Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — 6,000 Railroaders Walked Out This Morning. [ARTICLE]

6,000 Railroaders Walked Out This Morning.

Switchmen on nineteen Chicago toads struck this Saturday morning at 6 o’clock, when their demands for an increase in pay were rejected. The United States board of mediation and conciliation was called upon Friday morning following the break between the brotherhood officials and managers’ conference committee and the calling of the strike. The union refused its offer to intervene. Then the railroad managers issued their statement, attributing the strike to the union, and called for aid from the pdlice. A report coming over the Wagner wire late this Saturday forenoon stated that 6,000 switchmen had struck this morning, according to the railway brotherhood. However* the railway managers assert that the number of strikers is not more than 2,500.