The Bessemer indicator., 1894-07-14
Notes Of the strike.

Notes Of the strike.
The strike has spread to Cleveland.
Three hundred yard men at Toledo
struck on the 9th.
The conductors and brakemen on
the Glover Leaf road struck on Mon
day.
The Midland engineers at Grand
Junction quit work on the 9th. Troops
have been stationed there.
Thirty tons Of mail matter was dis
patched by boat from San Francisco to
Portland from whence it was sent
east.
On the 9th President Cleveland is
sued another proclamation especially
warning mobs in the western states to
disperse.
The tie-up at Ogden was ended on
the 9Th by the presence of troops sent
from Fort Douglas.
On the 9Th the local president Of
the A. r. U. at Buffalo refused to
obey Debs' order to strike.
Judges at St. Louis, Cleveland and
elsewhere have issued blanket injunc-
tions similar to those issued in Chica-
go warning all persons not to interfere
with interstate commerce.
VIM. Mcintosh, member of "H"
company, First regiment, Colorado
National Guard, of Boulder, fell down
the shaft of the Victor mine at Grip
pie Creek and was instantly killed.
He was inspecting the mine.
The Rock Island road has closed its
Office in Denver. 1t will not attempt
to run trains to Chicago for the pres
ent.
President Debs ON the 9Th issued
circular warning all A. II. u. men
against violating any law, and urging
them to assist in arrcsting those who
do SO.
General Schofield is reported as say
ing that il necessary 200, 900 troops
would be called out TO aid the opera
ton of interstate commerce. New
York and Pennsylvania could furnish
20, 900 militia.
At Charlottesville, Indiana, several
large military companies are being Or
ganized by General Lew Wallace in
view Of the threatened trouble by
strikers. General Wallace believes
that unless the strike is put down at
once a civil war will ensue.
Four assemblies of the Iron Moul-
ders' Union at Chicago struck on the
9th. 500 men going out. The Lake
Seamen's Benevolent Association, with
3, 900 members, and the Cigarmakers
Union, 1000 strong, also voted to
strike. None Of these bodies have
any grievance, but have decided to
strike solely because of sympathy with
the Pullman boycott.
A new and grave feature was added
to the situation at Chicago Friday af-
ternoon, when meeting Of represen-
tatives Of all the bodies of organized
labor in the city after protracted dis
cussion in which general sympathy
strike was favored appointed a COM
mittee Of three with full power to act
and at the same time called meeting
of organized labor for next Sunday to
ratify their action.
Fred. Schnack, Gulf engineer, who
was arrested at Pueblo for disregard
ing the injunction Of Judge Hallett,
was convicted by the judge on the 9th
and sentenced to serve sixty days in
the Arapahoe county Jail. Judge
Hallett, in sentencing him, said:
"Schnack made himself prominent
from the first. II it be true he used
no offensive words, and no threats but
merely asked the fireman to quit, it
was demand and would have been
enforced by 400 or 500 turbulent men.
Schnack was the most prominent in
making the demand"
On the 7th Messrs. Debs and Sow
ereign sent to President Cleveland q
long letter in which they protested
against the calling out Of troops, under
the guise Of protecting the mails,
WHOSE very presence is used to CO.
cree and intimidate peaceable working
people into humiliating obedience to
the will Of their oppressors. A deep
seated conviction is fast becoming
prevalent that this government is soon
to be declared a military despotism.
The Transmission Of the United States
mail is not interrupted by the striking
employees Of any railway company, but
BY the railway companies themselves
who fsfsssd y haul the mails on
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