The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-06-30
TWILL BE ABATTLE ROYAL
THE RAIEROaD STRIKE ASSUMES
 ALARMING PROPORTIONS.

Many Roads Are Tied Up-one Train Stop
 ped, the Pullman sleepers Detached and
 sidetracltod - Meeting of Trainmon-
 Sympathy for Strikers.
 Chicago, June 28.-President sDebs md his assooiates of the American Rail- way union played high card to-day and made radical move when they boycotted every road represented in One general managers association. Commissions were given to committees representing the employees of each road with orders to call out the men the in- Dtant sufficient support was obtained to warrant strike. The roads represent cd in the agreement and subject to boy eott:
 Chicago, R. I. and Pacific, Illinois Central, Chicago and Grand Trunk, Santa Fe, Chicago and Alton, Chicago and Erie, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, [. AN. w., Western Indiana, 0. B. & o., Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, 0icago, Great Western, Louisville, N. .. and Chicago, Chicago and Northern Pacific, Lake Shore, Michigan Central, y. r., c. and St. L., Pan Handle, Pitts burg Fort Wayne and Chicago, Wabash, Wisconsin Central and Baltimore and Ohio.
 As rapidly as possible the men will be ordered out on the roads named, and it is the intention of the union officials to inaugurate strikes on the lines men, tioned in preference to roads throughout which haul Pullman cars. If the plan of the union officials is carried out twenty-two roads out of Chicago will be tied up within the next two or three days.
 The contest between the Chicago and Northwestern and union Is develop Ing into battle-royal. The company has removed the blacklist placed upon, The strikers of 1891 and so far has se- cured two of the old men who are now at work. One crew Is at work but the most of the switching is done by thei officials.
 The greatest enthusiasm was created among the strikers to-day when the announcement was made that the Mo- bile & Ohio had surrendered uncondi-' tionally. General Manager Seal tele- graphed President Debs that his roadt had cut of all Pullman cars and re- quested q lease of the line. Debs wired the union to call off the byocott at once, after receiving guarantee that the company would not run any Pull-p mans until the trouble was settled.
 Two hundred engineers on the Illin-t ois Central sroadE and centering at Grand Crossing, have agreed to stand by the men. All the men on the Illin- bis Central pledged themselves to obey a call to strike whenever issued. It was announced this evening that be- gining tomorrow the engineers would I refuse to handle trains with Pullman cars are operated by subs.
 A mob of 1000 strikers and their sym pathizers stopped the Chicago Limited on the Chicago and Erie line at Ham, mond, Ind,, at 5:40 p. m. and com pelled the crew to side-track two Pull man sleepers attached to the train. Then the crew were notified that they might proceed with the rest of the train, but at Il o'clock no such move had been made. The sheriff was on hand with twenty deputies, but he was powerless to protect the train. The whole town is in sympathy with the strikers and denounces the sheriffs ac- tion.
 An order to strike was received to- night by the switchmen, switch tenders, tower men and crews of the switch en- zines on the Wabash road in Chicago. At o'clock every man went cut.
 Five hundred delegates, representing eleven lodges of the International Hwitchmen's Aid association, these lodges representing the employees of twenty-two lines, met tonight. The conference considered resolution that the members of the Switchmen's Mu- fual Aid association recognize the strike begun by the American Railway union to the extent of calling out all the mem- bers of the Switchmen's union. An in-i formal vote at 10:45 p. m. indicated that the resolution would be over whelmingly adopted, but the final vote 1s yet to be taken.
 The. Iron Mountain and the Missouri Pacific men at St. Louis quit at 12 to- night. The blocking of the Gould sys- tenn here means a total suspension of business for the south and southwest. G