The record-union., 1894-07-02
special to the REcoRp-USroN.

CHICAGO, July LIN Chicago and VI
cinity to-day was spent by the two con-
tending forces in the great railway strike
in playing waiting game, each side
watching for the other to move. Railway
officials profess to be sanguine Of the ulti-
mate defeat of the strikers, and the latter
equally certain of final success. At a
number of vantage points throughout the
city efforts were made to move freight
trains, which were promptly frustrated
strikers and their sympathizers, who
pounced on these trains, carried off the
links and pins, set brakes and chased
away the men thus engaged. retiring
whenever Marshal or police officer ap-
peared on the scene. Barring few minor
scrimmages, in which no damage was
done. the day was fairly quiet.
Passenger traffic on most. of the roads
was not seriously interferea with where
Pullman cars were not handled, except
at Blue Island, where the Rock Island
trains are still held, both sides remaining
stubborn. and the long-sutlering passen-
gers bearing the brunt of the discomfort
and delay. One hundred Deputy Marshals
will go to Blue Island early in the morn
ing.
Altogether no decided advantage can be
claimed for either side, bat, owing to re-
ports that the Sheriff has called on the
Governor for troops. to-morrow's de-
velopments are waited with keen inter-
est, if not with anxiety. The troops at
Fort Sherman are being held in readiness
to respond any moment to call for their
services to protect property from the
strikers.
1t was learned this evening that George
M. Pullman had quietly left the city last
night, presumably for the East. although
it is impossible to obtain definite inform
alton as to his destination.
Six persons to-day were given author
ity to tie up every Chicago industry. By
a resolution adopted by the Trade and
Labor Assembly, the members of the
Executive Committee were given abso-
Lutte power to act in support of the Ameri
can Railway Union until the boycott or
the Pullman car strike is settled. The
Executive Board of six members is
given absolute power to act in its discre-
ton. This action was taken after long
and heated discussion. l. is said the
Building Trades Council will discuss the
advisability of taken similar action at
meeting to be held tomorrow. If these
two organizations decide to order a strike
more than one-tenth Of the workmen in
Chicago will be idle in less than twenty
four hours.
The firemen on the Northwestern went
out here to-day, refusing to work with
scab labor. The Illinois Central suburban
firemen have quit for the same cause and
the suburban service is again abandoned.
The Brotherhood of Engineers of the
Rock Island held meeting this after
noon at Blue Island to discuss the strike
situation, and it was finally decided not
to go out as an order. but to refuse to
work with other than Brotherhood fire.
men. This position is practically equiva-
lent to a walkout on the part of the en-
gineers, since every fireman has gone out.
At the American Railway Union head
quarters to-day the principal work was
the direction of affairs on the terminal
system OF the Illinois Central, the Bur-
lington and the Northwestern. A delega-
ton from the Chicago and Grand Trunk
reported that road tied up from Battle
Creek to Chicago, and Edgewater had
given it out that no freight would be
moved until November 1st if necessary.
At Western avenue and Indiana street
an open air meeting was held, the men
employed in every branch of service on
the Milwaukee within terminal limits
being present. A resolution was passed
that the men refuse to work. A similar
meeting was held at Elston, on the Grand
Trunk, which was attended by engineers,
firemen and switchmen, and at which a
resolution was presented that no work
should be performed after tomorrow.
A delegation from the Burlington road
completely tied up, and that twenty-t five
switchmen whom the company had Sc
cured to take the place of strikers had
been let go again.
kilograms were received from Ameri-
can Railway Union officials at Denver
that the Union Pacific was tied up, and
that at Great Falls, Mont, everything
was at standstill, everybody from the
trackmen to the engineers having quit.
BUSINESS PARALYzED.
CHICAGO, July 1.-Business in Chicago
is seriously paralyzed as the result of the
present labor difficulty. Transfer via
Chicago is entirely blocked by the So
called American Railway Union. This
business is freight exchange between all
Eastern and Western roads centering in
Chicago, and SO long as the Belt Railway
is tied up, the interstate business between
Eastern and Western lines cannot be
moved. 1t is absolutely necessary that
this channel of interchange of interstate
business should be kept open, otherwise
the roads must continue to be paralyzed.
About P. NJ. gang of about thirty
strikers broke into the Panhandle switch
tower at West Pullman and, with threats
and abusive epithets, chased the tele-
graph operator out of it, witt threats
against his life if he ever returned. A
mob of over 800 men gathered at River
dale with the avowed intention OF making
an assault on train No. 2i, carrying mail
and Pullman sleepers and dining car.
Spears, with fifty-two Deputy Sherlffs,
and Soper, with eleven deputies, are
there. and reinforcements have been sent
them, with view to protecting the train.
Sixty-five Deputy United States
Marshals have been stationed at the Riv-
erdale crossing all the afternoon. All the
| Illinois Central trains have been coming
/ through without interference, but at $50
| one of their trains was stopped near
| Harvey, and held up about an hour.