Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-05
STRIKE CAUSING
N ENORMOUS LOSS
Great Quantities of Meat Spoil
inc for Ice and Tons Of Ice
Melting in Cars.
| WABASH MEN CALLED OUT
Engine Of a B. & 0. Train Disabled
on the Track.
| NOiIROOPS CALLED FOR AS YET
Grand Trunk Strikers Masters
of the Situation.
Engine Of a B. & 0. Train Disabled
on the Track.
NO TROOPS CALLED FOR AS YET
Grand Trunk Strikers Masters
of the Situation.
is:ssRING IN MORE ARMED DEPUTIES

lA N REPORTS from tho Principal
|jHA pts OF the Great Railroad Strike--
p&E IRE Trains running "A rrested strikers
Ii ld for "a Hearing--The Chicago Stock
vi rds In u Badly Demoralized Condition
NJ wearing IN More Depnties.
Ia EHIcAGo, ILL, June 27.-As result
IA Fine first day of the boycott of the
llNU Imam Palace Car Co. by the
|N Herican Railway Union, there are
|N l8r 5000 employees of the different
Ii& Ids out of Chicago now on strike.
fEsi&rhe attempt to run Pullman cars has
M ksulted in tying up the yards of the
|gy fifteen railroads centring here. OF
\ N these, the Illinois Central, Wisconsin
Central, Chicago, Great Western, Bait-
hmore & Ohio, Chicago IL Northern
| WPacific and the lines interested in the
Western Indiana system are tied up
pmpletely, the only trains run out
1 Aing made up and manned by officers
/ of the road. -,
III Late tonight. the switehmen of the
Pan Handle and Northwestern roads
also struck.
A MANIFESTO TO THE KNIGHTS.
At conference between President
II Debs and Vice President Howard, of
the American Railway Union and Grand
hx Master Sovereign of the knights of
MY jor, held this afternoon, the latter
N eed to support the Pullman strikers
N Sthe boycott, and, in accordance with
III de agreement, issued manifesto ad-
N dressed to all orders of the Knights of
y Labor in the United States, in which he
" said
1t has been the policy of the Pullman
Palace Car Co. to reduce the salaries of its
employees until the starvation point has
hpan rnapbnu and nG "a last tb.,n
ployes entered upon strike to protect
themselves and families against utter deg
radiation.
The railway corporations of the coun-
n try, through their general managers, have
formed coalition with the Pullman Co.
and have declared, in Il series of resOlu-
tions, that they will assist said company in
\ resisting the demands of their employees
with all the means and influence ut their
command
In view of this fact it behooves YOU, as
members of the Knights of Labor, to rem
der the striking members OF ihe American
Railway Union such assistance as can
consistently be given in their fight against
plutocratic ensavement The time has
come for unity of action. The sons of toll
must stand together, shoulder 20 shoulder,
in the great conflict that is now wAging
There must be no dissenson or division
Unilication is the one supreme demand.
The American Railway Union aud the
knights Of Labor are simply two divisions
of the same great army, fighting not only
tyranny but the tyrant as well.
You are hereby urgently requested to
not only prosecute with all possible power
the boycott against the Pullman Palace
Car Co., but all railroad corporations aid
ing said Pullman Co. This is a fight be.
tween united labor and monuplistic cor
NJ poration, and labor must win, cost what it
may.
COMPLETE TIE-UP.
The sensational feature of the strike
to-day was the complete tying-up of the
roads running out of the Grand Central
Station, and which include the Wiscon.
sin Central, Baltimore S Ohio, Chicago
g. Northern Pacific and Chicago Il Great
Western.
Each road has been left without a
|. single employe in the yards, and.
although the Baltimore E Ohio sue
|. ceeded in getting ont its passenger
n trains, all of the work was done by the
\ officers Of the company, who manned
a the switch engines and made up the
trains.
CHICAGO, June 2S.-With the simple
III beginning of few hundred discon.
MI tented strikers at Pullman, ILL.,, who
were attempting to force merely local
issue successfully, the Pullman strike
and consequent boycott has assumed the
proportions of one of the greatest battles
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
important railroads in the United States
west of Chicago, with the result that
entire systems are tied up and power
, less.
Within three days over 10000 men
have either quit work or have announced
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 strike
in obedience to requests from the officers
of the American Railway Union.
10000 MEN ON STRIKE.
1t was estimated to-day at the head
Quarters of the American Railway
Union that fully 10000 men arc now
out on strike on account of the refusal
of the Pullman company to settle the
differences with its employees in the
shops.
NO ROAD TO BE EXCEPTED.
Vice President Howard said to-day
hat the union would not exempt
single road in the West or Southwest,
and If necessary all of the more I'M
portant of the eastern roads would be
lied up in order to force settlement
of the Pullman strike.
From the showing made within the
last three days by the union, railroad