People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — THEIR JOBS GONE. [ARTICLE]

THEIR JOBS GONE.

Chicago's Striking Switchmen Find Their Places Filled. Over 7,000 of Them, It Is Stated. Will Have to Seek Work Elsewhere — Other Strike Xews—The A. R. V. Resolation. LOOKING FOB WOBK. Chicago, Aug. 8. —On all roads except the Santa Fe and Eastern Illinois atriking employes presented themselves Monday as applicants for reinstatement. The great majority found that their places had been filled and were told that there was no work for them. In some instances the strikers were informed that they would not be received back under any consideration, but the roads which have adopted this policy are in the minority. Many of the old men who had walked out when , the strike was ordered, and who were told that there was no work for them, were taken aside and quietly informed that in a week there would be vacancies in the yards and to call again. On information furnished by officials of railroads with terminals in Chicago, it is estimated that over 7,000 of former employes of railroads in Chicago who struck, and whose places have been filled by new men, are permanently out. The General Managers’ association has a list of the names of the men who took part in the car burning and upsetting and of the leaders of the strike. It was said by a superintendent Monday that the general managers had decided that not one of the men whose names were on the blacklist would ever again find employment on any railroad in Chicago. About 2,000 men applying for work at the stock yards were sent away Monday. The Switchmen’s association took charge of the switch engines in use about the yards, the old men being placed over the new ones to give instructions to the latter. Troops All Called In. Chicago, Aug. 7.—Gov. Altgeld aas ordered the troops at Chicai" relieved from duty this mornini* The troops are three panics of the First iufantrj>. m duty at Pullman, and four companies of the Second infantry, on duty at stock yards. This order ends the strike services of the Illinois national guards. Pullman Rents Not to Be Remitted. Vice President Wickes, of the Pullman company, saj’s that the company •will not entertain the proposition from the strikers to return to work if the company will remit the past due rents of houses in Pullman. Off at St. Paul. St, Paul, Aug. 7.—At a meeting of the local organization of the American Railway union the strike on the Paul <fc Duluth, Omaha. Burlington and Milwaukee systems at this point was formally declared off. Declared Off. Chicago, Aug. 7.—With the excep- | tion of the unions on the Santa Feand the Chicago <fc Eastern Illinois railroads the local organization of the American Railway union, through their delegates in Uhlich s hall Sunday afternoon, declared the strike off as far as Chicago was concerned. it explains the cause which brought the organization into existence to be the protection of railroad employes from the aggessions and Impositions of their employers. No effort was made to destroy the older brotherhood, the intention only being to bring about a more perfect union. It says the employes of the Pullman Palace Car company were taken into the at their own request. < The resolution scores the federal au'tirtrities as follows:

"Ke regret tc say that the federal government gave some color to the corporations' claim that the authorities were coming to assist them in a partisan conflict, both by the unnecessary sending of troops without warrant of law and without request of the constitutional local authorities, by the one-sided ®nd offensive acts of the public prosecutor, late from a snug berth as a corporation lawyer. by the blatant mouthings of the IJnited States commander, and the no less tyrannical utterances of the president himself; that the workingmen throughout the nation so understood it was evidenced by their almost unanimous action in supporting the strike, and it is to be feared that a greater gulf than ever has thus been put between the people and their government-” The resolutions are concluded with an appeal to the people to desert old political parties which have shown themselves equally inimical to the interests of the common people and friendly to the great vampire corporations of the land. These people are in this land of the free the sovereign whose peace should not toe disturbed and whose interests should be preserved. The sovereign people should assert their right to rule. We, therefore, citizens of the republic, appeal to you, fellow voters of our common country, to support the party •which bears the name of the sovereign people, •which party stands ready to pledge itself that when into its hands is given the government disputes between employer and employe will he no longer the only exceptions in the various states and the nation from the jurisdiction of Che established courts. After reviewing' the prosecution of the officers of the union for conspiracy and contempt of court the report takes cip the Santa Fe road and maintains that the authorities are so busy punishing workmen that they have no time to attend to the Santa Fe case. The decision to declare the strike off was in harmony with the action of the convention on Friday, which declared that it bad no authority either to order a strike or declare one off that had been ordered under the laws of the organi■zation, which specifically say that no strike shall be ordered excepting by a majority vote of the members of the union on the system on which the strike is to take place. Will Continue the Strike. Spring Valley, 111., Aug. 7.—A mass meeting of miners was held near here and it was unimously decided to continue the strike for last year's scale. A, R. U. Resolutions. Chicago, Aug. 7. —The report of the special committee on resolutions of the American Railway union which was submitted to the convention last Fri#day, and which was referred to the “ board of directors and the lawyers of the organization for revision, was •completed Saturday evening and given to the public: Here follows a description of the town of ; Pullman and the conditions under which the Workmen are said to be employed, It la said

that while wages were reduced the price of rent! remained the same, and that at the time the strike of the Pullman employes began they were indebted to the company in the sum of >70,090 for rents. “Thus the workingmen," says the resolutions, “found themselves in worse condition than did the workingmen in chattel slavery, inasmuch as they did not receive their board and clothes for their labor, but found themselves in debt to their employer after faithfully laboring for him." On the subject of violence the report says that it is the belief of the railroad men that these acts were committed by persons mentally Irresponsible or else at the dictation of those who were the enemies of the workingmen. It is said that the only ones who could profit by such acts were the railroad companies.