Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-24
BOSTON'S ARMY STARTS,

ahead Of them"
BOsTON'S ARMY STARTS.
So Many Gathered to See 1t on That
Its Members Had to Fight.
Fully $4,000 people gathered on Boston
Common on Sunday to see twenty-five men
start on their pilgrimage to Washington
These twenty-five men represented the
New England Industrial Delegation" Nor
rison 1. Swift its commander in-chief, who
VIII remain in Boston. says it has no con-
nection with the Coxey movement.
The army was routed by its friends, its
banner was smashed and trailed In the
dust, and the commander-in-chief issued
orders for its members to get out of the
crowd as best they could and rendezvous at
| hyde Park, eight miles distant. Thus did
the glorious start dwindle into an insig-
| nificant sneak
Other reports represent the gathering as
a riot, in which the crowd was opposed to
the "industrials" and maltreated them
The army will bring the following petit
ton to Congress-:
l. To provide farms and factories where
the unemployed now and at all times here
after may be able to apply their labor pro-
ouctlvely for the supply Of their own wants.
ton Of the United States SO that it shall
ainrm the right Of every one to have work
8. 10 abolish all interest-bearing bonds.
l. TO furnish immediate employment for
the unemployed by beginning the construc-
ton of good roads ON a large scale through
out the country.
D. To nationalist the railroads, the tele-
graph and the mines
o. To see that all land not in actual use
Is thrown open to cultivation by those who
are willing to cultivate it.
7. To establish commission to investi-
gate the aoVisabilty OF Matchmaking trusts.
Ger erar' jeremiah Sullivan of the Iron
Molders' Union proposes to leave Chicago
on Wednesday next with an army" at
least one thousand strong and proceed to
washington by way of the railroad, trav-
eiing at Immigrant rates. Recruits are ex-
pected from Aurora, Marengo and other
cities in Illinois. All are members of the
Iron Molders' Union Of North America of
which Sullivan has been once president,
secretary and treasurer
Inls contingent says 1t will present to
Congress bill of grievances prepared by
martin martin FOX OF Cincinnati president Of the
| union, which numbers 10000 men, The
iron molders have been preparing for this
step for several days, but have declared
tney VIII not ask con tributions Of anyone.
PRESIDENT FOX Will arrive in Chicago to-
day with the funds necessary to take the
contingent to Washington and bring them
back.
Should General Sullivan be disappoint
ed In getting his thousand men and the
| army should dwindle to less than five
hundred. which now seems probable, the
men Will travel second class.
sullivan says he will not make known the
contents OF the bill of grievances He SAYS
this Is the proper method Of calling the at
tentlon or Congress to the condition of
working men. All the members of Sulli-
van army are out of work.
Armies In Chicago.
| The commonweal eruption is rampant IA
| he
| ard as result three armies are rapidly
mobilizing here. Recruiting offices have
been opened. barracks obtained, and the in
| dioations are that by Saturday 1900 men
| VIII be enlisted under the white flag The
American Federation Of Labor and all the
chicago labor unions Joined the movement
yesterday.
The armies are the iron brigade, made
| up exclusively of iron molders from nor
thern Illinois; the union, composed of men
OF all trades. and the populists. composed
OF the original Coxey and Kelly sympa-
| thizers.
| Industrial Army Notes.
The regiment" Of the Industrial army
| bound overland from Boston to Washing
ten arrived at North Attleboro Mass. yes
terday, dust-covered. footsore and hungry.
| The trampers were held up outside the
town by order of the selectmen. who al
| lowed them to enter and proceed to the poor
| farm. where 123 pounds of beef were being
| boiled for the mems supper.
| The health officers. under orders from the
state board Of health. visited Fryes army
| at Terre Haute. Ind, yesterday, and vac
| cinated all who did not have good marks
| on their arms. They offered no resistance
simply saying that they were sworn to obey
| the laws Of the various states through
| which they might pass.
The industrial army" at Seattle, Wash,
| has now $40 recruits enrolled and expects
to start for Washington tomorrow. Several
1 q 10 he T1aNA Ion Of
| ing enough money to charter a through
| train for them and send them on. In con-
| sequence of report that the members of
the band have been asked to go to work on
| the Great Northern road, resolutions were
| adopted by the men that in case of a strike
| on any railway the army will uphold the
American Railway Union. and that any
| one who reports for work on such road will
| be dishonorably discharged
Regiment number two of the United States
| Industrial army, under command of Col.
in the horse sheds at the fair grounds at
Wilmington, Ohio. The railroad companies
refusing to transport them. the regiment
| broke camp and started for Sabina ten
| miles east, where they camped.
| Gov. Waite's View.
Gov. Waite delivered a political address
| at the Coliseum at Denver Sunday night.
He began his remarks by denouncing the old
| political parties as corruptionists and bril-
beers, and declaring the populist party the
only honest one in existence. and through
| its success the country is saved from pass
| ing into the hands of plutocracy.
Speaking of the commonweal army, now
| on it's way to Washington, he declared the
| men honest and upright unemployed labor
| ing men, exercising a privilege any citizen
| has a right to.
Their cause is just, and they should be
aided instead OF hindered. Were / called
upon to order out the militia against them,
1 probably would do so, but 1t would be
only the commissary department"