The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-04-14

STRIKERS ARE
GOING BACK
Improved Freight Traffic Con-
ditions Reported in Central
, =. West
CRISIS in MICHIGAN
St0ppage of Food Supplies and
Passenger Trains Are
Stalled
CRISIS in MICHIGAN
REVOLUTION PLANNED

Washington. April Ia EVl-
dence obtained by the department
OF justice was said today to show
that the Russian communist in
ternationale is undertaking to use
the railroad strike as the vehicle
for the creation of mass strike
in the United States. e.,
The reports from federal agents
/ were said to have disclosed that
the communist party was financ-
ing and otherwise aiding the e
strike through the Industrial
Workers of the World
Evidence which the department
has received was declared to JUS
tify the, statement that the strike
was to be merely a step in the
we'll known plan 6f the communist
group and that the end and aim
was mass strike to be followed
by revolution.
Reports regarding the commun.
d. ist internationales part in the
strike were understood to have
been laid before President Wilson
and the cabinet today by Attorney
General Palmer but those present
persisted in their silence as to
what decision had been reached
at the cabinet session.
Chicago, April 14.-lmprOved freight
traffic conditions were reported today
n the central west with insurgent
railroad men returning to work at
seeral points but the industrial situa-
ton in Ohio and Michigan reaching a
crisis as result of st0ppage of food
supplies. and in the far west a dozen
passenger trains were reported stall
in southern California.
~. Lingering Affair.
Both insurgent leaders and officials
of the loyal brotherhOOds predicted
the battle of the strikers had arrived
at a stage where it would be a ling
ering affair" but brotherhood heads
declare the insurgents gradually we're
losing strength.
Railroads in the Chicago area con-
centrated every effort to move freight
and declare that SO percent OF the
switch engines in the district were
operating. The roads announced that
a further influx OF loyal" brotherhood
men from other cities had occurred.
Coal Confiscated.
Coal on tracks at Toledo was being
confiscated under federal court or
der to maintain operation of street
cars and heating and lighting plants.
The court order instructed that 40
cars be confiscated daily.
Warnings to travellers against at
tempting long trips east, west or
south. because Of the possibility of
The strike spreading to passenger ser.
vice. were issued by the railroads.
Passenger Traffic Affected
Serious interferences with passen.
ger traffic extending to overland
rains was reported on the Santa Fe
route in southern California and the
situation became increasingly serious.
Reports from northern Pacific cities
showed continued Improvement.
A meeting of all strike leaders on
the Pacific coast was called for today
in San Francisco.
Federation Disapproves.
The American Federation Of Labor
through it's railway department. which
represents 100000 members in eight
railroad crafts, placed its stamp Of dis
approval on the unauthorized strike
and urged all members of affiliated
organizations to refuse to obey the
walkout Meeting at Kansas City last
night, the biennial conventiin OF
the organization endorsed President
Wilson's appointments to the labor
board and declared it's belief that la
Dor could confidently expect justice
through the law creating the board.
100000 Idle in Detroit.
In Detroit. 100000 factory workers
were reported idle and between 100000
and $4,000 industrial workers in other
parts Of Michigan had been thrown
out of work with predictions that
more men would be jobless by night
fall. The strike situation in Michigan
was reported virtually unchanged with
the exception OF the return to work Of
$50 men at Bay City and 35 at Luring-
ton. a.
The industrial situation in Ohio be-
came more threatening today with
more than 100000 men out of work in
Columbus and virtually every coal
mine in the state closed. A growing
scarcity of food supplies was reported
in many cities in the state. A mail
train was reported to have been aban-
doned at Youngstown and the mails
returned to the postOffice.
MILLIoNAiREs FIRE ENGINES
New York. April 14.-Civilian vol
unteers to break the strike of rebel
lious railroad workers here were drill
ing in New York and New Jersey
terminals today and railroad officials
announced services of several hun
dred men probably would be utilized
to operate suburban trains.
The first volunteer train for com.
mutters on the Erie railroad was
greeted at stations by crowds waving
flags and cheering. On one of these
trains Major A. F. Wood Of Westwood,
N. j., was firing the engine.
"The millionaire special from Up
per Mountclair rolled into the Erie
terminal with Richard Sanderson.
New York. manager of the Baldwin
locomotive works, and ]. r. Quinn, the
New England representative of that
company, as fremen. Another Erie
crew included Capt. Charles F. Nett
of. J. P. Morgan & Co.. and Joseph
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