Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1920 — SUMMARY OF RAIL STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF RAIL STRIKE.

A. F. Whitney, vice mjesideht of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, asserted last night that the strike will be broken within fortyeight hours. This view wajr reflected by S. JE. Heberling, international president of the Switchmen’s Union of North America. Here is the Associated Press summary of the situation throughout the country: Chicago—B,ooo men out; freight traffic SO to 40 per cent normal; 40,000 packing plant workers idle, with complete suspension of stock yards in prospect today. Buffalo—From 1,500 to 2,700 men idle; freight embargo. Kansas City—2oo to 500 men out; freight embargo. Los Angeles—l,2oo men op transcontinental lines on strike. Toledo —600 men out; critical freight tieup in twenty-four hours predicted. . Detroit —1,000 men out; 500 more expected to follow. ■ Gary—3oo to 400 men idle: 350 B. of R. T. vote to stay on job. East St. Louis—2oo out; 5,000 in St. Louis vote to strike at midnight. ’■ -• Decatur —107 stnke. Joliet—so strike; Chicago, Joliet & Eastern men refuse to join walkout. ■ .. Springfield, Ill.—Baltimore & Ohio men strike. _ Colton, Cal —50 Southern Pacifiic switchmen quit; freight stalled. Cleveland —1,500 switchmen take strike vote. Niagara Falls—Switchmen refuse to strike after listening to appeal from Buffalo radicals. Elmira Yardmen of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Naw York Central and Lehigh Valley ordered out. ’ , . Pittsburgh — 2,000 Pennsylvania Lines switchmen vote to strike at midnight. „ , „ *. Memphis—Yardmen on all but two roads entering city vote to strike at 4 o’clock this afternoon unless demands are granted., Fort Wayne—Strike of 8,200 Pennsylvania Lines shopmen believed settled. San Francisco —20 switchmen I quit work.