Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-07-26
URGED TO BOYCOTT.

URGED TO BOYCOTT.
Appeal Of the Strike Leaders to
the Public.
Tho Document Issued Federal Troops Are
Withdrawn from Chicago and Vicinity
Want Olney Impeached-Girls
Chased by an Angry Mob.
DEBs' APPEAL
CHICAGO, July 24-Prcsident Debs
and his associates prepared an appeal
TO the American people asking them to
boycott the Pullman cars by refusing
TO ride in them. The document says
that the obstinacy Of the Pullman
company in refusing to submit to ar
bitration in any form (even to decide
the question if there was anything to
arbitrate) is deserving of the severest
condemnation. It goes on to say that
| the Pullman company has robbed its
employees and that an investigation
would have disclosed state of affairs
which would have Mortified the nation.
This, the union claims, is why arbitra-
ton was refused.
The document continues:
1T is VIGOROUSLY true that the Pullman
company pays its conductors and porters such
paltry wages that they are obliged to depend
upon the public to support them. Yes this
rich and powerful corporation virtually COM
pels the public to pay the wages Of It's sleeping
car employees, and this Notwithstanding ex-
tortionate rates are charged for slet Ming car
accommodations
Then. after stating that they pro-
pose to continue the strike regardless
of consequences until justice be done,
it says: The struggle is for humanity
and against the most cruel tyranny,
and, unless we are dead to every i'm
pulse of mercy and acknowledging,
must be crowned with success"
We propose that the Pullman company
shall be brought to justice and this in way
that will not necessitate strike with its at
tendant ills. 1t may be suggested that this
should have been thought Of before the great
strike was tnaugurated In that case little If
any, attention would have been paid to the APP
peal we are about to make.
LAS one OF the results Of the strike the coun-
try is aroused and any proper appeal will COM
mand attention The Pullman company, still
defiant, and rs cruel to its former employees as
1t Is Indifferent to the public veal, is deter
mined to starye It's employees into submission.
AS remorselesS as man-eating tiger, 1t waits
complacently until their last penny Is gone and
they are thus forced to crawl back into their
heartless oppressor's employ. The spectacle
is well calculated to make men and angels
shudder.
Shall the Pullman company have the sup
port OF the public in carrying out this hellish
policy: Shall the public be party to the star
walton and degradation of the more than
4OOO employes-men and women whose only
crime is that they ask living wagesg
We believe-indeed, we know what the
answer will be. We have faith in the Ameri-
can people. They uphold Justice; they love fair
play. And now In the name OF justice and fair
play. we appeal to the great American
public, to every good man and every good
woman. not to ride In Pullman car until the
Pullman company does justice to It's employees.
Let the cars run absolutely empty. No friend
Of labor. no friend Of humanity, will occupy a
seat or berth In Pullman car. Let this policy
be inaugurated and we will then see how long
The railroad companies will be bound by their
contracts, as they have induced the public to
believe, to haul Pullman cars.
Soldiers Recalled.
CHICAGO, July 2O.-Gen. Miles signed
a general order Wednesday night re-
moving the federal troops from Chi
cago. The infantry took trains for
their respective posts, while the cav
airy and artillery marched to Fort Sher-
idan, and will be modified there until
such time rs Gen. Miles thinks it best
they be sent to their posts. The order
came from the war department Wednes-
day evening, after Gen. Miles had in
formed the department he thought the
situation had SO far improved it was
perfectly safe to remove the soldiers
State Troops Ordered Home.
Wednesday night Gov Altgeld tele-
graphees orders relieving the Second
brigade from further service at Chi
cage. The order affects 500 men, form
ing the Fourth and Fifth regiments
and Battery A. The fourth regi-
ment contains eight companies, the
Fifth ten companies, and the
brigade is under command of Brig.
Gen. Barclay, with headquarters at
Springfield. The brigade represents
the state guard located south of Spring
Geld, and companies are located in
nearly every town IN that part of the
state, including Canton, Arcola, Tus-
cola, Olney, Newton. Lincoln and
Paris. The governors order also re-
Geves and orders home the Centralia,
Belleville and Efingham companies of
the Fourth regiment, which have been
on duty at Mounds, Pulaski county.
To lmpeach Olney.
The following letter. accompanied
by petition, was received at strike
headquarters Wednesday:
CHICAGO, July II, 1894. ITO all local UNI
ions and fellow members: Inclosed you
will find blank petition to the house
OF representatives asking for the i'm
parchment OF Attorney General Olpey
who has been so bitter against US In
his decisions connected with the present
trouble. Secure every signature possible to
the petition from all classes of railroad men,
citizens and others and forward. to your con.
gresham at once with request that he take
immediate action and cooperate with others to
carry out the spirit OF the petition
EUGENE v. DEBs, President,
SYLvEsTER KELIhER, Secretary"
Offers to Take Them Back.
For the first time since its employees
went on strike, May IL, the Pullman
Palace Car company on Wednesday
made public overtures to them to re-
turn to work. These overtures were
in the form of notices posted upon the
shop gates ut 4 o. o'clock p. m. by Super
intendent Middleton, which read:
These works will be opened as soon as the
number Of operatives taken on Is suficient to
make q working force In all departments
switchmen Vote to Stay Out,
Eight hundred union switchmen
from all parts of the CITY held a mass