Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-22
RAIL LEADERS SET
I STRIKE FOR FRIDAY
Gov. SprouI Sees State Labor
Officials in Effort to
Mediate.

PHILADELPHIA. June % tby the
Associated Press).-The railroad
strike apparently has been checked
in this city. although strike leaders
say big walkout will come on Fri
day.
According to railroad officials. some
of the strikers returned to their posts
today and there was a slight improve
ment in the movement of freight.
Gov Sproul today discussed the sit
uation with officials of the Pennsyl-
Vania department of labor who are
mere trying to settle the strike
through mediation. 1t was reported
'he soVernor contemplated sending
request to the United States railroad
labor board at Washington asking
that a decision be reached at once on
tae demands of railroad employees for
increased wages.
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ire AccuMa,atins in tbs anthracite
region Coal dealers Say coal held
up now because OF lack Of shipping
facilities cannot be replaced, as the
market is millions Of tons behind.
Industrial plants will feel the effect
at once. while householders using
hard coal will suffer from lack OF it
next winter, they say
Merchants in Pennsylvania cities
affected by the freight embargo are
pressing motor trucks into service.
has opened a line to Philadelphia and
New York. Only foodstuffs are being
thus transported.
Strike Spreads Out.
NEW YORK, June 22.-Althous,
the new railroad strike has suddenly
spread to the southern section of
New Jersey, at Syracuse and New
Haven. Conn. the majority OF rail-
road managers here declared today
ment would affect New York city TO
any great extent.
Edward J. Armstrong. chairman of
the Eastern Railroad Mems Associa-
ton. disagreed with the general view.
how ever. predicting that the strike
eventually would reach this city and
Anvirons. TIe said a meeting OF the
association would he held tomorrow
in Jersey City TO consider plans for
combating possible walkout. Rail-
way managers and union leaders
pointed out that the original strike
was stiil in forca here and that the
present yard employees are not MEM
bers OF the union
reports that 400 men are out in the
Syracuse divisions OF the New York
Central and the Lackawanna are en-
aggerated. an official of the New
counts gave the number of SYRIA
cuse strikers on each road as four
train crews, or about eighty men al
together.
Us Out ut Syracuse.
SYRACUSE. n. V. June GA care
rul survey today showed that 275
railway switchmen and yard train
men are on strike here. OF these
around zoo left the New York Cen
heir places with the Delaware, Lack
wanna and Western.
A few of the men who had Joined
in the walkout yesterday returned to
their posts today.
Both lssilroaas jafre operating all
yard engines today by the use OF vol
workers. employed by the
roads in other departments, and men
sent LeI'e lfroIf etner divisions.
New Haven Embargo PIaced.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. June 22-The
extent of the strike of switchmen in the
ocal yards of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad was not
definitely apparent today. The effect,
however, is the placing Of an embargo
On all outgoing freight from these
ards.
Nineteen switchmen in one shift did
,ot report. Railroad officers said they
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The; movement of passenger trains is
not impetied.
HOUSTON, June 22-Not more than
dfty or sixty switchmen are on strike
acre. according to A. j. Goggan. chair
nan of the. Brotherhood Of Railway
rrainmen of the Southern Pacific lines.
Leaders in the strike movement. which
dew eloped suddenly late Yesterday,
much larger number Of men
were out. but gave no figures.
WIFI Appeal to Democrats.
DETROIT. June 22.-Independent
railroad yardmen's Unions will ask the
democratic party during the San Fran
cisco convention to guarantee a modi-
hcatton of the Esch-Cummins law, if
1t Is returned to power. William Look,
attorney for the striking yardmen, de-
cared here. A protest also would be
made, he said, against what he termed
''unwarranted delay" in the decision Of
the labor board on railway mems wage
demands.
Edward j. Gall, treasurer of the De-
troit Yardmen's Assoc la ton, in a state
ment charged that the boards work
was being held up by the big four"
brotherhoods, which, he said, had
to call a strike of their
members if the board decided to rein
state their seeding members, now on
strike.
EmkarEoes Declared.
SYRACUSE. n. Y, June 22.-Em-
bargoes against incoming and outgo-
Ing freight ere announced by the New
York Central and Lackawanna rail-
roads here following a walkout of
about 200 workers in the freight
yards The embarsoes do not affect
periShables.
GALVESTON, Tex, June 22.-Eight-
cen swltchmen in the yards of the
Santa Fe and Galveston. Houston and
railroad here failed to re-