The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-25
PULLMAN CAR BOYCOTT.
The Biggest Kind of a Fight
Inaugurated.
Every Railroad in the Country
Involved.
The A. r U. Confident of Its Ability
to Win the Battle.
No Trains with Pullman Cars Attache d
Will he Hauled by A. r. U. Train
men-Tho Plan of
Gam paign.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANoIsco, June 24.-Just what
shset this boycott which 10 10 DO in
augurated by the American Railway
union against the Pullman Gar COM
pany on Wednesday next will have on
the trains of the Southern Pacific. is a
matter of considerable speculation
among railroad men.
The officials at Fourth and Townsend
streets profess not to be alarmed about
the m after. They have not been con-
vinced that boycott has been declared
on Pullman cars. and If boycott has
been declared they are not certain that
their employees are identified with the
American Railway union and will take
q hand in the fight against the Pullman
company.
An official OF Fourth and Townsend
streets said
IF the American Railway union is as
strong as it claims to be, it will certainly
tie up every Pullman car in the country,
but there is question whether it has
the membership it claims. The union
is working at q disadvantage. 1t will
certainly not have the endorsement OF
the travelling public, for person who is
compelled to travel in day coach
across the continent will damn them
every inch OF the way. The Southern
Pacific has contract with the Pullman
company to haul its cars, but l don't
believe any court Of equity in the
country would decide that a railroad
company is guilty of breaking its con-
tract and liable for damages should IL
refuse to carry the Pullman company g
cars under the circumstances. The rail-
road companies are not bound to make
the fight of the Pullman company
against the Pullman companey's own
employees"
J. p. Meehan, local superinten dent oi
the Pullman COMPANY, expressed the
opinion yesterday that the boycott
would not result very seriously, and
characterized it ga more OF bluff than
L u0n't know how well organized the
American Railway union is, but l am
not inclined to the belief that the organ
ization is in position to stop the run.
ming Of all the Pullman cars in the
country" he said. The striking en-
ployees are only cutting their own
throats. Howeve they have struck,
and are going to boycott the company's
cars. 1t won't amount to much. II II
does, and the railroad employees at.
tempt to stop the running of Pullma an
cars, think the federal courts will have
something to say in the matter. 1t ID
interstate business.
"Its all speculation, this boycott,
and the probable effect of it," he con
tinued, land don't propose to worry
over the matter. We are making nc
preparations to battle with the union
1t is time enough to shake hands with
the devil when you meet him."
Despite Superintendent Meehan'i
convictions that the boycott will not
amount to much, the railroad mer
about town are convinced that it will be
the biggest conflict of the kind the
country has ever seen.
G. H. Speers, assistant general pas.
senger agent of the Atlantic and Pacific
in this city, expressed the belief yester-
day that the union would either have to
win or die.
Probably 80 per cent OF the sleeping
cars operated in the United States are
Pullman cars" he said, "snd every road
in the country, except the Vanderbilt
lines, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
and the Chicago and Northwestern,
which all handle Wagner cars, will nee.
esssrily be brought into the fight. The
American Railway union has bitten of
big chunk. If it is we'll organized il
can tie up the whole country, but that
fact remains to be demonstrated"