The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1894-09-22
THE BOYCOTT ON PULLMAN CARS.
pARALYzEs RAILROAD TRAFFIC.



body.-vioience Reported.
Rcnorts from the Railway Union boycott,
on the 2sth were serious. Roads at Chicago
| managed TO get their trains out but after de-
| laws and a good deal of trouble. AT san
| Francisco none but local trains were sent out
At Omaha the strike is becoming effective.
| The situation at many points on the santa
| Fe has become grave as no trains with Pull
| mans can get through. Owing to the dis
charge of employees the men are striking In
large numbers.
Judge Caldwell has Issued an order to all
Santa Fe employees to do their work or quit
and let others do 1t. He says they will be In
contempt OF court If they interfere in any
WAY. The road is now in reality in the
hands of court officials as many deputies have
been detailed to guard the property. The
boycott has not reached east of Pittsburg.
For Friday the reports we're as follows;
Al Denver the Santa Fe was the only road
Affected. All the American Railway Union
men in its employ struck, and in compliance
with orders from headquarters their places
were filed with new men. This road ran out
one train.
At Pueblo an effort was made to enforce
the boycott on the Rio Grande. When the
| train from Denver came in the Pullmans
were cut of by a big crowd of strikers. The
sheriff was called upon and protected col
| ored brakeman in recoupling the car. The
train got away all right. The Rio Grande
| shop men quit work Late at night two en-
| glues were derailed, blocking the road to the
south.
| Several new firemeu Lave been secured by
the Santa Fe at La Junta and trains are being
| taken through.
| At Chicago the situation is still serious.
| To-day 300 men in the stock yards quit work,
and this will prevent the packing houses
| from running and throw 5000 men out OF
work The packers are afraid to send out
meats for fear Of their spelling In a blockade.
| Nearly all the traffic on the great Southern
Pacific system Is paralyzed. All freight bus
| mess is suspended Severe losses TO the fruit
growing interests are Inevitable, and fruit
| growers and dealers are face to face with
| bankruptcy. Hundreds Of cars laden with
perlshable fruits are side-tracked. In North
crn California this Is the fruitmen's busiest
season, and peaches, apricots, cherries, plums
and berries are fast ripening in every or
chard. 4 blockade of only few days will
see fruit to the value of hundreds of thous-
/
Threats have been made To arrest President
Debs for interfering with the operation of the
receiver roads, but It probably cannot be
done. The blockade at st. Louis is COM
| plete.
The attorney general says that mail trains
must not be delayed and United States mar
| terfering with them.
| Nsrt md Arfzn e.
practically paralyzed.
Strikers at Harmon, Indiana, are getting
lawlcss and the sheriff has called for troops.
The situation at Chicago on the Both was
worse than ever. President Debs ordered the
boycott into effect on the Rock Island and
| that road found Itself unable to run trains
His orders were cent out in all directions
causing trains to be tied up at other poInts
| Even the Lake Shore road which runs Wag-
ner cars was Affected, many Of its switchmen
having quit work.
The association of general managers claim
that they can get enough men to run their
trains If they are not molested. The strikers
are beginning to grow violent and men TAX
Ing the place of strikers were roughly
handled. The sheriff and United States mar
shal are making great efforts to preserve the
! peace ana project lalhb
The suburban traffic is discontinued by the
steam lines. The strikers now threaten to
call out the men on the cable and elevated
roads and also TO order strike Of the trades
unions. This would be done simply to increase
the pressure on the railroads.
There were little signs Of Improvement at
San Francisco The Southern Pacific was
said to be Offering a bonus of 81 900 and life
| positions 70 men who would take the places
Of strikers. 1t sent out Two trains on the
Both, but they we're blocked by strikers be-
fore they got far.
On Sunday Judge Hsllett OF the federal
court asked Attorney General Olney 10 orde r
troops to Trinidad 20 protest the Santa Fe
and Gulf property. The request was granted
and General McCook started force from
Fort Logan Monday morning. The cause
for this request Was the reported violence of
the strikers Having struck on the Denver
81 Gulf and on the Santa Fe men refused TO
permit trains with Pullmsns to run through
Trinidad. A deputy marshars posse OF
fifty men was disarmed and roughly handled.
At Pueblo the situation was unchanged.
The efforts to stop Rio Grande trains we're
only partially successful.
Large numbers Of new men imported into
La Junts enabled the Santa Fc to get Its
trains through.
Judge Riner Of Wyoming has Issued an
order to u. =. employees not to interfere with
trains. He stated that those who refused to
return TO work at Z a. m. July End would be
permanently discharged.
At st. Louls a little business was being
done, trains being made up by yardmasters