The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-08-18
THE
GREAT STRIKE
Developments Made Before the
National Commission.
BLACKLISTING LEADERS
Those Who Took Leading Parts in the
Pullman Boycott Unable to Procure
Employment.

| CHICAGO, Aug. 1S-The strike commits
| Rion's investigation yesterday developed
9u enthusiastic disciple Of Bellamy in tn,
| person of Roy NJ. Goodwin, director of
| the American Railway union After a
| long examination regarding the recent
! strike he declared that such troubles
could be avoided by Matchmaking rail.
roads and all other extensive corporations
| md industries He believed that the
| United States should be conducted after
the manner laid down by the author oi
| Looking Backward"
| Professor E. w. Bems, associate pro
fessor Of political economy in Chicago
| university, was also witness. He advo-
Gated as strike preventative a national
and permanent board of arbitration Pro
| fessor Bemis cited the Massachusetts
board of cancellation as an evidence of tht
good effect that such an organization
would have but said that national ar
| bitration board should have a wider scope
and be endowed with greater powers
| |than the Massachusetts, board
A number of railroad employees were ex-
amined, all of whom testified to having
| applied for work in different parts of the
country since the strike, only to discover
that they had been blacklisted because OF
the part they had taken in the boycott
| affair
f. r. Mills, Baltimore and Ohio en-
| gineer, of Garrett, Ind. was called and
| testified that he was discharged on July
l and was told that he was not to be EN-
lployed again. Since then he sent a letter
to W. G. Bronson, president of the Illinois
Steel company, asking for employment
After few days Mr.. Bronson replied that
Ha L.
before he would have been glad to employ
| Mills, but now he had been informed OF
Mills prominence in the American Rail
way union, and therefore could not EN-
| ,ploy him.
James b. Connors, switchman, who
| had worked on the Grand Trunk road
| testified that he had made application for
| work to the Union Stock Yards and Transit
company, and was refused. The officia
to whom he applied told him that no mar
who had ever served on labor committees
would be given employment
Charles Naylor fireman and engineer,
land member of the A. r. u, came next
He was dismissed June 2S from the Penn
,sylvania lines, and knew that he was
)blackltsted, because general superinten.
dent had told a friend of his that he could
pot get work Mr.. Naylor said the work.
men would have no confidence in a per.
manent board of arbitrators, whether
elected or appointed. He thought a new
board should be appointed for each case.
These officers got too far away from the
people, said Mr. Taylor.
Vice President Howard, of the American
Railway union, was recalled. Mr.. Howard
desired to call the commissions attention
to two facts That the United States gov.
ernment was now blacklisting or boy.
cotting 5000 ex-employes of the Union
Pacific railroad, because of their connec
tion with the American Railway union,
and that the railroads of the country were
threatening to boycott the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas road unless it withdrew its
present low rate to Washington.
"We think that if the government can
keep Its hands off the railways and let
them settle their differences es by boycott OF
any way they please, it should keep its
hands off the employees as well, >" said Mr.
Howard. burst of app plause from the
audience greeted this sentiment.
w. II. Carwardine, pastor Of the Meth.
odist church at Pullman, was the next
witness His evidence consisted chiefly
of history of the strike, which he de
clared would never have occurred had the
uAAHhah CohpohJ IeuuCeu rents Wnen II
reduced wages. The witness became in.
dignant when asked if he was an anarch-
ist. and denied it with emphasis.
There will be no afternoon session OF
the commission today, and the first wit
ness on Monday morning will be Eugene
V. Debs.
The audience yesterday was larger than
at any previous session. The court room
was almost filled, all seats being occupied
and many persons standing.
Il is probable that the question of the
extent of the jurisdiction of the commits
sion will come up before the end of the in
yestigation.