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THE i SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, ArRIL, Jl, 1920 RULE OF WORKMEN BROUGHT TO CLOSE Committees in Ruhr Region Resign to Officials. ! of these systematic violations, wotild . step in . the path of concessions. France in any case was obliged to say: "That is- enough.' " " STRIKE AIMED AT UNIONS Continued From First Page.) 20,000 RIFLES GIVEN UP employes to take the places of the switchmen in making up passenger trains, but this was denied at the Southern Pacific offices. Only vol unteers were being used, they said. The brotherhood of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers. t a general committee, announced that I Orders had been- fMAiiri tn lhA entire in conference by telephone with . membership In the Pacific coast ter chiefs of department of justice at j ritory to remain at their posts and Washington as late as 3 o'clock thjsi perform their regular assigned duties, morning. but "in no case to perform service Members of the 11th regiment-. 1111-! in occunatinnn enfo nnw involved nois national guard, are reported to . in labor difficulties." have been ordered to keep in close ' touch with their homes, so they could UXIOX CHIEF IS HOPEFCL be reached by telephone on short no- j tlc. They said they were Instructed I to be ready to "go on strike duty" at Only Course Is to Return to Work, , any time. I Soviet Republics Ieclared in Bit ; terfield and Magdeburg, Whiclj Arc Near Berlin. I ine general managers association. representing the railroads, announcea that it would refuse to treat with representatives of the strikers. Declares W. G. Lee. mrSSELPORF, April 19. (By Associated Tress.) The rule of the the workmen ceased throughout the Ruhr district at noon today when the executive committees at Dusseldorf. Elbcrfeld. Barmen and Hagen re- "Outlawe" Not R8Tiied. H. E. Reading, chairman of the newly me" and switchmen: enginemens association, . i at wmuon t vnicago CLEVELAND, O.. April 10. W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, today issued the following statement regarding the nation-wide strike of railroad yard- organized that committees of three on each of the roads would confer with the gen eral managers of their respective lines and present their demands. -Our contracts with the brother hoods cover all the men1 now on strike." Secretary Snyder of the gen eral managers said. "If the strikers want contracts they have only to re turn to their anions. We will recog- is con- linquished authority to the municipal J nize no outlaw organisation officials in compliance with the peace terms of the Bielefeld and Muenster agreements. Peter Berter, head of the committee here, said today that all the commit tees in the district had decided to re organize as committees of ordr, which would look after the interests of the workingmen. Berter alleged that the Reichswehr had violated their agreement by the arrival of an officer and 15 men at red headquarters today demanding the surrender of two machine guns. These were refused and upon an appeal to the burgomaster the reichswehr de parted, whereupon the reds put one of the machine guns, ready for action, before their headquarters. More than 20,000 rifles have been surrendered as provided for in the Bielefeld agreement. The workmen's leaders continue to express resentment at the steady ad vance of the reichswehr southward, the latter arriving today at Ratigen and Mettmann, within eig'ht miles ot Pusseldorf. The workmen declare there have been no disorders anywhere. They , deny that any of tho reds carried arms to their homes. Herr Berter charged that the reichswehr were taking no prisoners, or were quickly executing them. of their captives, he said, had been executed in Essen by order of a mili- . tary tribunal, including Marcuse. the leader of last year's disorders n Munich, who was at that time con demned to death, chanted with re sponsibility for the killing of the Munich hostages. PARIS, April 10. The proclamation of soviet republics In Bitterfeld and Magdeburg (respectively 75 miies southwest ami 80 miles west-south west of Berlin) is told of In rumors circulaUns at Aix-la-Chapelle. FRAXCK DEf'EXDS OCCUPATION J"ote to Great Britain Points Out : Dangers From German Move. 'PARIS, April 10. The note sent yesterday by Premier Miilerand to the British government, in reply tj the British note with regard to the ac tion of Franco in sending troops into the neutral zone in Germany says: "The French government affirms firht of all that no doubt can be felt of the loyalty of Its attitude. The allies have been constantly informed ot its policy. The French govern ment has always opposed the entry pf supplementary German troops into the Ruhr region and has added that the authorization of such an entry , must have a counterpart in the occu pation of Frankfort and Darmstadt. "On April 3 its representatives in ' all tho allied capitals informed the governments to which they were ac credited (at the same time a copy being sent to the allied representa- tives in Paris) that Marshal Foch's , measures could no longer be post poned, furthermore, the French gov- . eminent recalled that the matter con . cerned the violation of one of the ': most solemn clauses of the treaty . tigned by France and that the Ger ( man government had formally rec- j i ognlzed that formal authorization, given in advance, was necessary for '.' such & derogation, and that France had the right to ask for territorial guarantees. "The French government Is no less convinced than the English govern ment of the essential necessity of ' maintaining unity of the allies for the application of the treaty with Germany. This close concert of ' France and England appears to France equally indispensable for the equitable solution of the vast prob lems which are presented at this; mo ment In the world in Russia, the ia IV xut, Asia Minor and all Islam." ine note closes with assurances ', that the French government, for the ; promotion of these ends, declares it self entirely disposed, before act- itig, to be' assured of the consent of the allies 'in all inter-allied questions .which the execution of the treaty raises. 1RAXCE ASSUMES CONSENT ' premier Says Allies Failed to Ob- ' ject to Ocfupation Move. PARIS, April 10. Premier Mlller and in a statement today to the Asso ciated Press, declared that Germany's request for permission to send troops into the Ruhr region was merely for the purpose of violating the terms ., of the peace treaty. He said Franca felt the danger of her position in a way it could not be felt In America '' and pointed to the fact that Belgium ; had assumed a position identical with that of France because Belgium, like Prance, felt the danger of her " proximity to Germany. .. Premier Millerand said: '.. "France's position is absolutely simple. We were in the presence of ; at series of German violations of the '"' treaty, the last of which affects pre cisely those articles of the treaty which were covered by the French .: British-American agreement under which England and America were to come to our assistance. "The German government asked permission to send troops Into the Jtuhr. Why? Because they knew the sending of troops into that region was forbidden by the treaty. We re , fused to give that permission. Never- v theless the German government or tiered iroops into the Ruhr. The only f- thing possible for us to do was imme- diately to occupy Frankfort and the other German cities. We had given notice to our allies that we Intended to do so, and they had not objected." "How could the government of France have been satisfied with the German promise to withdraw vthe , troops when order had been restored? , Neither for reparations nor for the delivery of the war-guilty, nor for coal, have the allies received the stip ulated satisfaction. "The question could be asked- when the British government, which no ' doubt has not measured the danger Plans for the senate investigation of the strike were completed by Chairman Cummins; of the senate in terstate commerce committee. The inquiry will begin in Chicago Tues day and will be conducted by the full committee, with John Granau. A. F. Whitney, vice-president of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen, and officers of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, on which the strike originated, as the first witnesses. Two Railroads Hopeful. Two railroads entering Chicago lifted all freight restrictions and promised 100 per cent operation in the next 8 hours. B. B. Greer, vice-president of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul, said the road would have full crews work ing before Sunday night and that switchmen at work would have the congestion fairly relieved within 12 hours. The first general movement back to work was announced after a con ference between A. E. Lloyd, super intendent of the New York Central lines; W. W. Kirchy, general chair man of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen, and W. Bannister, general chairman of the brotherhood of loco motive engineers. The freight embargo was ordered lifted at all depots of the Xew York Central lines. Reports Show Situation. Reports tonight indicated the fol lowing situation throughout the country- Chicago. S00O idle; St. Louis. 6000; Toledo. 5000. an increase of 1000' to day; New York and Jersey Cit 3500; Youiigstown. 3000; Buffalo, 2000; Kansas City, 1300, several hundred returned to work; Ijos Angeles, 1100, 300 returned to work ill California; Detroit, 2000, an increase, of 500; Pittsburg. 1000: Columbia. 2000. a gain of 1500; Indianapolis, 700 a gain of 350; Fort Worth, 650, a gain of 350; San Francisco, 440; Gary, Ind., 300; Salt Lake City. 475. an increase of 175; Syracuse. 250; Sasrinaw, Mich., 200; Ogden. Utah. 1.50; Pueblo. Colo.. 150; Decatur, I1L, 210, an increase of 130; Milwaukee. 150, an -increase of 50; PocateUo, Idaho, 100: Springfield, 111., 150, an increase of 100; Joliet, 111.. 50; Scranton, Pa., 50; Bloomtniton, 111., 75: Fort Wayne, lnd.. 35; Dayton, O.. 250; Canton. Ohio, 150: Jackson. Mich.. 150; Kalamazoo, Mich., 200; Sparks. Nev.. 75; Niles. Mich., 700; Saginaw, Mich., 200; Flint, Mich., 100; Battle Creek. Mich., 100; Connellville, Pa., 200; Coffey ville, Kan.. 45: Hous ton. Texas, 30: Springfield. Mo., 100; Cleveland, 1000. Switchmen also went out in Port land. Or.; Akron. O.; Warren, O.: Hornell, N. Y., Salamanca, N. Y.; Niagara Falls and Sharon. Farrell and Sharpsville, Pa., but no estimates of the number of men oh strike were made. One hundred strikers at Champaign. 111., returned to work. stantly improving and those in charge or the rive brotherhood-s there report daily gains, and hope that more of the thinking members of the organi zations will return t r fflv fArmpr j positions very soon. i "It is believed that the members will recognize that the only hope of i securing additional increase in pay. to which they are entitled, and which we are confident will- be granted by the labor board recently created by fed eral law, just as soon as that board is appointed by President Wilson, is for them to return to work immedi ately. "The 15 railroad labor organisations have entered into and signed an agreement to present their wage de mands to such board, according to the law, and it Is unreasonable to expect that any increase will be granted ex cept by the board, and in accordance with federal law. It is equally cer tain that whatever benefits are se cured will come through the author ized committees of the established labor organizations." RAILROAD tLTIMATCM DKFIED 1100 Strikers in Los Angeles Auto matically Discharged. " LOS ANGELES, April 10. Striking switchmen today defied the ultima tum of the Southern Pacific, Salt Lake and Santa Fe railroads that they return to work by 4 o'clock this after noon or lose their positions. As the result strikers, approximate ly 1400, were automatically dis charged ' The strikers said members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who under their contract with the railroads are not subject to switch ing duty, had been called upon by the railroad officials to take the place of switchmen, and, refusing, had been discharged. Railroad officials said this was in correct, as they had as yet made no demands upon the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. NO STRIKE ON", SAYS COMPERS 'Congress Has Prohibited Strikes," Declares Labor Chief. PHILADELPHIA. April 10. There is no strike of railroad men, asserted Samuel Gompers, president of, the ' American Federation of Labor, here today to reporters while he was wait- ng for a delayed train for New York. He was compelled to go to West Phil adelphia and catch a through train from Washington. " As he swung aboard he said: "Re member, there is no strike. Congress has prohibited' strikes on the rail roads, but of course there is no law I to prevent individuals quitting their jobs if they choose to do so." DISEASE GERMS E FEDERAL INQUIRY ORDERED Evidence of Joint Action to Be Sought by Government. WASHINGTON, April 10. Orders went out today to United States dis trlct attorneys to investigate the "unauthorized" railroad strikes in their districts to determine whether there has been any "joint action" de signed to interfere with the distribu tion of the necessities of life or whether such interference was con templated. Attorney-General Palmer, who is at Savannah, Ga., In making this an nouncement, said that such "joint action"" would be unlawful. He added that the federal government would ta.-e no steps until a careful inquiry had been made to ascertain the facts. Mr. Palmer will be in the south for several days and has instructed As sistant Attorney-General Ames to act on his own judgmeuit should the situation be found to warrant it. Although the strike apparently was spreading rapidly, particularly in the middle west, administration of ficials believed the authorized lead ers of the railroad unions would be able to control the situation without government interference. Samuel Gompers has gone to Cleveland, head quarters of the trainmen's union, to discuss the. general situation with the brotherhood chiefs. COMPANY WARNINGS IGNOKKD Strikers in San Francisco Bay Dis trict Forfeit Jobs. SAN" FRANCISCO, April 10. Strik ing switchmen of railroads operating ln-abe San Francisco bay district to day defied the companies' edict that they return to work by 4 P. M. today or forfeit their jobs. The Southern Pacific railway an nounced that all who did not return would be stricken from the company's rolls and that none would be taken back except by individual application. Freight movement continued virtu ally paralyzed, but passenger trains arrived and departed on schedule time. 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