The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-09
But the Broken Trackage Was
Discovered Before the Pas
Senger Train Arrived.
WILL BE A WAR TO A FINISH.
General Managers Ready to Assist
President Hill With Guards
and Operators.


first overt act of the present strike was
committed last night. Spikes were pulled
from several rails mile west Of this city.
The broken trackage was discovered this
morning before the passenger train reached
here. Twenty more special policemen ar
rived to-day and are patrolling the yards.
Trains are being sent out hourly, princi-
pally manned with new men, although
three old conductors took their trains out.
The strikers say it is only question of a
few days when every American Railway
Union employe on the road will quit work.
Forty men participating in the strike were
discharged to-day.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Nov. 8.-The Great
Northern Company continued to-day to
send out men over its line. Nearly 100
went out last night and seventy-two this
evening. 1t is announced that none OF the
A. r. .. men will be permitted to resume
their places. This statement was given
out from the office of the general manager
this evening. "You can state, and make
it as strong as you like, that no striker
will be taken back now, next summer or
at any other time. No man who refused
to work or failed to report for duty will
ever work for this road again."
The notice that was posted on the bulle-
tin boards several days ago will be rigidly
adhered to, it being to the effect that no
striker or sympathizer can remain in the
employ of the company.
CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. S.-A morning
paper says: All railroads having head
quarters in Chicago have given positive
assurance to President Hill of the Great
ri hor oil hot for tiac in
their power, they will cooperate with him
in defeating the American Railway Uuion
strike now threatened upon his road.
This information came yesterday from
officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul, the Burlington, the Illinois Central
and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois sys-
TENS. This support of the Great Northern
is an outgrowth of the plan pursued by the
general managers of the different roads Of
Chicago when they were dealing with the
strike of last year.
President Hill came to Chicago three
weeks ago, when he first learned of the
threatened strike through his confidential
advisers at various points along the Great
Northern line. Aid was promised him.
Hill engaged Thiels' Agency to furnish
him armed guards, and then advised the
Chicago railroad managers that his road
would employ any railroad man out of
work who had not committed an act OF
violence in Chicago or elsewhere against
railroad during the strike of 1894.
There are some 1000 of these men in
Chicago at the present time whose names
were on the payroll of railroads up to July
1, 1894. They Include engineers, firmen,
brakemen and fagmen. While they have
been ''blacklisted'' for nearly eighteen
months no charge has rested against them
sbut OF having simply quit work when the
men were engaged yesterday and furnished
transportation to st. Paul.
Some 800 men-guards and practical
railroad men-have already left Chicago
for the Great Northern system, with the
understanding that even if the strike does
not reach the proportions which are ex-
pected, they eventually will secure posi-
tions through the discharge of men whom
the officials of that road consider as breed
ers OF troubles.
A telegram was received in Chicago yes
terday from Hill saying that within
week he would have the strike entirely
squelched and all labor trouble removed
from his line.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. S.-The
American Railway Union men in this city
received letter to-day from President
Debs, written yesterday, in which he
touched on Great Northern strike matters
as follows:
Il am advised that no strike has been
declared nor is likely to be declared.
There is local trouble at three or four
points, but none of general character in
which the A. r. U. is involved. There
could be no general strike without its being
authorized by the men themselves, and
this has not been done. Press dispatches
about the Great Northern are mostly
false
TACOMA, WASH, Nov. S.-Local rail-
road circles are all worked up and there is
| likelihood of trouble in the discharge of
two old railroad men, John Cameron, con-
ductor, and N. z. Warner, engineer, of
local freight No. 81. Superintendent Nc
Cabe has had it in for the men for some
time, and laid them off repeatedly in the
hope Of making them resign.
A strange feature Of the case is that at a
meeting OF the railway men in Seattle these
| two men declared against strike, and had
| 1t not been for them there would have
| been strike. Master Mechanic H. n.
! Warner declares that the men are the
most competent on the line and the re-
moval is unwarranted and trouble may
arise from il. The local men Lere are
| very bitter at McCabe's actions.