Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-10
PASSENGER TRAINS
Cancelled IN n. Y;
WEST ENCOURAGED
179 Cars of Cattle Delivered
at Chicago Stock
Yards Today.

CHICAGO. April 10.-Railroad
managers will not treat with the
''outlaw" unions. and the only con-
tracts to be recognized are those
with the established brotherhoods.
1T WINS announced mt the head
quarters of the General Managers,
Association here today.
Committees appointed by the
strtkers to wait on the managers
and ask for contracts will not be
received. 1t was said.
"Our contracts with the brother.
hoods cover all the men now ON
strike" Secretary Snyder of the
general managers said. "If the
strikers want contracts they have
will recognize NO outlaw orsaniza-
tion."
BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 10.-Started as a
freight tie-up, the railroad strike to-
day invaded the passenger field at
New York. where several trains were
Cancelled while the freight tie-up
continued to spread among yard
switching crews from coast to coast.
In Chicago, birthplace of the "out-
law" unions which called the first of
the illegal strikes, brotherhood
heads and railroad officials asserted
the situation was slightly improved
today. One sign regarded as encour-
aging was the delivery at the stock
yards Of 179 cars of cattle, almost
any one day since the strike was
called April 1.
Many mines in southern Illinois
were reported closed as a result OF
the strike and. 1t was said, 10000
miners were idle.
ters throughout the country today
showed men out as follows: Chicago,
5000; st. Louis. 5000; Toledo. 5000;
New York-New Jersey, $500: Youngs-
town, 5000: Buffalo. 1000; Kansas
City, 1900; Los Angeles. 1,400; De-
troit, 1900: Pittsburgh. 1000; Fort
Francisco. 44o. and indianapolis, 700.
Embarkoes ON Freight.
Railroads across the country for
eastern ports to the Pacific coast an
ments at various points and In indus
trial centers thousands of workers
had been thrown out of employment
as plants restricted operations be-
cause of lack of fuel and raw mate
rials.
Brotherhood OHClAfS OeCldTeu re-
ports that $4,000 switchmen and en-
Rinemen were out were exaggerated,
but admitted that the seeding work
ers had gained strength outside Chi
cago. They asserted the strike soon
would be broken in the Chicago dis
trict and said with that accomplished
1t was simply a case of allowing the
strike fever to burn out" in other
sections.
A. F. Whitney. vice president OF the
Of Railroad Trainmen,
that a group of striking
switchmen on the Burlington road had
returned to work in Chicago last
night. A committee of strikers from
the Chicago and Northwestern line,
he said, would vote today on ending
the walkout here.
Strike Going to Pieces.
"The strike is going to pieces right
among the charter members" said Mr..
whitney. when it breaks the men
will 20 back In a hurry"
A statement issued by railroad OFF,
cials declared that all Indications were
that the crisis in the Chicago yards
had passed.
officials of the five big railroad
communicated to the
Western Association of Railways their
intention to support the integrity of
our contracts" and asked further time
to break the strikes.
Approximately $4,000 stockyards
and packing house workers have
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