Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-14
TWO LABOR MEMS VIEWS.
ONE rS CHICAGO. THE OTHER osE
HERE.



and OF a union man who witnessed the
Chicago troubles IN person are pre-
sented below. These two expressions OF
opinion eolncide very nearly with What
not only labor union men think but
with what non union man In part know.
&. c Greeley. president Of the local
American Raiigfyas Union was OF the
ep4nioif thzt m5cS Of the incendiarism
and destruction OF properly that had
been charged TO the strikers was not
due TO them al I'LL but to the iawless
element that is always ready to take
advantage o. any disturbance Of this
kind
Il can tell you one circumstance that
will prove It" he said. Il was in the
strike here in 1855. and the real trouble
occurred on an attempt u move a
taIa Of eleven coal cars out o. the
city
1T IVES loaded down with guards all
armed with Wholesalers. When the
crossing OF the Santa Fe and the
Houston and Texas Central was beinG
neared nan ran and threw the
switch and put the train OF the track
a man on the engine shot him and he
was 80 crippled that ne WAS S@nt 70
the hospital. had leg amputaied. lay
IN jail eighteen months and was finally
discharged.
las seon as this was done. and really
at the same time. three men. hidden
behind pile OF ties. near the track.
began Airing on the train. One guard
nEs killed and several wSigdec.
When the shooters were arrested one
was found 10 be a carpenter. one
barber and the other the keeper OF a
iiltIe fruit stand. They we're symna-
thizeTs with the strikers. stili they
were not strikers. but the railroad
men got the abuse for the damage
done. AID you VIII md out ~ in
California and Chicago today.
Last night a large crowd Of men
were engaged IN conversation on South
Main street Among them were two
officials % the roads here and a NUM-
Der u employees. Stories were thick
and fast and they were All talking
shout the strike OF 1856. "A former
railroad man said;
4 saw the shooting at the crossing
Of the Texas and Pacific tracks and
aiaiH street and ] want 20 tell you u
looked wicked for a little while. a
carriage WAS crossing there loaded
witt. no one knows who. but that they
ESCAPED injury ny the skin Of their
teeth they c.n thank Providence FOR
As soon as they drove on the track
they were taken FOR oficsrs OF officials.
ans wege Erred upon BY someone. The
horse next 10 fssr ehnfsfars was shot
Though the neck. ana the ea;.fe lower
pars ~ the carriage was shot 20 pleces
but not a man IN II WAS harmed II
was iesrned the next day that the
parties doing tie shooting were not
railroad men, but they thought tho
inmates Of the carriage were guards or
mzrshal.s and they were ready 60 do
murder The men In the carriage ea-
capped and the next morning II was re-
ported that tho strikers had ATTEMPTED
10 shoot number OF railway ufi1iais
81 want 10 any this" said the RAN
way Official -Hour talk would lead
one 10 think that the owners or man
ayers or the railroads wrre the ones
deiu= the Kind OF talking you nave
referred tn. Now : want to tel you
that the railway people DO not tel int
way toward their employees. and their
treatment Or thetn does not show any
such spirit. And ! win prove 1t to you
b what ! did 10 1855
You know Il WIS most awful cold
al the time % that strike. u was ia
March and April, and VIC had bliz-
yard blow down here mat woal have
made any Christian forget his reiig-
ion; and as reached the foot OF Main
street I found deputy marshal WITH
out an ovcrcoat. lie wore one or those
last summer, back number coats and
was shiyerinE I went 10 my houar
ard got my overcoat and loaned Il 10
him. He was as thankful as could be-
and did not Eee him again. The
strike broke up ana he was gene. but
WAS Ia "a hotel near the depot one Jay
and they gave me the ovcrCout.
had gwen him tag at the time ON
which was printed my business He
had attached 3; to the coat and LETT Il
where ! could mad II.
There was iao.Eer thilg about that
STRIFE that does not occur now"
ehipred in another man, Martin
1ronS name WIS then Credentlal-
wac In that strike. We did not walt
for orders Anything we saw IN a
newspaper went IL the papers said
Martin Irons lid 80 aad 30 we were
ready to do the same. They can say
what they please about Martin Irons
but he handled that strike all right
and but for the treaehery Of others he
would have won.
There was man IN the southern
part OF this state, do not care 10 men
ton his name. who was charged with
selling out his men. ane the story Is
pretty near straight goods
To The Gazette;
have read in The Gvzette OF late
items from Chicago that would tend
10 prejudice the minds OF the working
pcn ~ Fort Worth and Vicinity cs1inst
the "boycotters" and "strikarss' "a
the present trouble between the Amcri-
can Railway union and the Railroad
Pullman combination, Knowing that
the Gazette Is the laboring mans
friend. / cannot but enter II protest
again st It continuing under such an
impression. Perhaps II would not be
amiss to review the events leading up
&c the present serious trouble.
The smployss OF Pullman. the palace
gar magnate. went out on strike May &
nst. Inc Pullman Company owns the
town OF Pullman. which Il situate ID
twenty miles south OF Chicago. They
control the town. own the houses, all
the stores. and. In fact had r. monop-
oily The men working in their ahopS
were their slaves. Pullman owned the
syrpioyes. Wages had been -e;scai-diy
reduced. and the men had not been
making a living for themselves and
families. In fact. they were running
behind, and Mt the time OF thu wAik-ort
owed the company very near 500. 600
for rents At this rate II win be
readily seen they were drifting into
slavery
Committees innumerabie tried TO set
tie the trouble between employers and
employees But tho rule OF a tyrant
WAS upcu the nniftna mites and tha