Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-18
Hope Dit11t,1ed
When 100000 More
Rail Men Walk Out
$4,000 Way Men and 10000 Other Employees
Quit Posts on Regional Strike Call; Thursday
to Be Day of Important Developments.

is regarded as bound up in the session.
A determined effort to keep the men
at work is forecast as Mr.. CRADLES
part in the meeting, but with so large
a sentiment for the walkout as is evil
denced by the suspension of the main
%tenance men In the east Monday, the
| outcome of the conference is entirely
conjectural.
Non-union Coal Shut OF
The pressure of fuel supplies in
many sections is an aggravating factor
in the industrial situation. Non-union
coal, which had been in adequate sup
ply since April 1 to keep abreast OF
current consumption demands, has been
shut off in many sections by the short
age of freight equipment due to the
shipments strike.
Hopes for a railroad settlement at
an early date appeared to be based
chiefly upon the attitude of Mr.. Ora
BILE, who came to Chicago Monday from
Washington, where on Saturday he held
a conference with President Harding.
Mr.. Cradle said he would confer with
members of the railroad labor board in
an effort to get support OF an order
to prevent carriers from requiring
maintenance men to do strikers work.
Another indication of a drift toward
peace was seen in the statement of
r.. A. Henning. general chairman of
the federated shop crafts of the north
west, that only the refusal of eastern
roads to agree to reinstate striking
shop crafts workers with their full
seniority rights. was preventing a set
Element on the roads in the northwest
section of the country.
A message to f. II. Fitzgerald, head
of the Clerks. Freight Handlers, Ex-
press and Station Employees union, said
a strike vote of 5000 clerks on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroads
showed 90 per cent Of the men favoring
a walkout and asking for authority to
strike.
A canvass of the strike vote of the
same organization on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois road showed 9S12 per
cent of the workers %favoring a walk
out. according to representatives of
the union.
Strike ballots are being circulated by
the brotherhood OF Railway, Steam
ship Clerks, Freight Handlers and Ex-
press Employees to its members m
ployed by the Southern railway and
affiliated lines. The employees charge
that the company reduced wages in
defiance of the railroad labor board.
Ask Permit to Strike
Topeka. Kan. unions Of the Big
Four brotherhood and the Switchmen's
union petitioned their officers for per
mission to go or strike July 20.
Clerks and station employees or more
than 60 of the POI class one roads have
taken strike votes. according 10 in
formation received here.
Reports of cancellation Of trains be-
cause Of shortage of coal or equip
ment continued.
Seventy new shop employees of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road and seven city policemen were
suffering today from poisoning as a
result Of eating food served to rail
way strike breakers. These men were
stricken during the last three days, 10
of them Sunday. A score of health
department workers were assigned to
cover every railroad yard in Chicago
to rigidly inspect all food served to
workers to prevent recurrence of the
trouble. The policemen stated that
they had eaten lunch in the dining
cars provided by the railroad.
1t was indicated Monday that DR..
Louis j. Veit. in charge of the investi-
into the origin of the poison.
had information which he expected
would lead 10 the discovery of the cul-
prits. Examination Of the milk served
to the workers had been made.
c. S. Christopher, superintendent Of
terminals of the railway company. is
sued the following statement today:
We cannot imagine here how the
food could have been adulterated.'
Developments came fast in the New
Fork district Monday.
Eight hundred men, including station
Try engineers, firemen, oilers and
maintenance of way employees. walked
,ut of power houses and repair shops
If II roads.
Sheriff's deputies of Bergen county.
lew Jersey. armed with machine and
lot guns and rifles. began ut Hackcn-
ack to practice with tear gas bombs.
Sixty United States deputy marshals
n addition to 100 already employed.
we're assigned to strike duty guarding
he mails on the Erie.
United States District Judge Bodine,
It Newark. extended an injunction re-
training Mayor Hague of Jersey City
md municipal police from entering
ards Of the Erie railroad.
At Trenton. United States Marshal
fulheron ordered sheriffs of q New
'ersey counties to make q survey of
nen available for emergency duty.
General Goethals. commander of the
asst service OF supply and transporta-
ION organized by the port of New
'ork authorities for emergency, an
ounced 9S per cent of it's members
re ready to set the machinery going.
Railroad executives. however. contin-
ed to deny that the strike was Sc
iously affecting passenger or freight
Their Claims that mail trains |
'ere operating unhampered were cor
by officials of the p~ostoffice
apartment. i
THE sympathy" strikes of main :
snance of way men. which have been
progress on a minor scale for sew
raj days, Monday gained momentum.
was estimated a total of 1000 mon
nd joined the movement in this dis
let.