The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-07-05
The Great Rail Road Strike.

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workmen at the Pullman car works.
Pullman, ILL.,, is growing more wide
spread and vigorous day by day and
promises to implicate every Lodge
of the American Railway Upion be-
fore it is many days older.
The chief trouble up to this date
is in the city of Chicago, and on
roads radiatipg from that city and
is confined to passenger trains that
run Pullman coaches.
The sympathetic strike takes the
the form of a boycott of the product
of the Pullman shops and thus af-
fects only passenger trains. A
Chicago dispatch to The Associated
Press under date of July End, says
"The first serious clash occurred to-
day, when two hundred Deputy U.
S. marshals were surrounded at Blue
Island by two thousand strikers,
who openly defed Federal authority.
Weapons were drawn by both sides.
and DEPUTY Marshal, John A. Lo-
gan was painfully cut with a knife,
but when bloody conflict seemed
imminent the Deputies returned to
their barrack cars to await rein
forcrcemcnts, leaving the strikers
masters of the situation.
This evening an injunction from
the U. S. Courts was read and bulle-
tined. The authority of the United
States was openly ridiculed, and
after few minutes quietness the
riotous spirit Iof the skri-
kers rcasserted itself. At midnight
reports of disorder were current, it
being stated that the strikers were
tearing down the bulletined man
date of the Court.
Fearing to parcipitate bloods he'd,
the Rock Island Company decided
after its $50 express had been got
ten through, not to make any further
efforts to move trains tonight, but
tomorrow can hardly fail to bring
crisis.
The strikers have now locked
horn with the State Federal author
tiles. That the r r. officials are chat
ing under the continued embargo on
this business, which the desperate
condition of their late employees
neither to work themselves nor al
low others to fill their places, is
evidenced by food of reports of in
dividual conflicts here and there
coming from all over the country.
A number of trains have been de-
rallied by misplaced switches. A
Pan Handle passenger train was
partially derailed a. Kinzle and Ca
nal streets tonight, but was not Sc
riously delayed.
The strikers are stealing brasses
from the axle-boxes of cars, and in |
some instances dropping coupling
pins into the cross guides of locomo,
tives, causing the destruction of cyl
inder-heads.
Tons of ice, fruit, vegetables,
meats and other perishable goods
stand in the cars under broiling
sun, no one airing or daring to move
it to destination.
Dumb animals crowded into stock
cars, suffer thirst and hunger, and
prices of vegetables and fruits are
going up.
The firemen on the Lake street
elevated road decided after
midnight that they would strike
to assist the A. r. U. The specific
cause of the strike is that the ele-
waited road received some coal which
was delivered by the Panhandle,
which is one of the roads boycotted
by the A. R. U.
About $50 passengers are delayed
at Blue Island, and are unable to
get water or food. The deputies
are in the same position, and sup
plies have been sent for from the
city.
President Debs said this af-
ternoon: the settlement will be made
on these terms only:
/ There must be an armistice be-
tween Mr.. Pullman and his employees
on basis satisfactory to the men
(they are willing to to accept rea-
sonable promise) and all the men
must be taken back to work.
2 There must be an adjustment
between the railways and the
strikers. all must be restored to
their old positions and no wages
shall be cut nor shall discrimination
be made. The General Managers
has made common cause
with the Pullman Company, and We
can not settle with either side. There
must be settlement with both or
none.