The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-16
THE ONLY STRIKER LEFT.
All the Other A. R. U. Members
and Car Builders Bag
ging For Jobs.
SOME DESPERATE VILLAINY.
Fatal Wreck of a Train on the
Grand Trank-Dynamite
on a Track.

CHICAGO, July 16, 1S94.-The announce
ment that he strikers at Pullman were on
.be point of surrendering and asking for
employment in the palace car works at the
reduced wages was confirmed Yesterday
Thomas Heathcote leader of the Pullman
strikers admitted that all his influence and
that Of other labor leaders was required to
prevent general stampede of the work
men, and officers of the Pullman company
acknowledged that they expected orders
from headquarters any day to open the car
shops that have been closed more than eight
weeks 1t was in anguished tones that Mr..
HeathcGee made the announcement.
81 dent know what these men would do if
the shop doors were thrown open tomor-
row. he said. SIT has been hard to keep
many of them from going back to work,
and after they do" he continued sadly, II
suppose there will be nothing left for me.
Tue railroad companies viii not be likely to
give employment to the man who led this
strike and held the men out against one of
the greatest corporations in the world"
Pullman officers say q week would be re-
quired to get ready for opening the works.
They expect the announcement OF opening
to be made this week, and expect to begin
operations with all the men needed to get
out the contracts now on hand.
Mr.. Heathcote made the statement that
the A. R. O. had never donated 81 to hungry
Pullman strikers. and that the only way Mr.
Debs had shown his sympathy for the strik-
ers had been by calling out the railway men
right and left. Mr.. Heathcote added that
he did not expect the railway union to fur
nish any funds, although number of strik-
ers thought that would be an appropriate
manner to show its sympathy.
DEBS SNORTS DEFIANCE.
Eugene Y Debs was informed last night
that it was the intention of the workmen at
Pullman to rturn TO work, removing the
original cause of the railway strike conduct
ed by the A. r. U.
Mr. Dsbs said he could not give the report
credence. When told that Thomas w.
Heathcote, the Chairman of the Strike Com
mittee at Pullman, admitted reluctantly
that such was the case, he said:
If it be true that the Pullman operators
are about to go back to the conditions of
servitude, against which they revolted May
II, without single wrong redressed it is
perhaps the best proof in the world that
they have been SO subiugated and enslaved
bY the methods of the Pullman Company
that they are unable to continue their self
assertion IN spite of all that we have en-
deavored to do for them.
however,, GHotf I6luTA 10 WOTk cdH
neither help nor harm us in our general
strike The Pullman question necessarily
became secondary one when the General
Manager Association took its cudgels to
drive the American Railway Union out of
existence, and its recent refusal to consider
ans p: ,ositit n emanating from US leaves US
WITH no pcss ble retreat We have fought
III. .sause of these people until we are so enl-
,,il~,i fl,at we must continue to fight with
on b ni'
ALL IN MOTION.
AT the Union depot yesterday every train
on all the roads using that terminal was re-
ported on time, and there was not SO much
as a rumor of trouble in any of the yards
or along the line.
At the Grand Central station the same en-
couraging reports were received. There were
no soldiers on guard and trains were arriy-
ing and departing with such regularity that
there were no announcements to make up on
t1e bulletin board.
At the Dearborn station all trains were
running on time, and with the exception of
ore train on the Chicago and Eastern Hi
nois, suburban trains had also been resumed
The Western Indiana, which had trouble
with misplaced switches on Saturday, had
overcome all difficulty and trains were run
ming aS 41s1a1