The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-28
THE PULLMAN TIE-UP
Chicago Managers Will
Fight Strikers to the
Bitter End.
MAILS BADLY IMPEDED.
Serious Trouble at Ghicago-Sta
at Hammond Marshals
on Trains.
MAILS BADLY IMPEDE

CHICAGO, June "a, 1694.-The most signi
ficant action taken by railway officials since
the strike was ordered was that of the
General Managers Association of Chicago,
yesterday. This association includes
the general manager of every railroad
entering Chicago except the Big Four.
Twenty-Five general managers are members
and twenty-one of them were present at the
meeting yesterday, when it was unanimously
agreed that the roads would fight the boycott
to finish. They decided to import new men
to take the places of all strikers and declared
confidently that they would have enough
recruits in town tomorrow morning to oper-
ate all trains and send them out on schedule
time.
This solid front of railways centering in
Chicago cannot fail to have an important
bearing on the great boycott. The general
managers did not decide to stand together
and fight the strikers until they had obtain
ed a reasonably accurate census OF Jhe
American Railway Unions strength in this
city.
Asser ting the weakness of the Union here
and claiming confidence that they will fill
the places of the strikers without difficulty,
they accepted President Debs' challenge and
announce that they will run Pullman cars,
less of the action of the men.
TWENTY ROADS TIED UP.
The boycott has been in effect only three
days, but in that time the American
Railway Union had succeeded In ty-
ing up over twenty railroads, which in
sisted upon handling Pullman cars, and the
indications are that eight or ten more will
be de erted by their employees within the
next twenty-four hours. At Chicago six
teen roads are now tied up, and orders
were issued this morning to the employees
or two more to refuse to handle Pullman
cars. The first road to feel the effects of the
boycott this morning was the Santa Fe
Meetings were held last night by the EN-
ployes. and to a man they agreed to
quit work this morning. At seven o'clock
400 men In the yards and shops were out and
o general order is hourly expected
calling for a complete tie-up OF the
system. The feature of the strike
union men and the officials Of the North
western. AT two o'clock this morning the
officers with the special police had been COM
pletely outwitted by the committee of union
men seut out at eleven o'clock last night,
to call out the Northwestern yard
men. The expected clash at Wood street,
in the North Chicago yards, did not take
place, as the union men were too quick for
the posse that went out after them, and be-
fore any effective work could be done by the
company the yard men had been approached
and induced to quit work. The men who
returned to work at Western avenue, went
out again this morning.
ALL BUT ONE OUT.
At seven o'clock the committee, assisted
by the switchmen from the upper yards
gathered at all of the crossings and met
the men as they were coming to work and
presented guarantees from the union Off
cials. The result was that but one
switchman in the entire Northwestern yards
went to work This man was kicked off an
engine later by the engineer, who refused to
work with him.
The trouble on the Northwestern is ex
pected to prove far more serious than at
first expected on account of tho decided
ly hostile stand taken by the officials
of the road. Four engineers who per-
mitted the strikers committee to use
their engines last night, were discharged be-
fore daylight this morning. This peremp'
tory action aroused the other engineers, and
the chief of the local division of
the Brotherhood of Engineers notified
the Executive Committee of the union
at eleven o'clock that the instant he re-
ceived written guarantees of protection he
would order out the entire force of engine
men i'm the wards