The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-05
Trains In and Out On Both
Roads.
COMPARATIVELY QUIET DAY
BEST OF ORDER MAINTAINED BY
THE MEN.
The Usual Meeting Held Yesterday
Afternoon-strilser Claim That
the Western Union Is Discrimin-
ating Against Them-Speeches
Made-At the Depots.

way Str1ke SHOWS very marked I'LL
provement.
The hundreds of railway men in this
city who are directly interested in the
Pullman boycott did not celebrate the
Fourth. Their interest was conferred
in the fight, which to them was far
more important than the celebration.
The men had been cautioned to keep
duly sober and orderly, and
the admonition was needed to the let
ter. Their department on the national
holiday won for them much praise.
4 union railway meeting was held at
Armstrong; hall, and was called to or
der at 8 p. m They were all there and
registered in an ION time''-no delay
reports had to be made out.
When called to order, a joint COM
mittee from both roads made a thor
cugh canvass of those present, and re-
ported that all were entitled to re-
main.
Next in order was the reading of
kilograms and communications, and the
following were read:
William Anderson, of Highland Park
dairy, notified the men on strike that
he would furnish them milk free of
charge as far as he was able to, and
was in full sympathy with the move
nent.
The milk of human kindness ten
dered by Mr.. Anderson was greeted
with applause and a vote of thanks ten
dered him.
Grand Junction, July Ave have
everything. Engineers apd all. Not a
wheel moving. Keep US posted.
Ogden, July 4.-Rio Grande excur-
sions and all Pullman cars held. Mail
cars allowed to proceed Act accord
ingly.
The following notice was handed in
to the meeting:
Our Helper office is closed. Cannot
get this message off.
W. U. TEL. co.
Following is the telegram refused by
the Western Union company:
To A. r. U. Committee, Helper:
Stand firm You have the key to the
situation. All the police force at The
depot for every train. Call men off the
summit.
Chicago. July 4.-The situation is ex-
tremely encouraging. Each hour adds
new strength to our position. Do not
be dismayed by reports of soldiers or
deputies, and above all do not be mis-
led by false and vicious reports put in
circulation by subsidized tools of cor
porations. Let there be no violence
Orderly conduct will win. We are Ger
tain 10 succeed III lnlS righteous COH-
test. Let there be no wavering in your
ranks. All true soldiers will stand by
the cause until its triumph is pro-
claimed. E. V. DEBS.
1t was reported to the meeting that
NJ. +. w. Holling, machinist and cor
responding secretary of the Federated
Trades, had joined the men for the
space of one brief hour in the strike,
and then gone back to work. The Fed
+od RI CT
that the stipend of $3.50 allowed him
for each meeting would be cut off, the
International Association Of Machinists
would cut him off, and che would be
cut off short all around"
Chicago, July 4-This is authority
for you to request the division chiefs
of the B. Of l.. E., 0. r. E., B. of L. F.,
assistance. Pledge them our full sup
port We are gaining ground every
where. Union meeting of engineers
held here last night voted to stand by
A. r. u E. V. DEBS.
Ogden, July 4.-Pullmans on train
north this evening detached from mail
and sidetracked by 800 men. Stood off
marshals. No. 25 is all right
1t was stated in the meeting that the
A. r. U. committee went to the West
ern Unions Office in this city and de-
sired to send kilograms to Springville,
|P. V. Junction, Helper, and Price. They
were refused, the Western Union tell
ing them that a number of those Of
fees had been closed, and while they
would accept kilograms they could not
guarantee the delivery. Also that the
railroad companies had evidently
bought up it's telephone company,
as the committee could not get the OPP
orator at it's public telephone station
to send business to Ogden and have it
attended to at the other end in it's ev-
eryday manner.
A committee of four were appointed
to wait upon Attorneys Powers and
Armstrong and have them at once take
such steps as would compel the West
ern Union and telephone companies
to accept messages from the strikers
in this instance same as from the gen.
eral public.
Joseph M. Tapsley. president of the
Plumbers union in this city, addressed
the meeting, and pledged the moral
and likewise the financial support of
that and its active local organizations
in the city.
James Hegney was rendered a vote OF
thanks for the stand he had taken in
firing spoilers" out and from off his
premises.
Quite a number of employees came
forward and stated individual cases
that had come under their personal OBJ
servation where men who had not gone
out with the movement at first. have
now done so, and will abide the result.
Conductors belonging to the o. R. C.
were present, and stated that thew
were in full sympathy and they be-
lieved the time was near when an or
der would be promulgated allow
ing them to join hands fully. and
in the meantime they would
not go out with the short crews. OF
men who would endanger in anyway
the lives of others.
A meeting for shop men alone was
arranged for in the hall now occupied
as the American Railway union head.
quarters, in order that they might Sc
lect committees and carry on the work
to better purpose in their own par
ticular field
"scab' list was authorized to be
prepared through a committee, giving
the name and occupation of all tc
whom that title may be applied. In all
strikes such printed lists are usually
out the country. The list will be made
UP and printed at the expiration of this
week
A resolution was offered and passed
iboycotting hereafter private firms, cor.
porations, or individuals who would
act as a bureau for furnishing or at
tempting to furnish or pass into the
service Of the railways any new men
This all arose from the fact that q
party appeared before the meeting and
stated that he had been requested by
certain gentleman to go to work il
the train service of the Union Pacific.
The president of the American Rail
way union lodge at Helper was pres
ent, and stated that $50 far as Helper
was concerned, she was surely tied up
That General superintendent Welby
and Paymaster Lewis were there and 9
notice had been posted up for all the