Republican farmer., 1920-04-16


 This morning New York found it.: was facing not only the threat of a fuel and food famine but an actual shortage of workers. Many thousand men and women who daily commute the strike blockade.
 Those who were able to reach the Jersey shore from the interior of the state, found that workers on the Hud- son tubes had fulfilled their threat to strike this morning and that only means of reaching Manhattan lay in ferries irregularly operated because of the strike of railroad marine work es called last week. These stikers redoubIed their efforts to call out crews and complete isolation of Man hattan island.
 Agents Of the department of justice today conferred with J. J. Manten, representing the railroad managers association here, regarding the strike which has virtually tied up this dis trict. While MT. Manten would not comment on the conference, it was reported federal agents had been sent for the walkout. No statement was
 
 headquarters here or in Newark. Washington, April 10 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is enroute from New York to Cleveland headquarters | of the railway trainmen. Federation | officials here would not discuss the purpose of his trip but it was under | stood he would l erhood chiefs on the unauthorized strike of railroad employees.
 Chicago. April fo.---D9p7te aser- tions by railroad Brotherhood officials of a break in the ranks of insurgent Chicago SwItchmen and eIrginene en presaging return to normal, un- authorized railroad strikes tllroaHghout the country assumed serious propor- tkoEls today wzth reports indicating nearly 35,0o0 men were idle.
 In ''-- Chicago district, which broth. erhood heads regard as the key to the whole situation, improved condition: were reported with some strikers re- turning to work, but from other sec tons came reports of new wall0Out and a strengthening of the insargen fonce.
 Brotherhood officials declared re ports that 35, ,000 sWitchTnen and en glneneu were out were exaggerated but admitted that the seeding work CTS had gained strength outside Chi cago. They asserted the strike Sool would be broken in the Chicago dis it was simply a case of allowing tn strike fever to burn out in othe , sections.
 Insurgent leaders, however, claim
 ed the strike was unbroken in Chica | go and declared that 95 per cent. c the switchmen in the district wer
 out. They said twenty charters i
 the trump" union, with 25, 900 actus members, had been issued throughou
 the country.
 E. c. Bstey, who was alleged t
 have boasted he was an I. W. w. an
 urged sabotage at a meeting of tn
 strikers, was expelled from the ne7
 organization. He was arrested by de
 tectives from States Attorney Hoyne
 office.
 Live stock receipts at the stoc yards were reported increased yestel : day with the delivery of 172 cars = livestock. Approximately 50,0t A stockyards and packing house worl f CTS have been thrown out of work |
 stoppage of cattle shipments. gl The coal supply in Chicago WE Q reported to be dwind1ing with le: a than a weeks supply on hand. S At Gary, Ind, twelve blast furnac' r had been banked today, throwing 12 t oGo steel workers out of emplo. D l ment-
 e Steel mills in the Mahoning va e ley were preparing to close down t. - day as the result of a strike
 Youngstown, and other points, ar
 company officials said 35,00o worke
 would be idle by nightfall.
 Railroad officials on the Pacf
 coast struggled today to keep coa
 and transconEinentad passeng, A trains moving while awaiting the r
 suit of an ultiraatem that striki1 employees would lose their position
 unless they returned to work by
 m. Switchmen and yardrnen were r s1 ported on strike in thirteen division and terminal points in California al '' Oregon.
 l. Yardmen at Minneapolis and $ ;. Paul, Minn., and DanviIie, Ills, vo 1T ed not to join the insurgents. S. Sharon, Pa, April 1o---Railros st switchInen throughout the Shenan ne o1 valley went on strike t4Iis mornin
 completely tieing up the yards r. Sharon, SharpsviHe and otF sr poin at in the region
 st
 SC HorneIl, N. Y, April 1o.---A waTko cs of every svftchman and yard CT o- ploye in the Erie yards here tt in morning has completely ended freig
 traffic over the main line division al
 threatens to curtaA passenger bu:
 ness The strikers followed action
 sW9tchznen in dropping from tht Is regular union and forming a run D. organization The men say they VI of not return u1loI @ I-ley feeetVe one ot x o@ men merely quit their jobs and ha submitted no demands. ne Columbus, O., ARr1 1o.---Four hu s. dred swfec7men and yardmen of t