Bisbee daily review., 1920-04-11

| leaders said tonight that 95 percent of the switchmen were out in Chicago and that 20 charters in the new union had been issued. enrolling 8 member ship of 25,OOO.
 Requests for charters and organiz- CTS were pouring in from all parts of the country, they affirmed H. E. Reading. president of the United Enginemen union, another of the outlaw unions. said that from all indications the big four brother hoods are through"
 q ordered 15,0O0 membership cards for the new organization" Reading declared. and We are now starting on our twelfth thousand"
 There were f24 cars of livestock re- ceived at the stock yards today over the direct trunk lines of four roads. The cars contained TOO cattle. 5000 hogs and 4000 sheep. Normal Sat urday receipts are 1900 cars.
 Several more railroad centers today were affected by the in- surgent strike of swift hmen and passenger service was affected in some places. notably New York City, while strikers returned in small groups at several places.
 Large areas of the country had not been invaded by the strike. which. union officials declared to be an ef- fort to overthrow the unions and nlr
 The switchmen in New England. all the southeast, and in the upper Missis- sippi and the Missouri valleys re- mained at work. those in Denver and St Paul and Minneapolis formally vot- ing to remain. On the other hand. hundreds of men in Cleveland. the headquarters of the Brotherhood of railway Trainmen, today broke away from official restraint and quit work
 Reports of the number of strikers were confused by the variance be- tween the figures of union officials and strikers. Unofficial figures from the various railroads affected showed 10000 men on strike. In ad- ditions thousands of persons were in- directly affected by the strike, by the closing of steel mills. packing houses and other industries depending on the roads for coal and raw materials.
 The insurgent forces were strength ened by nearly 5000 today. when switchmen in twenty-two additional cities and towns struck and further walkouts occurred in large railroad centers. Against this gain about 1000 strikers returned to work in half dozen places.
 More than 400O joined the strikers already out in Toledo. Detroit, Colum- bus. Indianapolis. Fort Worth and other cities
 Federal intervenriou in the
 strike with the possible utilization
 of the Illinois National Guard to
 protect property was forecast to-
 day by the action of District 6.-
 torney Charles Cline who, after
 an all night conference with his
 staff and members of the depart
 ment of justice, summoned John
 Graunau, leader of the strikers,
 to his office.
 It was said that definite instruc-
 tions were received by Mir. Cline
 from Attorney General Palmer in
 regard to the governments action
 in the strike situation. Mir. Cline
 would not discuss possible govern
 ment action. will say, how
 ever," he stated, "that the United
 States Is not entirely powerless
 in that situation that effects the
 food and fuel supply of the coun-
 try and that drastic action will be
 inevitable unless conditions are
 altered materially within the next
 4S hours"
 It was learned that Mir. Cline was in conference by telephone with chiefs of the department of justice in Wash in gton as late as three o'clock this Members of the Eleventh