The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-06-30
WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 81, 1894.
Strike.

SAN Francisco, June 28.-Not a train
left the Oakland yards this morning
with Pullmahs attached, and union
men declare that none will till the boy
colt is declared off. On the arrival of
the overland from the East switchmen
declined to send Pullmans to the yards
or to handle them in any way.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-Only suburban
trains are running in Chicago this morn
ing and the indications are that every
railroad entering the union depot will
be tied up before night. At 8 O'Clock it
was announced the strike had been de-
clared on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, tying up the entire system. The
Wisconsin division OF the Chicago &
Northwestern is at a standstill. Four
engineers of the Northwestern road, who
called on the officials OF the American
Railway Union last night and induced a
strike on hat road, were discharged to-
day. Three members of the committee
sent out last night by the A. r. U. to
order a strike at Western Avanue yards
were arrested this morning on complaint
of the railway officials, charged with in
timidation. The Union has engaged at
torneys to defend them.
Owing to a strike of s%witchmen on the
Panhandle road trains of that road are
brought in over the tracks of the Fort
Wayne road, which are also being used
by the Chicago & Alton. As a result
probably all these roads will be tied up.
ST. PAUL, June ga general strike on
the Northern Pacific system went in eff
feet at midnight andthore is moi a wheel
moving OIL the eastern end of that road.
The strike is the result of men being
discharged for refusing to handle Pull
man cars.
At Minneapolis the men quit this
morning. The big shops at Como are all
silent. Wisconsin trains are stalled in
Northern Pacific yards, and officials of
both roads are helpless. They say they
will depend on U. S. marshals for pro-
lection.
TOPEKA, June 28.-U. s. judge Foster
this morning directed the marshal to
proceed to Leavenworth and swear in
deputies to protect the Santa Fe in
Kansas.
KANSAS Cry, June 28.-None but To-
cal trains left this morning as the men
positively refused to handle Pullman
cars.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-Attorneys of the
Santa Fe syetem have applied to the u.
$. court for protection. Judge Grasscup
il absent, but the U. S. marshal decided
to send out deputies.
The first Baltimore & Ohio passenger
for the east could not leave the yard, as
the engineers of the other roads kept
switching across the tracks in such a
manner hat the train is affectually STALL
ed as if locked to the rails. Forty police
men were sent to the yards to reinforce
the one hundred ~preiously sent, but
could do nothing.
Eight hundred men in the Northwest
ern shops at West Sixteenth street
struck this morning.
The attorneys Of the Santa Fe system
lave applied to the United States court
f)r protection.
Grand Master Sovereign of the knights
of Labor has called out all the men at
the st~ockyards. The order is peremptory
and trouble is feared, as the stockyard
men are a desperate lot. Sovereign issu-
ed the order after a conference with a
committee of the Knights of Labor have
gone to the Union %Ltockyards to try and
induce a strike. 1t is reported a big
strike will go into effect at the stock
yards tomorrow.
At 8 p. m. the Northern Pacific and
Santa Fe lines were practically shut
down from end to end. There are lacal
troubles on the Baltimore u Ohio.