Evening star., 1946-05-26
Sergt. Debby Pepper. was the first
passenger through the gates.
Yard Crews Back on Job.

All yard crews for freight and pas
senger trains in the District were
back at work by 8 pm. Freight
agents reported that all freight
loaded and waiting would be moved
by this afternoon. Because of the
Government embargo, very little
freight has piled up in the yards
here, they explained.
End of the strike meant an unex-
pected Saturday night off for 1,00C
troops alerted in the emergency
Five hundred soldiers standing by
at the Army War College and an
other 500 at Fort Myer were dis
missed as soon as the Presidents an
nouncement was received.
Airlines returned to normal opera
ton at once except that planes con-
tinued to carry meal and priority
cargo already assigned. Because
many persons feared they would be
bumped" or stranded en- route, an
unusually small crowd heard the
news of the strikes end at National
Airport.
Word Spreads Rapidly.
No public announcement of the
settlement was made at Union Sta
ton. but the word spread rapidly
Tired soldiers and civilians took a
new interest in the bulletin boards
They listened quietly as the louc
speaker began announcing depart
ures and arrivals.
The first train to arrive at the
station manned by regular crew
came in from Baltimore at $40 I'm
A Baltimore and Ohio Pullman
train. it left as the Cleveland Ex.
press at 8:25 pm.
BY 7 pm. the Pennsylvania Rail.
road was sending trains to New York
every hour, on the hour. The only
regularly scheduled trains tha
failed to leave after 9 pm. were
the Seaboard's Robert E. Lee tc
Birmingham and the Pennsylvania ;,
11:40 pm. train to Chicago and st
Louis. No reason was given for The
cancellations.
All working Tor NOrmalcy,
| Railroads in Maryland and Vir'
ginia were working to get passengeI
and freight service back to norma
as quickly as possible. With worker!
coming back promptly, officials ex'
pressed assurance that all opera
tions would be normal today.
| The crowd at Griffith Stadium
heard the news that the strike wa
over between the two games ant
greeted it with all the applause an,
cheers they usually reserve for ,
home run.
Crowds waiting at the GREYHOUND
ITerminal clustered around portabl
radios to hear the Presidents speech
The only person who didn't learl
Immediately that the strike hat
ended was the information clerk
She had been too busy answerin,
questions. A few travellers rushet
out for Union Station, but the ma
jority kept on waiting for buses
They had their bus tickets and didn'
know how soon the trains woul,
fstart running.
Respond to Order Quickly.
The terminal manager and bu
drivers at the railways Depo
across the street celebrated the ent
Of the hectic transportation rush b,
eating ice cream cones.
More than TOO trainmen and en-.
gineers received the official word t,
return to work at closed meeting
at 525 New Jersey avenue NV.
headquarters for 1.500 strikers.
The men are responding to thu
call to go back to work as promptly
as they responded to the strike call,
said w. T. jenkins, general chair.
man of the Brotherhood of Rail.
road Trainmen in the metropolitan
area.
The men cheered their unior
chiefs, Alvanley Johnston of tn.
engineers and A. F. Whitney of tn,
trainmen, but expressed the opin.
ion that President Truman had LEI
them down by not giving their sid,
of the controversy full considera.
ton"
Some Say Strike Is Lost.
Some 900 employees of the Poto.
mac Yards received confirmation O.
the strike settlement in CID Eel