Evening star., 1922-08-14
PARALYZED
BY TRAIN TIE-UP
CONTINUED from First Pase.D

City. was blocked completely by walk
outs at Oroville. Oakland and Stock
ton. Calf. and announced that traffic
was suspended Indefinitely"
On the Santa Fe nineteen west
bound trains were marooned and one
was feeling its way eastward from
Needles. where it had been held three
days. with officials doubtful as to how
far it would get.
Approximately LOO passengers
were aboard these trains. six of
which were at Albuquerque and the
others at Seligman, Williams and
Ash Fork.
A telegram from President Harding
to Gov. Campbell of Arizona Offering
aid for those aboard these trains re-
manned unanswered because the gov
ernor was travelling and had not re-
ceived it. The passengers marooned
at Albuquerque telegraphed Presi-
dent Harding urging that he take
command of the situation.
The Santa Fe planned to move two
trains west from Seligman today.
+ Probe Under Way.
At Los Angeles preliminary steps
were taken yesterday to make an in
vestigation into the origir of the
walkouts on the Santa Fe to de-
|
Of conspiracy. Attorney General
Daugherty, in ordering the inquiry.
instructed that evidence discovered be
taken before a grand jury. if suffi-
cient to warrant that step. and the
Los Angeles oficials in charge of the
investigation declared the public
must and shall be protected at all
costs"
GOV. Boyle of Nevada was at Las
f~yy
statement given the Associated
Press. into apparent discrepancies
between statements made to him by
railroad officials and by the civil
officers at that place regarding the
situation. About $50 guards and
prisoners at Las Vegas. the men on
strike refusing to allow food to be
! taken to the inclosure where they
were quartered.
Fruit-Growers Hard Hit.
! The Southern Pacific's double en-
barge was hard blow to the fruit
growing interests. already hard hit
| by the tie-ups o. the other lines 1t
! meant that it would be impossible,
! because of the switchyard employees
strike at Roseville, to give cars
loaded with fruit even the necessary
first icing before they were started
ON the roundabout journey east from
Angeles and Ell Paso. The main icing
plant for the whole northern Cali
| fornia section is in the Rosevflle
yards, and without switchmen work
| ing there cars cannot be taken to it
| Fruit men in the San Joaquin val.
! unable to estimate accurately the
damage arising from their inability
| to make shipments. Some declared
| il would reach a million dollars {
] day. Others placed the figure high
| er. One fruit shipper declared his
! own loss was half million dollar.
MANY cities of the San Joaquin val.
| lev. which are served by the Santa
Fe, are without mail deliveries.
Mails stin stalled.
Eastern mail communication tt
southern California. cut of Thurs
day afternoon with the walkout Of
| the big four workers at Needles. ha.
not been re-established..
! According to statement issued b,
]. A. Harder, attorney for the strik
ers at Roseville, the walkout was or
| dered as a protest against "the con
dition of rolling stock and locomo
tive equipment, and against WORKING
surrounded by armed guards, who's
promiscuous shooting is endangerint
| their lives" ..-.,- -,
| "They will not return to work unit
| conditions complained of are RENE
died" Harder added. s--
General Strike Predicted.
The .enginemen placed their engine!
in the roundhouse' and walked ou
one by one. Local trainmen declared
the walkout here would be signal to-
a general strike all over the division
extending from Sacramento to Reno
| New. -.
Iapproximately 300 cars Of green frut
and several freight trains.
1. L. Hibbard, general manager o
the Santa Fe, in statement issued
Los Angeles, described the situation
1--WE have now nineteen. westboun,
trains, with approximately 100 pas
sengers held up. OF these passengers
there are 297 at Seligman, Arfz.: IL
at williams, Aris.: 236 at Ash Fork
Ariz., and about 1000 at Albuquerqu
and Belen. N. NJ"