River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-09
THEIR JOBS GONE.
Chicago's Striking Switchmen Find
Their Places Filled.
CT-r 100 If Them, 1t Il Stated. Viii
Have to Seek Work Elsewhere
other Strike News-The A.
II. L.. Resolution.
LOOKING FOR WORK.

striking employees presented them
selves Monday as applicants for rein
statement. The great majority found
that their places had been filled and
were told that there was no work for
| them In some instances the strikers
were informed that they would not be
received back under any consideration,
but the roads which have adopted this
policy are in the minority. Many of
the old men who had walked out when
the strike was ordered. and who were
told that there was no work for
them, were taken aside and quiet
ly Informed that in a week there
would be vacancies in the yards and
to call again. On information fur
nished by officials of railroads with
terminals in Chicago, it is estimated
that over 1000 of former employees of
railroads in Chicago VINO struck, and
whose places have been filled by new
men, are permanently ont.
The General Managers association
has a list of the names of the men who
took part in the car burning and up
setting and of the leaders of the
strike. II was said by superintend-
sat Monday that the general managers
had decided that not one of the men
whose names were on the blacklist
would ever again find employment on
any railroad in Chicago.
About 1000 men applying for work
at the stock yards were sent away
Monday. The Switehmen's associa-
ton took charge of the switch engines
in use about the yards, the old men be-
ing placed over the new ones to give
instructions to the latter.
Troops All Called In.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.--Gov. Altgeld has
ordered the troops at Chicago relieved
from duty this morning. The troops
relieved are three companies of the
First infantry, on duty at Pullman,
and four companies of the Second in
fantry, on duty at stock yards. This
order ends the strike services of the
Illinois national guards.
Pullman Rents Not to lie RENTED.
Vice President Wickes, of the Pull
man company, says that the company
will not entertain the proposition from
the strikers to return to work if the
company will remit the past due rents
of houses in Pullman.
on at st. Paul.
ST. PAUL, Aug. AT a meeting of
the local organization of the Ameri-
can Railway union the strike on the
st. Paul & Duluth, Omaha, burlington
and Milwaukee systems at this point
was formally declared off.
Declared on.
CHICAGO, Aug. with the excep
Z /. r Al II. 4
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail
roads the local organization of the
American Railway union, through
their delegates i'm Uhlich's hall Sunday
afternoon, declared the strike off as
far as Chicago was concerned.
1t explains the cause which brought the or
ganization into existence to be the protection
OF railroad employees from the aggessions and
impositions OF their employers No effort was
made 10 destroy the older brotherhood. the In
tention only being 10 bring about a more per-
feet union. IL says the employees OF the Pull
man Palace Car company were taken into the
union at their own request
The resolution scores the federal au-
thorities as follows:
I'VE regret TO say that the federal govern
ment gave some color to the corporations
claim that the authorities were coming to as
SiSl TIT III IN "a pdEllSdu tOnfllCI. DOM DN the
unnecessary sending OF troops without war
rant OF law ana without request OF the consti-
tutional local authorities by the one-sided
and offensive acts of the public prosecutor.
late from a snug berth as corporation law
yer. by the blatant mouthings of the United
States commander, and the no less tyrannical
utterances OF the president himself; that the
workingmen throughout the nation under
stood It was evidenced by their almost unani-
nous action in supporting the strike. and il is
TO be feared that greater gulf than ever has
thus been put between the people and their
government.
The resolutions are concluded with an APP
peal TO the people to desert old political par
ties which have shown themselves equally in
imical to the interests of the common people
and friendly to the great vampire corporations
of the land. These people are in this hand OF
the free the sovereign whose peace should not
he disturbed and whose interests should be
preserved. The sovereign people should assert
their right to rule. We. therefore. citizens of
the republic, appeal to you, fellow voters OF
our common country TO support the party
which bears the name Of the sovereign people,
which party stands ready to pledge itself that
when into its hands is given the government
disputes between employer and employe will
be no longer the only exceptions in the various
states and the nation from the jurisdiction of
the established courts.
After reviewing the prosecution of
the officers of the union for conspiracy
and contempt of court the report takes
up the Santa Fe road and maintains
that the authorities are so busy pun
ishing workmen that they have no
time to attend to the Santa Fc case.
The decision to declare the strike off
was in harmony with the action of the
convention on Friday, which declared
that il had no authority either to order
a strike or declare one off that had been
ordered under the laws of the organic
cation, which specifically say that no
strike shall be ordered excepting by
majority vote of the members of the
union on the system on which the
strike is to take place
VIII Continue the Strike.
SPRING VALLEY, ILL.,, Aug. IA mass
meeting of miners was held near here
and ii was unimously decided to con-
tinue the strike for last years scale.
A. II. q. Resolutions.
CHICAGO, Aug. THE report of the
special committee on resolutions of the
American Railway union which was
submitted to the convention last Fri
day, and which was referred to the
board of directors and the lawyers of
the organization for revision, was
completed Saturday evening and given
to the public:
Here follows a description of the town OF
Pullman an the conditions under which the
workmen are said TO be employed. 1t is said
that while wages were reduced the price OF rents
remained the same. and that at the time the
strike of the Pullman employees began they
were indebted 10 the company In the sum of
$1,000 for rents. Thus the workingmen" says
the resolutions, found themselves in worse
condition than did the workingmen in chattel
slavery, inasInuch as they did not receive their
board and clothes for their labor, but found
themselves in debt to their employer after
faithfully labOrIng for him"
On the subject % - .cnce the report SAYS
that IL Is the taitf =. tle railroad men that
these acts were .ommitte.l by persons mental
" irresponsible or else at Il - dictation of
those who Tere the enc mics IL the working
men II Is said that the only ones who could
profit by such acts were the railroad COM
panies.
Death In a Canyon.
TRINIDAD, Col, Aug. 6-Thursday
night there was a cloudburst in the
hills above Berwind. and the water
came down the canyon leading to that
place in such a volume that party of
five persons who were caught were
swept away and drowned. c. Cando,
mail carrier between Chicosa station
I'D NJ h. 81