Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-07-12
Strike Notes,

Everything is quiet at Omaha.
The strike has spread to Cleveland.
Traffic was at standstill In Wyoming on
the Fourth.
The Railway Union men at Omaha refused
to go out when ordered.
One hundred soldiers from Fort Russell
have gone to Pueblo.
The express companies are refusing to carry
government funda to the West.
Deputy marshals sworn In at Denve cost
the government 81, GOO per day.
Debs predicts that . settlement Of the
strike will be made BY Saturday.
Twenty-Five clerks in the U. P. freight Of
fee at Denver quit Monday morning.
Philadelphia is threatened with . meat
famine, as the supply is about exhausted.
Potatoes. and coal are very high in Denver.
Potatoes were shipped In by express.
On the sth the local president of the A. R.
U. at Buffalo refused to obey' 'Debs' order to
strike.
Governor Stone Of Missouri protests against
the interference by the federal authority in
that state.
Tho Chicago g. Northwestern has laid off
10, ,OGO men, owing to its inability to do any
business.
Tho tIe-up at Ogden was ended on the sth
by the presence of troops S,nt from Fort
Douglas.
Militiamen were stoned by mob at. Sioux
City and charged with bayonets. The crowd
scattered.
The postal authorities ara prodding up the
Southern Pacific people to make stronger ef-
forts to transport the mails.
Tho Burlington and Missouri P ac!fo are
the least affected Of any western roads, as
they employ non-union men.
As q result of the blockade of perlshable
freight on the Chicago roads fruits and ,cS
have quadrupled in price at that point
1t is reported that President Debs and
other leaders will be indicted under the anti
trust law on charge Of criminal conspiracy.
President Cleveland on Sunday issued .
proclamation urging all citizens to assist in
preserving order and warning law br eakers
to quit.
The United States marshal at Chicago has
stopped swearing in deputies, because the
men applying for positions are in sympathy
with the strikers.
Judge Hallett severely criticised Marshal
Israel's deputies who were disarmed at Trini-
dad by the strikers. He thought they were
Incompetent.
One serious problem in Chicago is how to
dispose of the animals that die. They can
not be hauled out Of the city on the cars and
arc putretying.
A big law and order meeting held at Spo-
kane resulted In 400 citizens being sworn In as
deputies without salary, to be called in case
Of emergency.
President Debs on the 9th issued circular
warning all A. R. U. men against violating
any law, and urging them to assist in arrest
ing those who do 70.
Tho bridge nea. New Castle was set on fire
wedne sday, just previous to the passage OF .
train bearing deputies. The station agent
put out the fire before much damage was
done.
Judges At st. Louis, Cleveland and else
where have issued blanket injunctions simi-
lar to those issued in Chicago warning all
persons not to interfere with interstate COM
merce.
1t was reported Friday that court officers
under Instructions from Attorney General
Olney would arrest 2, 200 men in Kansas who
have violated the conspiracy act by interfcr-
ing with interstate commerce.
Notwithstanding the warning Of Judge
Rincr, the Union Pacific employees at Chey-
enne, Green River, Laramie and Rawlins re-
fused to 90 to work until the boycott Is de-
clared Of. They doubt the ability Of the re-
ceivers to fll their places.
At Charlottesville, Indiana, several large
military companies have been organized by
General Lew Wallace in view OF the threat
ened trouble by strikers. General Wallace
believes that unless the strike is put down at
once civil war will ensue.
On the 7th Messrs. Debs and Sovereign
sent to President Cleveland long letter in
which they protested against the calling out
of troops, under the guisc of protecting the
mails, "whose very presence is used to cosrce
and intimidate peaceable working people In
to a humilIating obedience to the will Of
their oppressors. By your acts, in SO far as
you have supplanted civil and state authori-
tie. with the federal military power, the
spirit Of unrest and destruction has so far
been augmented that deep seated conviction
ia fast becoming prev alent that this govern
meut is soon TO be declared military despot-
lam The transmission of the United States
mail 10 not interrupted by the striking en-
ployes of any railway company, but BY the
railway companies themselves who refused to
haul the malls on trains to which Pullman
cars were not attached"
The most important event in the West last
Saturday was the decision Of the federated
employees of the Union Pacific not to join the
strike. The reason given is that these orders
cannot violate the contract that Judge Cald-
veil has declared binding on the receivers.
While sympathizing with the Pullman en-
ployes, they decide that "in justice and equity
and In view Of tho position taken by Union
Pacific employees before the United States
court, We deem It unwise for them to recedc
from the position which they are legally In,
and which may be the means Of sacrificing all
that has been gained for labor everywhere, In
the effect Of the Caldwell decision" This
declsiop 10 hard blow to tbs Railway Uaion