People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — THE BOYCOTT. [ARTICLE]

THE BOYCOTT.

Railroad ft Paralyzed by the Operations of the A. R. U. Ballway Lines Pool Issues—Mall Trains Held Up-Frelgbt Traffic at a Standstill The Blow to Fruit Growers and Shippers, ISSUES ARE POOLED. Chicago, June 29.—A1l the twentyone lines entering Chicago have agreed to pool issues and bear jointly the expenses of the strike.whether the road is affected or not. They declare they will fight the boycott to the bitter end. No Freight Carried. Chicago, July 3. —All freight traffic west and south is wholly suspended. A fruit and vegetable famine, as well as a milk famine, is threatened in this city. Its Character Changed. Pullman cars no longer cut a large figure in the boycott, for it is now laid upon every road belonging to the Managers’ association, whether running Pullman cars or not. It is a fight to the finish between the American Railway union and the Railway Managers’ association. Steamboats Profit by the Strike. The strike on the railroads is diverting great quantities of freight to the steamboat lines which have rail connections on the other side of Lake Michigan. The Big Four turned all its freight for Cincinnati and the southeast to St. Joseph, and the Michgan Central diverted freight wherever possible to the lines touching at its points on the other side of the lake. Railroads That Are Affected. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Western Indiana. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Chicago & Grand Trunk, Chicago & Erie. Chicago & Great Western. Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago & Alton, Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Illinois Central, Inner Belt Line, Louisville, New Albany & Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, Union Stock Yards and Transit company, Wisconsin Central, Wabash, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Nickel Plate, Calumet Terminal. The foregoing comprise the roads converging in this city against which the boycott has been laid, and one and all of which are either practically tied up or are so crippled as to be ineffective in helping a solution of the trouble precipitated upon them by President Debs in his combat against the railroads of the country. Besides these Chicago railroads the tie-up has proved effective against the following roads in the west and the east—for that section, too, has been touched by the boycott: Cincinnati Southern, Denver & Rio Grande, Evansville & Terre Haute, Hocking Valley, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific. To Support the Boycott. At a meeting of the Trades and Labor assembly Sunday the executive board of the organization was given power to call out all local trades in support of the boycott. i Fruit Shippers Suffer. San Francisco, July 3. —The tie-up has caused enormous loss to fruit growers’ as the big shippers have given orders they will receive no more fruit. This uneS'peoted calamity will ruin hundreds of small horticulturists. Black River Falls, Wis., July 3. — The strike is having a serious effect on the berry shippers at this point as the express company refuses to accept anything in the way of perishable goods unless charges are prepaid and subject to all delays. The result will be many thousand dollars’ damage to this locality, as the berry crop is now reaching the highest point and tons are ripening daily which will be a total loss unless traffic is resumed on the old basis. Shippers will not send subject to delay. Ten Mall Trains Held. Cairo, 111., July 2. —Ten mail trains and one local passenger were on Saturday lying idle in the Illinois Central yards and three tons of United States mails were detained at the passenger depot.