Two box cars burned

The city fire department was called out at 2:15 this morning by a fire at the work train near the foundry in the northeast part of the city.

Some 40 or more laborers are working for the railway company and they are temporarily living in a string of box cars. The kitchen and dining car caught fir in some unknown manner and both were destroyed. The fire boys responded promptly and by good work saved the six cars attached to the two burning cars.

The entire string of cars would have burned but for the work of the department because of the fact that six cars were behind the burning cars were behind the burning cars and could not be reached by the switch engine.

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Rail firemen threaten strike

WASHINGTON -- Railroad firemen, contending they are needed on diesel locomotives, have threatened a nationwide strike if necessary to protect their jobs.

The Firemen's Brotherhood set no deadline, but its president H.E. Gilbert advised President Eisenhower in a letter yesterday the union would take "the sternest measures of resistance," including a strike, if the carriers go through with what the union calls a move to abolish its members jobs.

A smaller more immediate strike threat came from the Transport Workers Union. Presidents of 52 TWU locals voted in Pittsburgh yesterday to call a strike of 25,000 non-operating workers of the Pennsylvania Railroad unless a dispute over layoffs is resolved.