The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-07-04
ALL ROADS TIED Up
Troops VIII Be Necessary to Open
Travel.


have become alarmed at the situation, |
and bread riots are feared.
All the union men in Chicago, of all |
trades, have proposed 10 leave their en-
ployment within - hours if the strike i
not settled. This would throw out about |
10000 men.
A CHAOTIC FIGHT WITH LABOR
CHICAGO. H., June 3.-Confnsion and !
chaos. with background Of lawless spir-
it, represents the strike situation here to-
night. As natural result. the tie-up is
more complete than at any time since the
war began. Men perfectly willing TO
work are under a reign Of terror and open
acts of violence have served to render
suburban service unsafe, and 10 surround
all train movements with additional
dangers
Dictator Debs talks peace. while his
men are derailing trains, smashing win
dows, spiking and locking switches. and
even stoning trainmen and passengers
SO bad has the situation become that
crews of new men at work yesterday
along the line of the Pan Handle and St.
Paul joint tracks, out of the Union depot,
failed TO appear to-day. During the night
they had been driven from their posts by
intimidation and feared to return and
face the danger.
UNCLE SAM IN CONTEMPT.
Uncle Sam has been required TO take
vigorous hand to protect his mails from
detention and is not meeting with mark
ed success. Marshal Arnold is enrolling
deputies right and left under orders from
Attorney General olney. Sheriff Gilbert
is throwing crowds of municipal deputies
into the field, but the strikers still treat
the majestic mail train with insOlence.
Six postal trains are in ehancery at
Hammond. Ind, in the hands of power
ful mob, and the gre3tcsi difficulty is ex-
perienced in moving all mails. In this
emergency Arnold's deputies are like
snow ball against Gibralter. He has not
one-tenth enough to cover the field. To-
night there is talk Of calling out the See
ond Regiment OF militia to disperse the
strikers and open things UP.
1t has got beyond the point where the
Government is merely interested in pro-
tccting the roads under its control. Its
entire postal service is threatened on
every one Of the crippled roads, and Ar
mold means toopen war with all possible
speed in the Governments behalf.
STRIKE SPREADS LIKE wII.DFIRE-
The strike has spread to-day with start
ling rapidity. Not only switchmen, but
fireinen and even engineers, in one in
stance, have gone out.
Switches have been spiked, others lef;
locked, and everything conceivable done
to cripple the roads.
ROADS WILL BATTLE FOR LIFE.
The roads stand firm As rock againt
the enemy.
''The General Managers Association
will not say that Dehs has played his last
| trump" said Manager Egan, of the assO-
ciation. tonight. "He may have whole
armful Of trumps to play. but we are pre-
pared to make it rs interesting a. possible
for the strikers. The general s,tlaiion TO
my mind has not changed for the better.
1t may grow worse, but that viii not
change our aititude.''
Dictator Debs is jubilant and defiant.
he says that when he gets through with
the fight there will not be enough men
left in Chicago to sweep its streets.
PRICES OF PROVISIONS GO UP.
Prices Of all provisions have gone sky
high. Packing houses are to close, be-
cause supplies are cut of. Fruits in an
told quantities are rotting on the side
tracks, while Water street, the great fruit
centre. looks like grave yard.
Coal i running short. and there are 10
supplies in sight, for freight traffic is
practically bound hand and foot.
The strike may involve all the labor or
ganization inthe city. which would make
George VI. Pullman the central figure of
the most tremendous labor agitation of
the country.
Eugene Y. Debs and George W. How
ard may he familiar in later years as the
leaders of the laboring classes in the fierc-
est battle ever waged between capital and
labor.
ALL LABOR Unions MAY STRIKE.
The Pullman boycott and the union of
q railroad managers in a defensive al
lance against what had appeared mush-
room organization originated by profes-
sional agitators, marks the beginning of
a combat which cannot fail to mark the
beginning ofa new era both politically
and financially.
Defeat 10y either side means death to
the interests involved. This much and
more WAS demonstrated to-day, when, in
the heat Of passion, spurred ON by speech
& calculated to arouse the utmost enthu-
sialsm among laboring men, and many
trade and labor unions of this city and
State, through their representative, voted
10 sustain the Railway Union in its fight
against the Pullman Company and the
railroads.
While not acting together in purpose.
the unions were all planned before the
meeting to join i'm supporting the railroad
men i'm their struggle. At later meet
ing of the central division of the united
labor unions committee was appointed
to wait upon the officials of the Railway
Union and offer the united strength of
every trade and labor organization OF the
city. The tender was made at headquart-
ers this afternoon, and il was pledged that
every union man in the city would go
out immediately, if the officers of the
Railway Union deemed it necessary.
\ GIGANTIC STRIKE PROPOSITION.
The proposition made and accepted was
that in ease the trouble between the union
aud the railroads was not settled within
the next day or two, every union man
in the city of Chicago, from the highest
10 the lowest, would be called Oat in
sympathy with the railroad men. At the
lowest estimate this will mean strike
among the labor unions alone Of over
80 GOO men.
Added to this will be the many thou
sands who viii be thrown out of employ
ment by the forced shutdown of all in
dustries affected by labor agitation.
Grandmothers as Bisyeiers.