The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-15
STRIKERS
IN WEST DECIDE
TO RESUME JOBS
Reputation Of Outlaw Ac-
ton BY Delegates at x. G..
Meeting Has Immediate Eff
feet on Situation.

Meeting Has Immediate Eff
feet on Situation.
Chicago, April 13.-Repudiation Of
the outlaw strike by the officers and
delegates representing 100000 rail-
road men in Kansas City and the an
nouncement that the personel of
President Wilson's wage adjustment
board would be made public tomor-
row had startling and immediate af-
feet on the status of the walkout in
the middle west.
Within a few hours after this two
c~ylindered check on the strike move
ment, railroad workers in, a score OF
cities decided to either go back or to
remain at work. Seattle, Tacoma,
Everett, Wash, Little Rock, Ark,
Memphis, and st. Louis, Mo-, switch
men decided not to join the outlaws
and the first strike vote in Canada,
in Winnipeg, was against walking out.
AS a result headquarters of the Chi
cago yardmen's association was not
as assured in its victory plans.
While no figures were available as
night shifts went on in Chicago, Of
ficials of the railroad managers as
ISOLATION declared the men We're re-
turning in large numbers and that
within "a hours the strike would be
broken.
Strikers Are Warned.
Following the Washington an
nouncement, the Chicago and North
western and Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy railroads served notice on it's
striking switchmen that they would
either return to work at one or con-
slider themselves out of a job, ac-
cording to reports hat could not be
confirmed. Passenger service into
Chicago was run on schedule for the
first time in a week; sufficient live
stock was received to operate the
stockyards killing pens, n food
tonnage were increased, according to
late reports.
Dispatches from Los Angeles and
Fort Worth reported the strikers re-
turned to work.
John Bannon, vice president Of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen, in
ST. Louis, was authority for the re-
port that the Missouri Pacific yard
men had voted to return TO work in
that city.
In Milwaukee. where the entire city
was practically isolated because of a
walkout of 1000 railroad workers. no
change was reported.
Widely circulated reports that the
government had issued an ultimatum
to the strikers in Chicago We're dis
proved by federal and railroad Of
~ficials, who declared no action VIII
be taken, pending the appointment Of
the wage adjustment board.
Conventions Stand Was Real Blow.
The real blow to the strikers hopes,
was the firm stand taken by the con-
yention of the railroad department of
the American Federation of Labor at
the. Kansas City meeting. Strikers
in the middle west We're firm in their
belief that the Representatives Of the
II great unions at the conference
would take some action tolerant. if not
favorable to the outlaws"
The attitude of the railway de-
partment of the American Federation
of 1abor is that the members are law
abiding citizens said President
Wharton, of the railway shipments
union. LAS such we arc ready to GO
ahead with wage matters under the
law recently passed by congress
President Wharton and other
speakers in Kansas Gifts definitely put
an end to the reported intention on
the part of their unions to form one
big railway union and of breaking
existent agreements with the brother
hood.
Eyes of all the, strikers were in tlI
L apcac Citv nacSinU and tbR EpypOtG
of the convention had a dampenine
effect on their leaders throughout the
middle west.
In Chicago the Illinois Central re-
ported it was moving 40 per cent. OF
the normal freight traffic.
Yardmen in Duluth, Mimi, and Su-
ported it was moving 80 per cent. OF
work.
Headquarters of the Switchmen's
Union of North America. fighting the
strike, said all strikers are returning
on the Elgin, Joliet e Eastern rail
way, and that men are returning t.
work in the Chicago stock yards.
Missouri Pacific officials sale ths
majority of their switcLmen had re-
turned.
An OUTLAW organization which
was formed in Omaha dlSbandec
when i&s members voted to remain
loyal to the .brotherhoods. The money
in the treasury Of the new orGahiza'
ton was turned over to the salvation
Army.
A system of rationing was institi
ed by Chicago wholesale grocers
Dealers were limited to the size %
orders, particularly in sugar ant
flour.
The food situation here is muci
improved, according to Maj. A. j
Sprague, of Sprague, Warner & Co
wholesale grocers.
The situation is not grave" h
said. There are sufficient staple
on hand to take care of Chicago AM
the nearby vicinity for another tW,
weeks"
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