Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-22
Strike in Chicago District
Weakened by Division
Among Workers.
NEXT MOVE UP TO
MEN WHO ARE OUT
Aides Of President Grunau Lead
Small Groups Back to Work After
Their Peace Efforts Were Rejected
Steady Improvement in Traffic
Conditions Thruout Chicago IDS
trict and On Pacific Coast.
BY Associated Press.

Chicago, April 22.-Ihe next uaoNe
of outlaw railroad strikers in this
district. split by revolt against
their own leaders, was awaited toaay
by federal officials and railroad rep
resentatives.
Meanwhile rebel" leaders repudi-
ated by the men when they coun-
seled ending the walkout BECAUSE
they said they could not hght the
government" abandoned the lnsur-
gents and returned to work mt the
head of small groups.
Action of John Grunau. president
of the Chicago Yardmen's Assocla-
ton, who obtained his release yestef-
day from Jail at Joliet, Ill.,, on pohu
and hurried to Chicago, was looked
to as the next step toward possible
settlement of the walkout.
Grunau announced several days ago
he would urge the men TO cail OIL
the walkout, but whether such an
appeal would be needed was probe
matical.
A steady improvement In trafhc
conditions in the middle west and on
the Pacific coast was reported.
Murphy and Jones Cause Split.
r. S. Murphy. an Illinois Ceh'ra
switchman who was head OF the puo-
licity work for the Walkout, anu
Shannon Jones, Il yardman on the
Chicago Junction-both of them rishl
land bowers of John Grunau, head OF
the "insurgent" movement-weht
back to work at the head OF smal.
groups.
In the early forenoon they had ad-
dressed a mass assemblage OF strlk-
ers at Garments hall with arguments
that the traffic tieup should De
abandoned because the strikers
could not fight the government
and also because until the men re-
sumed work the labor poaro III
Washington would not receive ana
consider their wage grievances. rms
is the identical position the pls
brotherhoods have been taking IN
their fight to break the "ins urgent
strike, and, as it was the exact re-
verse of the arguments with when
the "reber' leaders have been giving
the men since the strike began, 1t
fell on deaf ears.
Shipments Show Big Increase.
Fourteen more switching crews
went on yesterday bringing the num-
ber up to 5S2, as against normal
number Of 765. The general situation
is improved as indicated by the fol-
lowing figures from the arrangements
of the roads:
"The movement Of live stock into
the stockyards continues above nor
nal, TT cars being brought in, 100
more than We're brought in during
the same period last year The move
ment of fresh meat and live STOCK
to eastern points also continues nor
NAL, $50 cars of the former and l6o
Of the latter being dispatched from
the stockyards. Approximately 1,l4S
cars of coal were moved into Chica-
go yesterday"
"Fed on Misrepresentation
A. F.. Whitney, vice president OF the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen,
which has led In the fight against
the "insurgents." declared the rebel
unions were rapidly founderng.
"The leaders," he said, seem to
have discovered that what they Great
ed was a sort of F'rankenstein's mon
ster, which they couldn't control once
it got started. 1t proved runaway
which they couldn't stop.
what moro could be expected of
that meeting this morning when the
strike leaders went before tho men
and said nothing could be done in re-
spect to wage grievances unless the
men went back to work. that the gov
ernment's labor board would not rec
ognize them so long as they were In
walkout? This Is just the position
the brotherhoods have taken right
along. When the strike leaders took
the same position the men who had
followed them blindly could not nat
uIally change their views In a min
ute. They had been fed up with mis-
representations from the start, the
leaders saying they had absolute as
surance the labor board would deal
with them and that the only way to
get the wage increases was to line up
with the insurgents.
"But all this was discovered to be
nothing but bunk when the leaders
themselves confessed the only way to
get results was by the same method
fot'. wed by tho brothc.hccds.