The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-29
THE STRIKE SPREADS.
Discouraging Effect of the Boycott
. of the Pullman Company.
JUDGE oALDwELL's STRIKE ORDER

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The Mon of tho AtehIson Road, Who Arc
Employees of the Court, Must Obey Or
ders of Company omciais or Leave the
Service.
CHICAGO, June 90. The following mes.
sage was received here by Receiver viii.
son, of the Atrhison road, from Judge
Caldwell, of the United States circuit
court, who is now in Michigan on pleas
are trip:
''Fhe men in the employ of the receivers
OF the Atchison railway system must dis
charge all their usual and accustomed
duties or quit the service of the receivers
altogether, and permit other men to take
their places who will discharge their
duties. Any or all of the employees can
quit the service of the court If they desire
TO do so, but when they do quit they must
not interfere in any manner with the
property or the operation of the road OF
men employed to take their places Any
such interference will be promptly dealt
with ms contempt of court. The men
who wish to continue in the service of the
court must discharge all the duties ap
propriately and properly belonging to the
these duties will compel their discharge
and the employment of other men to take
their places. All the powers and author.
NY OF the court will be vigorously eXer.
elsed to enforce these reasonable rules.
'Ihe men must understand that they
cannot remain in the service of the re.
ceivers and refuse to perform any duty
pertaining to that service. They must
make their election, whether they will
sake their orders as to the cars to be
switched and handled from President
Debs or the court. If they elect to obey
the orders Of the former they may do so,
but In that event they must understand
that they are no longer in the service OF
the court, and that other men will be EN-.
ployed to take their places permanently,
who will be guarded and protected in the
discharge Of their duties"
Tho general managers of two Of the
leading roads said today that they antici.
pated ana were prepared for general tie
up of all the roads. There was nothing
left for the railroads to do but to resist
the boycott. They reserved the right to
haul any mans cars that was offered
them, regardless of his business or politi-
cal affiliations.
ii, ii. Porter, chairman OF the board of
directors of the Chicago and Eastern Illi-
nols railroad in n communication to Pres
adent Carpenter, of the road, says if the
aims of the strike leaders are carried out
wage workers will be reduced to absolute
slavery, property be rendered valueless
and the result will be a revolution.
Several Thousand men nre thrown ont
OF employment this morning at the stock
yards by an order from the knights of
Labor for strike because the employers
refused to agree to the demand that freight
cars OF lines hauling Pullman cars should
not he handled. The entire packing in
dusiry is completely paralyzed.
The effect will be so serious that the
prOprietors of the packing houses and the
railroad officials refused to believe that
any such action would be taken. About
D switchmen, trackmen, number takers,
b5mon and engineers left their posts.
The roads affected by the tie up in the
yards include nearly every railroad sys-
tenn running into Chicago.
Reports from various sections sho7
chat the strike is spreading rapidly. San
francisco Is completely shut off by the
strike from railroad communication with
the outer world The main seat of the
trouble is Oakland where many trains and
tons Ct mail and express nre already tied
mp. Large quantities of fruit are going
to wnstc in orchards and in stations and
on trains.
Suprraten ndent j. C. Gibhsons' of the
Pullman ear department of the Pennsyl.
vania railroad in Jersey City, says that
not the slightest trouble has been exper-
fenced in this section of the country on
account Of the Pullman ohoycott There
was excellent reason to believe, he said
that none of the Pennsylvania company's
lines would hc effected
President Debs. of the American Rail-
way union, teegraphed to Tcrre Haute,
Ind, for Chief Sargent, OF the firemcn
and the latter, who has been in Caunda
has started for Chicago In view of the
unfricndly attitude of Sargent to Debs'
organization, much interest is felt as to
the attitude Of the firemen
Master Workman Sovereign, of the
knights Of Labor, who is at Dos Moincs.
Ia, predicts the strike against the Pull
mans will be the biggest one in the his.
tory Of the country. lie said the knights
would light it Go, with the railroad men
TO the bitter end
At Pittsburg yesterday a number of
men were engaged to 90 to Chicago to
take strikers places Most Of them were
A. II. U, mon or their sympathizers, how
ever and less than two score artcd for
Chicago.
Al Cairo, Ills, the boycott against the
Pullman company has assumed serious
proportions. Every railroad line entering
the city is now involved, and not wheel
has turned since O'Clock yesterday after.
noon.
The Pullman strike will not affect Can.
ada Officials Of the brotherhood Of I'm.
ginecrs, Order of Railway Conductors aid
the brotherhood Of Irainmen there state
that they intend to take no action what
ever
kilograms were sent short time ago
from the a, r. U, headquarters in Chi.
cngo ordering all men on the Denver, Rio
Grande and Union Pacific roads out at
once.
AT st. Louis this morning the Missouri
Pacific switchmen decided to stand by the
night switchmen. This resulted in u com
plate tie up Of that road there.
Al Elleasburg, Wash. the east bound
Northern Pacific train is tied up as a re.
sult OF the strike. Not wheel is turning
on either division.
Went Over niagara Falls.
NIAGARA FALLS N Y, June 29-The
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