Show lilM ARE bill 10 BANKRUPT plIIIMUl I Boast Made By Vice President Howard Yesterday SHOPS CLOSED AT LUDLOW AND ST LOUIS WILL UE REXDERCD COMPLETELY t1 HELPLESS IX TEX DAYS j Pullman Hov ever Looks tpon thc Stutter in si IJlffcreiit Liglil Rluli Lands Claimed Ily the Southern Paclllc Are Returned to the Government Gov-ernment and Will at Once He Tliro vu Open For Settlement Improved Ocean Service ln11roYtfl Chicago June 25At noon tomorrow tomor-row the American Railway union H begin its light against the Pullman Palace Pal-ace Car company VcePresident Howard said We are going to bankrupt George I Pull man in a short time We have shut up his works at Ludlow and St Louis and shall be apt to close his last door at Wilmington by next week He will fcc rendered completely helpless inside of ten days unless lie comes to terms s Attorney J S Reynolds speaking f today for Mr Pullman said The Pullman company is prepared to stand by its original position jn this mater to the end Personally I have not the least doubt as to what the outcome out-come will be I will beyond question result in a victory for the company We now have about 750 men at work in the shops at Wilmington Delaware where thc American Railway union made an unsuccessful attempt to organize or-ganize the employees There are no Indications at present that the strikers will be able to draw the men at this point in the fight The Pullman company tonight issued I is-sued a statement regarding the strike and proposed boycott After reviewing the situation and stating that the strikers have already deprived themselves them-selves of more than 200000 in wages the document concludes with the stat irpnt that the boycott is threatened because be-cause the company will not agree to submit to arbitration the question as to whether or not it shall operate its shops at Pullman under a scale of wages which would cause a dally loss to them Anticipating the threatened boycott against Pullman cars by the American Railway union the general managers Lit all roads which have terminals in I Chicago practically decided today that I all Pullman cars will get out with r trains or trains will remain at the depots de-pots until they can go with their usual V Pullman equipment This decision was read at the general managers session which wascalled together in special meeting for the purpose of considering the proposed boycott Resolutions were adopted at todays meeting condemning condemn-ing the boycott and asserting the intention in-tention of the roads represented to act unitedly in resisting the proposed move of the union Twentyfive hundred railroad men attended at-tended a mass meeting held in the Empire Em-pire theatre tonight to consider the Pullman strike The proposed boycott was heartily endorsed and speeches by President Debs and others were enthusiastically en-thusiastically received The speakers were emphatic in their condemnation of the Pullman company and confront of success |