The morning call., 1894-07-07
"NOW OR NEVER" SAYS DEBS
"Lawful and Peaceable Means
Urged by the A. r. u.
WHITE BADGES FLY IN OAKLAND
No Regulars Sent Out Yesterday.
Unexpected Dispatch of Militia
to San Jose.

! or two outside trains have sneaked in and
| been promptly ''klled" by the strikers.
Ninety engines are lying dead at the
| points where they were killed. There is
not live engine on this side OF Liver
more. One live engine rests at Tracy, and
the reason that is not dead is because
there is no one to kill it,
This is the state of affairs to-day, and
there seems little chance of it improving in
the immediate future. One thing the A.
R. q. men are decided upon, and their
determin alton on this point seems i'm
movable. 1t is that no halfway arbitra-
tion will be accepted. ALI or nothing Is
the motto of the men.
The wavering letter of A. N. Towne, in
dicating that the company would be will
ing to run locals and mail trains without
Pullmans and not mentioning the over
lands was received at Oakland with jsers.
The expressions of Knox, the Sacramento
leader of the A. r. u, is echoed here. No
Pullman car will ever be tolerated on the
Southern Pacific again, say the strikers,
and consequences in adhering to that reso-
luton are laughed at
The most remarkable part of the whole
strike in Oakland, outside of the sobrety
and Orderliness Of the men, is the cheerful
ness with which the public put up with
the Inconvenience Of present travel. Pub
lie sympathy is entirely with the strikers
Superintendent Wilder admitted that
when he said in an aggrieved way that the
people OF Oakland looked upon the strike
as joke" They do not look upon the
strike as joke. but they look upon the
strike" as a fight for principle and seem
prepared to sustain it at all costs.
The strikers have a perfect system of
patrol From San Leandro to the bay is
picketed with the vigilance of military
campaign. 1t is patrolled several times in
the twenty-four hours. For this pur-
pose bugges, carts and even bicycles are
used Charley Hall, the one-armed tower
man, was con Dicuous yesterday on spir-
tied horse. He got tired walking and a
sympathetic citizen loaned the horse for
patrol purposes. Hall is ubiquitous and
| ndefatigable for the strikers. He is
everywhere and knows everything. A
committee of str kers went through the
Peralta-street yards yesterday morning
and patrolled the mole to see If any en-
gines had been retired. None had even
been watered. The engine stalled in San
Leandro was killed, and body of strikers
in the darkness OF the early morning made
the blockade of the lines at First and
| Webster streets more than ever effectua!.
A narrow-gauge train has been lying there
since Wednesday. The engine Is lying
| killed at Fourteenth street The strikers
took coach and lifted it across the track,
so that no train can move on the narrow
| gauge line without this obstruction being
removed. The company sent man to
| clean No. II and the other engines killed
| in the middle of the Alameda mole, and
the sight Of the solitary man polishing up
| the disabled engines was greeted with
laughter by the passengers on the creek
route boats yesterday. Outside of this
| the officials of the company made no effort
TO do anything. They even forgot to
wind the big clock in the broad-gauge
depot. The standing joke is that they ar e
afraid to do it for fear it might strike.
A feature of the A. r. U. movement In
| Oakland Is the system with which every
thing is done. Thomas Roberts. the presi-
dent of the A. r. o., is of very little
| account in the actual workings of the
union. He is the president and the figure
head of the institution. but half the time
things are done of which he has no cog
nizance whatever. The actual power is
vested in the strike committee. of which
Roberts is but member. In the case of
receiving Mrs. Stanford, Roberts as the
official head of the union represented the
local body. In things of that kind he is
conspicuous. The injunction Of Judge
McKenna was served upon him as the
president of the local A. r. u. When the
case comes up it will be very easy to sho W
that Roberts knew Dotning of what was
going on and that he had nothing what
ever to do with the authorization of acts
which may be considered as intimidatory
of the non-union employees The way
masses of men are gathered at any one
point is simple. Pickets of strikers are
stationed at various points all over the
territory between San Leandro and the
bay. AS soon as anything happens at one
point the striker on watch there hasens
to tie headquarters ON Wood street, West
Oakland and reports it TO the strike COM
mittee, some members of which are
always to be found there. Orders are
given and in a minute a large body of
strikers are on the way to the particular
| spot indicated.
In this way secure watch is kept on all
the movements of the railroad officials.
Everything they do is known shortly after
to the strike committee. This is revers-
ing the usual order of things When the
men first quit work dozens OF company
spoilers" went around among the
crowds. 1t was impossible for two or
three to talk together without "spotter'
soon approaching to try and catch what
was being said. There are few "spotters''
around now. In fact Wilder. Dillon and
Mackenzie are among the men watched,
and the watchers are strikers. These men
deny Indignantly that they warned Yard
master Dillon to quit or he would be in
jured. That is the statement he made to
Sheriff McKillican yesterday. The strik-
ers say that no official of the company
| would be interfered with; that all thew
are after are non-union men and Pullman n
cars.
The completeness with which the
strikers have tied up everything is max
ing them aggressive. They are all behind
two months with their pay from the South
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