The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-30

a.... .... whereases de,
Clnred to he world
efo''"E NJ ruhhMAS' that they would
Eointo partnership with the Pullman com
pGny so to speak, aud stand by him In
his devilish work of starving his employees
60 death.
"The American Railway union accepted
the gauge OF war and thus the contest is
now on between the railway corporations
nnited solidly upon the one hand and the
lsbor forces upon the other.
81 appeal to strikers everywhere to re-
frain from any act of violence. There
must be no interference with the affairs of
the companies involved and above all,
let there be no act of depreciation. A man
who will destroy property or violate law
10 an enemy and not n friend of the cause
Of labor. The general public Is with us
and we need only to maintain II digniiied,
honest. straightforward policy to achieve
victory.
''l have faith in the great body of rail-
way employees of the country, and am con
hdent they will maintain an unbroken
front in spite OF any opposition that may
be brought to bear against them. am
perfectly confident of success. We cannot
fail"
In an interview President Debs said,
cencerning the possibility of his arrest by
D~lef Oh tlle Y nlttu states courts!
II anticipate no trouble with the courts,
and hardly see how can be arrested un-
Gil | commit or cause to be committed
some overt act of violence against the
lines which the courts now operate. You
will notice that Judge Caldwell snys that
we have II right to order out the men on
ths Santa Fe, He says, though, that as
s0on as the men leave the company's or
She courts employ they must in no way
Interfere with the running of trains. Ger
tainly they will not do THAT for they are
nnder orders to resort to no violence.
Judge Caldwell admits that the men have
rig ht to quit work. That is what we
puugend for, and we are. therefore, justi-
Ned by the courts ruling"
"We'ye adopted the cause of the other
siis aud opened up strong and yigorU Is
measures against the strikers, which we
tntend to push with all the strength and
power at our command from this time on. ."
So spoke John NJ. Egan, of st. Paul,
who has been made commander of the
FRlroad forces in Chicago In the fight
Against the boycott MIR Egan further
said that several new iiremcn had been
pGt to work on three different ronds, and
kh6 places left vacant by the strikers on
all roHds centering in Chicago would be
rapidly flled from among the hundreds
of men who are making applications for
work. Mr.. Egau has the reputation OF
b1ing one of the greatest single handed
fighters in the country
John NJ, Eagau, representing the Gen
eral Managers association. furnishes an
estimate of the number of men who have
struck so far In the whole country, on the
best information he could obtain: North.
western, LOS, Illinois Central, 1000
Eastern Illinois, 800; Santa Fe, l0, 600; Chi,
md Mort IDaptis A. Wiuppnu;, >,
Central, 90; Great Western, 800 BaltiI1ul
and Ohio, 400; Panney eylynnia.-a
srn Indiana, 2o9- -tsiIu
lll4fsiiy alone, 1t ha'
Rf5wn beyond us, until nov
I'ullman strikers are subordinat,
feature The railroads are now trying t
ses whether or not they have the right tt
control their own roads and manage thei
own property While the strike was con
nned to our company we at no time asket
the railroads to assist u.s. and when tn
general managers of the railroads decided
10 oppose the American Railway unioi
ahsy asked neither advice nor nssistanc
from the Pullman company. These rail
ways are now fighting for the right :
sOnduct the management of their owi
lines That is the point at stake, and
may as we'll be settled at the present tim
As at any other"
The first overt act of violence in tn
railroad strike occurred yesterday aftel
noon, when the engineer and fireman G
an Illinois Central suburban train wer
driven from their engine by mob OF &c
men They were pelted with rocks an
bricks and chased away, The train wa
stopped just north of the crossing 9
Burnside station The engineer and fir
man fed for their lives, pursued by
Sortion Of the mob, while others backe
the engine into the round house, leRyin
the cars standing on the main tract
When, a BhoIi tirne later, north boun
suburban train appeared 1t, too, WI
stopped, the engine detached and taken
Ahe round house, and the cars left stan
Ing on the tracks. A force of twenty fly
policemen hastenea to the scene aud sea
tered the mob.
. The swtchmen will not go out on
strike. This result was reached at mi
night, after long and heated discussi'
on the part of 2l0 members of the Syitc
mems Mutual Aid as,ocintlon. A resol
tion was adopted ns a compromise tn
the association sympnt hizes with {
strikers, but II cannot recognize I
authority of the American Railway uni
TO call out the members of the assoc
tion. Daring the strike members will n
take e%se 'ons vacated by strikers, W
not with scabs, and will not wo
under police protection.
Many OF the commission houses at I
\ stock yards here regard the situation
serious, and have notified their clients
Iowa, Kansas Nebraska, Missouri, Tex
and other states not to ship stock unit
he railroad companies agree to deliN
he shipment aud to be responsible
long delays or responsible II there are a
losses on account OF delay. The result
that the shipments have been stopped
many Instance. and fhe price Of meat
expected TO take rapid jump upward
fore many days.
NJ. V. Seafford, general chairman of
Pacific division of tbs Ordar OF RailA