Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-07-05

talk on both sides; no threats were
used, nor were any hard feeling
created. The suspension of work,
ii We are to believe the Pullmans,
was Il relief, for it released the COM
pany from sacrifices, they having
been building cars at less than cost
in order to keep employed about
5000 men.
Here matters rested, so far as that
small community was concerned.
Many of the men had money in re-
serve and we're not distressed. Some
of them stated that they could wait
for times to get better. Others sought
work elsewhere. What personal
grievance the Pullmen men had we
do not know, for they have made
no complaint, and so far as the
world at large is concerned, the strike
was simply a matter of n firm in
a small place having no relation
whatever to labor interests generally,
aud wholly disconnected from the
question of railroads or railroad la
Dor.
Il is here that the Railway Union
appeared on the scene At Il meet
ing held in Chicago, the union took
up the fight; it demanded that the
Pullman company should submit
the question of wages to arbitration.
This the Pullman people declined to
| do, giving as the reason that the de-
cision of arbitrators could not alter
the fact that to pay an increase in
wages would be an impossibility.
The company offered to submit its
books in proof that it was executing
orders at less than cost in order to
keep its men employed. The reply
of the union was that the books had
no weight, as the employer could
tix them to suit his own interests,
and then came the order from the
union for the boycott. That is to
say, an order was issued that all
members of the union should quit
work on those roads which used
Pullman cars.
Mr.. Debs, the President, is cred.
tied with this move. The union,
which was organized a year ago ii
Chicago, has for its purpose the
federation of all railroad employe:
under one head. 1t estimates the
number OF these employees in The
United States at 500 1000 and i
claims to have 800, 900 in its ranks
THE RISE OF EUGENE V. DEBs.
:, Until this strike few outside o
the American Railway Union eve
heard of Eugene V. Debs. Satur
day morning he was exercising al
authority that is not given to tn
Gar of Russia, and that has neve
been delegated to any man VIII
; lives under a liberal constitutions
government. He had waved hi
hand in Chicago and twenty railroad
c came to a standstill, a tract Of coun
try almost as big as Europe stoo'
momentarily paralyzed. The grea
: city of Chicago with over 1,000,O 90
people was commercially helpless
. 200, 900 people living in the suburb
t of that city were cut off from thei
homes, travel was virtually sus
pended, trade languished, traffi
with the West was stopped, dis
u tress and discomfort penetrated i
T. all the shops and homes. Frelgh
: was piled on the wharves and at th
/ depots. A great deal of it was pei
t ishable and every hour of its deter
ton meant thousands of dollars los
g to some one. The great stock yard
were struck with a blight. Inca.
j, culable suffering Of dumb animal
extend over acres.
THE GOVERNMENT INTERPRETERS.
CHICAGO, H., July 2.-The Amer
iean Railway Union-Pullman boycott
strike has assumed such proportion
and its effects have been 50 univer
sally disastrous that the Fedora
q Government has felt it necessary {
interfere. The original issue, til
reduction Of wages of Pullman EN-
> ployes, has been lost sight of an,
the fight has narrowed down to
:, stubborn contest between Presiden
Debs, representing the union, an,
the Railway Managers Association
The Federal authorities will pro
coed against the strikers, not who'll
because of interference with th
transportation of the mails, but be
cause of violations of Interstate com
meree laws.
The Federal court this Afternoon
issued an omnibus injunction in th
case of the Michigan Central Rail
way against the strikers. Like in
functions will be issued as to all th
roads and the whole power Of tn
Government invoked to enforce th
orders.
The injunction order of the Fed
eral court names twenty. three roads
all within the membership of tn
Railway Association, and the UnioI
Stock Yards and Transit Company
: which must not be inierfered with
All members of the A. X. t., an,
"all other persons whatsoever" ar
ordered TO refrain from interfering
with trains, freight or passenger
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