The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-04-12

MEN MAKE OVERTURE
GOVERNMENT TAKES HAND

yu1C7ASOs AHTN LIZ ISs--ONlAAu6
railrOaders5 IL hicagO district
must either retNfh to work or
consider their positions vacant
! and seek employment elsewhere
District AttOrney Charles Clyne
told leaders OF e4kc.> men today,
The governments demands that the
trains run and will assist the roads
f." tiIiing the [pls4es Of men who
fail to return to work the Dis.
l,lct attorney isssaid to have told
the leaders. Officials declined to
say what measure the government
wss prepared to- use In enforcing
its ed1ct there.
Chicago. April 12-D Developments
west Of Pittsburg in the switchmens
unauthorized strike today were re-
garded by railroad brotherhood Off
:ials as pointing toward a gradual dis
solution ofthe tnsurgent forces but in
81, 'ast, where the walk out was join
ed in several districts by trainmen,
the situation assumes more serious
aspect. M si$
In the central and far west numer-
GUS reports Of the defections from the
strikers ranks followed the report Of
the first imp0rtantFbreak at Columbus,
O., where 600 switchmen voted to re-
turn to work. I.
At Chicago, admitted keystone of
the walkout, railroad officials were
presented terms for settlement of the
strike which inclpded recognition of
The new union formed by dissenters
from the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen and the Switchmen's union
Of North America.
In the settlement offered proffered
oy John Grunau, president of the Chi
cagO yardmen's association, who call
sd the strike, at least one radical con.
cessiOn was made -abrOgation of the
claims for back pay domacdel by the
older Organization in their contract
with the government. lhat possibly
would, mean 2 saKlns of i;urdreds o.
thousands Fof 1dblt&fs i6s t,ie ia afIfdads'
1t was said. h
Cther clauses in tnn proposed set
tlen ent agreement GCElsD:.. granting
Ct the original wage increase called
'or in the strike annu,,,CcMen,. 10 be
upon the return OF the men
10 work, eight hoI"" basic pay and
time and o half for Oysrtime anil jol-
n. for overtime ON SI.iCa,s AMI hOli-
lays
In addition to the gradual improve
ment claimed by railroad heads in the
Chicago, district, which brotherhood
officials said presaged return to nor
NAL throughout the country, the or
'anization leaders pointed to the vote
to return to work at Columbus, Fort
Wayne, Ind, Akron, o., and Saginaw,
Mich, as marking definite breaks in
the strike. @
In the far west and various other
cities in the middle west unions voted
not to join the strike.
4 In the Chicago district and at neigh
boring steel centers thousands of men
were idle today because of the strike.
At the Chicago stockyards promises
of a minimum delivery OF 1856 carloads
today brought more optimistic out
look although hundreds of men still
would remain idle.
Steel mills at youngstown, O., were
idle today because of coal shortage
and steel mills and coke ovens at
Gary. Ind, were crippled seriously.
Nine thousand men were idle at the
American Sheet and Tin Plate plant
at Gary.
The Lake Carriers association ut
Toledo announced that the opening of
lake navigation had been postponed
because OF the rail tie up.
New York and the east became the
center Of interest in the rail strike
today.
With the strength of the "outlaw"
union waning in the central states and
in the far west, fresh additions to their
ranks along the eastern seaboard
threatened complete paralysis Of pas
senger ira. &C as we'll as freight
At least one line, the Central Rail.
road of New Jersey has cancelled all
passenger schedules while others in
Guiding the Pennsylvania system have
been forced to withdraw many trains.
From Pittsburg west the strikers
have made no gains during the last
48 hours and have in fact lost strength
in many centers. Predictions of broth
erhood heads and rail officials that the
strike had reached its peak here today
days ago are borne out by the in
creased traffic on all lines and the
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