The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-17
THAT FAMOUS clR~c7,,

hundred and ninety nine 1p0 ot N nine
intelligent men in the 81 the most
would have failed to anaH United States
asked this question: Who Is Il you had
Debs2 Fifteen months on Is Eugeuer
elgn' head of the Knights o Of ~ nE, Sover.
an unknown man. But he LABOR Il Ws
OF the best known men in Am : now Que
PRESIDENT of the American r pea Aa
Union Debs has jumped hallway
hence in connection with ,DtG Prom,
strike: A few dashes of hi, We Great
atyz9d the cooire business and ISb ~, pa
OF America, Probably 2o HTU Sra'd
enter and leave the citv ~L ~ trains
over more than thirty great ollcago
railroads every "a hours Tsefstaa
hours after Debs issued his - ais a lev
every train was standing still TV'o y
order went forth and enginea., Iae
ductors, fagmen and fremen IT, Con-
trains standing wherever tha wv ,nee
pened to be at the hour onr nap
Nothing but funeral trains ap Sf'tu'ea
loaded with the necessities of IL. "ala
command a crew. Trains loaded vta
live cattle and hogs were si5str.S SHl
and the cattle and hogs turno5 q:
pastures. l1N
This is fresh evidence that great L.,
ers always come to the 'front.' in a'
emergency. Instead of trying to = IT.. ~
the knights of Labor in the strsisb.
and narrow path, trying to elevate 8n1
better the condition of his men p,~
derby had spent the best part n ",
life in keeping his men from doi,s
what they are now forced to dos
and vote. Sovereign stops at notbin,
short of that. If the American P,Sp
way Union has accomplished anythin,
Of great moment up to this time M.
body is aware Of it. But Debs tells HI,
men to act and they get a move M
them he tells them they must vote .,
we'll as work and a conference of sv.
eral hundred of the best men in fhs
organization decide to vote as tbov
pray and the result will be that laraa
majority will do so. That sounds like
business and the problem betweenla labor
and capital may yet be solved properly
by labor voting for the 8 luton Instead
of voting with the capitalists to aid in
the oppression Of themselves Ghe labor
ere) and the masses of mankind. Vel
publish the Debs circular below:
"CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 29.-Tot the Rail.
way Employees of America: The strug
gle with the Pullman company has de-
veloped into a contest between the pc
ducing classes and the money power
of the country. This is what Lincoln
predicted at the close of the civil war
and it was this reflection that gave the
great emancipator his gloomiest fore
bodings. We stand upon the ground
that the workingmen are entitled to q
just proportion Of the proceeds Of then
labor. This the Pullman company de-
MED them. Reductions had been made
from time to time until the employs
earned barely sufficient wages to live
not enough to prevent them from sint
ing deeper and deeper into Pullman
debt, thereby mortgaging their bodli
and souls, as we'll as their childrenS q
that heartless corporation.
up to this point the fight was Be
tween the American Railway Union
and the Pullman Company. Ihe
American Railway Union reSolVel
that it's members would refuse TO nan
die Pullman cars and equipment Iae1
the railway corporations, through I1
General Managers Association, cam
to the rescue, and in a series OF WnelS
asses declared to the world that tn9!
would go into partnership Wild run
man, so to speak, and stand BY, MN y
his devilish work of starving DIS ~
ployes to death. The American hM
way Union accepted the gage Of wa
and thus the contest isnoW On 0etTg y.
the railway corporations united SOU!
upon the one hand and the LABOR ioLo
upon the other. Every railroad ~
pioye of the country should take X
stand against the corporations ID W.
fight. for if it should be lost cory"
tions will have despotic sway anu Ji+i i
EMPLOYEES will be reduced to aConai lor
scarcely removed above chattel SPs
erv: but the fight will not be lost, ~
great principle of American nanI an
and independence is inyo!v6o dur VI 81
porate power, drunk with us M
cesseg, has presumed too far upon oor h
forbearance of the American PSg iSs
and, notwithstanding a suO SotabJ
press TO which there are many nnatbi
and noble exceptions), public ym Ibo Il
is with the striking employees, WIZ s
merely contending for the l1SiTi Twin
their fellow-toilers to r0c0i''
wages for their work uubere d
II appeal to strikers eveLS Snce, "a
refrain from any act OF V 10 tbo afaif
there be no interference WlIn VA w aboT
of the companies involved, an raadstiOd
All let there be no act OF deP[SartT q
a man who will destroy proPSin1o t
6;o Ieao 1aW is an enemy ana nd, D gTs
VlOldgo la" 10 E The gl0