The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-01

Wisconsin Centrai-oatsisse Of Chiearo
there have been no d@feelions TO amount
TO anything. TIE total number of men
noS ont Is n the vicinity Of fifty, iaclnG-
ing nrefnen. brakeDen. switchmer, coal
handlers and iaaaf Of the Chippewa Falls
station force.
Lake Shore & Michigan Soathern-A
large number o; Lake Shore & Michigan
southern switenmen are on strike. aud a
COMMITTEES - now endeayoring 10 secure q
tle-up OF al ths swiscamen in Chicago and
Cook county. The road IS anaoae To
handle perlshabie freight in Chicago. This
Is q Wagner line.
Baltimore & ohio-The passenger trains
on this road are running with faIl coup
ment. tnesuding PuiimaHs. without desav.
Chicago & Northern Pacific terminal
systems r. RaInsley. general manager,
says everything is in good shape. Passen-
ser and freight trains on the Chicago &
Alton are moving With their regular equip
Inents, including Pnllmans. nearly on
their regular time. Freight traffic is
practically abandoned fer the time.
Atchison. Topeka q Santa Fe-This
afternoon the Caleago station freight
handlers went out on strike. although
twenty-five OF the men concluded TO re-
main at work. They Will ask Mr.. Egan 10
give them forty freight handlers on Mon
day. and viii be used TO guard freight aud
eeived from Albuquerque: "The strike
here on the Atlantic & Pacific is broken.
The iiremen all agree 10 60 10 work.
The General Managers Association to-
day issued the following statement re-
garding the strike:
This strike embarrasses the freight
traffic OF the West to the most serious ex-
tent since the labor troubles of 1s7--7s.
The companies have no idea OF entering
into compromise with the strikers on
any basis whatever. The railroad COM
panses fails 10 see the justice of the posi-
ton taken By the American Railway
Union of fighting Mr.. Pullman over the
heads of railroad com panies which have
no control over Mr. Pullman's movements
or his manufacturing business. The men
who are now on strike are considered to
have resigned their positions and are not
anxious To work. Any men who desire
employment under railroads running into
Chicago. and are competent, will be fur
nished positions and will be afforded all
the protection that lies in the powers of
the companies, the police OF the city of
Chicago. the sheriff Of Cook county and
the state military. Men are now being
hired in the East and brought TO Chicago
to take the places of the men who will not
work. IL is charged by the American Rail
way Union that the General Managers As
sociation IS importing men from Canada.
This statement is absolutely false. The
railroad companies do not propose TO EN-
ploy any men TO take the places of the men
now on strike unless such men are Ameri-
can citizens, and whoever we can find who
wants to work, to take the place of a man
who will not work. whether the suos titute
comes from New York or California. We
propose to give MIN job and see that he
Is protected.
AT a meeting this afternoon. attended by
members OF the American Railway Union
and members of the American Federation
of Labor, resolutions were adopted pledg-
ing the latter organization to aid In the
present strike. The brotherhoods OF loco
motive engineers, fremen, conductors,
trainmen and telegraphers were asked to
give their assistance. Attorney General
Oney was condemned for his action in
reference to 10 the hauling of trains carry
ing mails, as being beyond the province OF
his Office. The railroads we're condemned
for refusing to haul mail cars when de-
tached from Pullman cars. and commit
tee was appointed TO ask Gov. Aitgelt
to revoke the charters of such roads on
the ground that they were obstructing the
mails.
United States Marshal Arnold received
the following reply this afternoon from
Attorney General olney TO the telegram
sent by the marshal in the morning:
.'You are authorized to employ sufficient
deputies to prevent the obstruction of
mails andsto arrest ali persons who may
attempt such obstruction" "The amount
of it oil, !" said the marshal. lis that the
time has come for the government TO take
q hand in all roads and not in one only,
simply because it is in the hand of receiy-
ers. The mails must be allowed to run.
will appoint as many deputies as are
necessary" The marshal swore in fifty
more deputies today, for the Santa Fe.
This makes over 100 officers on duty at the
depot and in the yards of that company.
No arrests have yet been made By the
deputy marshals, and no attempt has been
made to interfere with the Santa Fe at
points where the United States marshals
are on duty.
General Superintendent Lore. of the
Panhandle road. received dispatch while
in attendance at the meeting OF the Gem
eral Managers Association. stating that
the strikers we're tearing up the track at
One Hundred and Thirtieth street. He at
once took special engine TO the scene OF
the riot. Mr.. Lore insists that the COM
pany is not given adequate police protec-
ton at that place. Mr.. Lore. on his ar
rival at One Hundred and Thirtieth street.
telegraphed that the men drove the station
agent 10 Riverside from his office, just as
he had summoned Lore by telegraph. and
then began general demolition OF the
tracks. The station agent barely escaped
with his life. At Ann street. on the Pan
handle. trouble was precipitated by q
brakeman drawing revolver when
strikers undertook TO interfere with him.
The fellow vas badly handled before he
was rescued by the police.
The General Managers Association has
issued call TO United States Marshal
Arnold for more deputies. At their meet
ing this afternoon the general managers
considered the question of arresting Debs
and prosecuting him under the United
states laws relating TO The detention of
mails. II was finally decided not TO arrest
him.
IspIaSAPoIIs. June 31-F j. Sargent.
grand master OF the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen, who arrived here today,
said the aremen will not join the strikers.
The laws Of our order prohibit Us, he
SAID. 'aas an organization, from taking part
in this struggle against the Pullman COM
many ky the American Railway Union,
and We shall not be drawn into It.
THE IIE-UP AT ST. LOUIS.