The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-07-04
THE GREAT TIE-UP.
The Pullman Boycott-Strike AS
suming Gigantic Proportions.
The TIe-Up In tho West and Northwest
Practically Complete = Fully Forty
Thousand Men Now Out on Ac-
count of Pullman's Refusal to
Arbitrnte With His Employees.

CHICAGO, June 20.-With a beginning
Of a few hundred discontented strikers
at Pullman, ILL.,, who were attempting
to force merely local issue successful
ly, the great Pullman strike and boy
colt has grown to the greatest battle
between labor and capital that has ever
been inaugurated in the United States
In three days time the Pullman trouble
has spread to nearly all of the impor-
tant railroads in the United States
west of Chicago with the result that
entire systems are tied up and power
less in the hands of employees who are
striving for principle rather than q
cause.
Within three days over 10000 men
have either quit work or have an
nounced their intention of so doing in
Chicago, and added to this are the
many thousands On the systems all
through the west who have gone out on
a strike in obedience to requests from
the officers Of the American Railway
union.
ltwas estimated last night at the
headquarters of the A. r. U. that fully
10000 men are now out on q strike on
account of the refusal of the Pullman
company to settle the differences with
its employees In the shops. BY tonight
nearly double that number will be or
dered out and the strikers will include
not only members of the union but
Knights of Labor, brotherhood men
and other organizations which can in
any way affect the interests of the
roads which have decided to stand by
Pullman.
The feature of the unions work yes
terday was the speedy settlement eff
fected with the Chicago, Milwaukee &c
st. Paul. A special committee was
sent to the general manager of the
Milwaukee, with request that the
road refuse to haul Pullman sleepers.
The company official lost no time in in
forming the committee that no Pull
mans would be hauled over the road,
and within an hour the nine objection
able cars which are run on that line
were side-tracked.
The strike on the Northwestern and
the Panhandle, followed by that Of
the employees Of the Fort Wayne, have
greatly increased the strength of the
the union. Nearly all of the men who
quit on these roads were new recruits
in the union, joining either just before
or after the strike had been ordered.
In each case the union officials have
pledged the support of the order re-
gardless of the membership.
The freight handlers and car repair !
ers on the Illinois Central, numbering
over 200 were organized in the after |
noon by A. X. U. officers. An open air |
meeting was held on the lake front at |
2 o'clock and at 8 o'clock a hall was Sc
cured and after some discussion IL was
voted to join in the strike.
This strikers had much the best of the
situation yesterday on the Illinois Cen
tral. That road is almost entirely tied
up in this city and the Illinois divis-
ions and thousands of dollars are being
lost along the line by the inability Of
the company to handle freight, the
practical abandonment Of the subur.
ban service and the timidity of the
travelling public, which does not care
to risk the wrath of the strikers.
The b. g. o. Pittsburg express, which
is scheduled to leave at 7 p. m. from
the Grand Central, was completely
stalled inside the city limits for more
than four hours by the strikers at West
ern avenue. Not train was sent out
of the city after o'clock last night by
any Of the roads using the Polk street
station. Most of the regular passen-
ger trains were made up by officials
and left the station all right, but at
midnight they were all stalled at
Thirty-first street.
Two of the fremen on the stalled
Eastern Illinois trains left their cabs
and the engineers refused to proceed
with green nen. All efforts TO get the
fremen back 10 work failed and as a
last resort an attempt was made 10 get
these two engines back into the round
house, so as to clear the track and let
the other trains go ahead 1t was
found that the switch leading to the
round house had been spiked and set.
The United States government has
taken hand in the railroad strike so
far as II concerns the Santa Fe system.
Late yesterday afternoon United States
District Attorney Milchrist received a
dispatch fron Attorney General Olney,
intimRting that advices had been re.
ceived from the postmaster general in
dicating that the transportation Of the
United States mails on the road in
question were either obstructed or in
danger thereof The attorney general
therefore instructed United States dis
trict attorney to proceed against all in
dividuals concerned in such obstruction.
CINCINNATI, June 29.-Twelve hun
dred yard men went out on strike
yesterday afternoon. The order was
issued at l o'clock. All roads are af-
fected except the Big Four and Pan
Handle.
KANSAS Cry, June po.-The Santa
Fs road is completely tied up here.
Not wheel has turned on It's rails
since early yesterday morning The
trains are made up and stand in the
depot but cannot be moved. The Pull
man cars ara chained together and
aaalad