Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — Grain Will Rot on the Sidetracks in Event of Strike. [ARTICLE]

Grain Will Rot on the Sidetracks in Event of Strike.

Loss of millions of dollars in crops throughout the U. S. was the main possibility before the administration Monday. Agents of the federal reserve department in the southwest and northwest are beginning to ask for funds for the annual crop moving. A tie-up of the railroads would mean tftat wheat and other products now ready for the mills would be held up indefinitely and possibly rot on the sidetracks if stopped in progress. This angle of the threatened strike was borne home to officials not only by reports from the treasury department but by arrivals of western railroad presidents. More than two score railroad presidents and the six hundred and forty brotherhood representatives held separate meetings to continue discussions of President Wilson’s proposals looking towards peace.