The record-union., 1894-07-13
AT CHICAGO.
Pullman Employees Ask That the Boy
cott be Declared Off.

Pullman Employees Ask That the Boy
cott be Declared Off.
CHICAGO, July 12.-The employees of
the Pullman Company have been asked
by the strike leaders TO appeal to Debs TO
call off the boycott on the ground that the
damage to the country is too great, and
they have consented to do so.
At noon to-day the union machinists
threw down their tools and joined in the
general sympathetic strike which was
inaugurated yesterday. AS is usual
in such cases the strike affects the large
shops far more than the smaller ones,
where only a few men are employed.
Promptly at u o'clock the 700 men en-
ployed by Frazer d Chalmers laid down
their tools and went out on strike. Be-
fore doing so they had notified President
". J. Chalmers of their intention and
held a conference, wherein the men stated
their position. They said they had no
complaint against the company nor
grievances of any kind, but had been or
dered to strike out of sympathy, and
would do so to show their sentiments.
Mr.. Chalmers made a speech, in which
he said he hoped that the strike would
cause no hard feeling between the COM
pany and its employees, and with hand
shake and well wishes all around the
men left, and when, a few minutes be-
FORE the big shop had been hustle and
confusion, all was silent. Over 100 men
employed by the Gates Iron Company
walked out at the same hour, and num-
Der of other shops were affected.
An important change in the military
work being done at Pullman was made
today. Colonel Turner ordered city
troop A, First Cavalry, to get out their
horses and patrol the town. They spent
the day in Gathering around the sections
where the strikers live and executed
movements that beWildered the working
men with their mystery and their mag
nificence.
A deliberate attempt was made this
morning at o'clock to assassinate
Picket NJ. A. Page, Jr., OF Company B.
Page was on guard on the tracks at Ford
ham when a man appeared at the door of
q saloon a short distance away and fired
a shot at him. The bullet missed, and
the man disappeared. Page was not
injured.
Concerning the situation at Pullman,
q prominent State militia officer said to-
day: 'It is all very well to say that the
back bone of the strike is broken. 1t is
broken because the soldiers are here.
No one knows better than we DO that if
this battalion would leave Pullman a
bowling, yelling mob would rush on the
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not give . cents for what would be left
of all these big buildings. Things are
quiet, but it is a suppressed quiet"
Colonel Turner said: 81 have no idea
when it would be well 10 call the soldiers
from my district. I believe serious things
would happen if Pullman were left un-
protected
The following telegram was sent to
President Cleveland this afternoon by
the American Federation of Labor:
The gravity OF the labor situation of
the country demands extraordinary and
exceptional action of q conciliatory char
acter at the hands of all men. Recogn:z-
ing this fact, the Executive Board OF the
American Federation of Labor, and the
undersigned executive officers of the ma
tional and international trades unions
and Brotherhood of Railway Organiza-
tions of America, are in conference in
this city. We ask you in the name of the
working people and the entire citizenship