The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-23
officials of the A. r. U. Call on All
.'Good Men and Women" to Refuse
to Ride i'm Pullman Coaches.
THE GREATEST BOYCOTT YET
GOmpers Asks the Federation for
DebS Defense Fund.
Pullman Car Wheel Works to Start To-
Day and Extra Precautions to
Prevent a Riot.

CHICAGO, July 22-Messrs. Debs, How
ard. Keliher and Rogers, the American Rail-
way Union officials, to-day issued an address
to the public, the substance OF which is as
follows:
'Headquarters American Railway Union.
Cook County Jail, Chicago, July 2.
ITO the American Public-It is almost
universally conceded that the Pullman
company, through the oft-repeated reduc-
ton OF wages, excessive rents ana many
other causes, has grievously wronged its
employees, and whatever may be said about
the great railway strike which resulted in
consequence of such grievances, the arbi-
trary refusal of the said Pullman company
TO submit to arbitration in any form teven
TO decide the question IL there was any
said company had no faith in the justice Of
its cause and fears the disclosures that are
ton. and in view of the heavy losses en-
tailed on the country, such obStinancy on
the part of the Pullman company is deserv-
ing of the severest condemnation.
1--WE propose that the Pullman company
shall be brought TO justice, and this in
way that will not necessitate a strike with
its attendant ills. We have faith in the
American people They uphold Justice; they
love fair play And now in the name ,S or
great American public-to every good man
and every good woman-not 10 ride IN
Pullman car until the Pullman n company con ANY
run absolutely empty. No friend or labor,
no friend of humanity, will occupy a seat
or a berth in a Pullman car Let this pol
icy be inaugurated and we will then see
how long the railway companies Will De
bound by their contracts. as they nave IN
duced the public to believe, to haul Pull
man cars.
I'VE propose to continue this fight against
the Pullman company through good and
evil report and without regard to conse-
quences until justice shall be done. There
will be no surrender we viii use every
contest. 1t is requested that all papers
throughout the land favorable to labor, TO
justice, to humanity. copy this statement
81 slbIs. Igii anu keep 1t SUMMING % w 30
to aid US in this unequal contest and re-
lying with impisit f. faith Sf on the nsa snsscsss aha
oqTseiysS yeTy pRRs rgsRsS'lpry PreysiSent sGTrS
GEORGE w. HOWARD Vice President
SYLVESTER KELIHER, Secretary
az. W. ROGERS, Editor Railway Times"
In regard to the appeal given by HIM
self and his associates to-day, Mr.. Debs
said this evening:
''Snce the cessation of the recent hos
tllities we have received letters from all
Rsr that at Mile H hey do not Sanction vo,
lence in the Pullman fight, they are with
Much ms st disIat5ed and Wsa Paman absoats
refusal To entertain any proposition look
Ing toTard settlement settle % cont,n5 of the "a aiep sp
peal to the American people not TO ride
IN his cars ,,, on account of this sympathy 1y
cars cannot bring Mr.. Pullman to time.
They are now trying TO open the shops
to workmthat oiidh f has % BEEN e decided by them
and their places cannot be filled. We are
constantly receiving tels;grams t;g ms. from ron all all
are still out and determined TO stay out
until the strike is declared off. In this
OF very few, are out as solidiy for us as
they were the day the strike was declared.
running their trains on time. it is never
theless a fact that they are badly Grip
we are confident of ultimate success and
our organization is growing at the rate
of six hundred members day."
Pullman Wheel Works to Resume.
CHICAGO, July 22.-Another section OF
the plant at Pullman will resume activity
tomorrow, officials of the wheel company
having announced that the works OF the
Allen Paper Car-wheel Company, employing
fifty men, would start up in full operation
1t is also announced that the Illinois Cen
tral shops, at Burnside, will begin opera
tions tomorrow with a force of operatives
increased to nearly three hundred men.
Pullman officials also said that the force
Of girls in the laundry and the number OF
laborers employed about the works would
be largely augmented. In view Of these
announcements and the evident intention
of the strikers, openly expressed by
them in public places about Pullman to-
day, to make 1t as difficult for the company
to open these additional portions of the
works as possible, il is feared by the lead
ers of the police and militia that there
might be collisions between strikers and
those whom the company induced to return
to work Provision was made against this
possible trouble by increasing the reserves
of police at the Hyde Park, Kensington
and South Chicago stations. An organizer
for the A. r. L. in Pullman said to-day
that one of the next moves of the union
would be TO in the courts for an in
junction restraining the further presence
of the militia about the Pullman works.
This was in accordance, he said with the
recent order issued by the Governor that
the militia should not be used TO guard
private property.
No 81 900 Check for Debs.
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