The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-15
Southern Pacific Big Four Men
Are to Return to Work Also.
Santa Fe Situation Remains at
Nearly a StandstiII, Tho.
WELLS MESSAGE BRINGS STIR
Ultimatum to Trainmen From
Vice President Sent Out.
If Men Don't Come Back He'll
Employ Nonunion Workers.

sacramento, AuE- 15--Following a
conference between officials of the
Southern Pacific and members of the
big four brotherhoods at Roseville, the
strainmen who went on strike Sunday
might agreed to return to work short
-1y before 2 o'clock this morning. &C
--cording to word reaching the Southern
Pacific headquarters in Sacramento. -
(By The Associated Press-I
Chicago. Ill, Aug. 15.-Few rev de-
.velopmeuts had changed the nations
grave railroad situation today.
3 Efforts to settle the shipments strike
and end sporadic walkouts by train
crews bore little fruit. The country.
cheered by news of an apparent break
in the coal strike. got little encourage
ment In the rail crisis
Two Towns Isolated.
Altho little progress was made to-
ward ending the wallIout of big four"
transportation brotherhOods on the
@Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, the
strike of Union Pacific trainmen was
called off and four casrbound trains
left immediately for Chicago Santa
Fe trains. stalled for several days at
desert towns in California. Arizona
and New Mexico were moved west
isolated due to the transportation
tie-up.
: An u1timatum to big four broth
,erhood chiefs from A G. Wells, vice
the situation on that roads Mr.. Wells
said If Santa Fe train crews refused to
return to work the roads only alter
native would be to employ others to
fill the places of strikers.
Lee Is Agreeable.
His demands for explicit answers
the attitude of brotherhood Off
Gals brought response from W. G.
Lee. president of the Brotherhood of
: Trainmen, that vice presidents of the
union had been instructed to enforce
working agreements with the railroad.
Fruit growers and shippers of north |
central Washington announced their
willingness to man trains for moving
the $25,OOO,OOO fruit crop of the dis
trict.
A passenger train, manned by n
nonunion crew, was operated over
the Cumberland valley division of the |
Louisville & Nashville railroad which |
had been tied up by the strike. Of |
ficials announced intentions of contin- |
lines connecting with the Kentucky |
coal fields Officials OF the Southern |
railway said immediate steps would |
be taken to reopen the company'S |
shops at Coster. Ky.
Woman Is Shot.
big four brotherhood trainmen on l
four roads at Muskogee, Okla, threat
ened to join the strike. Local chair
men at Memphis refused TO authorize |
walkout of crews on roads entering
Disorders in connection with the |
rail strike abated again during the /
last "a hours, but a nonunion shop /
worker at Tacoma, Wash, was stoned L
and beaten by a crowd said TO have
been strikers from the Northern Pa
cific shops
A woman was mysteriously shot /
when she rode past soldiers encamped /
near the Chicago & Alton railroad /
shops at Bloomington, Ill.
Coast Feels the Pinch.
(By the Associated Press.J
San Francisco, Aug. 15-Pacific |
coast states today felt a bitter pinch |
from the railroad tieup which has
been developing since Thursday night.
Passengers marooned at the desert |
towns. which serve as terminals for |
the Santa Fe lines. southwestern di- |
visions. had been brought to places of |
greater comfort but little or nothing |
had been done. or appart lily could be /
done for the fruit growers of northern |
Washington. southern oregon and /
northern California, while but Httle
more was being done for those in the
San Joaquin valley of California, far
Their south.