The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-14
NEW OVENS START
 WORK TOMORROW

Fifty per cent of the 120 by-product coke ovens built at North Birmingham by the sloss-sheffield Steel and Iron Company will be started up tomorrow, and the other 50 per cent are expected. to pc Tn operation within a month or six v eeks.
 The work of constructing these ovens began in the fall of 1918, and at that time ! It was expected that they would be com pleted by the end of 1919, but delays in securing machinery and other materials hampered the work
 These 12o ovens cost approximately S, : VpoVO, and represent the largest single new industrial investment made in the district since the beginning of the war. and Ohio raiIraod ceased late today when 4JO Eastern Kentucky yardmcn Joined the strike. The waIlxouts oc- cured at Russell and silver Grove, and tonight "manifcstv freight train, op- crated hy crew Of yardmastcrs, was the only service afforded between Huntington and Cincinnati. Cincinnati. April 13.-Slight proEress has been made here by the unauthor- ized strike Of switchmen. according to announcements made by Cincinnati railroad officials tonight. The strike.
 
 crews employed by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad walked ont, has spread to several other lines in the district. but it was said freight and passenger traffic was not impaired.
 New York, April I3.--Striking rail- road men of Greater New York; meet ing in Jersey City tonight. unanimous iy refused to return to work after hear ing the report of their executive com mfttee, which had conferred during the day with Mayor Hague Of Jersey City and representatives of the ssBig Four, railroad brOtherhoods
 Uniontown. Pa., April 13.--Thirsy-hve thousand men, employed in the coal and coke industries of the ConneIlsviIIe district. were idle today as n result of the railroad strikes. Car placements at the mines and ovens today were ~feW," according to operators, who an- nouneed tonight that operations in the entire region had been suspended.
 Detroit, April 13.--RniIroad strikers here stood their ground today while company officials reiterated their de- termination not to deal with the .out- law" union and looked to the raiIrond wage board as the only medium throueb h which a settlement might be reached.
 Meanwhile the city's ranks of nm employed were svelIed to nearly 100 GOO and more men, it was said, would he iobiess tomorrow. Between 10000 and oO,o00 industrial workers had been thrown out of work elsewhere in tbe state, reports received here indicated.
 Albany, N. Y.. April f3.--A waIkout Of New York Central switchmen ,pd yard tenders at the West Albany yards was of short duration tonight. The men after short meeting decided to resume work, and within two hours tbe work was progressing as usual
 Bay City, Mich., April f3.-switcbmen ana switch tenders numbering about iao called off their strike here toniubt and some of the night crews immcdi- ateiy returned to the yards.
 Los Angeles, April I2 - Ter or twelve passenger trains, both west ond east bound, were stalled on the Atebi- son, Topeka and santa Fe between bnrstow, Cal, and Albuquerque, N. NJ. as result of raiIroad mems strilses according to word received tonjrT,t from division headquarters mt Snu Bernardino. Cal.