Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-04-23
yARDMEN'S STRIKE
NOW ABOUT ENDED
RAILWAY UNION CHIEFS An
REvoKING CHARTERS
NEW UNIONS.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Busy
workers Must Go Back or Suffer
Expulsion From Union-Over
1000 Men Implicated, Says
Chicago Report.

CHlCAGO.-After revoking tbo
charters of two Chicago lodges of tbo
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
F. Whitney. vice president, has or
dered all striking members of the or
ganization in the Chicago termino,
district to return or suffer expulsion
from the union with loss of their 60
niority rights.
With Is leaders of the insurgon.
forces under arrest in Chicago
charged with violating the Lever ac,
the movement Of freight and live
stock approaching normal, and tbo
return of many strikers to duty. rail
chiefs and brotherhood officers do.
clared the walkout, which started
April l was definitely broken.
Among the unions whose charter.
were revoked was lodge 456 of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. PAM
railroad. of which John Grammar
head Of the outlaw yardmens asso.
citation, was member. 1t was the
walkout of 700 switchmen ON this
railroad that started the strike.
"outIaw" Union Some Union.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
Chicago yardmens' association as the
governing body of railway switch.
men and yardmen was added to the
demands of striking railway EN-.
ployes in Chicago terminal district
Saturday at a meeting of the new
Outlaw union.
Switchmen's Strike Ends.
The railroad yardmen's strike has
collapsed. Except in a few isolated
sections, railroad officials report the
bulk of the men had returned to
work. Normal passenger service vir.
tually was restored, they said, while
substantial progress was being made
In the moving the vast amount of
freight that has been accommodating In
the last three weeks.
Many of the strikers said that fail
ure to receive increases in wages
granted to other railroad men
prompted their action.
The strikers except their demands
will be presented to the new rail
labor board, which has power to set.
tie disputes between the railroads
and their men. The board is sitting
now at Washington.
New York Tube Men Still Out.
In Chicago, the strike center, rail
road officials said the strike was
ended.
In the New York district most of
the strikers have returned.
Two thousand employees of the Hud-
son tubes, which carry thousands Of
commuters into New York daily from
New Jersey, were the only important
holdouts. The tubes have been closed
since the men quit on April 8.
The principal effect of the strike is
closing of many industries because of
the lack of coal, raw materials and
cars to move products. One hundred
thousand men are idle at Detroit, a
similar number in Ohio, $4,000 in the
oonnelsville coke region, and many
scores of thousands idle in other sec
tons.
Grunau to Be Rearrested.
MISUNDERSTANDING for the rear
rest Of John Grunau, president of the
yardmen's association; p. v. Miller
and Fred Radke were issued by Com
missioner Mason.
Federal agents declare the men
broke faith with the government in
attending meetings of striking
'witchmen after they had been re-
eased on promise to take no further
part in the movement.
Unions New Demand.
CHICAGO.-A request for a tempo
'ary wage increase of 81 a day, with
.lme and half for overtime after
eight hours, pending the decision of
he railroad labor board on wage de-
nands, was made Tuesday by the gen
eral chairman's association of the
northwest district of the United Broth
srhood Of Maintenance of Way En-
gloyes and Railroad Shop Laborers.
one hundred thousand members OF
ne big brotherhood in the Chicago
district will quit work as individuals
On April 2S, IL their demands are not
the association stated.
According to Frank M. SILL n
brotherhood official, the men now re-
'eive from $2.24 to 1920 a day. The
northwest district includes territory
within 300 miles OF Chicago. Thirty
ave roads would be affected.