Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-29
PULLMAN BOYCOTT.
Its Success as Viewed by the
Strike Leaders.
DEB AND HOWARD CLAIM VICTORY

Railway Managers Take Different View.
and Say tho Situation Is Better for
Them-A United States Judge Sides with
the A. n. u. and Advises the Dropping
OF Pullmans-Condition of Things at Var
ious Points on the Lines Affected.
CHICAGO, June GA decided crippling
of the railway traffic throughout the west
was the condition eff affairs that greeted
President Debs and Vice President How.
ard, of the American Railway Union. on
their arrival at the union headquarters.
II ever labor officials had reason to con-
graduate themselves upon the successful
prosecution Of a great railway battle
Debs and Howard could compliment each
other. Reports brought in from various
committees showed that every road run
ming out of Chicago-except the Rock
Island and "Wagner;an" roads-was tied
up. The Chicago. Milwaukee and st.
Paul bore the first attack in the morning
and the Chicago and Northwestern was
wheeled into the line Of "cripples." The
Chicago and Alton. the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy and the Fort Wayne were also
put on the strikers lists.
- The Railway Managers View.
The above was the way the strike lead
ers stated the situation. The railway
managers told different story They
said in effect that the strike situation on
the various railways entering Chicags had
changed somewhat, but the changes had
been to the benefit of the roads, rs a gen.
eral thing, and the detriment of the cause
Of the strikers. The effort to stop the
movement of trains conveying Pullman
coaches must be classed rs failure. 1t
has only resulted SO far in some slight in
convenience to the travelling public,
trouble and delay to the railways and has
stopped but few Pullman cars from enter
ing or leaving this city. The only road
entering Chicago that is at all embar-
rassed ut the present time is the Illinois
Central. Here the walk-out of the switch
men, tower men, and the crews of the
suburban trains has resulted in a partial
paralyZation of traffic.
Report That Lacks Confirmation.
Which, as before stated. is the way the
railway manager looks at it. The most
turbulent point in this vicinity seems to
have been ut Hammond, Ind, where the
strikers stopped mail trains and n report
was wired here that Governor Matthews
had ordered out the militia. This report
is not true-at any rate there is no con-
firmation thereof. There was an attempt
to drive the tower man of the Western
Indiana company from his post at Fifty
| fifth street. About hundred strikers
and idlers gathered at the tower and by
coaxing and threats tried to induce the
man TO quit work. He refused and his
determination anSered the crowd. A call
for help was sent to Englewood police
station and squad of officers went to
the tower. The crowd dispersed without
any further demonstration.
An Indiana Judge Refuses Help.
| The roads received n setback in the mat.
ter o: aid from United States judges, when
the officials OF the Monon applied to Judge
Baker, Of the federal court Mt Indianapo
lis, for relief against the Pullman boy
| colt, which had interfered with their cars
ut Hammond, pleading that the train car
ried the United States mail. Judge Baker
told them that if the company would not
haul Pullman cars on the mail trains there
would he no need TO take the matter Il
court, as the trains would not be stopped