Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1909 — THREATEN TIE-UP OF ALL MEXICAN ROADS [ARTICLE]

THREATEN TIE-UP OF ALL MEXICAN ROADS

Engineers and Conductors Talk of Joining Strike. Mexico City, July 20. —Reports from all parts of Mexico indicate that the sentiment in favor of a strike in sympathy with that of the train dispatchers by the engineers and conductors of the merged railroads of Mexico Is rapidly crystalizing. The dispatchers’ committees are using the case of Engineer Peter McFarland, who was mortally hurt in a wreck at the yards at Aguas Calientes, as an argument to prevail upon the engineers and conductors.