Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 163, 14 July 1894 — A MAMMOTH STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

A MAMMOTH STRIKE.

ALL TRAINS IN THE UNITED STATES STOPPED A Most Serious Oullook. The strike of tbe eraployees of George M. Pallman the celebr«ted buil«lcr of railroad cars has as»unied diHieusions whieh not alone have paralyzed all eommerce in the United States, but whieh lhreaten to end in bloodshed and riot. The ditferent Labor organizations and railroad unions have taken up the cause of the Pullman strikers and refuse to move any train until the railroad coropanies agree to dispense with Pullman cars. Extreino raeasures have been adopted and iu California, lllinois and otber states the railitia has beeu oal!ed out to protect the property of the railroad corporations and to enforce the passage of trains aud the carryiug of mail. The Presideut has eraphazised his authority aml has ordered federal troops to interfere a step whieh has aroused the ire of several 6iovernors who object to what they are pleased to term irapertineut interference of the ferleral governraent in atfairs of thc states. The scenes iu Uhieapo are such, tbongb, that the Washington adoiiuistration feel itself justified in ignorinp Qovernor Altgeld and by this tirae. ver>’ likely,anarchy and riot are runniiig high in Chicago if not conquered with an iron hand. In tho meantime all means of transportation are stopjied and farmers and fruitgrowers fiud themsolves without raarkets and with bankrnptcy staring them in the face. It is a gigantic war betweeu labor and capital and it is evident that it will l>e fought to a fiuish. The insufficieut nomber of the United States armv has been well iliustrated during this strike, and the result of Ihe lesson will be that the Uuited States will establish an armv in proportion to the sieze of the couutry.