The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-10

stood he would confer with the broth | erhood chiefs on the unauthorized | strike of railroad employees. Chicago, April t0---Desp6te asser- l tions by railroad brotherhood officials 1 of 8 break in the ranks of insurgent Chicago switchmen and enginemen presaging return to normal, un- authorized railroad strikes throughout the country assumed serious propor- ! tionS today with reports indicating nearly 35,000 men were idle. l In -7-c Chicago district, which broth erhood heads regard as the key to the whole situation, improved conditions were reported with some strikers re- turning to work, but from other sec- tions came reports of new waIzout1 and 8 strengthening of the insurgent force.
 1 Brotherhood officials declared re- ports that S5090 switchrnen and en- ginemen were out were exaggerated but admitted that the seeding work CTS had gained strength outside Chi cago. They asserted the strike soon woarld be broken in the Chicago dis. triet and said with that accomplished it was simply case of allowing the 1 strike fever to burn out in othet sections.
 Insurgent leaders, however, claim ed the strike was unbroken in Chica- go and declared that 95 per cent. ot
 the switchmen in the district were
 out They said twenty charters in the trump union, with 25,e00 actual
 mem beFS, had been issued throughout
 the country.
 B. c. Estey, who was alleged to
 have boasted he was an l. W. W. and urged sabotage at meeting of the > strikers, was expelled from the new ! nj Ia l tectives from States Attorney Hoyne's } office.
 Live stock receipts at the stock , yards were reported increased yester- day with the delivery of 172 cars of livestock. Approximately 50,000 stoclzyards and packing house work CTS have been thrown out of work by l stoppage of cattle shipments. The coal supply in Chicago was
 reported to be dwindIing with less than weeks supply on hand. l At Gary, Ind, twelve blast furnaces :, had been banked today, throwing 12,- l 900 steel workers out of employ | ment.
 Steel mills in the Mahoning val ley were preparing to close down to- f day as the result of strike al | Youngstown, and other points, and
 company officials said 35,0O0 workers
 
 Railroad officials on the Pacific l coast struggled today to keep coas
 and transconttin mental passenger | trains moving while awaiting the re-
 suit of an ultimatum that striking \ employees would lose their position: unless they returned to work by D
 m. Switchnen and yardmen were re-
 ported on strike in thirteen divisional e and terminal points in California ant e Oregon.
 " Yardmen at Minneapolis and St s Paul, Minn., and Danvil1e, Ills, vot
 ed not to join the insurgents. tt Sharon, Pa, April 1o.---Railroat 'e switchInen throughout the Shenangr n vaGley went on strike this morning B completely tieing up the yards a
 Sharon, Sharpsville and other point
 in the region
 Hornell, N. Y, April 10.---A waIl1o1
 of every switc11man and yard e1n ~ p1oye in the Erie yards here thi , morning has completely ended freigh
 traffic over the main line division ant
 threatens to curtaI passemg busi a ness. The strikers followed action O switchmen in dropping from thei
 regular union and forming rum1 ~ organizati ton. The men say they wil ,' not return until they receive one dol . lar an hour but Erie officials say tn - men merely quit their jobs and hay -a submitted no demands
 in l .o ,, h. yh i+-e1,,,oor, , 1d ,-,;a,,1aT, oF n,
 Pennsylvania lines and the NorfoE
 and Western railroad were reportes
 to be on strike here today in sympa
 i thy with striking railroad men a ro Chicago and other rail centers. s. Strike leaders say their forces ar all being augmented hourly. APprod fit mateEy HOO yardmen and switchne 't- are employed in the Columbus yards he Boston, April 10-No signs of a n- extension to New England of the LII
 authorized strike of railroad worker
 have yet appeared according to of
 cials of the three roads which ente
 this city As the movement hs he taken an irregular form elsewhere, sr is realized that the walkouts may ot ol cur at any time, but railroad officia a assert confidence that the distri cy will not be directly affected. rs Indirectly the embargoes declare 'ts on other lines have reduced shil u ments over New England roads. Liv' he stock and perishable foodstuffs on eI were moving today on the Boston
 Albany through the western gateway
 the New York Central embargo GU
 ting off all other freight. The Ne ba York New Haven & Hartford To ed only the Harlem river route as a fee( h. CT, but other connections were sa- ty to be in danger of embargo 0 IT. the Boston & Maine, it was said tn; on a reduction of through freight shil ay mets had been experienced but u ge conditions were not serious.