Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-07-05


Studebaker of the Pullman Com
pany and President Debs OF the A.
r. U. resulted in nothing.
At Springfield there was some
rioting when the militia attempted
to move Wabash trains, but no ser.
ious results followed, the trains be-
ing finally moved.
President Cleveland has expressed
himself that he considers the strike
serious, and that the Government
should act promptly to prevent in-
reference with the mails and inter
state traffic.
Resolutions have been introduced
into both houses of Congress looking
to a joint committee investigation OF
the causes of the strike and what
legislation is necessary to such cases.
DEBs' EDICr.
President Debs said this alter
noon:
1.-THE settlement will be made on
these terms only:
81. There must be an armistice
between Mr.. Pullman and his en-
ployes a basis satisfactory to the
men {they are willing to accept a
reasonable compromise), and all the
men must be taken back to work.
80. There must be an adjustment
between the railways and the strik-
ers; all must be restored to their old
positions and no wages shall be cut
nor shall determinations be made.
1.-The General Managers Associa-
ton has made common cause with
the Pullman company, and we can't
settle with either side. There must
be an agreement with both or nome"
This statement was made after an
interview with Mr.. Peter Studebaker.
WHAT IT COSTS THE A. r. t..
CHIcAso,lLL ,July2.-How many
dollars a day is this fight costing the
American Railway Union? Some Of
the weak kneed of the strikers are
beginning to wonder. The officials
of the union declare that they 10 not
know, and probably they do not.
The daily expense already is enor-
nous, even leaving out the amount
the strikers are losing every week
by lack of wages. The unions in
come is between SAC, 600 and $145,-
900 a year--less than s400 a day at
the outside. And more than that is
being spent every twenty-four hours
on the single item OF telegraph tolls
this in authority of Director Rogers.
Add an officers and directors sala.
ry list of SIC, 900 a year, fancy sala.
ries to between sixty-five and seven
ty organizers now on the road, rents
: for two sets of offices in Chicago,
+ hire of clerks and stenographers, rail
way fare for the travelling organizers
rental of halls and payment of the
3 horde of speakers which the union
has out-well, 900 per yea.
will hardly cover it all. These ex
penses are mounting giddily every
| day. Special assessments will b.
necessary soon or the A. r. u. viii
, be out of money. When the specia
assessment time comes there is like
ly to be an upheaval among SOM
: of the men whose small income.
have been shut off by the strike
There will shortly be an urgent cal
q for the sinews of war from the 4. X
t IT,, for the bigger the boycott grow
the heavier the expense. II is calcu
: lated by the A. K. U. officials tina
: their organization has about 145, 00(
: members. These men pay to tn
general union 81 each year, and til
5 total income of the union itself is a
the outside $145, 900. And a liberia
shrinkage must be allowed for neg
: members and delinquents. Beyont
t this amount the order has no resour
ces. Being a new organization it hai
no reserve fund, and there is but
small surplus in its treasury.
D CATTLE AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 2.-As a result O
: the tie-up of the Stock Yards Rail
] road, 5000 men and 400 girls EN-
ployed in the big packing house
t were laid off this morning. Durin,
the early morning the Burlington
q. road succeeded in bringing in fiv,
= trains of live stock, each train con
tanning SO cars. The receipts o
live stock at 8 a.. m. were 9,00t
: cattle, 5000 hogs and about ZOO
sheep, and these will be killed to-da,
for local consumption. No coal ha
, been received at the Stock Yard
since last Thursday, and orders wer'
issued this morning for a genera
clean up preparatory to shuttin,
down the packing houses tonight.
2 The Burlington road has 463 car
2 Of live stock on the road between
Chicago and Galesburg, and tn,
Rock Island has turned 1000 heat
, OF live stock into pasture at Gene
? see, Ill. The Northwestern roa,
reports having 5000 head in pas.
ture a few miles east of Clinton.
:. The Wabash and Santa Fe road
/ each has Is train Of live stock stand
> ing on the main line and say the,
will attempt TO run them into tn,
=. Stock Yards at once.
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