Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — Embargo Certain. [ARTICLE]

Embargo Certain.

Chicago, Aug. 7.—No railroad embargoes have been issued in Chicago tonight as a result of the shopmen’s strike, and 756 cars of livestock, the approximate daily supply, arrived today and all trains were running, although R. H. Aisbton, federal director of the northwestern region, sand that “an ultimate embargo and tieup” were certain to come unless the shops were manned. Officials of the Chicago district I council of the Federated Railway Shopmen’s union, who called the strike, asserted (that about 300,000 men were out in defiance of their grand lodge orders and would remain out until the demands were I granted. —o—(Chicago, Aug. 7. —Representatives of forty-two union locals of stock yard employes voted tonight for a general strike tomorrow unless militia, policemen and deputy sheriffs, ion duty to prevent race riotin, are .withdrawn from the yards. More than 100,000 persons are employed in the yards. A strike was virtually begun today when hundreds of white- men quit work after 3,000 of the 15,000 negro workers returned to the yards under troop protection. They had been Compelled to remain at home because of last week’s race rioting. The union men said they objected to negro non-union workers and not the workers simply because they were negroes. They claimed that about 5,000 white men walked out today.