River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-19
THE INDUSTRIAL WAR.
Some of the Events Incident to
the Great Pullman Boycott.

Some of the Events Incident to
the Great Pullman Boycott.
/ minous Turn of Affairs In California
Ihe Allied Trades Fail to Go Out
tuilook Brightens for Chicago
and Other Centers.
TO PROBE THE STRIKE.
| WASHINGTON, July l4.-It was OFF,
cially announced at the white house
| Thursday night that the president will
appoint commission by the authority
given him by the arbitration act of
/ 1855, to investigate the labor troubles
/ at Chicago and elsewhere, and report
/ to the president and congress. This
I determination on the part of the presi-
I dent was arrived at after an interview
with Seeretary-Treasurer Hayes, of
1 the Knights of Labor. Mcclure and c.
/ y. French, of the executive committee,
] and Mr.. Schoenfa Der, who were intro
duced to the president Thursday after
noon by Senator Kyle and who came
/ bearing credentials from the American
Railway union. the Pullman employees
and several labor organizations.
Riots at Oakland.
| SAN Francisco. July IA. - Early
/ Thursday morning a mob of several
hundred strikers rushed into the yards
on the mole. They killed all the loco
motives that had been fired up, and
blocladed the tracks by derailing
locomotive and a long line of coaches
Later in the day another crowd wrecked
a turntabie and did some damage a
the roundhouse. Trouble came to AN
end, however. in the evening when a
force of marines from Mare island
/ were landed.
Refuse to Treat.
CHICAGO, july 10.-The General
Managers association refused to even
consider the peaceful overtures which
were made to that body by Presi-
dent Eugene V. Debs of the Amer
lean Railway union. The proposition
was not only not considered, but
it was returned to Mayer Hopkins. who
took the letter to the association, with
the information that no communion
ton whatever from the officers of the
American Railway union could be re-
ceived or considered by the association.
At 1880 a. m. Friday President Debs
and Vice President Howard, of the
American Railway union, called on
Mayor Hopkins and presented him
with a document containing pro-
posal for settlement of the strike
which they asked him to hand to the
General Managers association and use
his influence to have that organiza-
ton indorse it. The plan pro-
posed agreed that the strike
would be declared off if the
railway companies will take back
the old men, except those who were
arrested and those who have com
mitted acts of violence.
VIII Remain at Work.
CHICAGO, July 1G.-The executive
committee of the American Federation
of Labor and the representatives of
the national organizations which have
been meeting at the Briggs house for
the last two days on Friday decided
against ordering "a general strike in
support of the American Railway
union. The conference also decided
against local sympathetic strikes by
the trade unions, and requested the
members of the organizations already
out To return to their places. There
was but one expression of opinion
among delegates as to the justice of
the strike Of the American Railway
union, but there was pronounced OPP
position to involving other trades of
the country.
Wrecked by Miners.
Ia I.,l,
miners. of Fontanet, station on the
Big Four a few miles west of Terre
Haute, on Friday, ditched train. The
engineer and fireman were inangled to
death.
The wreck was undoubtedly the
work of lawless mob of miners that
Possessed Fontanet all day Thursday
and stopped and sidetracked fi~s Big
Four freight trains to show their
sympathy for the railroad strikers.
The trouble was so threatening that
Sheriff Stout. of Vigo county, and
several deputies went to Fontanet
Thursday afternoon. No passengers
were seriously injured.
Under Martial Law.
SACRAMENTO. Cal, July l6.-Friday
was one of the most exciting days in
the history of the strike, and martial
law has been proclaimed. Two men
lie wounded in the receiving
hospital, while several others are
reported dead or injured. Shortly |
after 10 o'clock Friday morning |
switch engine was proceeding along |
Front street to clear the track. A |
company of regulars, under Capt. Rob |
erts, of Battery l., Fifth United States |
artillery, accompanied the engine. As |
il reached street it is said a gang of |
strikers fired on the troops. The sol |
diers returned the fire ami several men
were seen to fall. Two of them were |
picked mp by the police and re-
moved to the receiving hospital.
United states Marshal Baldwin was |
at the head of the troops and pro-
claimed martial law. lie called upon
the people in the name of the United |
States to go to their homes ana remain |
there until the trouble is over few
obeyed but the majority remained on
the streets in defiance of the marshal's |
order
a Brighter Outlook.
CHICAGO, JUL :. Railway mana
gers declared sunday that the strike |
was thing VI the past. They claim
TO have n any of their old men back at
work and are rapidly supplying the
places o others. Trains are running |
with something of oldtime regularity. |
Freight is being moved but the con-
gestion is not ended. Trades union
men called out to support the strike |
have mostly resumed work. Uncle |
Sans troops are still encamped on the
lake front
kilograms from other railroad CEN
tiers are more emphatic than ever be-
fore to the effect that the American
Railway union strike is at an end |
outside Chicago. From Detroit, To-
ledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and
other points the news is much
- the same effect - that most |
of the railroads are running freight /
and passenger trains on sched-
ule time, that men who deserted their
posts at the order to strike are
applicants for unemployment; that
new men are plentiful enough to