The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-08
Switchmen Out at Buffalo,
Kansas City and
Elsewhere
OTHER WALKOUTS
ARE THREATENED
Traffic in Chicago Yards Is
Claimed to Be 60 Per
Cent Normal

Chicago, April Sine STRIKE OF IN
surgent" members Of railroad brother
hoods which began week ago in Chi
cago, to-day had spread to other parts
of the United States and there were
indications that the series of rebellions
against organization direction had not
reached its crest.
East and westbound freight move
ment across the continent, already re-
stricted BY the Chicago strikes, was
hampered further by switchmen strik-
ing at such strategic gateways as But
falo and Kansas City and at such in
dustrial centers as Joliet and Decatur,
ILL.,, and Gary, Ind.
Strikes were threatened to-day at
Milwaukee, st. Louis and East St.
Louis, gateways to the northwest and
the southwest Strikers predicted also
that 25.000 men in northern New York
would Join them, cutting off freight
traffic from Buffalo to New York and
Boston.
The ward mems association, the IN.
surgent organization. which called the
strikes, was forming branches in nu.
merous terminal centers, reports indi-
Gated. and H. +. Reading, its general
organizer, announced that the railway
clerks and the freight handlers broth
erhoods would take, strike votes Sat
urday.
Railroad brotherhood officers who
came to Chicago to assist railroad man
ayers to break the strike. declared that
reports for to-day would reveal traffic
i'm Chicago yards TO be at least go per
cent normal The strikers, however,
claimed that by tonight no switch en-
CINE would be operating in the Chi
cago district
A bulletin that the strike was illegal,
sent ont by W. G. Lee, president OF the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, was
on bulletin boards Of the New York
Central lines to-day. William ;. Car
ter. head OF the firemen, and Warren
S. Stone, grand chief of the engineers,
ioined Lee in announcing that the rail,
road brotherhood officers demanded
that brotherhood members carry out
their contracts.
Arrangements were made for con-
ference to-day at Cleveland OF the
chiefs of the brotherhood of railroad
trainmen, locomotive engineers and To-
comotive firemen and enginemen.
Officers of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen continued with their
plan of bringing loyal members 20 Chr
cago to take the places of strikers. A
dispatch from Sheridan, Wyo., said
that members had departed from there
TO Join those from points nearer Chi
cago.
Industries throughout the Chicago
district had begun to feel the effects OF
the strike seriously to-day. Packing
house heads said the total number OF
stockyard employees idle would be be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 if the strike
continued until Saturday. Only so
cars of livestock were received at Chi
cago yards yesterday.
A motor truck freight service to Hi
nois and Wisconsin cities was started
bv one of the packing houses.
Fifty motor truck trains left Chica-
90 at dawn, each loaded with 10000
pounds Of fresh meat billed to nearby
towns.
The packing company which insugu-
rated the service expects % serve IT'S
regular routes in northern lllinoisgand
southern Wisconsin in this way. Each
train consists of a tractor and three
cork lined refrigerator cars,