The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-20

learned, in surveying the situation gem
orally with view to laying reports be-
fore the cabinet at the regular meet
ing tomorrow. Daugherty's report
would cover the authority of the fed
eral government, it was said, and the
proper procedure to be followed if a
decision was reached to utilize the
power of the government directly in
the controversy, while that of Hays was
to outline a tentative plan for the
maintenance of operation of mail
trains.
Says Reduction Won't Work.
Cleveland, O.-The proposal of the
public group of the railroad labor
board to reduce freight rates to prevent
a railroad strike would not prove FEAST
BILE, Warren S. Stone, grand chief of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers
declared today. "The suggestion can
not be worked out" he said. "By the
time the reduction got to the consumer
1t would not amount to 12-of-19C The
middle men would absorb all of the
difference"
W. G. Lee, president of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, would
make no direct statement TODAY on the
feasibility of the plan. "Our under
standing, and I believe that of the pub
lie also, was that the 1920 wage reduc-
ton last July would be passed on to
the public" Mr.. Lee said. Canadian
railroads will not be affected by the
strike on lines in the United States,
according to Mr.. Lee. Only last week,
he said, the wage dispute on the Cana
dian roads had been amicably settled.
Neither will the Southern Pacific lines
in Mexico be affected, Lee said, as the
lines there are not organized.
Brotherhood Chiefs Make Plans.
Cleveland.-First conferences ON the
plans for carrying forward the general
railroad strike intended to tie up the
nations transportation system, were
begun here today. w. S. Stone, presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Engineers.
was comforting with the vice-presidents
of that organization, who are to be in
direct charge of the strike within their
various districts. With w. G. Lee, the
president of the trainmen, already on
the job, directing plans for the walk
out of members of his organization,
Mr.. Stone comforting with his imme-
date subordinates, the three leaders of
the other big five transportation or
CARNATIONS were expected to arrive
during the day for the general confer
enee of the big five leaders tomorrow.
New York MObiIizes Trucks.
New York City.-A fleet of $1,000
motor trucks or as many as become
necessary will be modified in the
event of a protracted general railroad
strike to bring New York its daily
quota of 1900 carloads of foodstuffs,
Health Commissioner Copeland said to-
day. There are adequate food supplies,
he said, for three weeks, but importa-
ton Of milk by trucks would have to
begin at once. The coal situation, he
said, was less favorable.
Announce Second Group.
Chicago-The second group of rail-
roads in the walk-out of the big five
brotherhoods' strikes in the cast whose
names were learned here today, include
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
and the Delaware & Hudson.
Like the first group, the walk-out on
the second division of roads will affect
every section of the country, but hits
the east the hardest-a section of the
country left practically untouched on
the first day. The second group walk
out will come at a. M, local standard
time, November 1st.
The official list Of roads in group two
follows: New York, New Haven &
Hartford; Delaware and Hudson; Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois; st. Louis &
San Francisco; Louisville & Nashville,
Nickle Plate; Erie; Santa Fe; Atlantic
Coast Line; Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts
burgh; Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern; Lehigh Valley; Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis
(The Chicago & Northwestern line is
named as a member of the first group
of railways in which the strike is to
be called on October 30th.)
Three of the remaining largest roads
in the country are included in the third
group on which the strike is set for
6 a. m, local standard time, November
3rd. The entire Burlington system, the
New York Central Lines east and west,
and the entire system Of the Baltimore
& Ohio are among those who will feel
the strike blow November The
balance of the third and fourth groups
include the remaining roads in the
country.
The roads listed above included all
those announced as definitely grouped.
With the remainder of the third group,
the railroads affected by the first three
walk-outs will total approximately so,
several of the large roads with the
designation "entire system" or "lines
east and west" including numerous
smaller lines.
It is expected that all the principal
roads Of the country will feel the effect
Of the walk-out by November 9rd when
the men on the third group are seized
uled to leave work. The remaining
roads of the country will be included
in the walkout November 9TH.