The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-04-15
Gcncrll Strike Conditions

Chicago, April 15.-ReportS from
rail contcrs in the central west and
on the Pacific coast today bore out
assertions of brotherhood ana rnil-
road officials. that the nsurgent rail.
road strike was dying out in these
'ectloas Of the country and that tr7lf.
fic conditions were improved mater.
tally.
Strikers were reported TO be re-
turning to work in q number of cities
and in Chicago, where the unauthor-
izcd wakout had its origin. broth,
erhoCd officials said the backbone OF
the strike was broken.
Switchmen employed in the Chicago
terminal Of the Rock Island So stem.
firemen ard engineers on the Penn
sylvania railroad and groups Of strt-
ers on the 500 Line and other roads
voted 10 end the walkou. - chicago
| ana were returning TO the, IDS lolay.
| Freight conditions. ~. .ailroads an.
nounced were being sstored rapidly
to nearly normal and emhargoes were
| lifted by several roads.
The insmgent leaders, however,
| continued their claims that the posi-.
| ton Of the strikers remained unshak-
On and denied chnfges Of Attorney
General Paln/r that radical influences
were behind the strike.
In Michigan the industrial tieup,
| as result Of the strike. continued
serious with estimates that $50, 900
workers, the largest number In De-
! troit, were idle. Additional passen-
| ger trains were annulled by Perre
| Marquette because OF the coal short
age and fears were expressed that
! navigation might b suspended in sew.
eral days unless the situation was
| relieved
Reports from Ohic cities told of
! Industrial plants, steel mills and coal
mines closed at many centers, throw.
ing 100000 workers out OF employ
ment. Efforts to break the strike
on all rnds at Columbus, were being
made ana members of the brother
hood Of railroad conductors voted to
exert their "best efforts" to persuade
strikers 10 return TO work, The yard
men in Columbus wcro expected TO
take action today on ending tho
walkout.
Brotherhood officials announced ar
Cleveland that 500 men voted 70 re-
turn today and that all the strikers
employed by the Erie railroad, aud
SO per cent OF the men employees In
the Collinswood yard of the New
York Central, were at work.
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen
officers gave out partial list Of
tclcgraphic reports received there
naming more than so cities In which
strikers had resumed work.
All switchmen on strike at Dayton
We're reported to have voted TO 60
back today
In the far west traffic was much
improved and overland passenger
trains which had been stalled at
various points in California and Ari-
2ona were moving again toward their
destinations.
The strike in the vicinity of spo-
kane. Wash. virtually ended with
the return to work last night ct
striking switchmen.
Strike leaders at Los Angeles, pre-
dcted 800 car inspectors there would
quit work if the railroads continued
to recruit now switchmen-
Yards at San Bernardino, Barstow.
Needles. and Cotton, Cal, were re-
ported to be tied up, but freight be-
gan to move through the Southern
Pacific yards at Bakersfield. Cal.
Mass meetings Of strikers were
called in Kansas City by brotherhood
4, cllairmen, with the object Of ending
!; the strike in that district Railroad
and brotherhood officials there an.
| nounced that some men had desert.
, ed the insurgeat ranks. and that
traffic conditions were improved
, Freight and express remained un.
der partial embargo in st. Louis,
' but passenger sernce virtually was
normal.
Strikers also were reported TO have
resumed work at Cheyenne Wyo-
) and on the western division Of the
: FL Paso and Southern Railway. ex'
+ tending from FL Paso, to Tucson.