The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-13
FREIGHT SERVICE IS
 COMPLETELY PARALYZED

New York, April 12.-The strike of railroad workers here tonight pre- sented the most menacing situation the city has faced since the unauthor- ized walkout began. Freight service bulk of the city's food and fuel vir- tually was paralyzed and passenger service already seriously curtailed, was still further crippled.
 The first net of federp1 interven-
 ton today when armed
 United states troops went into
 Jersey City to unload stranded
 mail trains and department of jus
 ticc agents extended their inves- Tsations into every corner of the
 New York district. Appeals by railroads for volunteer workmen and the campaigns of the strikers to recruit their ranks from men still loyal to the roads had be- come more insistent. While strikers representatives urged crews to quit work. railroad officials, white collar" employees and volunteers were being Grilled for strike breakers.
 PRESENT SITUATION
 The situation tonight was as fol- lows:
 | ne ODJl IfblBnl SntpiHtHtS itNEAN Sb during the day were "wa@ specials" of solid food trains brought from Chi cago by the New York Central and a few cars which crept in over the New Haven and the Pennsylvania.
 Mail train schedules were generally disrupted and motor trucks were pressed into service for postal first aid in all important sectons.
 Hundreds of thousands of com ixrfv in n able to reach their places of business in New York. Strike sympathizcrs committed their first act of violence when an iron bar was hurled through the window of Central Railroad Of New Jersey train. injuring passenger. Train crews of four
 mail trains of the Erie were att
 tackled at Port Jervis. N. Y.. and
 railroad officials announced Port
 Jervis was absolutely controlled
 by the strikers.
 Timothy Shea first vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men, arrived here accompanied by ]. G. Walker. secretary of the bureau of in- formation of the eastern railroads, to arrange a joint conference of railroad managers and the four railroad broth - erhoods. Other labor leaders were here. aiding the roads to put down the strike.
 REFUSE TO ARBITRATE
 Mayor Hague of Jersey City, who had expressed sympathy for the strik- CTS, appealed to them in the name of suffering humanity" to arbitrate. A committee of fourteen men represent ing the strikers emphatical fly refused to urge strikers to return to work, the mayor announced. Another conference with a larger striker committee was arranged for tomorrow.
 Warning was issued by Lindley NJ. Garrison. federal receiver of the agitators were urging employees of Rap id Transit lines in New York to strike
 The Tidewater Coal Exchange, which took over the fuel Administration au- thority after the war, announced New York has a two weeks supply of coal but that non-arrival of coal trains presaged possibility of fuel famine for the city has only half of it's normal supply on hand
 Railroad officials sought in vain to learn the source of maintenance of strikers. Persistent inquiries failed to disclose if any benefits were being paid.
 The department of justice began an exhaustive inventory of food stores and big warehouses, searching for hoard CTS. Investigators also were dispatched to the mercantile exchange to watch price fluctuations. Meat dealers an 7nounced an advance of q cent pound in wholesale prices here.