Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-15

African slavery WAS u benediction. The
year prior to the great strike Pullman
had reduced the wages of his employees
three times, but there was no reduction
in the rents or coet of light, fuel, and
other things, and when the strike did
come the employees were indebted to
the company $4,000 for the item of rent
alone. He quoted the case of a girl
whose father after fifteen years of serv-
ice with the company had died in its
debt 500, and AS a condition of her OBJ
tanning employment she was compelled
to sign an agreement to pay the debt,
and on several pay days the sum de-
Quoted for her own rent and the pay
ment on her fathers debt left her with
out a cent. The Pullman car com
pany had a policy by which
they coined the labor, sweat and
groans Of their employees into dividends.
In spite of all this wrong and oppression
the employees did not want to strike,
they sought redress from one official to
another and finally laid their grievance
before Mr.. Pullman, and he, with
BENICNANT SMILE,
asked; Haven't | been a father to you?:"
Laughter Deliver me from that kind
of a father. | had much rather be dn
orphan. Laughter. Mr.. Pullman. how
over, promised the committee that he
would investigate and reported to their
fellow Workmen with some hope. Vain
hope: the next morning The committee
were all discharged, and The same day
the 4,3OO men and women struck and
left the shops, aud ! admire them for it.
Applause. They said it WAS better to
strike and etarv- thar work and starve.
Mr., Debs then related IL visit he made to
Pullman city and described the wretched
condition of the employees, The good
people Of Chicago interested Themselves
and tried to effect Il settlement. but
Pullman said there WAS nothing to arbi-
trate. Then A proposition was made
that the Pullman company appoint
two, the United States court Two
and they select a fifth, to reach a basis.
The vol IDgmen did not ask a represent
tation on the board. This was refused,
because Mr.. Pullman dare not permit
a body OF disinterested men discover the
condition OF affairs. About
this time a convention of the A. r. U.
was held in Chicago and many of the
delegates visited the town of Pullman,
and as they were mon they could not
help leaving there in
SYMPATHY WITH THE
There were many good people who
sympathized with the Pullman strike
but did not with the A. II, U. strike
The latter was the natural and irresistible
of the former. There are 20 rail
roads centering in Chicago and they
have a general managers association
which was organized SIX weeks before
the A. X. U. He read an article from
the Chicago Herald stating that the
of the general managers was to
against the employees, and they
bound themselves to treat Il strike and
the strikers on any one road a. though it
had occurred on their own road. 1t was
in effect a combine to compel the men to
strike. Who are the cpnspirators? Ii a
w~orkingman's union organized for the
of it's members is Il conspiracy
why is not the general managers
association organized to suppress them a
consplracy?: The difference between a
and a conspiracy is the diff
ference between a general manager and
section hand. Applausel In add
ton to this the managers organized for a
reduction of wages on all
They claimed it was to equalize
but who ever heard of them equal
iztng upwards. They not only organized
to reduce waves, out to exile the men
who would not accept a reduction, for it
was agreed that the man who left or was
discharged from one road should not
have employment IN any other. In this
were cOnspirators and the testi-
nony il the Chicago courts shows this
Is what was done. The blacklist is the
most
HELL,sH AND INFAMOUS
ever decreed by man, for it not
only affects the man. but innocent wives
and children, who must starve because
their provider and protector ls a victim
the blacklist, and the result of it is
man is driven to suicide or crime.
The men who devise this blacklist and
plot and consplre to keep IN honest man
from getting work should be sent to the
A%pplause bespoke of the
sudden ending of the trial of himself at
and said it was caused by the
managers. not the strikers. The
managers found some of their secrets
would be- unearthed and they became
Mr.. Pullman fled from the
.ily. "'uppose / had left the city. |
would have gone to jail Laughter
do not think it any laughing matter"
\" added. Had the A. Il. u. men fled
opinion would have said they
guilty. The flight Of Pullman
shows mat he was guilty. They do not
any trial: they have had enough
,f it. Much of the social unrest is be-
cause justice ia not meted out to all
alike. The judicial not is adjusted to
catch minnoWs and let the whale go
Applause.
SYSTEMATIC VAC REDUCTIONS
just AFTER the general managers asso-
organized a systematic reduction
n the wages of railroad employees com
and proceeded eli over tho
1t is a singular and significant
Fact that DO reduction of wages was
made on any " lines Of railroads at
he same time. An interval of ii few
weeks INTERVIEWED between each. The
commenced oE the Louisville