The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1920, Page 2

ne Be ee = eee ts... ‘was promised with their aid. ‘The Lackawanna reported that 1,600 striking employees of the Kingsland | shops had reported back for work | this morning without explanation. The Central Railroad of New Jersey reported moving seventy-nine | passenger trains between 7 and 10 @olock today as against forty-one! Plans | the same hours yesterday. ere mad’ for maintaining complete eohedules this afternoon on all except ‘the New York and Long Branch system and a partial service theres “Improvement in Pennsylvania con- ditions was marked dy the return of five crews of electric switching en- gines; nine shifting crews in the Newark Waverly yards, the receipt of @ hundred or more cars of livestock aha even more perishable fopd stuff, the ‘up of the congestion in | strike “leaders.” Railroad represen- the J City and Greenville yards | tatives summarized food supply con- ‘afd the restoration of the full eched- ditions as follows ‘ule of through trains, Only one offer of a volunteer commutation crew ‘was accepted to-day. ‘The Pennsylvania to-day relaxed its @mbargo on other than railroad cbal. ‘Two crews were put to work on coal trains for the Public Service Corpora- tion and in the Gouth Amboy yards two crews made up trains of tide-| ©. R. Addison, Long Isiand— ‘water coal for public consumption. Freight conditions bad. ‘Long Island steam trains, with the| J. P. Trihey, New Haven—No per- aid of volunteer Gremen, were run to and from Babylon, Wading River, Aipagansett, Oyster Bay, Port Jef- flerson and Greenport. Few of the striking firemen on these lines re- turned to work and there were ugly reports of their ition to violence which léd to the placing of former ‘service men in uniforms on trains and on station platforms. ‘The Central Railroad of New Jer- by reported that ite clerks in Elisa beth had refused to attend a strike SS tse tt, ae ight. Fifty trainmen of the Biiwbetn lodge of the Brotherhood © have returned to work, the company up ‘The New Jersey Central sent its first train over the Newark Division to-day. This line was suspended for the benefit of other routes because its patrons had recourse to parallel trolley lines, The road, which has refused all aid from commuter volun- .igers, announced it would run all ite _regular suburban trains this after- moon and that its through trains ‘were moving on time. Reports came from Trenton of a belated walkout of 200 or more Phil- gdelpbia and Reading firemen’ at Camden. \ Government detectives, acting with railroad men, were seeking the dm- bers of the train crews who refused to take out mail trains from Port Jer- vie oytr the Erie to-day. The men ‘were said to have been seen around trike headquarters in Jersey City. ‘The Erie tried to start a freight train » to Jerpey City from Port Jervis to- day, but was not able to complete a * grew which would “stay put" up to ‘The Now Haven Railroad, of the cancellation of seven Rochelle trains, reported that it had moved 68 of its 65 scheduled trains in spite New on time. The train cancellations were due to the action of the “re- serve crews” carried on fhe rall- road's emergency list in withdraw- ing from duty during the strike and to a coal shortage. Baggage cars and locai mai] cars were restored. The freight umbargo, except on milk, was maintained on all incoming and outgoing freight, ‘The New York Central that with twenty-five Princeton and %0 from Columbia University it now had five volunteers om hand for every vacancy in its forces, but was allowing the Brother- hoods to decide just how far the em- ployment of volunteers was advisable. ‘The company is accepting freight at Kingsbridge yard and is moving incoming freight, including solid train loads of meat and other food- jufis at the west side yards. Sevon ears of newsprint paper were added to the emeigency supply brought in yesterday. ‘The Staten Island Rapid Transit Company and Baltimore and Qhio freight service continued to conéun- trate the avpilable five crews of their force on three trains each way be- tween St. George and Tottenville and on two trains handling local produce shipments. ‘Twenty-five students from Stevens ‘Institute at Hoboken went to Staten Island and were scheduled to act as Drakemen on @ 2.45 P. M. train from fésumption of steam moved traffic | reported men from diers will go to the B. & O, freight yard in St, George late this afternoon to take charge of two carloads of automobiles consigned to the Govern- ment, place them on a float and move them to Governor's Island. Brakemen are the great need of the Staten Island Rapid Transit, firemen and engineers remaining true to the contracts of their organizations Those brakemen who desired to stick, took alarm after Tuesday night's as- sault upon some of them by twenty- five men who swarmed: upon @ North Shore train at Elm Park and gave sthe brakemen a rough handling, At the investigation of strike con- ditions by Public Service Commis- soner Nixon to-day no representa- Uves of the strikers appeared, in- Vestigators for thé commission @aid they had been unable to find any ©. J. Leifer, Pennsylvania—Coal shipments from Perth Amboy in- creasing. 100 cars of livestock and 100 cars of food products delivered daily. . C. Paulding, New York Centra —1,654 cars of food delivered in five days. Steady improvement indicated. ishabie stuff on hand; coal all de- livered. J. 8. Fabricius, B, & O.— Food ship- ments Umited to local Staten Island supply; much interrupted. T. R. Dodge, aswistant to the Presl- dent of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, said to-day: “The outlaw strike is cracking all along the ling, The mep realize now that they have besn Imposed upon: They cannot hope to + ey and they know that both the railroads and the brotherhoods may refuse to take them back. ‘The railroads can do nothing for them, but their case must go be- fore the new labor board. The brotherhoods, whose applications have been in for months, will be the first to be heard. “The strikers have been pleading, Bor SY. LMER HERRING AND a nF vous SN PATTERSON TRAIN “QUTLAW” STRIKES BACKBONE BROKEN: FREIGHT MOVING Men All Over Country Join in Rush to Get Their Jobs Back. DETROIT, Migh., April 16.—Rail- road officlals professed to-day to see an early end of the “outlaw” strike of switchmen which, beginning if the: walkout a week ago of 40 men in the Michigan Central yatds spread until all local terminals and several in other%cities of the State were tied up. DAYTON, Ohio, April 15.—Three hundred switchmen in the Dayton Railroad yards who walked out last Friday returned to work to-day and officials declared the situation in this © Orange, returns 430 P, M. $.6—Leaves Bast Orange, returns 44 P. M. 7.00—Leaves Gladstone, stor) Ma- plewood, returns at 4 P. M. 647—Leaves Maplewood, returns 415 P. M 7.10—Leaves Summit, returns 4 P. M. 7.35—Leaves Convent Station and Summit, returns 15 P. M. 7.40—Leaves Madison and Orange, returns 4.45 P, M. 6.05—-Leaves Mountain Lake, Boon- ton, returne 4.15 P. M. ENGINEERING STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT ENGINES, Erie officials annotinced that they had put 119 engineering students of Stevens Institute of Technology to work on big locomotives. ‘These young men know the game,” said J. J, Mantel, General Manager of the Brie, and are making good from the start.” “The Brie,” added Mr. Mantell, “is putting into use on all through pas- venger trains the new mechanical stoker. These ate in charge of Stevens Inetitute students familiar with them. “We expect to put two humdred of these stokers on freight engines for through Imuls as @oon as possible,” city again normal. PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 15.— Ballroad officials to-day are hopeful of big desertions from the ranks of strikers following the break last night when 126 of the 160 firernen employed in the Pitcairn yards of the Penn- sylvania Railroad returned to work. AKRON, 0. April 15.—The yard- men's strike collapsed here to-day, tol- lowing a vote last night to return to work. Officials said only a few of the 300 men who struck were not back. Freight. movement is normal, BOSTON, Apri! 15—A serious short- age of coal for New England to-day threatened, to necessitate cuftailment of all passenger schedules and a par- tial indostrial shutdown. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-| road announced that a drastic reduc- tion in passenger service may be ex- pected Saturday or Monday, and im- provement of conditions would not im- mediately follow the end of the strike, for guarantees against loss of their brotherhood membership, We are not | in @ position to give such guarantees, | for we cannot bind the executives of | the brotherhoods, So far as senior- ities in the railroad service are con- cerned, these are safeguarded for strikers who return to work at once.” | Federal agents are seeking tho/ gource of incendjary circulars widely distributed in the strike districts, | urging violence, The coastwise steamship compan- jes, tled’ up a month by the long-| Shore-strike, have agreed to resume | service to-morrow for handling pe:- Ishable foodstuffs, if merchants will move freight with strikebreakers, John J. Fitzpatrick of the Borden Company #aid New York would re- ceive @ full milk supply to-morrow, although a few creameries are. still hampered iby luck of shipping facilt- ties, Certified milk js being brought | in from Long Island on motor trucks, he said. He sald he feared, how- ever, that more serious difficulties qre | in prospect, eee ARMY TO ASSIST IN UNLOADING COAL Government Makes First Move to Help Break the Harbor Strike Here, What is regarded as the first actual step by the Government to help break the harbor tie-up, was the formal re- quest made to-day by the United States Army Transport authorities of the operating heads of the ratlroads for permission to unload at tidewater 10,000 tons of coal with United States Army labor. The request was made through the Tidewater Coal Ex- change. the clearing house for all coal movements, At the Exchange it was Brooklyn | not _receiv- say they are Hdison Companies, while ing any additional coal, increase on Kross earnings, moves the danger of a strike, St. George to Tottenville. The train will carry a squad of Py& O. police- man. * It was amnounced that armed sol- pstanesy nieiiieneemecan ab it would be some time before coul could. reach this section. Freight service in New England is virtually normal with the exception of coal shipments. More motor trucks were added to-day to those already |engaged in transporting perishable foodstuffs. YOUNGSTOWN, 0., April 16— Passenger traffic on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad was resuiied to-day after a paralysis of passenger traffic for two days. Volunteer fire- men were said to be manning the 16.—Ratlroad A O, April awhehmen’ in Akron yards returned t work to- 3 ID COMMUTES BROUGHT TOY BY VOLUNTEER CRS (Continued From First Page.) Philadelphia. After resting a while he brought the train back, Sumner i the’ first high pfficial of the road to serve as fireman. ‘Cc. L Leiper, General Superintend- ent of the Pennsylvania, reported hundreds of offers from New York business and professiomml men to serve as firemen during the tie-up, Firemen and trainmen on one Erie train from Paterson to-day were six railroad officials and four members said Mantel. Among the other “Indignation Specials” to arrive this morning were trains from East Orange, Waldwick, Suffern, Esdex Fails, Nyack, Hills- dale, Spring Valley, Upper Montclair and Mahwah, ‘The Mahwah “special” was in chargé of R. A. Smith, manufacturer of machinery in Newark, with 5S. M. Deoker, a New York banker, acting as a brakeman. The train for Upper Montclair was in charge of R. B. Beatty, New York stock broker, and the two firemen were H. P. Crossley, wholesale pro- duce merchant, and H. A. Hall, of the Vacuum Oil Company. F.'R. Miller, un electrical engineer at Hoboken, wag-in oharge of one Nyaok special, and N. V. 8. Mumford, a mechanical engineer, in charge of another. Mayor David J. McKenna, in charge of an Englewood special, on his arrival in Jersey City asked General Manager Mantel! for another train from Englewood and surround- ing towns, He offered an additional hundred volunteers to care for the extra train. Mantell promised the additional service. One of the first Lackawanna trains to arrive, that from Dover, N. fired by Wiliam L. “On Time” Mor- gan, Princeton sophomore, guard on the varsity football team and war time stoker on the Felicia, a con- verted yacht, which did patrol duty off the coast of Massachuretts, Morgan is the husky who achieved the miraculous yesterday by firing one of the biggest engines on the Erie and bringing it through ahead of schedule. To-day he had help in the person of FE. H. Caffey, Princeton senior, editor of the “Tiger.” found the job ao easy, they said, that they “scarcely worked up a sweat.” A train from Gien Ridge was fired by four men, ajl members of the American Legion, whose white collars and busines shirts were left in suit- cases in one of the couches. They were Austin Hanau, Willam Loftus, Lawrence Martin and Donald White. F. Sharp, formerly of the Canadian air service, ‘and T. Dudley, who Dae ae Ly JAMES ADAMS ane FRAN MASON TENAPLY PARCIA SER. a MACS ae eo AAS, ‘They |. C. ©. Kerr broker at No. 2 Wall Street, and A. C. Doty. A train from Moristown was fired by H. E. Watson, son of G. H. Wat- son, broker at No, 115 Broadway. There have been few demonstra- tions against volunteer crews, strik- ers and their sympathizers contenting themselves for the most part with hooting and jeering. At the Lacka wanna station in Hoboken last night, however, the crew of a Montolat: local was. attacked by three mea. The strikers were not cnly beaten, but arrested. Strike leaders later re- Pudiated the action of the men, say- ing they were doing all they could te Drevent such demonstrations. It was estimated last night the “in- dignation specials” had carried, wite volunteer crews, a total of 54,000 to and from the city yesterday, as fol- dows: Lackawanna, 24,000; Brie, 21,- Island, 7,200; Pennsylvania, 4,200. e Pennsylvania operated only one volunteer manned train. One hundred business men, com- posing the New Brunswick ' Home Guard, telegraphed to-day. to the headquarters of the New Jersey De- fense League in Newark that they stood ready to give up their private business concerns at a moment's notice and assist the Pennsylvania Railroad to operate its trains in this vicintiy. FOOD TRAINS ARRIVE WITH BIG SUPPLIES Railroad Officials Say All Danger of Shortage Now Has Passed. Pennsylvania Railway officials to- day reported the handling of 47 car- loads of perishable foodstuffs at the company's pier No. 29, North River, and the expected arrival to-morrow of another 100 car loads, Four train loads of food reached Jersey City to-day, and will be handled without delay, it was an- nounced. In addition’ to these, 90 carloads of live stock for the New York market arrived in the Jersey yards this morning and another 100 are expected to-morrow. Offjciais declared that all possibility of a food famine here was past. United States District Attorney Ross of Brooklyn announced that 1,000,000 Pounds of frouen beet will be delivered to-morrow at Wallabout Market by the served in the 107th Infantry, 27th Another from Orange was fired by Division, fired a train from Orange. | Umted States Army Supply Department. Special stai being erected for Retallers will got. the mi at 1D 1-F:cents, plus a nominal ‘charge for bandling. ‘They will have to sell it at @ specified reasonable profit. said the permission would be granted, as the coal was necessary for army transport serv as well as army supply stations. The Tidewater Coal Exchange also reported that the traction companies had enough coal for several days, No} coal was received yesterday or early to-day. The New York Steam Com- pany reported a plentiful supply. The New York Edison and the not alanned. at 415 P.M. —~ 645 A. M—LIeaven Montolair, re- Danger of British Coal Strike Re-|turns 345 P.M. ' bey ieee s moved. 6.55 A, M.—Leaves Glen Ridge, re- LONDON, April 15.—The members of | turng 3.45 P. M. the Miners’ Fede ration, by @ majority! 7.39-—Leave: Montolair, returns of 65,135 votes, have decided to ac: ;: the overnment’s offer of n'20 por caene | 430. P.M. This re-| QUININE TO relieve of the American Legion. The ex-ser- vice men were W. K. Paton of the Guaranty ‘Trust Company, Jobn: 8. Griebel, employed on the New York Stock Exchange; Edwant Botbyl, a salesman, and Amos H. Radcliffe of Announcing the arrival of his fifteen |trains, General Manager Rine of ‘the | Lackawanna leclared that everything indicated a returm to normal within two days, Mr, Rine gave out the following re- port of arrivals, together with the time at which each train will leave for home late in the afternoon: 6.35 A. M.—Leaves Ampere, returns MAPLE PEOAN KIssB8—Theve big geedies are produced from @ com- bination of Pure Vermont Maple 6.40—Leaves Highland Avenue and Orange, returns 4.15 P. M. | 7.10—Leaves East Orange, returns 845 P.M, hangs erie eek A, ae ae @ bon 7,20-—-Leaves Orange, returne 4 P. M. 7.51—Leaves Mountain Station and For hall Friday, April 16th > 0 te Sa |OCOLATE COVERED CREOLE FEPFERMINT PAT- the New York office of the Savage || QoCOLATe dicks ef richly spiced cream, Arms Corporation, Mavered wit! and covered our unexcelled, velvety SPECIAL POUND BOX Our Two Big Week-End Extra Specials MILE ceoaeanrct COVERED aoe eee ape YE ANCIENT Mo LASSES TAF FY— Everybody kes the ood old fashion chew- ing janie Here 2. Ld \JERSEY LEGION OFFERS AID IN MOVING FOODS Have Prepared a List of Auto Truck and Horse and, Mule Drivers. Officers of the Hudson County Fed- eration of Amériean Legion Posts and commanders of several posts in Hudson County this morning offered their ser- vices to the Mayors of the various municipalities in Hudson County to help move foodstuffs by means of any transportation possible. Charles A Rooney, a prominent lawyer and Chalr- federation, presented the communica, tion to the various officials as well as a o man of the Executive Committee of the ane TRAN list of those willing to drive auto trucks, horse or mule drawn vehicles, or to load the same or do any other labor neces- sary to help in, the situation; The list includes Assistant Prosecutor George T. Vickers, Df. Frederick Quigley, Cor- poration Attorney John Bentley, City Architect Hugh Kelly, former Judge! John Warren and a host of other equally prominent citizens. e legionaries made It plain in their statement that they will do nothing de- trimental to. the interests of either the strikers or the railroad officl tals, but act merely to aid those who are help themselves." In this connection the letter says: “In order to make our stand lutely clear in the matter, howev desire to most emphatically stat neither wé, as individuals, nor the or- ganizations we represent, will at arty time during this emergency take any action detrimental either party to the dixpute exeapt such as may be necessary to protect those Unable to help fhemselv The offer ts signed by the following officers and Executive Committee Chairmen of various Legion posts: T. M. Chairman Hudson Cor ration American Legion Pos Rooney, | Chairmgn Executive ‘Commit- et arry nee rmody, Secretary; orge TT. Vic Commander 4th Rew!* seracy. infantry” Post No, $1: Thomas G. Reilly, Commander 312th Infantry, Post No. $7, American Legion: Gommander. Jersey Gliy Post Noo aT: Edwin Grin, dels- gate, Peter Leddy Post, Bayonne: Dr. | Kr. J. xecutive Committee, ‘ederation, Harlan | Executive | Committee, Hoboken: Hugh A Kelly, Commander Hudson County Federation; ecutive Committee, Battalion, Passaic. 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