St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 8, 1916

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NEW’ YORK, Aug: 8.—The 400,000 rafl- way employes of the country—engineers, conductors, day, brotherhoods, agers of the railroads whether the roads are willing to grant their demands for an eight-hour day and time and a half pay for overtime, or submit to a strike. firemen and trainmen—to- through the chiefs of their four placed before the man- the question The result of the strike vote taken among the employes during the last month was presented to the National Conference Committee of railroad man- agers, and showed that an overwhelm- ing majority in favor of authorizing the chiefs to call ‘a strike. The railroad managers gave no defi- nite answer to the renewed demands of the men, until tomorrow morning managers time for further discussion. A. B. Garretson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, managers that the time for parleying was over unless the roads pared to present a modified proposition. and it was agreed to adjourn to give the notified the were pre- ‘7 want you to bear in mind that your committee has not once brought us anything resembling a definite proposi- tion,” Garretson said. How Each Unton Voted. Each union head presented his figures in different form. W. 8. Stone, for the engineers, reported 98.17 per cent favor of a strike in the southeastern district, and $4.64 per cent In the eastern. 90.35 per cent in the western w. S. Carter, for the firemen and en- ginemen, reported that out of a total of 70,653 votes cast, including nonunion men and employes on roads not repre- sented in the conference, 98.04 per cent were In favor of a strike, Ww. G. Lee, for the trainmen, reported that out of a total of 129,108 votes, 124,- 632 favored a strike, with 1400 votes still to be heard from. Garretson reported 84.03 per cent of votes to be affirmative The managers objected to the inclu- sion in the figures of the vote on roads not represented in the conference, but were informed by the union heads that the four brotherhoods were fighting for every railroad employe throughout the country, as a matter of principle, and insisted on including the figures. The managers aleo asked if the vote by individual railroads would be shown. and the brotherhood chiefs said that if roads were willing to make public the returns on’* the vote taken some time ago by the roads themselves among their employes, willing to furnish their figures. the unions would be The possibility of a strike ts regarded by the business Interests of the country as extremely grave and much pressure ~ Continued on Page 5 Coleman... ~ TO BE BUILT BY BUSCH BREWERY New Building Will Be Devoted Entirely to Making “Bevo,” a Soft Drink. Permits were issued today by the City Bullding Department to the An- heuser-Busch Brewery for the erection of a seven-story building to cost $2,500,- 000 and to occupy the block bounded by Seventh, Pestalozzi and Arsenal streets and Broadway, to be used as a bottling plant for “Bevo,”’ a soft drink, The plant will be so arranged that 18 loading tracKs, each of which will have a capacity of 16 freight cars, will be in the basement. The plant will employ 2500 persons and will have a capacity of 2,000,000 bottles, or 125 cars, each 2% hours. The building will be of reinforced con- crete, brick exterior walls and flat roofs. The exteriors will be faced with brick, stone and terra cotta. The contract was let yesterday. It is expected that the plant will be com- pleted by May 1, 1917. SCHMOLL AGAIN CHAIRMAN OF REPUBLICAN CITY COMMITTEE New Body Follows O14 One in Nom- imating Nat Geldstein for ! Cireult Clerk. Chairman John Schmoll of the Repub- lican City Committee was re-elected this morning at a meeting of the committee in ite headquarters in the Odd Fellows’ Bullding. The new committee approved the ac- tion of the old committee in placing the name of Nat Goldstein on the No- vember ballot for Circuit.Clerk. The 8°. Louls Court of Appeals recently held that the action of the old commilttee was iliegal and that the new committees would have to name a man for the place on the ticket. The other officers elected were: Gus Frey, vice-chairman; Robert E. auaa secretary, and Frank Landwehr, treas- urer. This was the first meeting of the committée selected at Tweaday’s pri- | ON 15-MILE FRONT “era ee Deca From Positions in Stanis- lau Region—Tlumach and Series of Ridge Positions Are Captured. North of Somme — Ger- mans Retake Part of Thi- aumont Work. Italians Launch New Attacks in Izonso and Monfalcone Districts and Take 3600 Prisoners. PETROGRAD, Aug. 8.—South of the Dniester River in the direction of Tys- zienca, the Russians have driven the whole line on a front of 15 miles, it Was officially announced by the Russiag War Department today. The announce- ment adds that the Russians have cap- tured the town of Tlumach, as well as the region to the east of the Dniester River and the ridge of heights there. Tiumach is about 13 miles southeast of Stanisiau, a gateway to Lemberg. Russian cavalry, it is stated, is now pursuing the Austro-Germans southwest of the Kolomes and Stanisiau ae. in Galicia. The total number of prisoners taken by the Russians in the battles on the Sereth River, Aug. 5 and Aug. 6 the official statement adds, was 16 officers and 815 men. The Russians ta thie: té- gion are advancing. BERLIN ADMITS BERLIN, via London, Aug. Russian forces yesterday. against the Austro-German positions « the Tlumach-Ottynia line to the south nounced by the army headquarters today, and the forces of the or Powers withdrew to i ea iad positions. The communication eays: “Eastern front: Front of shal von Hindenburg—Artillery was more lively yesterday in the fi sector and south of it. Enemy at some points were repulsed. Near Zi recse, on the Stokhod, repeated by the Russiang to gain ground without success and the enemy heavy losses. West of Lutsk battles have been in progress early this morning. Northwest locze enemy attacks failed. Zalocze the Russian’s advance stopped by a counter attack 3 st eetal operation nine officers and more than 700 men were taken prisoner and peat machine guns captured. “Front of Archduke Charlies Francie South of the Dniester strong forces advanced to the attack the Tlumach-Ottynia line. tohic) troops withdrew to prepared positions further back.”’ FRENCH ADVANCE WITH THE BRITISH NORTH OF SOMME: ? ane l i d aes . fi : i ¢ if % Ve) ge TR ers i ag at Sets + @ Lig t " b: . a} a ¥ 2 4 ’ a a a TI ik 8 desl "er > Austro-German forces back along tlie. of Dniester River, in Galicia, it if @n- — * » > « 4 ' . ‘ o ) ra u f I ’ t « P J wae, a ie oe. Mad ay * ge a Ai BB sic PE oh pa aah Ge SS a Riera aR yi sh at 4 er ot ee 7 + : hag ie ray x + % en GALICIAN RETREAT © Ae i, “4 we , " aS