The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-29
It Has Reached Salt Lake at
Last.
EXPECTED ORDER COMES
THE LOCAL UNION MEN WILL
STRICTLY OBSERVE.
Contest Promises to Be a Stub
born One-The Montana Encur-
sionists Arrive-Garfeld Beach
General Railway Notes.

The great Pullman boycott inaugural
ed by the American Railway union is on
to a finish and young Utah is in it,"
Salt Lake and Ogden lodges received the
expected order late last night, and bears
out the statement previously made by
The Herald, that President Debs was pre-
pairing his fences carefully, and with a
view to call out only certain districts at
first, holding back a strong reserve to
hurl upon the enemy at such time as in
his judgment would be prolific of the best
possible results to the union now of such
towering strength. Young Utah now
enters the lists in common with the
hosts who have on many hard fought
field contested IN behalf of principles they
believed to be right, and responds even as
do they.
Ogden is a veritable stronghold-they
has over $50, pretty good forces to
consider it virtually must be-.
Rio Grande Western No. last night
brought through two Pullmans, but it is
extremely doubtful If No. l today will be
so fitted out. Certainly after that train,
no others from the east will have them
not for some time. Rio Grande Western
No. 2 out of Ogden this morning will also
be that much lighter. The Union Pacific
and the Southern Pacific will not have
every day for years. And if the Amer1-
can Railway union members in Salt Lake
don't oyersleep themselves this morning
which is hardly probable-Union Pacific
No. will not be burdened with them out
of here.
Who will forecast the outcome? The
boycott so inaugurated is something
UNIQUE in the history of railroading, in
asmuch as it is not in any way intimated
to be waged against railway companies.
However, should the railway companies
conclude to join hands with Mr.. Pullman,
they will then be made party to the
strife Summing up the situation fairly
and impartially. The Herald inclines to
the belief that the railways will not en-
tangle themselves in an imbroglio beyond
may be that the courts will be
asked to pass upon the matter, and
if so, will they decide that Pullman car
train? Those of the travelling public who
'have the price can only regard it as a
luxury at least, and If deprived of it, cha II
cars and easy. upholstered seats Woul 1
route. Time was when the latter style
of cars only were in vogue, and shorn
of half the comforts they now hold for
the traveller. 1t would appear that a
train of mail, express and baggage, and
elegant day coaches is a pretty good dis
play in itself. And the railway companies
known that Mr.. Pullman don't pay them
cent for having his wheeled parlors
hauled over the different lines Throughout
the country. On the other hand, the rail-
way companies pay him three cents for
every mile that a Pullman car is. run over
the road. And "dead-head' equipment is
collected for on the same basis-strange,
but true. Anyone who will figure up the
mileage of a Pullman car for one year,
multiply it by three, will see that with
out having any fsleepers" at 81 a head
per night, and IS cents per head for a
daylight ride, he would even then be
making pretty fair money on his invest
ment. These and other matters have been
carefully figured out in detail by the A.
r. U. men now tussling with him, and
the public also have an mixing of them.
Another thing in this boycott now on, 50
long as relating solely to stoppage of said
cars, it enforceS idleness upon no one in
either railway or car service, as even the
conductor and porters on the :dle cars
must remain in charge of them.
All told, it looks as though Mr.. Pull
man had a job on hand that would tax
his equaninity of mind as well as his
strong box ere he gets fairly out of the
woods. While press dispatches have in
timated that the men on a northern road
would make the present issue one TO even
UP some grievances relating to pay, there
is absolutely nothing in it, as the boycott
is on against the Pullman company alone
and no new deal can be rung in on it.