The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-07-04
LIFE OR DEATH.
A Fight for Existence Between the
Union and Railway Managers,
Blow to Organized Labor-Strlkers
Constantly Increasing In Strength
The First Act of Violence
Is Reported.


CHICAGO, June Notwithstanding
the confident assertions made by the
railroad managers, the roads are en-
countering serious difficulties in at,
tempting to fill the places of the strik-
erS.
Although 200 men were brought into
the city to go to work in passenger
yards yesterday, only one or two crews
were started. AS fast us men were put
to work they were persuaded to quit
and at II o'clock the tie-up was about
as complete as before, In the Pan
Handle yards thirty men were started
to work but the engineers refused TO
work with them.
President Debs and his associates of
the A. r. U. played high card yester-
day and made radical move when they
formally boycotted every road repre-
sented in the General Managers asso-
citation. Commissions were given to
committees representing the employees
OF each road, with orders to call out
men the instant sufficient support was
obtained to warrant strike. The
roads represented in the association
and subjected to the boycott are:
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Illi-
nois Central; Chicago & Grand Trunk;
Santa Fe; Chicago & Alton; Chicago &
Erie; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chi
cago & Northwestern; Western Indi-
ana; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy;
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul; Chi
cago & Great Western; Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago; Chicago & Northern
Pacific; Lake Shore; Michigan Central;
New York, Chicago & st. Louis; Pan
Handle; Pittsburg, TT. Wayne & Chi
cago; Wabash; Wisconsin Central and
Baltimore & 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 an
nouncement the managers association
has been organized FOR the sole purpose
of crushing the American Railway
union and waiving all other first claims
the union will proceed to do battle with
the associated lines.
The greatest enthusiasm was created
among the strikers yesterday when the
announcement was made that the Mo-
bile & Ohio had surrendered uncondi-
tionally. General Manager Seal had
telegraphed President Debs that his
road had cut Off all Pullman cars and
had requested a release OF the line.
After it had been ascertained that the
road was not a member of the man
ayers association President Debs wired
the president of the union in charge Of
the strike to call off the boycott imme-
diately after receiving a written guar
antee from the company that it would
not run any Pullmans until the present
trouble was settled.
All Of the engineers of the Illinois
Central have pledged themselves to
obey a call TO strike whenever issued.
A request for cooperation was sent out
TO them from headquarters last evening
and IL was announced that beginning
to-day, the engineers would refuse 10
handle trains with Pullman cars or OPP
Grated by substitutes.
Two hundred brakemen on the roads
out of the Polk street station and two
hundred engineers and tiremen on the
Chicago & Great Western were either
made members of the union or affiliated
Friday afternoon and all Immediately
joined the ranks Of the strikers. In Ad-
dition at the Polk street station TWEEN
ty baggagemen walked out in sympathy
with the union men.
An order TO strike was received last
night by the switchmen, switch tend
ers, tower men and crews of switch en-
gines on the Wabash railway in Chi
cago. At 6 o'clock every man went out.
not single car of freight was switched
and not train Of freight Of any kind
left the Wabash yards during the night
The switch engine crews ran their On
gines into the round house and left
them there after drawing the fires.
BY vote Of $50 TO 1O3 the delegates
TO the special conference of the Switch
mems Aid association decided last night
at ll:45 to take no part in the present
strike. The delegates present repre-
sented every railroad centering in the
city.
A mob Of 1000 people, composed Of
strikers and their sympathizers,
stopped the New York and Chicago lin
tied on the Chicago & Erie road near
the state line at Hammond, Ind, at $40
last evening and compelled the crew TO
sidetraek the two Pullman sleepers ear
ried by the train. The train was
stopped as soon as II had crossed ls |
state line. The leaders OF the crowd
ordered the crew to detach the Ftlk~
mans from the rest Of the train and the
engineer was compelled to haul them
about 25O feet to a siding where the en-
gine was uncoupled and the Pullman
,ars were pushed onto the siding by the
,rowd.
Then the crew was notified that they
night proceed with the rest of TIE
rain, but at IL o'clock no such mspa
iad been made. The sheriff was -
aand with twenty deputies, but he WIS
oowerless TO protect the train. He then
wired Gov. Matthews for troops TO pre-
rent interference with the operation Or |
,he roads.
Railroads Paralyzed.