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dents were ready to go to work. and
expressed the hope that the students of
other colleges also would volunteer.
New York University students are
planning to offer their services in
body. J. f. Cook, of the commerce
school of the university, notified Gen
eral Superintendent F. sE. williamson
Of the New York Central, that the
students were prepared to take the
places of the strikers. Mr. Williamson
said he would advise Mr.. Cook promptly
II the students were needed.
Wearing overalls, caps and old shoes
large group of students from Stevens
Institute, Hoboken, surrounded the
private car of j. j. Mantell. chairman
of the General Managers Association,
last night in the Erie yards, in Jersey
City, and pleaded with him to allow
them to help operate the trains.
III will put some of you to work i'm
nae deately," Mr.. Mantell told them.
THE rest will be put to work if there
are places for them"
BOSTON, April 13.-Three thousand
students at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute Of Technology are fitted to aid in
the operation of trains at almost a
moments notice, if the railroad crisis
becomes sufficiently acute to demand
theireservices. according to the state
ment of Professor Fuller, of the me-
chanlcal engineering department. to-
DAY. Others Of the faculty agreed that
the majority Of the students were com
petent to "fill in" efficiently.
Fifty Lafayette Students Volunteer
EASTON, Pa, April 13.-As a result
of q request hY the Transatlantic Rail
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have adopted resolutions requesting
the calling Of special convention to
remove grand officers. This is absurd
"The present grand lodge officers
will remain, will continue to carry on
the work of the brotherhood in a
businessl.ke manner, administer the
more than five and a half million dol
lars in our insurance and benefit funds
and will not be stampeded by the 'in-
surgents.'"
In Toledo the Federal District Court
instructed court officers to confiscate
forty cars of coal a day primarily to
keep in operation the Toledo Railways
& Light Company, which operates the
street cars and lighting and heating
plants. More. than 1900 cars Of coal
are on the Toledo sidetracks, i was
said.
Toledo tonight went on short light
ing rations, with the turning off of all
display signs. The conservation fol-
lowed the request Of the traction COM
pany in the face of what is termed q
serious shortage of fuel.
Four railroads entering St. Louis
modified freight embargoes, and rail-
road officers expressed the belief that
the strike VIRTUALLY has collapsed" In
Indianapolis the strike seemed to be
near it's end.
Striking switchmen at Hannibal
Mo-, returned to work, and all rail-
road men who joined the walk-out at
Bloomington, ILL.,, decided to end the
strike tomorrow In the Far West
ninety-six Northern Pacific employees
voted not to join the walk-out or af-
filiate with the outlaw union.
Improvement in the strike situation
in northern and central California and
in Oregon was announced by the rail-
roads.
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Brooklyn Workers Told
Jobs Are In Danger

Brooklyn manufacturers, at a special
meeting Of the borough's Chamber Of
Commerce last night, predicted that if
the rail strike should continue for
few weeks longers most Of the factories
Of Brooklyn would have to shut down
and thousands of employees would be
out Of jobs.
A counter offensive against the strike
was discussed, and it was decided that
the first step toward that end would be
for each manufacturer to inform his
employees of the peril into which their
jobs had been placed by the action of
the outlaws" The employees are to
be urged to fight the strike by petition
and personal influence wherever pos
sible.
H. N. Covell. works manager of the
Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company,
was especially bitter in his denunica j.
tion of the strikers and of Attorney
General Palmer, who, he said, was al
ways "about to do something"
Isl was an optimist up to this strike"
he said. "But we may be eating grass
this summer. To my mind this strike
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Strike Dying Out
In West, Is Belief

CHICAGO, April 1s.-Reports from
rail centers in Central and far Western
states tonight indicated a general i'm
provement in strike conditions.
Although leaders of the insurgent
switchmen and yardmen strenuously
denied that serious defections had oc-
Cured in their ranks, railroad heads
and officers of the brotherhoods who
are fighting the unauthorized walk
out declared the strike in Western
territory gradually was dying out.
Strikers in half-dozen cities and
towns returned to work to-day, railroad
men at other points voted not to join
the walk-out and embargoes were lifted
by several railroads.
In Ohio the industrial situation was
fast approaching q crisis as a result
of the strike. More than 100000 men
were out of work and industrial plants
IN nearly every section were continu-
ing to suspend operation.
On top of this labor suspension is
the growing scarcity of food supplies
Coal supplies are running low and
some utilities, are curtailing service
Almost every coal mine is suspended,
owing to liability to obtain cars, and
it is estimated $4,000 miners are idle.
oupplleS OF gasoline are running low,
and plans are being made to conserve
the supply for trucks to be operated
in transporting food.
In Cleveland the ranks of the strik-
ers were swelled. 1t was reported
that 300 more shopmen on the New
York Central and 1900 in the shops
of other roads planned to strike
Thursday as the result of a vote last
night.
Regarding reports that some Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen members
we're dissatisfied with the present
grand lodge officers and that several
resolutions had been adopted by differ
ent locals asking for the resignation
of President w. &. Lee and other grand
officers, Mr.. Lee made this statement:
"Some dissatisfaction with grand Of
ficers has developed and some locals
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BRIT. Workers
Spurn Appeal
To Join Strike
Meeting of $500 Votes AL
most Unanimously to
Stand by Leaders and
Agreement With Company
Shea's Advice Approved
About 200 Radicals Quit
Hall When They Find
Their Demand Unheeded

Flat failure met the efforts of the
radicals among Brooklyn's transit
workers last night to cripple the Dor
oough's H." subway and surface lines
by an unauthorized strike.
OF the $500 guards and trolleymen
who assembled in Brooklyn Labor Ly-
ceum, some 200 hotheads walked out
when they saw there was no chance
to overthrow the regular union officers
and precipitate walk-out. The re-
mainder of the men voted to live up
to their agreement with the BROOKLYN
Rapid Transit Company, which runs
to August l next.
P. j. Shea, member of the execu-
tive committee of the Analgamated
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America, took the platform the
moment the meeting was convened.
Forewarned that agitation to break
sway from his authority and emulate
the example of the OUTLAW" railroad
strikers had been industriously car
ried on for days among those in the
hall, he. launched at once into a de-
nunciation of the transportation
strikes.
what in hell can you get if you 20
out now?" he demanded. do YOU
think the company'll deal with any
body but US? The railroad strikers
have deserted their organizations.
What will they get ?"
Amid audible murmu-s from the rad
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terday said there we're plenty of pro-
visions in cars at railroad yards which
they cannot get at. They said the con-
gestion of cars in the freight yards was
so great commission merchants were
unable to locate their cars.
City Offered ARMY Food
Aid came from the army in the FORM
of an offer made by E. c. Morse, di-
rector of sales of the War Depart
ment, in Washington, to Mayor Hylan
to place at the disposal of the city
all the food in army warehouses here.
Morse's message TO Mr.. Hylan said:
"The War Department extends to you
its cooperation to relieve the food short
age in your city resulting from the rail-
road strike. 1t has in storage in New
York City surplus stocks of frozen beef,
canned roast beef, and bacon. These
are offered for sale through any sales
agencies which, in your official capacity,
you may designate, or to any commun-
ity, buying association or recognized
distributors of food products. The
prices quoted below are f. o. b. ware
house, and apply to all purchases. 1t
is expected that relief organizations
will add only sufficient amount to War
Department sales prices to cover over
"The frozen beef ranges in weight
from ATS to 600 pounds per carcass. 1t
is offered for sale in quantities of eight
quarters or more at 1912 cents pound.
The frozen beef before being prepared
for consumption must be defrosted. 1
believe you will find the packers ready
to assist through their branch houses in
the distribution Of this frozen beef in
the strike centers.
"The canned roast beef offered for
sale is priced and packed as follows:
One pound cans, twenty-four to the
case, Is cents per can; No. 2 cans, "a
ounces, twenty-four to the case, %
cents per cat; twopound cans, twenty
four to the case, 80 cents per can; six
pound cans, twelve to the case, IS cents
per can.
"The minimum quantity Of any Of
these sizes for which orders will be &C.
cepted is ten cases.
"The bacon offered is packed in
tvelve-pound cans, six cans to the case,
price $2.75 per can. The minimum
quantity for which orders will be &C.
copied is five cases.
"Orders for any of this surplus meat
should be placed with the zone supply
officer, 461 Eighth Avenue, New York
City.
"The quartermaster general of the
army has delegated full authority to
the zone supply officer to book orders,
make sales and effect deliveries. He is
fully empowered to cooperate with
you"
Automobile trucks are playing large
part in the transportation of the necea-
saries of life. The National Automo-
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City and Strike
Chiefs to Confer
On Food Supply
DR.. Copeland, and Possibly
Mayor Hylan, to Attend
Conference at 1890 To-
day at Hall in Jersey City
Leader Discusses Walkout
Tells Health Commissioner
Men Ask Only Wage Boost
to Meet High Living Cost

Striking Railroad men have invited
Mavor Hylan and DR.. Royal S. Cope
land, Health Commissioner. to meet
them at 10:30 o'clock this morning in
Jersey City to discuss ways and means
of supplying New York City with food.
This is the result of DR.. Copeland's
invitation to the leaders of the strike
to confer with him yesterday or desig-
nate q place where he could talk to them.
The Commissioner said yesterday he
has every reason to believe that an
agreeable arrangement will be made
to-day for the transportation of food
stuffs.
In response to his request for q con-
ference with the strike leaders a person
called DR.. Copeland on the telephone
Yesterday morning and said that the
strikers would be represented in his
Office between 2 and o'clock in the
afternoon.
Later the person called again and
fixed the meeting at 2:45. At that time
the. person presented himself as the
Spokesman Of the strikers. He called
ON DR.. Copeland and issued the invita-
Ition for the Jersey City meeting.
His name is withheld. He is an
American, about thirty-tive years old.
He is said by DR.. Copeland, who got
IN touch with the references he Of
fercd, to be a responsible person.
"He was exactly the opposite," said
Or. Copeland, "of the usual conception
Of strike leader. He was a gentle,
soft-spoken intellectual-a practical
idealist
"He told ME that the strikers do not
contemplate force, propaganda, coer-
cion or the usual methods associated
with die-in-the-last-ditch contests. He
said the men were dissatisfied with ex-
listing conditions, due to the advance in
the cost of living at more rapid pace
than increases in wages.
Majority of Strikers Americans
"'Most of the strikers he told me
ARE Americans who served their coun-
try during the war. They were prom
ised more wages if the cost of living
did not go down, and they figure they
have not got square DEAL
"They were disconte1ted with thei,
labor organizations. he Said. They be-
ieve division by craft to be unwise
and that better results can be obtained
by unity of organization.
HE impressed on me that this is not
q strike; that the men are merely or
vacations. They don't seek to inter.
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regarding prices charged at local
restaurants for coffee and other items
on the menu cards. A place on Sixth
Avenue near Fourteenth Street. was
reported to be charging Is cents a cup
for coffee, when the menu gave the
price as 10 cents.
Information to the effect that as a
result Of the governments investiga-
tions in North Carolina. a combination
of wholesale bakers has been broken DIP
ana indictments against the heads of
the individual baking concerns entered
was received yesterday at the office
OF the "fying squadron"
The profteer hunt in Charleston, W.
Va, Mr.. Riley said,shad resulted in a
REDUCTION of one to two cents in the
retail price Of loaf of bread.
Many Laughable Complaints
Many of the complaints received by
Mr. Riley are as laughable as they are
day registers grievance over the in
creased cost of porus plasters. 1t says ::
"Chief A. w. Riley. Dear Sir: l
vent into drug store on Fourteenth
Street yesterday and paid II cents
each for two porous plasters. These
sold one time for 9 cents apiece, and
during the war were sold for Is cents
IT this is profiteering you can use me
as witness. If there is conviction
hope you put me on the right end
of the rope and l promise to put 200
pounds of Irish Drawn and two million
pounds of determination into the work
that will help rid the United States of
scoundrels who are bringing contempt
breeding Bolsheviki by the thousand"
Another writes on a piece of note
book paper to inform the governme Mt
that "a grocer is charging 20 cents a
pound for sugar, owing to tho paper
stating that sugar is scarce" The
writer, while signing no name. con-
cludes: "Please keep my name secret. y
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fere with others taking their places,
but they believe that enough men have
quit to paralyze transportation until adj
Justments are made favorable to their
resumption of work at living wage.
There is no desire to interfere
with the health, lives. or comfort of
the people" he told me. The men are
some plan which will result in the i'm
portation of food to the city, He said
that the men who back the movement
are not foreigners with radical ideas,
but loyal Americans"
The Mayor is in Albany He was
not expected to return until late last
night. But DR.. Copeland has left word
with his secretary to advise the Mayor
of the strikers invitation, in the event
land did not designate the meeting
place, but it is expected it will be in
the same hall as the other meetings,
which is Grand View Hall, Jersey City.
Effect OH Food Prices Felt
of foodstuffs and the amount of their
supply continued to be felt yesterday
Butter and eggs reached their highest
figures. The prospects of a fuel short
age, however, as an outcome of the
strike showed itself yesterday to be
something which may cause worry in
the warm days of summer, but not just
now.
Milk came yesterday in sufficient
bulk to supply demands. The Borden
Farms Products Company said that five
milk stations were closed temporarily,
due to inability to get containers to
them. Trucks had to be used yestsr-
day by Borden to bring milk from the
far distant stations in Long Island. j.
J. Fitzpatrick, general sales manager Of
the Borden Company, said he expected
the supply to be normal again to-day.
He said he hoped containers could be
brought to the five suspended stations
within the next two days, and praised
the cooperation of the New York
Central.
D. S. Horton. secretary of the Shelf
field Farms Company, said the only
difficulty his company was experiencing
due to the strike was the slight delay
in unloading milk cars after their ar
rival.
| Dealers in Washington Market yes
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Fifty Lafayette Students Volunteer
EASTON, Pa, April 13.--As result
of request by the Pennsylvania Rail-
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Edwards Asks Quick
Labor Board Actio,,

TRENTON, N. j., April 10
Governor Edwards to-day re-
quested President Wilson to use
his best endeavors to get the
United States Senate to approve
Immediately Of the appointments
to the Industrial Labor Board.
Governor Edwards pictured the
seriousness of the situation, and
said the people of New Jersey
were suffering great hardships.
He also wired the governors of
New York, Connecticut, Michi-
gan, Ohio, Massachusetts,, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Kansas, California
and Pennsylvania to take the
same action and communicate
with the President.
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icals. Shea went on to enumerate some
Of the grievances Of the men, includ-
ing the demerit system, the operation
OF one-man cars, unsatisfactory work
ing shifts and the frequent eye tests
to which older employees have been
subjected. He promised to take up
all these matters with the company
heads and urge them to a speedy con-
clusions
A motorman arose and moved that
the meeting express it's determination
to abide by the existing agreement
with the company until its expiration
The motion was greeted with groans,
catcalls and Kisses from the radicals,
who made up in vociferousness what
they lacked in numbers. For a few
minutes the hall was in a turmoil.
There was promise of the assemblage
being turned into a Donnybrook and
policemen stationed at the door moved
toward the shouting. gesticulating
mass.
Hotheads Are Squelched
But the conservatives among the
guards and trolleymen were equal to
the occasion. None too gently in some
cases, they managed to force the OBJ
jectors to subside. Most of the
trouble-makers started to file out the
doors when they realized they were
in so small a minority They went
grumbling, but they went.
When quiet was restored Louis Fred
iger, counsel for the Amalgamated. took
the floor. He spoke along the same
lines as had Shea, deprecating unau-
thorized strikes and assuring the men
their officers would give full attention
to their complaints. He held out hope
that more favorable agreement could
be entered into with the company when
the present one runs out.
When the motion to live up to the
agreement was put to a vote it was
carried without dissenting vote. The
meeting lasted less than an hour
AS the B. R. T. employees filed from
the hall they were approached by eight
men on the sidewalk. One of them,
who said he was William Roy, of the
newly organized Railroad Yardmen's
Association, of Jersey City, asked what
had been done. When told there would
be no strike Roy and his companions
proceeded to Witty the Brooklynites.
A free-for-all fight followed. The
yardmen were soon routed, and fed
down Myrtle Avenue, being pursued by
a hundred or more throwing stones at
them. They jumped into an automo-
bile at Bushwick Avenue and got away.
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'f!yingSquadron' "opens War
I'm Food boarding in Strike
rrofteer Hunters Augmented by Investigators and
Experts to Protect Public From Gougers During
Emergency; Chain of Grocery Stores Watched

The United States Attorney Gener-
ais flying squadron" of profiteer hunt
ers was augmented yesterday by the
arrival Of an additional force Of inves-
tigators and technical food experts
from Washington, Philadelphia and
Baltimore. All day yesterday the Office
OF Armin W. Riley, chief Of the gov
ernment's investigating forces, resem-
bled the headquarters of an army GEN
eral staff in the field.
While the profiteer hunters are bend
ing most of their efforts to ascertain
the reasons for increases in the prices
Of foodstuffs since the railroad mems
strike began, the price situation gen.
orally as it blends with the high cost
Of living is not being ignored. The
arrival Of additional investigators will
enable the squadron to continue unin-
terruptedly the hunt for profteers in
all lines Of merchandise.
Halt on Food Hoarding
Mr.. Riley said the squadron already
has succeeded in heading off the pur-
chase in large quantities Of foodstuffs
that are scarce. Particularly is this so
with regard to the practice of some of
the city's largest hotels and restau-
rants, he said. Under the law, neither
an individual nor catering concern
is permitted to buy other than "rea-
sonable amount" of any article Of food,
and a reasonable amount" to-day is
somewhat less than several weeks ago,
he said.
Attention also is being given the
chain grocery stores, one firm oper-
ating stores in various parts Of the city
having only yesterday ordered the re-
sumption of combination. sales Of gro
ceries and sugar. According to Mr..
Riley, such sales are clear cases of
"profteering" and violations Of the
Lever act, which sets penalty for re-
straint Of food distribution.
Complaints were received Yesterday
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road Company for engineering stu
dents, 1875 students of Lafayette Col
lege to-day volunteered for railroad
service during the present strike
period. President John MacCracken
announced that those who enlisted in
the railroad service would be excused
from ali classes.
Fifty Lafayette students, under the
direction Of lied" Krick, the varsity
baseball manager. will report to-mor-
row to the Philadelphia Office of the
follow as ordered from railroad Off
Gals.
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Enrolled
At Princeton
To Run Trains
CONTINUED from page ons)

The dean told them the university had
not taken any action regarding the
strike, but that personally he regarded
the walkout of the railroad workers as
an "insurrectionary movement and
not as a strike.
Colonel William Barclay Parsons,
chairman Of the board OF trustees of
Columbia University, was delighted
with the spirit of the students. He
railroad brotherhoods, telling them
about it and also wired to the chair
man of the Board of Railroad Man.
ayers, saying that the Columbia stu
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bile Chamber Of Commerce announced
yesterday that 100000 motor trucks
could be modified if necessary.
Trucks loaded with fish are on their
way here from Washington, D. c.,
Philadelphia, Boston and Portland, Me.
1t is expected that the 100000 pounds
of meat which officials of the Erie
Railroad switched into the yards in
Jersey City yesterday will be brought
here in trucks. along with forty car
loads Of fruit and vegetables.
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savors moro Of Bolshevism than anyv
thing that has gone before. We expect
the press to keep on advising the pub.
lie Of the situation. We know the
power Of the press is presminent. but
they're In much the same AK we are.
They can't get cut editions without
paper"