The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-07-05
THE STRIKE SPREADS
THE BOYCOTT OF PULLMAN CARS
| CAUSING TiE-UPS EVERYWHERE.

Thousands Of Mon Quitting work-Al
lines Running Into Chicago Entirel,
CT ppled or Greatly Delayed-Freigh
Traffic Also Islocked-Evsry Yard ii
the City Crowded with Cars of Perish
able Goods.
CHICAGO. June 29.-At IL p. m. al
the switchmen, fremen, engineers and
trainmen on the Chicago and Western
Indiana struck. This corporation owns
the tracks over which the the Atchlson
Grand Trunk, Wabash, Chicago and
Eastern Illinois and Louisville. New
Albany and Chicago lines leave the city
The employees of the Union Stock
yards and Transit company have de.
cided to inform the company that un-
less it refused to handle the freight cars
of lines hauling Pullman cars they
would strike. The number of men il
not over 300, tut their action will com
pletely tie up the stockyards and para
lyze the packing industry.
Freight Yards Blocked.
All the freight yards in the city are
crowded with cars loaded with perish
able goods which the roads are unable
to move The $40 train on the Grand
Trunk, eastbound, was made up with
the usual Pullman, but as no passengers
appeared the coach was left behind.
Two trains on the Baltimore and Ohio
which left the city, one about $50 and
the other at p. m. for the East, are
stalled at the Western avenue crossing
of the Pan Handle. The switchmen re-
fused to work the gates and it was i'm
possible to proceed.
stockyards Affected.
Several thousand men will be thrown
out of employment at the stockyards by
an order from the Knights of Labor.
The entire packing industry will be
completely paralyzed. The effect will
be so serious that the proprietors Of the
40 packinghouses and the railroad Off
Gals refused to believe that any such
action would be taken. About 400
switchmen, trackmen, number takers,
engineers and firemen will leave their
posts at tho command Of the American
Railway union. The roads affected by
q tieup in the yards include nearly
every railroad system running into Chi
cago. - -'|-'ssse~~-
Eleven Roads Affected.
Eleven roads are now tied up or Grip,
Piled by the American Railway unions
boycott of Pullman cars. The roads 80
far affected by the strike ct this point
are the Illinois Central, Santa Fe, Chi
cago Great Western. Chicago and
Northern Pacific, Western Indiana,
Wisconsin Central, Chicago and East
ern Illinois, Wabash, Grand Trunk,
Monon and the Baltimore and Ohio.
On some of these roads Pullman cars
are still being carried, but the strike
leaders confidently assert that another
day will see the boycott completely ef-
fective. The men, who have been leav-
ing slowly and in small lots, are begin
ming to show the effects of the A. R. U.
missionary" work, and the boycott SEN
timent is much
More General and More Apparent
than at any previous time since the
strike began. An attempt was made
during the evening to send out the St.
Paul train on the Chicago Great West.
ern with Pullman sleeper attached.
The train started out, bat when it was
found that the sleeper had been coupled
on q trainman pulled the bell rope,
and, as the engineer reversed tho en-
engine, 20 men rushed to the coupling,
and in q few moments the train pulled
out, leaving the Pullman in the depot.
Crowds Of strikers and symathizers
gathered in the railroad yards in vari-
ous portions Of the city, and the police
were kept busy in preventing threat
eped rion. Strikers drove Illinois Cen
"a employees from the yards at Ford
ham despite the efforts of detail of po-
lice and an additional force was sent to
that point. Later in the evening q
large crowd gathered in the Western
Indiana yards at Archer avenue aud
became so threateninRly demonstrative
that the police force there was doubled.
Signal Mon Strike.
At Archer the three signal men who
control the switches at the Western In
diana tracks turned strikers at $3.50,
blocking the system. Under heavy
police guard new signal man was
placed in the tower and the blockade
was raised, the crowd making no DEM
onstration. At $50. the San Francisco
limited on the Santa Fe, with four
Pullman cars, passed the crossing in
safety. The Is signal men and Is
switchmen employed in the Western
Indiana yards are all on n strike. 9
Reports From Various Roads.
The Pittsburg and Fort Wayne road
is severely crippled in its terminal serv-
ice; the Illinois Central subur ban serv-
ice, which carries more people to and
from business in Chicago than any other
line, is completely tied up. The Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois is badly COM
plicated, and the other roads which use
the Chicago and Western Indian rail-
way as terminal are suffering be-
cause of the strike on that line. These
roads are the Erie, Chicago and Grand
Trunk, Santa Fe and the Wabash. The