Los Angeles Herald, Volume 37, Number 71, 11 December 1909 — Head of Road Involved in Strike and St. Paul Depot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Head of Road Involved in Strike and St. Paul Depot

THK .swltrhmen'B strike on thirteen lines of railway between St. Paul and the l'iu iflc coast shows no sign of yielding on either side. Not a wheel Is turning on any freight train between st. rani and Seattle, and the prospective Christmas trade throughout the ure it northwest Is paralyzed. The no compromise spirit is dominant, and it begins to took like a light to the iinIsh. Louts W. Hill, president of the

Oreat Norther" does not take a hopeful view of the situation and It Is not Improbable that the general government will be called upon to settle the strike. A serious food and fuel shortage threaten! the entire northwest. Huslnpus of all kinds is being cripplod by the lack of transportation facilities and many of the lnrse commission houses nre reducing their forces. At Oreat Falls 5000 smelter employs nro ldlr>.

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