The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
TRAINS AT LOCAL
YARDS FALL FAR
BEHIND SCHEDULE
All Roads Show Marked
Increase In Belated
Arrivals.
RESULT OF STRIKE
Efforts to Establish Mutual
Association Fail, Declare
Machinists' Heads.
RESULT OF STRIKE

A marked increase in the number
of belated trains on every road and
general breaking down of the en-
tire train schedule as a result of the
strike was noted last night.
A Baltimore and Ohio train from
Chicago. due here at 4:42 p. m, did
not arrive until 100 a. m.
The Southern Railway trains
from New Orleans. scheduled TO ar
rive in Washington at 11:00 p. M,
did not get in until o'clock this
morning.
The speedy Memphis special"
plying between Washington and the
Southern city. pulled into the Ter
minal yards two hours and twenty
minutes late last night.
Due here from Jacksonville at
$3.50 p. m. the Seaboard Air Line
train did not arrive until 1910 p. m
@Can't Guarantee Anything"
Persons inquIrIng at the inforiGs
ton booth in Union SoStion as to
how the trains are running and
what the possibilities are of their
arriving on time are, met with the
reply: I'VE can't guarantee any
thing. These are unusual Sondi-
ASAS anu - AIMS mere anu IhClC al e
liable to be late. We are sure that
the travelling public will cooperate
and take these things into consid-
.eration."
! Heads of the special police at the
Washington Terminal were sur
prised when told last night that
ID. c. train had been fired on. They
said that probably it had not been
% sFrL- of oil
LIT. VI. X. Steiner said that police
here had taken no extra precautions
because of the incident and de-
clared that Its not worth worry
ing about"
Trains Discontinued.
Beginning tomorrow trains Is and
l6. B. & o.. to Pittsburgh and Chi
cago. will be discontinued. These
trains will go only as far as Pitts
burgh today.
Trains and 10 on the Baltimore
& Ohio plying between Washington
and Chicago also will be discon-
tinued tomorrow.
Efforts to establish a Washing
ton Terminal Mutual Association"
among the local temporary shop
employees. said to have been made
by railway executives here, are de-
clared by officials of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists to
be Ineffective.
The mutual association was de-
signed to give the present strike
workers legal standing for agree
ments with the U. S. Labor Board,
according to r. S. NEWMAN, assist
ant general secretary-treasurer of
the machinists.
NEWMAN Derfdes Plan.
The plan has been used all over
the Pennsylvania System to dis
credit the unions authority" New
ham said, but 1t has never been
tried here until now. There are so
few men in the shops that I think
there is little danger of its amount
ing to anything"
Officials at the Washington ter
minal, after a conference with ].
Herbert Tonge, superintendent of
the terminal, refused to make any
statement. We are spending our
time keeping the roads running"
one official said. I'VE have nothing
TO say about such disputes"
Labor leaders said the actions of
any such association would have
no effect after the strikers go back
to work. 1T will be one of the
conditions of the settlement that
we go back to work at the old
rates. irrespective of anybody's as
ISOLATION" declared Charles H. A.
Frazier. in charge of the local
strike.