The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-30
The Trouble Is Not by Any Means Nearing
an kmicable Settlement.
The Boycott Being Used to Prevent
Passengers From Travelling the
Roads, Which Has Proven Sc
d, we're to Merchants Doing BUSH
ness in the Labor Union Dis
tricts. .-..,.....

CLEVELAND, July 20. - Although
order has practically been restored
within the city, the railroad strike has
resolved itself into a general boycott OF
the Big Consolidated Company and eV-
; eryhody who rides upon its cars APP
parently the strikers have the sympa-
thy and active cooperation of all the
labor organiza tons in the city. Not
only are merchants being punished for
riding on the tabooed cars but they are
warned against selling goods to other
people who do ride. on threaten losing
the trade of union men,. Instances are
given in which the druggists have re-
fused to sell medicine to people who
were accused of patroniZing the Big
Consolidated Company and physicians
have been boycotted for riding upon
: the cars while going to see their pa
tents.
The boycott is most severe on the
small dealers who do business on streets
that are populated largely by union
men and their sympathizers. A num-
Der of these merchants have published
advertisements to-day offering rewards
ranging from $50 to $500 for reliable
evidence that they or any of their
clerks or relatives have ridden on the
cars since the strike began, and a num-
Der of communications have been sent
Z to the papers by physicians, grocers,
> butchers and others. protesting their in
nocence of the charge of having pat
roniZed the railroad company.
AS yet the big retail merchants have
not felt the effects of the boycott Sc
veEely, though it is said some of them
. have been requested to forbid their
clerks to ride on the cars.
Thousands of working people are go
ing to and from their homes in buses
of every kind and description, from
huckster wagons TO tally-hos, and in
certain sections of the city the cars run
with few passengers.
This is not true of Euclid avenue
Central. Cedar and Wade Park avenue
lines, which run through the best parts
of the East End. There the cars are
pretty we'll filled.
The boycott of the. troops has aroused
the ire of Adiutant General Axline,
who says there is State law to punish
persons who interfere with the militia.
There is one section of the statutes
which provides a maximum penalty of
81, 200 fine and six months imprison-
ment for every person who tries to
persuade or discourage a man of the
National Guard from responding to q
call for riot duty. General AXline says
the boycott and the threat of certain
employers to put on the blacklist those
employees who turned out with the
militia are covered by this law. and he
threatens to institute prosecutions
against dealers if the boycott is con-
tinued He says also that he may be-
gin under the civil rights law, and he
sent several soldiers to a restaurant for
dinner with the express purpose to
begin such action against the proprie-
tor if he refused to serve them.
The police have begun to deal with
the rioters more severely. Heretofore
they have been arrested for misde-
manor. Hereafter they will be charged
with felony.