Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-28
THE SITUATION BECOMES WORSE
VERY SUDDENLY.
strikers Continue 10 Intimidatr Mcn
wIiIips to woris-Eyic,i"n Com
sidered rs II Last Resort-A
Preacher Threatened.

man officials. who expected they would
be able to open the car shops this
week. There Is now no more talk
about starting the big works, no more
Information OF penltent employees ask
Ing to be relnstatod in their old places,
no more predictions that the strike
will soon be over.
The feeling grows that the worst OF
the situation IL yet 10 come and that
the contest between hungry labor on
ono side and stubborn capital on the
other may drag ON until winter. It
has settled down to Il question Of
relief and free rent. As long as sup
plies enough to keep the Pullman
strikers from starving arc sent to Ken
Bington headquarters and the Pullman
company makes no effort 10 collect
rent from It's late employees the strike
viii keep on getting worse, for every
day the men are growing more des-
perate and the masters more deter
mined.
Tho fact is now conceded on all sides
that the Pullman company blundered
sadly when II allowed the paper car
wheel concern to attempt to start
Monday morning, inltead Of taking
the lead Itself and opening every shop
In town. At best. 1t IN considered, the
successful Inauguration OF work in the
paper wheel plant would have been
an lhHlshlheaui victory alloscther ou'
OF propofllo 10 we lhp1rlahee at
tached TO II by luIlhal olhclnis'
Ns failure II ~ inueh more s'gil'n-
V'ut Han IL WVu'p H"'v uuou 10
SUGGEST Ihe strikers nave hau wv
dayb celebration or thelr victory
| winch mas suuenrd up huhdreus VINO
! were getting weak NpulnE elbe was
talked about at headquarters MonunS
| ana yesterday, ana the agltator5 nave
! convinced their followers that It ls
| only question OF rev days uhtll
| MI Pullman VIII be coinpelled To take
/ thcm nll hAck NJ the good wage sc'''
| OF la'd' when everybody was making
/ plenty ut money ana the ihmllleA were
| Won FED.
Inc influence welded oy these asl-
intorg Is nstonlEhinE. The last time
Nlce-lrcs'dent Howard OF the Ameri-
can halfway union was In Pullman
ne tod ~" workmen That MS order
wHs' $50 strongly organized mat II
would NOT only compel Mr. Pullman
| TO Give thom the wages Of 1898 but
! also 10 pay Them Tor the time they
wore idln. ana many Of the strikers
believed what he said. This promise
has frequently been held up 70 the
atrikers when they were wayering. and
Home OF them stlll believe they VIII
rcnli2e II.
The Pullman people have lately been
advised that the way TO beat the
strikers now Is to open all their shops,
ouor work 20 old employees aud evlct
those who do not come to work. That
ia the proposition they are now con
Fidcring ana N X believed that III the
only reason troops are still kept IN
the town, should they decide TO eVlet
tenants, an NJ whom are now more
than two month1 behind on thor rents
there would Doe work for troops, Tor
the men would not go out without a
hrht.
The Pullman company viii not adopt
that policy 80 officials say, except as
ID last resort hut once they decide ON
eviction the c1nsthbl's viii 60 on mer-
cleaHly untl inc last man VINO refuses
TO work W out some OF the srlkors
would not DC surprised 20 grt moNlng
notice. any DAY paruenihrN thoAe VINO
have done most OF the i%'huhE, tot
" Is goncrplly pndolatNod IheS VIII MOI
bo ENen employment again on any
tefwh Incy 90 not expect H. anu
having holNlhk 70 losv 'heiuheiNve' lhvS
3 arc M the more ueltIinlhtu 10 Keep