The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-29
APPEAL TO CHARITY.
SIX THOUSAND SOULS A. PULLMAN
INNEED OF BREAD.

SIX THOUSAND SOULS AT PULLMAN
INNEED OF BREAD.
The Governor OF Illinois Appeals to the
People of the State for Contributions te
Keep Women and Children from starv
Tug.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2l.-Atter making g
through investigation of the conditions
existing among the ex-employes Of the
Pullman Company. who participated il
the recent boycott and strlke, Governor
Altgeld, tonight issued the followire 9
relief appeal: To the people OF the
State OF Illinois and especially to those
OF the city of Chicago:
Taere is great distress growing ou
OF the want of food in and around the
town Of Pullman. More than 1000 fam
lies, or in The neighborhood Of 6,OOC
people are utterly destitute. Nearly
four fiths OF them are women and chill
drep. The men have endeaVorea tc
get work, but were unable to do so.
have made personal examination o1
the county and learn from the cti;ers
of the Pullman Company, that prior tc
the strike they had $3.50 names on the
roll. Yesterday they had 1920 people
at work, but over 600 Of them are new
men, 80 that they have only about l, 900
of their old employees at work, leaving
abou. 1.S60 that have not been taken
back. Several hundred of these have left.
but the remainder are unable to 60 away
ard have nothing to eat. find that
Immediately after the beginning OF the
strlke relief association was formed to
provide for the needy and the books OF
this associations shows that 2, 463 applI-
cations Re:e made by ths Pullman EN-
ployes, mostly heads OF families to this
association for aid. In flct, nearly all
Of the employees, except the few hundred
who left Lave been supported By charity
for nearly three months. AS rule they
are a superior class oflaboring people ln'
dustrlous, capable and steady, and some
of them have worked for the Pu!lnan
Company for more than ten years.
Those who have been gwen work can
get food, butare still in suca an impov.r'
ished condition that they can't help their
neighbors if they would. Rslief society
is unable to get more supplies. Ol last
Saturday it gave to each family two
pounds OF oatmeal and two pounds OF
corn mea. and having nothing left. it
suspended operations, leaving the peo'
ple in an absolutely helpless condition.
The county commissioners OF Cook
county as overseers of the poor lave
rendered some assistance, but owing to
limited appropriations, they can furnish
relief for q short time only. We cannot
stop to irqaire the cause OF this distress
The good people Of this State cannot al
low women aud children By the hun
dred TO perish By hunger. l, therefore,
call upon all humane and charltablY dis
posed cltizens to c)ntribute what they
can toward giving relief to these people.
I am satisfied that anV contributions
sent to the Pullman R4lef Committee al
Kensington will be judicinuslV distributed
1 fiod their treasurer has given bond to
properly account for all moneys re-
ceived.
(Signsd) JOHN 2. ALTGELD,
Governor.
The Governor also sent comm uni
cation to the commissioners OF Cook
county, appealing to them as the OIL.
GERS upon whom dsvolved 8 duty OF
providing for cases OF this kind to the
utmost in their power to furnish lmme'
diate assistance to the psople IN distress
The correspondence between Governor
Altgeld and George M. Pullman, in rela
ton to the destitution in the town was
given to the press by the Governor. Il
began last Sunday, when the Governor
sent a telegram to Mr.. Pullman from
Springfield. in response to nunber ol
appeals made to him by strikers for as
sistance. In this dispatch, the Governor
tells Mr.. Pullmen that although the
State of Illinois has not the least desire
to medd!c in the affairs of the company,
it cannot allow a whole community
within it's borders 70 perish of hunger.
and informs the president Of the com.
pany that unless relief comes he would
either have to call a special session
of the Legislature to make an approprla'
tion or else ISSUE an appeal to the hu
name people of the State to give bread
to the company's former employees. HI
adds: SIT seems to me you would pre-
fer to reliYe the situation yourself, especl
ally as it has just cost the State up
wards of $5O,000 to protect ycu: proper
ty.'