The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-07-06
GENERAL TIE-UP.
The Strike the Greatest on Record
Railroad Men Quitting All
Over the Country.
The Northern Pacific Tied Up Tighter
Than a Drum-Head from st.
Paul to Portland.

supplies are being brought on boats on
the Yellowstone from Buford.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 29.-Manager
kendrick Of the Northern Pacific says
the Fargo and Winnipeg trains will be
sent out tonight. Business is suspended
on the Northern Pacific division of the
Omaha branch.
CHICAGO, June 29.-All suburban
trains arrived this morning on time.
Most Of the switches previously operated
from the tower house near the Union
depot have been changed to the old
style making it possible to employ in
experienced men. General Manager
John M. Eagan, OF the General Man
agUrs' association burt au, says there lie
no truth in the statement that the Mil
waukee & st. Paul will withdraw Pull
man cars from their trains. A hundred
men have been engaged in Baltimore and
Philadelphia to take the places of the
strikers and are now on their way to
Chicago. Eagan declares there will be
no difficulty in getting all the men
wanted. At the Union stock yard today
there was some friction with the switch
men and employees but nothing serious.
Twenty deputy marshals WEI,
sworn in today to protect the
Sante Fe's starting Of trains. Repre-
sentatives Of the switchmens association
report that the members are in sympathy
with the strikers. What they will do as
a union will be determined at a meeting
tonight. The 4,C00 s%witchmen in Chi
cago are likely to act as a unit. The
Pan Handle road brought in seventy
men today from Cincinnati, Columbus,
and Louisville and put them at work in
the Curtis street yards under police pro-
lection. The General Managers 1850
| citation, which met today, ia fitting up
headquarters and preparing for a long
fight. Pinkerton was called in. 1t is
reported that the strike leaders will be
arrested. The A. r. U. officials are max
ing threats against the Wabash road,
which allows the boycotted Western
Indiana trains to run over its tracks.
President Debs says the strike on
the stock yards line will 90 into effect
at 6 o'clock tonight. Vice President
Wicks Of the Pullman company says the
Mobile a. Ohio, which has taken of
Pullmans ran only four Pullman cars
and that their contract had expired. A
strike on the Milwaukee & st. Paul is
etill threatened as the company has not
cut out the Pullmans. The strike order
has gone into operation on the Chicago
& Great Western, which is tied up, and
the Des Moines, st. Paul and Duluth.
The b~aggagemen at the Dearborn sta
ton have struck. The Burlington and
Rock Island roads will be tied up to
morrow.
President Debs says the railroad man.
ayers are standing shoulder to shoulde
and the men must do likewise. He has
issued an address to the railway men OF
America saying the struggle with the
Pullman company has developed into 8
contest between the producing classes
and the money power. 1t is believed
that Debs will be arrested before night
ALBUQUERQUE, n. M, June 2@.-A
strike has been inaugurated on the Al
buquerque division OF the Atlantic 4
Pacific, thus tying up the road for its
entire length. No train has reached
here from the east for three days.
KANSAS CITY. June 29.-Judge Phil
lips this morning issued an order re
straining the Santa Fe employees from
interfering with the running Of Pull
mans ard admonishing them not to quit
the service Of the company.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 29.-The Northern
Pacific company is not turning a wheel
trains on all other roads arrived this
morning with Pullman's. The Wiscon
sin Central Pullman's were placardet
with notices that the road was under
the government control and interference
will be punished by the United States
court.
SAN FRANcIsCo, June 90. - United
States District Attorney Garter OF THU
district. and District Attorney Dennis
Of Los Angles, have received instruc
tions from Attorney General Olney t.
prosecute railroad men who refuse t.
handle mail trains, as regularly made
up, for conspiracy. This is likely t.
cause serious trouble.
BY order of President Debs a genera
strike is in effect on the Southern Paci
fic; the entire system is pardlyzed. Tt
order is the result Of the discharge a
Oakland Of three brakemen who refused
to go out on a train to which Pullman
cars we're coupled. The strike took ef
feet at midnight. Even the Southern
Pacific ferry across San Francisco bay i
badly crippled. There is no doubt tn,
officials OF the Southern Pacific ar
amazed at the remarkable strength o
the A. r. U.
PUEBLO, Col, June 29.--All the Den
YER and Rio Grande employees here hav
struck. They say they will not return
to work until the company stops running
Pullman cars.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June 29.-Fou
hundred A. r. U. employees on tn
Evansville & Terre Haute and Chicag
& Eastern Illinois railroads have struck
CHANUTE, Kan, June 29.-An enthu
siastic meeting of the A. r. U. Of south
ern Kaneas was held in this city toda.
They resolved to fight from start t
finish.
Topeka. June 29.-General Manage
Frey Of the Santa Fe says: Our tram
came out OF Chicago last night with IT,
regular Pullman equipment. The mos
serious trouble is on the Western Gran
division. Everything is tied up at RI
ton. Last evening one OF tram dil
patchers there named Smith was chase
by SEQ men to the hills. The mob NJ
. titled the chief night dispatcher that
he went on duty they would kill hin
We are handling very little freight. l
. my opinion the strike will DOR spend j
!, self"
ST. LOUIS, June 29.-The discharge
the Missouri Pacific boss switchmal
John Lally, for refusing to handle Pull
mad cars will result in a complete tie-u
Of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Moul
: tain roads; indeed the entire Goul