The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-06-28

Eleven Roads at Chicago Tied u
or Badly Crippled,
THE BOYCOTT SENTIMENT GROWING


strikers, and the Train Proceeds with
out Them-A Tie Up on the Michigan
Central Narrowly Averted.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-The employees Of the
Chicago aud Great Western railway went
out last night, making a total Of eleven
Chicago roads now tied up or crippled by
the American Railway union boycott Of
Pullman cars. The roads so far affected
by the strike at this point are the Illinois
Central, Santa Fe, Chicago and Great
Western, Chicago and Northern Pacific,
Western Indiana, Wisconsin Central, Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois, Wabash. Grand
Trunk, Monon and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad companies. On some Of
these roads Pullman cars are still being
carried, but the strike leaders confidently
asserted that tonight will see the boycott
completely effected
The men, who have been leaving slowly
and in small lots, are beginning to show
the effects of the A. r. L. missionary
work, and today the boycott sentiment is
much more general and apparent than at
any previous time since the strike began.
An attempt was made last evening to send
| out the st. Paul train on the Chicago and
| Great Western, with "A Pullman sleeper
attached. The train started out, but when
It was found that the sleeper had been
coupled on a trainman pulled the bell
! rope, and as the engineer reversed the en-
| gine twenty men rushed to the coupling.
| and in few moments the train pulled
out, leaving the Pullman in the depot.
Crowds OF strikers and sympathizers
gathered in the railroad yards in different
portions of the city, and the police were
kept busy quelling threatened riots.
| Strikers drove Illinois Central employees
from the yards at Froham despite the eff
forts of a detail of police and an addi-
| tional force was sent to that point. Later
in the evening, a large crowd gathered in
| the Western Indiana yards at Archie ave
nue., and became so threateniugly demon
strative that the police force there was
| doubled.
| The three signal men who control the
switches at the Western Indiana tracks
at Archer avenue Joined the strikers at
$50 o'clock last night blocking the sys-
TEN. Under a heavy police guard a new
| signalman was placed in the tower and
the blockade was raised, the crowd max
| ing no demonstrations. At $3.50 o'clock
the San Francisco limited over the Santa
Fe, with four Pullman cars, passed the
|
demonstration. The seventy-fve signal
men and fifteen switchmen employed in
the Western Indiana yards are all on
| strike.
A general tie up on the Michigan Cen
tral road was narrowly averted yesterday
afternoon. The union was notified that
the Michigan Central was engaged in
switching coaches for the road whose men
are out. The superintendent of the Mich
igan Central was at once notified that if
there was any further attempt on the part
of his road to assist the Illinois Central
every man in the employ of the Michigan
Central would be called out. Orders were
given the men by the company to have
nothing more to do with the Illinois Cen,
tral cars
The Michigan Central trains which run
out over the Illinois Central tracks made
their scheduled time without any diff.
Guilty. Every time one of them passed
with its Wagner cars the crowds at Grand
Crossing cheered
The American Railway union men in
the employ of the Southern Pacific have
asserted their power. As a result of their
attempt to enforce the Pullman boycott
passenger trains are tied at every railroad
center of California Save by the local
trains no passengers are leaving San
Francisco or Oakland, and there is every
indication that the tie up may be pro
tracted. An official of the Southern Pa
cifc company declared that if they are not
allowed to run Pullman coaches they will
run no trains at all.
All Southern Pacific and Santa FL
trains which have hitherto pulled out OF
Los Angeles, Cal, with Pullman cars at
tached were tied up today on account OF
the boycott declared by the American
Railway union against the Pullman Can
company. The Santa Fe overland passen
ger train eastbouud, which should have
left here at o'clock yesterday morning
is still here, the switchmen positively re
fusing to attach the Pullmans to tn,
train.
On the Montana division of the UnioI
Pacific, extending from Helena to Liv
ingston, not a wheel is moving. This il
due to the fact that the shop men at tn,
latter point have taken advantage of tn,
Pullman boycott to present their demands
for an increase of pay and in sympathy
with them other employees have gone ou
on that division.
President Debs has issued an order for
strike on the entire Santa Fe system. Tn,
men are ordered to remain out until th
discharged employees shall be reinstated
> Not wheel is moving on the entire New
Mexico division.