Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — MONON TIEUP BEGINS TODAY [ARTICLE]

MONON TIEUP BEGINS TODAY

WALKOUT, AFFECTING ENTIRE p MONON DIVISION, BEGAN THIS MORNING. Following a meeting of the Mbnon I crafts representing the Monon shops I Thursday evening at Lafayette, (the I Monon shop workers started striking I ithis Friday morning, following in I the footsteps • of thousands* of other railroad employees throughout the I United States in the beginning of I what probably will be the most serious and disastrous strike in history. Unless some powerful force is brought to bear immediately to disI suade the trainmen in their deImanids, all train service will be dis- | continued on all roads within the next few days. (The action taken at Lafayette (last night will the entire Monon system, with the possible exception of passenger traffic. The crafts affedted by the walkout this morning include the machinists, boilermakers, pipe fitters, 'blacksmiths, electricians, stationary firemen and car shops men. Late hour bulletins Thursday showed the following conditions in various parts of the country: --■o New Haven, Cohn., Aug. 7.—The discontinuance of 102 passenger trains on the New York, New Hayen wind Hartford railroad because of 'the strike of (shopmen and mechanics was announced at the local offices of the railroad late tonight. AU 'dining and parlor car service is discontinued and the present time table is suspended.