The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-02
A 7IB-IP ORDERED AT LAST
The Union Officers Call Out AL
Men.
GENERAL RESPONSE
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF RAIL
ROADERS HELD YESTERDAY.
All Branches of the Service Repre-
scented, and 1t Was Unanimously
Decided to Stand by the Boycott
A FURRY at the Western Depot
Union Pacific Order-The Tug of
War Today.

!
| War Today.
There is blood on the moon sure
enough
The gigantic railway strike, which
breaches from ocean to ocean, is on in
Salt Lake, and in earnest. From the
outset of the Pullman boycott it was
reasonably sure that this would be the
cost, unless a speedy settlement of the
difficulty should be reached.
The situation here is not nearly so
grave as in many other places, but it
| is grave enough Should the tie-up con-
tinue for a week it will exert most
demoralizing effect upon business gen
orally. For instance, DIT is stated that
| the entire supply of coal in all the
yards will be completely exhausted in
side of a week, while the supply of
slack, such as is used by the street
railway companies, the electric light
company and the various mills, is al
ready very light.
Whether or not there will be any
open trouble between the railroads and
the men remains to be seen. The au-
| thorities will take every precaution to
Itically the entire police force will be
on duty at the two depots, while extra
men will be put on to patrol the beats.
Promptly at p. m, yesterday the
great body of railroad men in this city,
assembled in mass meeting at the Fed
GRATED Trades hall, to discuss the boy
colt and take action upon 1t. The place
was not large enough to accommodate
the crowd, which was made up of hard
working and intelligent men. When the
meeting was called to order the chair
man requested that all not ldenuf1ed
with railway work leave the room as
the matters to be considered had to
do only with the interests of that class.
Representatives Of The Herald and
Tribune were in the room, and the re-
quest was modified as to them.
| The first business coming before the
meeting was a formal statement by
the chairman of the facts concerning
the boycott, the conditions confronting
not only the members of the American
Railway union, but all wage earners
in the land. After the chairman's adj
dress the following official call of the
American Railway union, through the
grand officers, was read:
THE OFFICIAL CALL.
Chicago, June 26, 1894.
To all Local Unions of the American
halfway OHlOll.
Sirs and Brothers-On May II, the
men and women employed by the Pull
man Palace Car company at Pullman,
! ILL.,. struck 1t was a. strike noninaAy
for the restoration of wages, but that
was not the only or even the leading
phase of the trouble 1t was for lib
erty, for the right to exist, and to
loosen, if possible, by that act, the grip
of tyrant who, though covering his
infamy by gifts in the name of religion
and science, was as remorseless as that
lof the infamous Caligula.
These people are members of the
American Railway union, and of all
who have Joined it's ranks the most
abused and beaten down.. We prom
Used these men end women protection
and have since the date. first named
been helping them to light their battle,
and will stay with them to the end.
In the meantime every effort has
been made to have the Pullman COM
pany arbitrate. Our committees have
requested the officers of the company
on numerous occasions to have the
whole matter submitted to disinterest-
ed parties.
The good people Of Chicago, the pow
lerful Civic federation, made up of the
leading reformers of that city, have
appealed for it. The press, even those
unfavorable to union labor, has de-
manded it, but in vain.
AS last resort the delegates repre-
senting the American Railway union,
in convention assembled, after a. care
full and dispassiohate consideration of
the case, by unanimous voice ordered
a boycott on the Pullman palace cars
and equipment, said order taking effect
at noon today.
AS a, consequence we now find our
selves confronted not only by the Pull
man company, but by the combined
railway corporations through their
general managers, and it is now d
fight between the corporations repre-
scented by the General Managers asso-
citation, as allies of Pullman, and all
the railway employees, without refer
ence to organization. AS such we want
every good mans help.
To the end noted, can the American
Railway union depend on you to call
on the officers of all labor organizations
to ask for us their aid and co-opera-
ton? VIII you appoint at once COM
mittees to call upon them?
Notify us on receipt of this circular
and keep us advised of any develop
ments. Keep US constantly informed
as to the situation in and about your
locality, and be sure at all times to re-
member, Notwithstanding the expected
discouraging reports of the enemy,
whether it be the open foe or the knife
of those whose interest in labor is con-
fined to leeching an unearned living
from it's veins.
Finally, brothers, remember, and let
that remembrance nerve your arm,
that we are not on a mere skirmish
line for a temporary advantage, but in
fighting this battle it's lines reach
deeper, and its conclusions must
be on the one hand our eternal good, or
if by treachery and apathy defeated,
labor's downfall, from which it will
take years of suffering and endeavor
to recover, that this struggle is to be
somebody's Waterloo. See that it is
not ours; do we'll your part; stand
firmly in line with us, and it will not
be ours. Yours fraternally,
EUGENE V. DEBS,
President.
GEORGE w. HOWARD,
Vice-President.
SYLVESTER KELIHER,