The morning call., 1894-06-28

Pullman, so that by inconvsniencIng tn e
public in q most distressing way sym
pathy may be withheld from the strik-
ers. The Southern Pacific owns three
quarters interest in EI1 the palace-cars
on its line, and the fight is as much
theirs as 1T is PuIlman's.
Not a wheel m owed out of the big depot
at the Point in Oakland last evening op
any of the four trains which leave that
place every evening carrying Pullman
sleepers, and the initial step in what may
yet prove to be the biggest strike in the
history Of the Southern Pacific was taken.
There were four trains scheduled to
leave between the hours of and o'clock.
The first was the southern local, carrying
the Yosemite sleeper. and due to leave at
4:30 O'Clock; the second the Los Angeles
train, due 10 leave at 8; the third the over
land, due to leave at 6. and the fourth the
Oregon train, which leaves at 2
Toere were no visiD signs of unwouted
excitement in the big yards Of the COM
pany in the evening. Engines were NOV
ing about in the usual work of the COM
pany. and seemed to be progressing with
all accustomed activity, but a number of
strings of Pullman cars standing along the
many tracks and the absence of any
mads-up trains indicated that something q
unusual had occurred.
Yesterday morning Secretary G. D.
Bishop of the local American Railway
Union sent General Superintendent Fill
more a dispatch in which he stated that
the members of that organization would
refuse to handle any Pullman cars, to clean
or repair them after IL o'clock noon, fol-
lowing instructions they had received
from headquarters in the East.
In consequence of this notification, Mr..
Fillmore sent an order to the Oakland
yards to hold the Oregon, Los Angeles
and overland trains until further orders,
and uD to a late hour last night these fur
ther orders were not forthcoming, and
when Division Superintendent Wilder left
the depot at 7:15 he told the watchmen
about the depot to notify all passengers
that no trains would be run out last night
About the big depot crowds of disap-
pointed passengers who had expected to
take one or the other of the outgoing trains
were noticeable. They berated the rail-
road company. cursed the men and cursed
Pullman with a remarkable degree of
unanimity. but eventually found their way
to the boats and returned to this city.
T. j. Roberts, president of the Oakland
lodge of the American Railway Union, runs
yard engine in that city. and was found
at his home on Eighth street by CALL re-
porter just at dinner time.
Il didn't know whether I was going
hoo oly 10 m Ixo
latter the step l took to-day. but my fire.
man tells me that we are down on the
bulletin board to 20 to work tomorrow at
Z o'clock, so 1 see nay action has had no
effect upon my position as yet"
In reply to a question as to the attitude
of the order of which he is the head, It's
members. ETC.. Mr.. Roberts said:
"We have at present about 400 members
in tho Oakland lodge, but we expect to
take in at least $50 new ones at the meet
ing tonight. We have been gratlfied to
find that large number of men acted
with us to-day who are not members Of
our body, but we expect to have them all
in in a day or two.
''As we understand it, the other unions
of railway men will not do work that we
have refused to do, as this is one Of the
fundamental principles of unionism. Our
fight is not against the Southern Pacific,
but against Pullman, and the assumption
that because the former owns controlling
interest in the cars should exempt those
vehicles from the boycott won't hold
water, because Pullman leases them all,
supplies and pays for all the labor and
manages them in every particular.
1--WE will haul any kind Of cars except
the Pullman and will do any other kind of
work required Of us. No. we have had no
direct communication with any of the
other unions here, but we expect the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen to
take some action at their meeting to-
night"
One of the men employed in the yards
said that Foreman Ludlow. who has
charge of the cleaning of the Pullman
cars, had discharged ten of the men yes.
terday afternoon for refusal TO perform
their duty in that respect. but that the
men were only out of work about twenty
minutes before Ludlow put them back 10
work again. 1t was said that Ludlow
telegraphed Superintendent Wilder, who
was on this side of the bay. informing him
Of the action taken, but that official imne-