike sitra-
ton enthusiastically. and issued state
rments that the crisis had been passed,
600 more engineers and firemen, all
employed on the st. Paul road, where
the trouble started, voted unani-
mously to walk out as individuals"
Specific wage demands were pre-
scented to the General Managers as
ISOLATION by committee of the
strikers. !
At Fort Wayne. Ind, 5000 railroad
shopmen returned to work, winning
a wage increase. but losing their fight
for a closed shop. This decision Is
regarded as important, as there has
been much strike agitation among
the 100000 railroad shopmen of the
country.
The American Federation of Labor
OFFICIALS at Washington are watching
the progress of the strike with con-
Germ, TO they regard the movement
as dangerous to organized labor. All
of the higher officials of the fedora
ton are now out of the city, most
of the railroad union officials being
EN- route to Kansas City. where they
are to hold convention on Monday.
+. ]. Conlin, assistant secretary of
the railway division of the fedora
ton, declared his department win
keep aloof from the strike and will
expect it's members to abide by or
defs Of their leaders. At the office
of President Gompers it was stated
that he would not take any official
cognizance of the strike.
Railroad brotherhood officials. who
have denounced the new trump"
unions and appealed to loyal union |
men to assist in breaking the strikes, |
district has reached it's maximum |
and would be broken within forty
eight hours. They said strikes in |
other parts of the country would end |
also.
One thousand brotherhood men |
from other cities had answered the
call for strikebreakers here, officials
said.
Between 10000 and $4,000 packing
house and stockyard workers had
been thrown out of employment to-
day as the result of stoppage of
cattle shipments, packers announced.
Nearly 1000 employees of twenty
three railroads entering Toledo, in
Guiding switchmen, enginemen and
h~emen, were reported Idle today
In the st. Louis district, including
East st. Louis and Madison, ILL.,,
'reight traffic was reported virtually
1t a standstill, with yardmen of
wenty-seven roads on strike.
All railroads In Kansas City, Mo-,
operating under contracts with the
brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
we're affected and the strike had
pread to Kansas City, Kan, and
tosedale, an Industrial suburb.
Points throughout the southwest
eported embargoes had been placed
n freight and cattle shipments to
Il. Louis. Kansas City and Chicago.
reight service between Chicago ana {
'ew Orleans on all lines was sus-
ended.
Rail companies throughout Callfor- l
la felt the traffic tie-up, and east G
Yard along the continental lines sew
raj lines reported strikes.
Unionized railroad workers at
,oulsvllle, Ky, at a meeting voted
most unanimously against striking
\ sympathy with the Chicago "in-
urgents," brotherhood officials re-
orted.
Attempts to form trump unions q
several other cities were in prog {
ess today and votes were expected I,
, be taken.
Won't Join Outlaws" /
ST Joseph, Motive hundred I
mon switchmen will not doin the
lutlaw strike"
The mems leaders declared there :
,day that no strike vote had oean I
ken. The question of a sympathetic !
alkout had received no considera- J
ON whatever. they said, =
Utah Service Demoraiized. !
Salt Lake City, Utah, April a. (
ailroads throughout the intermoun- {
lin states are demoralized as re- Q
lit OF the switchmen's strike. which 7
bread to Salt Lake. ogden and Po- :
atello. Two hundred and fifteen I
Nitchmen employed by the Oregon X
mort Line and Denver & Rio Grande :
ent on strike here at midnight last
ght At Ogden. $50 men employed l
the Ogden Union railroad went
II. At Pocatello. Ida, between 100
nd 200 switchmen In the dlyisionI
rTninal yards of the Oregon Short
Ire walked out.
Beaver, Pa, April 9.-Between 400
I'd 500 switchmen, brakemen and
'nductors employed at the Conway
irds of the Pennsylvania lines.
ar here. went on strike today for
CHER pay.
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