Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-07
THE GREAT TIE-UP.
The Anti Pullman Strike Assum-
ing Enormous Proportions.
From Present In dlcations Railroad Traf-
fc Bids Fair to BE Practically Par
arlyzed--A Resume of the
situation at Chicago.

situation at Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 29.-President Debs
and his associates of the American
Railway union played high card to-
day, and made a radical move when
they formally boycotted every road
represented in the General Managers
association. Commissions were given
to committees representing the en-
ployes of each road with orders to call
out the men the instant sufficient sup
port was obtained to war; ant strike.
The roads represented in the associa-
tion and subjected to the boycott are:
Chicago, Rock Island e. Pacific, llli-
nois Central, Chicago & Grand Trunk,
Santa Fe, Chicago & Alton, Chicago &
Erie, Chicago d Eastern Illinois. Chi
cago e. Northwestern, Western Indi-
ana, Chicago, burlington & Quincy,
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Chica-
go Great Western, Louisville, New
Albany 4 Chicago, Chicago & Northern
Pacific, Lake Shore, Michigan Central,
New York, Chicago & st. Louis, Pan
handle, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne g.
Chicago, Wabash, Wisconsin Central
and Baltimore g. Ohio.
AS rapidly as possible the men will
be ordered out on the roads named, and
it is the intention of the union officials
to inaugurate strikes on the lines men
toned in preference to roads through
out the country which haul Pullman
cars
According to the official announce
ment the managers association has
been organized for the sole purpose of
crushing the American Railway union
and waving all other first claims the
| union will proceed to do battle with
the associated lines. Wherever the
boycott and strike is not made effective
tonight the organizers will be at work
until sufficient men have been organ
lied to tic up the roads.
The orders issued to-day for strikes
included the men on the Rock Island,
the Burlington. Chicago & Alton (sec-
ond order), Chicago & Erie, Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, Monon, Fort Wayne
(second ORDER, Wabash, Chicago &
Great Western and Lake Shore
A formal strike will not be declared
on the Milwaukee until the situation
on that road has been canvassed by
the board of directors of the union at
a meeting tomorrow. The Michigan
| Central and Grand Trunk are not af.
fected as yet, but the union officials
say they will be tied up unless they
withdraw from the Managers associa.
| ton.
| The Wabash men were let alone un
til it was reported that the company
was handling trains of roads already
boycotted
If the plan of the union officials is
carried out twenty-five roads out OF
Chicago will be tied up within the next
two or three days.
The action of the union officials in
authorizing strike among the EN-
ployes of the Union Stock Yards
Transit Co., while spoken of and pre-
dicted yesterday, was really not ex
pected.
The union officials We're opposed tt
blocking the stock yards for the pres
ent, and had already refused the Offer
of assistance there by Grand Master
Sovereign of the Knights of Labor
To-day, however, when the committee
from the stock yards reported that the
men had been organized last night
and presented a grievance to the eff
feet that they were compelled tt
handle the ears of boycotted roads
the executive committee, after hasty
conference, decided to appoint the
committees necessary in ordering {
strike.
The contest between the Chicago &
Northwestern and the union is devel
oping into battle royal, and each side
is straining every nerve to win. The
company has removed the blacklist
placedupon the strikers of 1891, and so fal
have secured two of the old men who
are now at work in the passe nger yards
One other crew is at work, but tn.
most of the switch ing is being done by
the officials.
The greatest enthusiasm was ere
ated among the strikers to-day wher
the announcement was made that the
Mobile & Ohio had surrendered uncon
ditionally. General Manager Scale
had telegraphed President Debs thai
his road had cut off all Pullman cars
and had requested release of the
line.
After it had been ascertained thai
the road was not member of the Man
ayers association President Debs wired
the president of the union in charge
of the strike to call off the boycott i'm
mediately after receiving writer
guarantee from the company that il
would not run any Pullmans until the
present trouble was settled. This |,
really the first actual victory, and it i.
used among the strikers to good effect
Matters were complicated for thu
railroads to-day when the union mer
succeeded in inducing the majority O.
the imported su bstitutes on the Pan
handle to join the union and qui
work. A committee from the imported
men called at headquarters to repor
that they had been brought here un
der strict orders, to dissbey whicl
meant the loss of their posi-
tions. The men were conduc
tors, brakemen and switchmen from
Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh ant
other Pennsylvania points, and whel
thirty-two of them marched to tn
yards the union men captured mum
Der with the result that committe
of five attended meeting at 50 LAX,
street and promised to call out thei
companions providing the union woul,
guarantee them protection and provid
them with transportation to thei
homes. Fifteen of the men were sen
back tonight and it is claimed by tn
unioh men that the others will go bacl
tomorrow.
| A meeting of Division No. of tn
Order of Railway Conductors was al
tended by large number of condue
tors, including Grand Chief Clark
/ Nearly two-thirds of the conductor
present, it was said, were members O
the union, and instead Of passing an
anti-measures, a motion was adopte
as the sense of the meeting that tn
conductors would attend strictly t
their own positions, and would refus