Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-07-05
TIE BOYCOTT ON PULLMAN CARS.
pAaALyzes RAILROAD TRAFFIC.
The Roads Refuse to Run Trains With
out sisspsrs. apd Their Empioyes
Btrike.-Grsat losses to Every
body.-yioisnoe Reported


managed to get their trains out but after do
lays aud o good deal of trouble. Al san
Francisco none but local trains were sent out
At Omaha the strike 10 becoming effective.
The situation at many points on the Santa
Fe has become grave as NO trains with Full
mans can get through. Owing to tho dis
charge Of employees the men arc striking In
large numbers.
Judge Caldwell has Issued an order to all
Santa Fe employees to do their work or quit
and let others do 1t. He says they will be In
contempt of court II they interfere in any
way. The road Is now In reality in the
hands Of court officials as many deputies have
been detailed to guard the property. Tho
boycott has not reached east OF Pittsburg.
For Friday the reports were as follows:
At Denver the Santa Fe was the only road
affected. All the American Railway Union
men In its employ struck, and In compliance
with orders from headquarters their places
were filed with new men. This road ran out
one train.
At Pueblo nm effort was made to enforce
the boycott on tn. nio Graude. When the
train from Denver came in the Pullmans
were cut OF by big crowd Of strikers. The
sheriff was called upon and protected a col
ored brakeman In recoupling the car. The
train got away all right. The Rio Grande
shop men quit work. Late at night two en-
gInes were derailed, blocking the road tn the
south.
Several new firemeu have been secured by
the Santa Fe at La Junta and trains are being
taken through.
At Chicago the situation is still serious.
| To-day 800 men In the stock yards quit work,
and this will prevent the packing houses
from running and throw 6,0O0 men out Of
work. The packers are afraid to send out
| meats for fear Of their spelling In q blockade.
| Nearly all the traffic on the great Southern
Pacific system Is paralyzed. All freight bus
| iness is suspended. Severe losses to the fruit
growing interests are inevitable, and fruit
| growers and dealers are face TO face with
bankruptcy. Hundreds OF cars laden with
| perIshdblc fruits arc side-tracked. In North
ern California this Is the fruitmen's busiest
season, and peaches, aprIcots, cherries, plums
and berries arc fast ripening In every Or
chard. A blockade of only n few days will
see fruit to the value Of hundreds OF thous-
ands of dollars too ripe for shipment.
Threats have been made To arrest President
Dcbs for interfering with the operation OF the
receiver roads, but 1t probably cannot be
| done, The blockade at st. Louis 10 COM
plete.
Tho attorney general says that mail trains
must not be delayed ind United States mar
shals have been instructed to arrest men In
terferIng with them.
Traffic across New Mexico and Arizona Ii
practically paralyzed.
Strikers at Harmon, Indiana, are getting
lawlcss and the sheriff has called for troops
The situation at Chicago on the Both wal
worse than ever. President Debs ordered tht
boycott into effect on the Rock Island ant
that road found itself unable to run trains
His orders were sent out in all direction
causing trains to be tied up at other points
Even the Lake Shore road which runs Wag
ner cars, was Affected, many OF Its switchmer
having quit work.
The association Of general managers claim
that they can get enough men TO run thei
trains II they are not molested. The striker
are beginning to grow violent and men tax
ing the place Of strikers were roughl!
handled. The sheriff and United States mar
shal are making great efforts to preserve tn
peace and protect trains
The suburban traffic is discontinued by tn
steam lines. The strikers now threaten Il
call out the men on the cable and elevated
roads and also to order n strike OF the trade
unions. This would be done Simply 10 lncrcas
tho pressure on the railroads.
There were little signs Of improvement a
San Francisco. The Southern Pacific wa
said to be Offering a bonus of 81 600 and life
positions TO men who would take the place
of strikers 1t sent out two trains on tn
Both, but they were blocked by strikers be
fore they got far.
On Sunday Judge Hallett Of the fedora
court asked Attorney General Olney to orde
troops to Trinidad to protest the Santa F.
and Gulf property. The request was grante'
and General McCook started force from
Fort Logan Monday morning. The caus
for this request was tho reported violence o
the strikers. Having struck on the Dcnve
g. Gulf and on the Santa Fe men refused t
permit trains with Pullmans to run througl
Trinidad. A deputy marshaps posse o
fifty men was disarmed and roughly handled
At Pueblo the situation was unchanged
The efforts to stop Rio Grande trains wer
only partially successful.
Large numbers of new men imported int
In Junta enabled the Santa Fc to get It
trains through
Judge Rlner Of Wyoming has issued a
order to U. p. employees not to interfere witt
trains. He stated that those who refused L
return to work at a. m. July End would b.
permanently discharged.
At St. Louis q little business was bein
done. trains being made up by yardmaster
rEd clerks.