The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-30
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The Grand Trunk VIII be Included I'm
less it Withdraws From The Association

N.
Chicago, June 29.-President Debs and his
associates of the American Railway Union
played a high card today ,and made a radical
move when they formally boycotted every
road represented in the General Managers
association. The roads represented in the
association and subject to boycott are the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific; Illionois
CentEal; Chicago and Grand Trunk; Santa
Fe; Chicago and Alton; Chicago and Erie;
Chicago and Illinois; Chicago and North
western; Western Indiana; Chicago, Bur-
ington and Quincy; Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul; Chicago Great Western Louis
vile, New Albany and Chicago; Chicago
and Northern Pacific; Lakeshore; Michigan
Central; New York, Chicago and st. Louis;
Panhandle; .Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago; Wabash, Wisconsin Central; and
Baltimore and Ohio. AS rapidly as possible
the men will be ordered out on the roads
armed. 1t is the intention of the union
officials to inaugurate strikes on the lines
mentioned in preference to roads through
out the country which haul Pullman cars.
According to an official announcement the
managers association was organized for the
sole purpose of crushing the American Rail-
way Union. The union will proceed to do
battle with the association lines. The
Michigan Central and Grand Trunk are not
affected as yet, but the union officials say
they will be tied up unless they withdraw
from the managers association. The Wabash
was let alone until it was reported the COM
pany was handling trains of the roads
already boycotted. If the plan of the union
officials is carried out twenty two roads out
of Chicago will be tied up within the next
two or three days. The employees of the
U. S. Yards Transit company struck at
tonight. The greatest enthusiasm was
created among the strikers today when the
announcement was made that Mobile and
Ohio bad surrendered Internationally.
General Manager Scale telegraped President
Debs that his road had cut off all Pullman
cans and requested a release of the line.
President Debs wired the president of the
union in charge of the strike to call off the
boycott Immediately after receiving writ
ten guarantee from the company that it
would not run any Pullmans until the
trouble was settled. The union men induced
a majority of the thirty-two imported SUBJ
stitutes on the Pan Handle to join the
union and quit work. The mem were con-
ductors, brakemen and switchmen from
Louisville, Cincinanti, Pittsburg and other
points.
Reports from the meeting of the o. R. G.
were received to the effect that the con-
ductors would attend strictly to their own
posit ions, and would refuse to couple cars
or throw switches or work with green crews
Action similar to that taken by the con-
ductors characterized several meetings of
engineers. Two hundred engineers ON the
Illinois Central and other roads centering
at Grand Crossing agreed to stand by the
men and all the men on the Illinois Central
pledged themselves to obey the call to
strike when issued.
A CALL FOR TROOPS.
A mob of one thousand strikers and
sympathizers stopped the New York and
Chicago limited ON the Chicago and Erie
road near the state line at Hammond, In
diana and compelled the crew to side track
two Pullman sleepers attached to the train.
Then the crew were notified they might
proceed with the rest of the train. At
eleven no such'move had been made The
sheriff with twenty deputies was powerless
to protect the train. Tonight he wired Gov.
Matthews for troops to prevent interference
with the operation of the road. No reply
was received The whole town is in sym
pathy with the strikers and denounce the
sheriff's action.
F7alegrams we're received from over two