South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-05
Rail StrikeS--I,OOO
In Last 40 Years

suit of the panic OF 1898. following
which the Pullman company cut
wages % per cent. but declined to
cut rents on the company houses in
which a large part OF its workers
lived. The strike was called by the
American Railway union. Pres't
Cleveland sent federal troops to Chi
cago TO proven. rioting. On July a
federal court enjoined workers from
influencing men at work 10 give up
jobs. Eugene V Debs and other
strike leaders were arrested for VIC
lation of injunction and sentenced
10 the penitentiary. Strike was
broken.
1893. The first use OF the injunc-
ton in labor disputes came in 1898
in the strike OF workers on the To-
ledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michi-
gan railway. This strike was called
March s. the men demanding in
creased wages. reduction of the over
time limit and recognition Of the
union. Striking engineers were ar
rested. cited for contempt in dis
Obeying the injunction orders and
fined $50.
Ask Raise.
1892 Yard brakemen and switch
men on the Lehigh Valley. Erie &
Buffalo Greek railways struck Aug.
-. for wage increases. The men
offered TO arbitFate The railways
refused. BY Aug. 90 men on the
Lackawanna, Nickel Plate, New
York Central, West Shore and Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern had
been drawn in. The strike was to
raise the level of pay of men east of
Buffalo TO that paid men working
west Of Buffalo. State militia was
called out in Pennsylvania. The
strike was broken.
1859 The famous Burlington
strike was called Feb. 27. 1888, by
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers. as a protest against condi-
tons in classification and grading of
engineers. The firemen went out
with the engineers, and switchmen
joined March %. A sympathetic
strike was called on the Santa Fe,
which was attempting to handle c.
y. & .. cars. Efforts TO produce
| boycott of the Burlington failed and
/ traffic gradually increased to normal.
! The switchmen called their strike off.
Dec 9, and on Jan. I. 1889. the joint
committee of engineers and fremen
! issued a circular declaring the strike
| off The company agreed TO take
back men who had committed no
violence. so far as there were posi-
tions to lie filled. At peak of strike
/ 1900 engineers were out.
| 1886. Freight brakemen OF the
/ Missouri Pacific walked out March 4.
on order OF the Knights OF Labor,
demanding recognition of their un-
| ion. The road officials refused to
treat with the knights representa- e
lives. The strike was declared of
/ in MAY. the road promising to give
/ preference TO strikers in hiring TO
| hH vacancies. but refusing to dis
/ charge men taken on during strike.
/ Nine thousand men out.
/ 4 Bitter Strike.
1871 The most disastrous strike
] from the viewpoint of actual dam
age done. was that on the Pennsyl-
vania in July 1877. following an or
\ der that all freight trains from Pitts
burg east through the mountains
should run as double headers. The
/ effect OF the order was TO cut the
crews necessary 10 handle the traf-
| fc Some freight crews at Pitts
/ burg struck, and trouble al the Pitts
I burg yards developed. The sheriff
OF Allegheny county wired Gov
/ Hartranft that there was condl-
ton OF "tumult, riot and mob" in
( Pittsburg Hartranft ordered out
the state militia The strike spread
10 the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne X chi
caGo division and the Pittsburg. Gin
cinuIti & 8 Louis. Rioting ran