Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — STRIKE SPREADING RAPIDLY; OUTLOOK BAD [ARTICLE]

STRIKE SPREADING RAPIDLY; OUTLOOK BAD

Indianapolis, April 9.— A. new 1 union known as the Indianapolis Yardmen’s association, was formed tonight by more than 1,100 switchmen, switch tenders and yard masters, employed in the yards of every railroad entering the city, who quit their jobs today in protest against the present scale of wages. The first of the switchmen to walk out were employed in the yards of the Big Four and Pennsylvania lines. The movement spread rapidly and is was estimated late tonight that approximately 1,700 men had quit their jobs. New York, April 9.—The firat full day of the unauthorized railroad switchmen’s and yard workers’ strike, which swept over New York last night with such suddenness as to threaten the city with a serious food shortage, brought armouncejnent of freight embargoes tonight on every commodity except milk. Between 3,400 and 3,500 men are on strike, J. J. Mantel! chairman of the Railroad General Manserginv Greater New York. They agers’ association said, on the roads are mostly freight yard switchmen and car handlers, although a few freight conductors and brakemen have walked out. Only a few workers in the passenger service have struck, he said. ______ / i Many Out in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, April 9.—One hundred switchmen and yard nien employed by the Norfolk and West ern railroad here went on strike shortly after midnight The strikers are said to be making an effort to persuade employes of other railroads here to strike. Cleveland, 0., April 9.—-Between 1,500 and 1,800 workers from all branches of the service employed on the nine railroads entering Cleveland, voted tonight to form a organization to be called the Cleveland Yardmen’s association and to be affiliated with the striking switchmen in Chicago. Chicago, April 9~A break in the unauthorized strike of switchmen and enginemen at Chicago, where it started nine days ago, with a subsequent spread to a number of railroad centers, was announced dent of the Brotherhood of Kailtoday by A- F- Whitney, vice-prem-a committee of strikers from the road Trainmen, who conferred with Chicago and Northwestern railroad. The delegation was said to have told Mr. Whitney that a vote would be taken within 24 hours with a view to ending the strike on that railroad by Saturday night. Brotherhood officers said a number of strikers returned to work today, and predicted that the movement of freight in the Chicago area would be near normal by next week. Another group of strikers today requested that the “mayor of Chicago take steps to settle the strike by addressing a mass meeting of .Leaders of the insurgents Mid the strike was not only not broken but would be carried on until a new union was completed.