The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-09
WHITE RIRRoNs NUMEROUS.

WHITE RIBBONS NUMEROUS.
Reid has hoisted big white flag over
Council Hall. where the labor men meet.
is seen everywhere in the vicinity Of rail-
road tracks. Railroad men, trainmen.
switchmen. freight handlers and even
ri ld" when +" '" of duty. Along the water
front an occasional white ribbon is seen.
| too.
They bob Up in sse most na,v sStsd
men wearing the ribbons gathered on the
porch Of road-ho'se and discussed
to be called on to strike. but their sym
Rat1h,tSe;s s, are with the men WSo are out
Perhaps one-half of the 10000 men afslM-
ated with labor unions In this town are
ready to 20 out In sympathy strike.
Many unions are unanimous In Their WILL
but ali the other Industries here.
| The German Trades Union. which in
cludes In its membership the employees
Of enthusiastically inclined workmen Of
adopted fiery resolutions denounclng
senas sro fSr ms into aeHn nos
Debs.
Five unions Of painters and decorators
tons of sympathy with Debs. and re-
solved ito do all that is just and proper
TO aid the, American Railway Union In
king of wealth. George NJ. Pullman"
The carpenters passed similar resolu-
tons. but denounced rioting. The Iron
Trades Council pledged our lives. our
help of Debs. The rachinsts declined
10 make public their resolutions. but
There. will evidently be no lack Of
| sympathy strikes among the trades II
the railroad men here decide to go out.
EFFECT ON LAKE TRAFFIC.
An interesting possibility. OF the. Debs
| movement, provided Buffalo decides to
60 into 1t head and heels is ths com pm
had men at work ut Detroit and Cleve-
land as well as Buffalo. and 1t is by no
means improbable that commerce on the
as Debs hopes to block railroad traffic.
Buffalo. to a certain extent. Is the key
Of the situatlan, and 1t Is generally be-
in his plans at Chicago Debs viii con-
Already the Lake shore Nickel Plate
and Grand Trunk Railroads are locked
tle-up at Cleveland and Detroit has
knocked all three. roads out OF any
chance of doing freight business.
out in Buffalo. the loca: trades and in:
dustries wholly or partially suspended
| and lake commerce stopped, he VIII be
mischief than his operations at Chicago
have made. For New York City and
the seaboard viii be practically cut off
from the West IL B BoIn Is eliminated
Pittsburg will yield more readily than
Buffalo TO an appeal for general
Ike sm neK are cy ripe and DOR the t
Of idle coal miners, mill hands and labor
ers in Allegheny County could be. de.
pended upon for the rioting and acts of
! incendiarlsm which seems to be neces-
sary accompaniment Of the Debs move
ment Il not a part of his plan OF cam
paign.
will do the rioting just as they did In
1882, when the strike OF less than three
hundred swtchmen necessltated the
presence OF the National Guard of the
State
LAKE BOATMEN ORGANIZED.
Mems Union was formed here. This,
with the Lake Engineers and Lake Fire
mems Unions have an aggregate mem
hership In this city OF l;Wo Inc Ls6e-
Cleveland, Chicago and Duluth This as
ISOLATION OF several thousand men In
cludes every yessel -worEer from engineer
down TO deckhand. and ic their, members
left the boats the boats would tie W
where they iloatcd.
Grain and coal dealers can Appreciate .,
the gravity OF SuCl u SilNdliOIl.
tpe lake carriers are feeling the loss Of
the package freight which makes up Sucn
a large part OF their buslness. Many
boats are already laying up on account
OF the lack OF freight. II the coal-carry-
Ing boats were to he tied up. the West
would feel hard-cosl famine worse
thsn the recent bituminous scarcity
Superlntendents Of the various railroads
here ali say that their men have given
no notice OF grievances and according 10
the usual order of things there should be
no strike, But as Supt. WhDur' OF the
Lehigh Valley. put it:
"pebs has reversed the usual order OF
things. Men strike when he commands
Il and forget all about their own leaders
and the constitutions OF their own
unions"
CITY ALREADY EMBARRASSED.
No freight Is coming in from the West.
and passenger service is continued un-
der dificuities. The Nickel Plate. which
only has two passenger trains daily,
abandoned one OF them yesterdaaEE ans
the other one to-day. The SrSna IrIn nn