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IT IS ABOUT ENGEO
Strikers Offer a Compromise
Which is Rejected.
MANAGERS TO BE INVESTIGATED.
I Judge Grosscup’s Instructions to
tho Grand Jury.
STRIKEBS ARE KOT TO BE REINSTATED
B And thn Men Who Struck in Haste Repent
at Leisure—Railroads Resuming Be
soming Bu-iness Again.
Chicago, July 13. —Eugene V. Debs, who
I ordered the great railroad strike, made
I one more ineffectual effort today looking to
I settlement. He drew up a formal proposi
| tion to the managers agreeing to have
I the men return io work provided they be re-
■ instated in their former positions without
I prejudice. He made an exception in the case
I of any man who has been convicted of
I crime, but offered to have all others go
I back immediately. He said that the propo-
I sition was inspired by a desire to subserve
I the public good, ag the strike, small and
I unimportant in its inception, has extended
I until “it now involves or threatens, not only
I every public interest, but the peace, secu
| rity and prosperity of our common coun-
I try.”
This proposition was signed by Debs,
■ Howard and Keliher, the principal officers
■ of the American Railway Union. It was
I taken by them to Mayor Hopkins, who, at
I their request, presented it to Chairman
■ St. John, of the General Managers’ Associ
!- ation. The association was not in session,
I but after the individual members had been
K consulted it was returned to Mayor Hop
£ kins without answer and with the in
- formation that no communication what
i ever from Debs, Howard and Keliher could
| be received or considered by the managers'
P association.
This action of the strikers was taken,
they claim,not because of impending defeat,
but in order that they should be in harmony
| with the suggestion President Cleveland
i made in announcing that he would appoint
a commission of arbitration.
The refusal of the general managers to
even consider tho proposition, which would
necessitate the dismissal of ail men en-
R gaged to fill the strikers’ places and would
place them again in the power of the or
ganization which had paralyzed their lines
for days, was a decided set back to the
> union.
Mil in: ger.t So Be Investigated.
Judge Grosscup gave the federal grand
jury additional instructions today, advising
t them that in case evidence was present, d
£ showing that the mails were delayed and
at interstate commerce interfered with as a
y result of an agreement by railroad officials
■ or others in order to create public sympa
thy, it constituted a conspiracy, and no
' matter how high in position the individuals
i > may be they ar< not exempt from indict
ment and trial. This charge is supposed to
bit the result of statements made by strike
leaders, which hav • be .1 published, accus
f Ing the G. neral Managers’ Association
L of entering into a con. piracy and refusing
to move trains without Pullmans. So far
i as can be learned the evidence which the
i attorneys of the American Railway Union
, claim to have has not been presented to
| the grind jury.
Un. .'■trike Playing Oat.
Chicago, July 11.—It is reported that
| when the federal grand jury concludes its
g investigation of the American Railway
■ Union it will begin an inquiry into the
§ pol.i-y and methods of the General Man-
■ agers' Association. Among the leaders of
K the workingmen the charge has been made
■ •penly a
I of United States mails and the interruption
■ of inter.-tate commerce were due quite as
ft much to the general managers as to the
■ railway union. It has bten stated- that
■ the g'le’-nl managers agreed among them-
■ selves that no trains should be run on
road till all had gained their points
Sin dispute with the men. This was done,
It is argued, to hold back su !i companies
1 as sh >wed an inclination to treat with its
& employes and bring about a resumption of
■ traffic on its own lines.
It is as arte I by the men that they can
■ prove that tel grams were sent out from
■ the General Managers’ Association ordtr
■ ing certain railroad lines to send out 11b
■ trains -;il a ignited scheme had been
■*< > is, the men assert,
■ as clear a case of conspiracy on the part of
■ the iation as the
■ a<-ts of I > and his associates, rendering
■ them indictable for conspiracy.
Judge Gros up and District Attorney
Miichrist have said that justice will be
■ meted out impartially to all violators of the
H federal statutes.
i Under a subpoena duces tecum the head
fl quarters of tin- railway union were raid
fl ed last evening while Debs, Howard, Keli
■ hes and others were awaiting in the dis
fl iriet attorney’s office to e mplete their
K bond, and all of the official papers of the
S union that could be found were seiz'd. In
■ the general sweep Debs’s personal mail
ft was carried away by the officers from the
.'■district attorney’s office. Debs’s mail was
Bfltuday returned to him by order of Judge
>..1 Grosscup, who declared the seizure to bS
| illegal.
Liable <0 Imprisonment.
J The statutes under which the indictments
Eg were yesterday found against Debs and
Mothers provide, in addition to line.; ranging
io from sl,o*lo to $10,090, imprisonment under
Il one statute for not more than two years,
fl and under another imprisonment of not
■ less than six months nor more than six
fl years.
a Judge Grosscup wh“n questioned upon
fl the possible action of the grand jury
fl against tile General Managers’ Association,
fl said:
\ “I have no doubt when the grand jury
■ shall have finished the particular matt, r
I it is now investigating it will turn its at-
I tention to others who may have violated
I the law. It will widen the scope of its in-
I quiry so as to include all persons who
may have interfered with or obstructed in
terstate commerce or the United States
mails in any way or by any means.”
“Will you give the grand jury additional
instructions on that point.-’
“1 cannot do so on trial point now. I will
do whatever is necessary to enable the
grard jury to do its full dirty. But labor
men have' little faith in a special grand
jury They stick to their opinion that the
e—in"d i”ry was drawn, not to investigate
violations of law, but to return indictments
Children get rosy
and strong
Brown’s iron
Bitters!
against the railway union men and their
sympathizers.”
Holding Their Jobs.
The ultimate effect of that appeal issued
last night by Grand Master Workman
of the Knights of Labor, calling
on all knights throughout the country and
those in sympathy with them to q;iit work,
and the order issued at about the same
time by the representatives of all allied
labor in Chicago to do likewise, cannot
yet be certainly foreseen. All that is
known is that the Knights of Labor At all
points heard from, including nearly all of
the large centers of population in the
United States, remained at work today with
practical unanimity, and that in this city
the number of members of the allied trades
remaining at work so far out-numbered
those who quit, as to make no appreciable
change in the industrial appearance of the
city.
Bounce all of Deb's lieu.
Chicago, July 13.—A strike of all the
American Railway Union men employed on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Daul and
Chicago and Northwestern railroads is
threatened. It may be ordered tomorrow.
The cause will be the sumniary dismissal
today from the service of the Northwestern
company of thirty-two union switchmen and
of seven engineers, and one fireman and
seven brakemen on the St. Dani toad.
'The news of these dismissals was con
veyed tonight to 000 railroad men who were
met at Lincoln and West Indiana street by
Vice President Howard, of the American
Railway Union. The strikers met to listen
to addresses and reports from the officers
of the union. Howard urged all men em
ployed on Xhese roads to protect those who
had been discharged by getting together to
morrow and going out in a body. He called
upon them to stay out until not only all
the men had been reinstated, but until ail
the non-union men who had taken their
places had been made to “walk.” With
one voice, every man shouted he would.
A storm of indignation followed the
declaration of Mr. Howard that General
Manager Earlin. of the St. Paul road, had
notified the men discharged that they would
never be allowed to do another stroke of
railroad work in the United States.
■Mowreig'* Threatens si Strike.
Everv American Railway Union man,
Knights of Labor and Federation of Labor
leaders spoken to al headquarters today de
clared that the refusal of the railway man
agers to restore the strikers to their posi
tions, except those convicted of crime
would be the signal for the waging of a
relentless war on the corporations, com
pared, with which the present strike would
be lame.
General Master Workman Sovereign and
the other members of the executive com
mittee of the Knights of Labor had a con
ference fliis afternoon at Ulrich’s hall with
Mr. Debs and the executive board of the
American Railway Union. 'The subject of
the discussion was that of ordering a strike
of all the knights in tho United States.
No definite action was taken by the execu
tive board of the Knights of Lhbor and
the conference with the American Railway
Union will be resumed tomorrow morning
at TO o’clock. Mr. Sovereign said to the
reporter:
“if the fair and squat e proposition made
to the railroad managers by the railway
union is rejected, the Kignts of Labor will
take up this fight with renewed power am!
determination to bring tho aggregation of
capital to our terms.We will consider that
we. just as much as the American Railway’
Union and the Pullman strikers, are fight
ing for the very existence of organized la
bor and living wages. 'Dais fight has not
leached its zenith yet.”
OUT OF JOBS.
The V. ho Struck in Haste Repent at.
Leisure Without Work.
Chicago, July 12. —The following telegram
was sent to President Cleveland this after
noon by the American Federation of Labor
conference:
“The gravity of the industrial situation of
the country demands extraordinary and ex
ceptional action of a conciliatory character
at the hands of all men. Recognizing this
fact, the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor anil the undersigned
officers of national and international trades
unions and brotherhoods of railway’ organi
zations of America are in conference in this 1
city. We ask you, in the name cf the work
ing people and the entire citizenship of our
country, to lend your influence and give us
your aid so that the present industrial crisis
may’ be brought to an end, alike to the 1
advantage of the people of our country and '
the institutions under which we live.
“We, therefore, ask you to come to Chi
cago and meet this conference, or, if the
condition of public business does not war- 1
rant such course, that you dill deputize
some one as your representative.”
Signed by the executive council American
Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers,
president; C. P. McGuire, first vice presi
dent; C. L. Drummond, second vice presi
dent; James Bretelle, third vice president;
William Harden, fourth vice president; J.
R. Lennon, treasurer; Cris Evans, secre
tary; and representatives of all organiza
tions present.
The telegram was addressed simply, "To
the President of the United States.”
The strike situation throughout the coun
try today was, in general, one of quiet
news. The central point of interest has
been the meeting of labor leaders with
President Gompers, of the American Feder
ation of Labor, at their headquarters in
this city.
Among the suggestions considered were
the following:
First, that the striking Pullman employes,
on high patriotic grounds, appeal to Presi
dent Debs to declare the strike off, because
of tite infinite damage which is being done
to tin business of the country.
Second, that the leaders unite in an ap
peal to the public to quit patronizing Pull
man sleeping, drawing room and dining
cars.
Third, that President Cleveland be re
quested to appoint, a commission to investi
gate the strike and the causes which )*-d up
to it, in the expectation that the president’s
commission would justify the action taken
by the strikers, and free them from charges
of rioting find disc;- !■ r.
Fourth, that immediate efforts be made to
secure the impeachment of Attorney Gen
eral Olney.
Fifth, that an effort be made to secure
the passage of a compulsory arbitration
law by congress.
Sixth, that complaints be lodged looking
to the indictment of the railway managers
for conspiracy to obstruct the movement of
United States mails by refusing to run
mail cars except in connection with Pull
man cars.
Cexey Is There.
W. W. Erwin, who has been secured to
defend President Debs and the directors
of the American Railway Union, arrived in
the city today from St. Paul, in company'
with “General” J. S. Coxeyi of Massillon,
O. Mr. Erwin said he had not sufficient
knowledge of the situation to talk about it.
John F. Getting, Mr. Debs’s old attorney,
will act as Mr. Erwin’s coadjutor in the
courts. ;
A sentry' stationed one block south of
Forty-ninth street, on the Pan Handle ;
tracks, was fired at today' !*?■ some one in
ambush. The shot went wild ot its mark, .
but the sentry tiled in return. Later, John
Stephaniski was located with a bullet hole
in his hand. He is supposed to have lived
the shot at the sentry. He was not ar
rested.
The railroads entering Chicago claim
that they are able to hire all the help they
need. At the office of the general managers
the estimate is made that 18.000 or 20.000
identified with Chicago railroads in the
Chicago territory' went on strike. Tho em
ployment agency created by the associa
tion has hired 2.500 or 3,000 men and dis
tributed them among the railroads, and the
companies, acting on their own responsi
bility, have hired probably double that
number, making about 7,500 to 8,000 in aii.
Tho association bureau has assigned the
largest number of men to the Atchison.
Next in order is the Wabash, and then the
Chicago and Great Western, the Northern
Pacifiic and Illinois Central, in the order
named.
Consider the Strike Over.
General Manager Egan said, today:
“The railroads at this juncture are in
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much the position of a merchant whose
place of business has been burned down.
He 1 ebuilds at once, but the reconstruction
lakes time, and, when he is ready to bftgin
business again, it will take some little time
additional for the public to become ac
customed to the new order of things, and
feel a full sense of restored confidence as
of yore. The railroads have plenty of
help to take care of the traffic now offer
ing. qAs this traffic enlarges, they will
need more men. That they will be able
to get all the men they will require is a
proposition that does not admit of a shadow
of doubt. They could double their force in
forty-eight hours, if there should be oc
casion for such rapid increase. We consider
the strike over, though it would be folly to
assume that the effects of the trouble can
be effaced at once.”
KILLED BY STRAY BILLETS
Fired Over the Heads of si Mob by the
Soldiers. 1
Danville, HI., July 9.—Mrs. Michael Glen
nan and Miss Clara' James were killed,
and one unknown man mortally wounded at
Westville this afternoon by a volley tired
over the heads of a crowd of rioting miners
by a company of lite militia.
The miners had been rioting in this
vicinity since yesterday afternoon. Luring
last night a number of freight ears were
destroyed in the Eastern Illinois yard by
incendiary fires.
This afternoon a number of cars were
derailed at Grape Creek, on the Shelby
ville branch. When the wreckage had been
cleared the inbound passenger train pro
ceeded without molestation until Westville
was reached. When it stopped there it
was surrounded by a crowd of miners and
held. Word was telegraphed to Danville,
and a special train with a company of state
troops started at once for the scene of the
trouble.
About one mile from Westville a large
crowd of miners had collected, and upon
the approach of the train bearing the mili
tia, began warlike demonstrations. Several
pistol shots were fired at the sol Hers, v ho
returned the fire, shooting over the binds
of the mob from the train, intending to
scare them.
Miss Clara James, the seventeen-year-old
daughter of Jonas Janies, was standing in
the doorway of her home. A bullet struck
her just below her right oreast and she
died almost instantly.
MRS. MICHAEL GLENNAN, a ttldow,
standing m her own yard, was also struck
and died in five minutes.
AN UNKNOWN MAN received a. ntettai
wound and will die before midnight.
The militia then left the train and clang
ed the crowd, securing three prisoners. Af
ter tiiis the crowd dispersed and no litriler
resistance being offered, the troops rf“t:n'n< d
to their tram, which had been coupled in
front of the passenger, and the trip to
Danville was made without delay.
Two Were Killed.
Spring Valley, Hl., July 10.—A company of
regulars, commanded by Captain Conrad,
came in collision with a mob of strikers,
principally miners, this afternoon at the
Rock Island railroad station, and after pa
tiently enduring volley after volley of
stones, fired into the mob, killing two men
and wounding several others.
Tlie mob was largely composed of Hun
garians, Doles ami other foreigners. Their
threatening demonstration yesterday and
this morning had caused the presence of
the troops and the attack began before the
soldiers had landed from the train. After
his soldiers had been well pelted with
stones and the mob threatened to run
over his men, Captain Conrad gave the
order to fire. The mob broke for the tim
ber when the firing began and has not as
sembled since. The troops went back to
Chicago tonight.
WARNED BY THE GOVERNOR.
General .Strike at Meridian —The Law Laid
Down to the Striker.
Jackson, Miss., July 10. —(Special.)—All
labor organizations at Meridian, Miss.,
have declared in favor of the strike and
joined the boycott against Pullman. 'lffi s
afternoon a meeting xfas held by the strik
ers, and a brass band helped to lend enthu
siasm to the cause. The situation is alarm
ing.
President Harver, of the Queen and Cres
cent, is on the ground today and telegraph-
Governor Stone that his presence was
necessary there to protect life and proper
ty. Governor Stone, who was a hundred
miles from here inspecting one of the
convict camps, arrived here at 6 o’clock
and left at 6:10 for Meridian, accompanied
by Adjutant General William Henry. Gov
ernor Stone has no patience with lawless
ness of any character, and if the emergency
should arise, he will take a prompt heroic
measure to vindicate the law, suppress
riot and arson. The strike in Meridian so
far isjinown as the only one in Mississippi.
A Wsiikout nt Meridian.
Meridian, Miss., July 10.—Nearly 500 men
on the Queen and Crescent system walked
out here. The Queen and Crescent shops
also shut down. The Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen passed resolutions to walk
out. No freight trains are moving from
here on the Queen and Crescent system.
Ail Quiet sit Meridian.
Meridian, Miss., July 11.—(Special.)—All is
quiet at this center with the strikers. Pas
senger trains are running as heretofore and
several freight trains that have been tied
up since Sunday, were moved out today.
Mr. R. Carroil, general manager of the
Queen and Crescent system, arrived in
the city last night with a large force oi'
experienced railroad men from Cincinnati,
who will pursue the work left off by the
strikers. Governor John M. Stone is also in
the city to view the situation.
The strikers and sympathizers, about 400
in number, congregated at the A. and \.
hall last night, formed a procession ami
marched through the streets, led by a band
playing “Dixie.” The procession was very
orderly and no threats were made by any
one.
Two of the men brought from Cincinnati
last night, on going to work in the yards
this morning, were found to have a pistol
on their person. A striker discovered the
fact and had them arrested. They were
immediately tried by Mayor Dial in the
presence of Governor Stone and a courtroom
full of strikers. The mayor, after hearing
the evidence in the case, fined one $25 and
costs and discharged the other.
This evening Govenor Stone addressed the
American Railway Union lodge by invita
tion. iie emphatically warned them against
lawlessness, rioting, etc. Every word tiiat
lie spoke was full of determination and
eouraee and will prove beneficial in sup
pressing angry feelings that now exist be
tween strikers and scabs.
READ THE RIOT ACT.
Governor Stone Gave the Strikers
Some Plnin Tjllk.
Jackson, Miss., July 13.—(Special.)—The
Meridian strikers paraded the streets with
banners and brass bands, met incoming
ami outgoing trains, and mmjaced non
union employes. Governor Stofie accepted
an invitation to address the strikers, but
as lie entered their hall the door was shut
and non-striking citizens were refused ad
mittance. The governor told them that
people who wanted to work had as much
right to work as strikers had to quit work.
The governor recognized the rights of
labor, but the law was paramount, and
must’be upheld at whatever cost. Violence
would not be tolerated. If the local au
thorities were impotent to protect life and
property, lie would call out the national
guard, and, if tins was not sufficient, he
would’ ask the president for troops. Adju
tant General Henry left for Meridian to
night. e
Another Restraining Order.
Cincinnati, 0., July 12.—Another omnibus
bill and restraining order was Issued against
E. \ . Debs and others by Judge Taft, of
the United .States circuit court, today, sim
ilar to that filed here on July 4th. It covers
the I’itisburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Lour-; the Columbus, Hocking Valley and
'Doledo; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
and St. Louis; the Columbus, Akron and
Cleveland; the New Yogk, Lake Erie and
Western; the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio; the Norfolk and Western; the Balti
more and Ohio; the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern, and the Cincinnati, Hamil
ton and Dayton.
Minnesota, Republican Convention.
St. Paul, Minn., July 11.—The republican
state convention met here today. Gov
rnor Knute Nelson and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Clough were renominated by accla
mation. Albert Berg was nominated for
secretary of state on the second ballot. S.
C. Dunn was nominated state auditor on
the third ballot. Henry W. Childs was re
nominated for attorney general by accla
mation.
Rapid Fire Guns for Chicago.
Fort Monroe, Va., July 9. —Colonel Frank,
commandant, received orders today to get
all the rapid firing guns at the post in
immediate readiness for shipment in case
they are needed in Chicago. Captain Wells
Willard, subsistence department, is ordered
to Chicago.
Refused to Strike.
Aurora, 111.; July 11.—The Aurora branch
of the American Railway Union, organized
here two weeks ago, at a meeting last
night, by a unanimous vote, passed a reso
lution refusing to strike as ordered and
condemned Debs in unmeasured terms.
The resolutions further stated that the
union was organized under false pretenses.
The charter was sent back tiiis morning.
DEBS TO ARTHUR.
The President Sends a Warm Dispatch to
the <> <1 Chief.
Chicago, July 14.—The executive commit
tee of the American Railway Union met at
the Severe house shortly after 10 o’clock
this morning and held a prolonged session.
The refusal of the general managers to
consider their proposition for the settlement
of the strike and the action of the Fed
eration of Labor, the brotherhoods and the
building trades were discussed at length.
Methods of carrying on the strike and mak
ing it more effective were considered. In
addition to the members of the board there
were present Master Workman Sovereign,
of the Knights of Labor; J. D. Stevenson,
of East St. Louis, 111., and F. H. Ronemus,
of Kansas City, executive officers of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Car Men, and J.
Bowie, of Battle Creek, Mich., grand chief
of the Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen.
All of the affiliating orders agreed to go
out on strike and to stand by the Ameri
can Railway Union in its strike to the
end. It was resolved that in view of the
rejection by the General Managers’ Associ
ation of the proposition of peace that a
muster of all the forces at once be had
and the strike vigorously prosecuted with
out regard to time or consequences. Six now
men were sent into the field to work among
the doubtful or hesitating' and as fast as
possible members of the executive board
will take the lield.
A Message to Chief Arthur.
The meeting authorized President Debs
to send the following dispatch to Chief Ar
thur. of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers:
"Chicago, July 14, 1891.—P. M. Arthur,
Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, Cleveland, O. —The newspa
pers quote you as having issued an official
order to your members requiring them to
work with scab firemen or any one the com
panies might employ. It is also repotted to
us, on what seems reliable authority, that
you are issuing letters of recommenda
tion to engineers for the purpose of filling
petitions vacated by the strikers. In other
words, that you are supplying scabs to take
tlie places of striking engineers. We desire
to do you no injustice, but wish to be ad
vised of tlie facts in the case. We are now
making history, and do not wish to put
any man on repord improperly. An early
answer will much oblige. By order of the
board of directors.
‘‘AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION’.’
Meeting of the Federation.
Tlie executive council of the Federation
of Labor met at the Briggs house and
acted on routine business of the federation.
So tar as tlie federation is concerned,
they are out of the railway strike for good.
President Gompers. when asked about
the tefiisal of the railway managers to
entertain Debs’s proposition, said today:
I iegret it very much. It is bad for the
railways, bad for the tnen and bad for
public interest. It will, however, have
no effect on the action taken by the federa
tion in declining to order a. general strike.”
A Sammons for Debs.
A deputy United Slates marshal from Ten
nessee arrived in town this morning.. He
had a summons to serve on President Debs,
Vice President Howard, Secretary Keliher
and Director Rogers, requiring them to ap
pear before tlie I nited States circuit court
of the western district of Tennessee at the
August term and show cause why they
should not lie punished for violating the in
junction issued by that court restraining
them irom interfering with railways engag
ed in carrying the mails and in interstate
commerce within the jurisdiction of the
court. Papers were on Rogers and
Keliher at 11 o’clock, and on Debs and
Howard when they came out of the meeting
of the executive committee an hour later.
Arthur’s Answer to Debs.
Tiie foliowing telegram was received by
Mr. Debs late tonight from Chief Arthur,
of the engineers, in reply to one sent him
early in the afternoon:
“Cleveland, July 14.—E. V. Debs: My ad
vice to the members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, when called
on to give it, has been to
attend strictly to their duty as
engineers; run their engines where they
could do so safely, regardless of whom the
company employs to fire them. I have not
issued any letters of recommendation to
engineers for tlie purpose of filling positions
vacated by strikers.
"I have Stated to all inquiries that mem
bers could take the places vacated by
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers con
trary to the laws of the order, but could
not take the places of the members of the
American Railway Union who had quit in
obedience to the orders of their order. I
have not sent any engineers. I have re
ferred all applications for employment to
the chairman of the general committee of
adjustment. P- M. ARTHUR.''
The American Railway Union officers con
sider this to be a practical admission of tho
truth of the charges made against him.
Director Rogers said the reply placed Chief
Arthur in the light of an enemy to organiz
ed labor and the tool of the railroad cor
porations. having confessed the truth of the
implied allegations contained in Mr. Debs’s
telegram.
There was no sign of weakness in the talk
of the strike leaders tonight, although Debs
shut himself up in his room in the Revere
early in the evening with some other offi
cers and refused to say a word for publi
cation.
Debs Addresses the Strikers.
After the morning meeting of the execu
tive board of the railroad union President
Debs and Vice President Howard addressed
a large body of strikers at Ulich’s hall.
There was a unanimous expression of con
fidence in the governing body and every
striker shouted his desire to continue the
strike.
The announcement was mane that one
hu.idred Brotherhood of Carmen had joined
the strike at Little Rock, Ark., and that
there would be a general strike of members
of that organization and the Brotherhood of
Trackmen by the first of the week. Debs
denounced certain federal judges as er
mined scoundrels, a disgrace to the judi
ciary, doing absolutely the bidding of tile
corporations.”
Chief Arthur Denounced.
At another mass meeting of railroad strik
ers tonight Chief Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, was called
by one of the speakers a "traitor and a
humbug,” and a storm of applause greeted
the accusation. The American Railway
Union officers said tonight that an order
for a strike on the Great. Northern had been
issued, and that all the union employes
would go out tomotrow because the com
pany persisted in handling freight from
the Chicago and Northwestern and St. Paul
roads.
The threatened strike on the Northwest
ern and St. Paul system had not material
ized at a late hour tonight, so far as Chica
go is concerned.
A Stcportfr S«’H<'hos a Tr’iin.
Chicago, July 14.—While rushing along at
high speed, the Chicago and Northern Pa
cific suburban train for Forest Home, ran
into an open switch at Fourteenth and
Roby streets yesterday evening and crashed
into a heavy Wisconsin Central freight en
gine standing on the next track. 'l’hree
passengers on the suburban train were in
jured in the wreck, both engines were
ruined and two coaches were telescoped.
Nobody was killed.
It has leaked out thai the wreck was
caused by the misplacing, through care
lessness, of a switch by J. T. Hollister, a
1 reporter for a Chicago morning paper, who
was acting as switchman in order to be
“on the inside” in getting news among
railroad employes. He was promptly
“scooped” and jailed, but was bailed out
, this morning.
' MAKING UP THE LOSSES.
General ManagerH Order the Strictest
’ Economy in Ail Departments.
Chicago, July 14.—Railroad officials devoted
their attention almost exclusively today
in getting their traffic departments back
into the old lines of doing business. The
Rock Island, which had dispensed with
tlie entire forces in its general offices dur
ing the strike, notified its men today to
report for duty Monday morning. The Mil
waukee and St. Paul, which led the way in
the general suspension of office business,
will put all its men back to work on Tues
day. All other roads will resume their
usual routine.
This wag pay day on the Rock Island and
, the oflice paymaster on the third floor of
the Van Buren street building was be
sieged by an eager crowd. The Chicago
and Northwestern also paid off its men.
: Its pay car stood in the yard just west
of the Wells street depot. A company of
, regulars was posted close by, so that had
; any attempt been made to raid the car it
. easily have been frustrated.
> * The managers have laid down for them
selves a policy of the strictest possible
economy so as to offset to the greatest
■ extent possible the losses of the strike.
■ They expect that several weeks will elapse
before traffic will resume its usual volume.
The work of assigning the men to the
positions they left will, for many of them,
1 be a slow process.
I*u 11 us 11 it Strikers Firm.
’ The strikers at Pullman will stand firm,
notwithstanding the position of the Ameri
-1 can Railway Union and the Managers’ As
sociation, and they expect to win, despite
■ tlie apparent defeat of the present strike,
believing that the public is still with them
in their fight against tlie Pullman Palace
, Car Company. Sam Meyers, secretary of
the Pullman grievance committee, said to
day:
“We are not disconcerted in the least,
although we had expected to win our
1 fight with the assistance of the railroad
men of the country in tying up the roads.
However, our men have every confidence
in Debs and tlie American Railway Union,
1 and believe we will yet win the strike
and that our cause has not been injured
1 in the least. The situation will now prob
ably stand as it did before the railroad
men came to our assistance.”
The Federation Meeting;.
The meeting of tlie executive committee
of the American Federation of Labor, con
-1 sisting of Samuel Gompers, E. V. McGuire,
C. L. Drummond, James Brettell, William
1 11. Warden, James B. Lenon and Chris
Evans adjourned subject to call after a- ten
’ hours’ session today.
.Their regular quarterly meeting should
have taken place on August Ist, but owing
• to the labor difficulties, it was called earlier
than the date set. Nothing of importance
’ was transacted except routine business, the
most important of which was a vote to as-
■ sist the carriage makers in their boycott
on Studebaker’s goods, and especially in the
’ west through the help of the Farmers’ Al
liance.
The council appropriated SS(F to assist Eu
gene V. Debs in the case now pending
1 against him in the federal courts; also
I S2OO to assist the Seamen National Union
in organizing- and help their lobbyist, A.
Furuseth, in his attempt to have repealed
certain obnoxious statutes in the United
States law books.
, The Building Trades Reconsider.
I’he building trades council organiza
tion, representing 25,000 Chicago working
men, met last night. There were 160 dele
gates at the meeting and for nearly five
hours they discussed the strike. Then a
vote was taken and the order issued by the
organization calling its members out last
Tuesday was almost unanimously rescinded.
, The strike, so far as the building trades
council is concerned, was thereby declared
off. No resolutions of sympathy were
adopted nor any sympathy expressed for
the American Railway Union. This action
, practically takes away tlie support of the
Chicago workingmen from Debs.
Sivilciinieti Repudiate It.
The switchmen have taken a. decided
action regarding the strike. A meeting
■ held today resulted in the following be-
■ ing promulg'ated:
I “We, the grand board of directors of
1 the Switchmen’s Mutual Aid Assoc.ation
. of North America, now assembled in the
city of Chicago, have carefully considered
our position in the pending strike of the
American Railway Union, and
■ “Whereas, our grand master, Miles W.
• Banett, did not countenance the fsame,
but held that all members of the Switch-
; mens’ Mutual Aid Association be govern
ed by our constitution, therefore, be it
1 “Resolved, That it is the sense of this
; body of the grand board of directors, as
’ sembled, to fully endorse our grand master
in his action on said strike.
Conductors Denounce tlie Strike.
• Philadelphia, Pa., July 14.—The loyalty
of the Pennsylvania railroad employes to
tlie company during the recent strike was
demonstrated last evening in decisive ac
tion by one of the organized bodies. This
action is explained in the foliowig commu
nication received today by General Manager
' Provost:
, “Philadelphia, July 14, 1894.—5. M. Pro
vost, General Manager Pennsylvania Rail
road-Dear Sir: At a regular meeting of the
West■ Philadelphia division, No. 162, Order
, of Railway Conductors, last evening, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
‘Whereas, we, as members of the Order
of Railway Conductors, in Philadelphia and
vicinity, passenger and freight, do consider
the railway situation at Chicago and other
western points as a serious and deplorable
condition of affairs, entirely uncalled for,
therefore,
“ ‘Resolved, That we, as law-abiding citi
zens and faithful employes, do condemn
the action of those who took part in the
wanton' and indiscriminate destruction of
life and property, causing a needless stag
nation of commerce to the detriment of
the interests of their employers and the citi
zens of the United States. That at no
time or place in this vicinity has any feel
ing other than loyalty to our employers been
manifested, and that we have no affiliation,
directly or indirectly, with the organization
known as the'American Railway I nion.
“ 'That a copy of these resolutions be
presented to the general manager of the
Pennsylvania road for his information,
Heopeninß' Central Pacific.
Omaha, Neb., July 14.—1 t is tediously slow
work reopening the Central Pacific and utah
and Northern roads. Colonel Poland has
a construction train going alonjs with troops
on the Central from Ogden. Thus far it has
repaired two bridges, a number of places
Where the tracks had been tampered with
and has literally worked its way.
General Brooks’s troops and those of Gen
eral Huger expect to meet in a few hours
near the California-Nevada line. General
Brooks has sent a company of infantry
from Ogden, up the Utah and Northern, to
meet those from the Northern Pacific line,
the latter under orders of General Merritt.
H'hese will reopen the Montana end of that
road as soon as they get together. Trains
■ are operating on all but the extreme north
ern end.
At lint Sargent Says.
Terre Haute, Ind., July 14.—Grand Master
Sargent, of ithe firemen’s brotherhood,
said today that the old brotherhoods would
come out of the Pullman strike stronger
than before it was ordered, for it would
demonstrate their conservative character.
The laws of his order, he said, are made so
as to prevent a strike as far as possible,
and such a spirit should actuate all labor
organizations. He added that at no time
during the Pullman boycott was there any
danger of a sympathetic strike oil the part
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and all talk to that effect was by persons
not familiar with the brotherhood laws.
Brighter at Buffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y., July 10.—The railroad of
ficials are less apprehensive than for sev
eral days, and express the belief that the
crisis has passed, so far as Buffalo is
concerned, and that there will be no
trouble here.
OUT IN TEXAS.
Fort Worth Men Refuse to Obey Debß—Got
ernor Hose Talks.
Dallas, Tex., July 9.—Santa Fe switch
men struck this morning at Galveston and
at noon here. At 1:15 o’clock striking
switchmen uncoupled a Pullman from a
train, but non-union men came to tha
front and the train was delayed but thirty
minutes. Employes on railroads entering
Forth Worth have held several meetings
and voted not to go out on Debs’s order.
This is important, as nearly all roads cen
ter there.
Governor Hogg on the Strike.
Austin, 'Tex., July It.—The strike to take
place on Texas railroads today failed to
materialize here, and trains tonight draw
ing Pullmans left as usual. Talking to
prominent railroad men and locomotive en
gineers here tonight, they say they have
no idea the strike in Texas will amount to
much.
'There was some lawlessness last night at
Galveston, and Governor Hogg tonight, for
the benefit of the strikers, made public the
following:
“I hope this strike will not become seri
ous. Really, there is no cause for one.
Almost every road in Texas is under con
tract to draw Pullmans, and, if a strike in
• Texas was successful, Pullman will make
the roads pay him heavy damages. The
state of 'Texas is amply able and will, so
long as I am governor, take a hand against
and suppress any man, or set of men, who
undertakes to overthrow the law and de
stroy property, franchises amd rights to
the protection of which the whole people
stand pledged by their state and federal
constitutions. Railroads, railroad trains,
lailroad hands and railroad strikers, and all
other people as well, shall have their rights
duly protected to the full extent of the
law by local and state authority. It is
well for everybody to understand this at
the outset. The law is supreme in Texas,
and will remain so. I apprehend no serious
trouble over tlie mueh-talked-of strike in
Texns.”
Mayor Fly’s Proclamation.
Galveston, Tex., July 11. —Mayor I* ly to
day issued a proclamation commanding all
citizens to observe the peace and abstain
from violence, swore in 200 extra police and
ordered out two companies of iocal military.
The sheriff also swore in seventy-;ve adcll
tional deputies, and armed them with Win
chester rilles. In the face of this show of
force the violent strikers have cooled
down’and gone home. Aii trains will here
after be guarded and thoroughly protected
from any interference of strikers Ihe
authorities of Texas will enforce the aw
and. if necessary, the governor will 01 er
out the militia to assist the C, Y II
in maintaining order, preserving ■ P
and protecting property.
Closed I P the Shops.
Fort Worth, Tex., July 11.-The men in
the yards and shops of the Fort W orth and
Denver prepared to go ou|. on to
day at noon, but the company posted bulle
tins closing up shops and laying off about
175 men iust before 12 o'clock. No rouble
anticipated. No strike on any road here.
Knights of Labor did not go out.
iVr l-aso Tex, July 11.-The Southern
Pacific company started a passenger train
westward at 7 o’clock p. m. There v>tro
three carloads of ('aliform'’ J nai! -
KEEI’S HIM UP LATE.
~ , ■ on Account
Mr. Cleveland Loses.
of the Strike.
Washington. July 9. - (Sp< < SJ
land has been a very busy men 101 social
.lavs past on account of the rioting among
the strikers at Chicago. He has been up
everv nicht until after midnight in consul
tation With General Schofield and alenl ’’ er ,|
of his cabinet and has personally issued
orders and instructions io General Miles.
Hi course in dealing with the strikers is
very much admired by the pm'm l!1 ' "
bath parties here. They tmnk he is just
right in what he has done, although some
of them say he might have done it eai lif r.
However, everybody agrees that
His course in dealing with the stio ■
handling the matter and that his action
will bring about a speedy termination of the
"senator Gordon was at the white house
this morning. He told the president that
his course was eminently proper and that
. it would be endorsed by the entire country.
I If it were to become necessary to call in.
volunteers. Senator Gordon said he would be
glad to tender his <.-rvi es.
Southern People for Order. .
Senator Gordon, as commander-in-, hi f of
the United Confederate Veterans was
asked today by a reporter of the Southern
Associated Press what he thought of tlie
great strike, looking at it from a southern
standpoint. He replied:
“I have nothing to say about it from a
southern standpoint, but I have something
to say as an American citizen. There is
nothing peculiar in the southern view of
the situation, unless tlie fact that the
southern people, to a man, are tor law and
order be peculiar. My sympathies are, and
always have been, strongly enlisted for the
laboring classes. They have as much right
to organize for their protection and improve
ment as capital has lor its protection and
interest; but mob law. mob rule, mob vio
lence, cannot be tolerated in this country.
It must be put down at any cost or tlie gov
ernment cannot last. Defiance of law is
more dangerous under our form of govern
ment than any other. We have no crooned
head whose edicts are laws, but we ha.xd
laws made by the representatives of tha
people, and the people will see them en
forced at all hazards. Personal liberty,
which is every man’s birthright, is one
thing; but lawlessness is a very different
tiling. The line between the two is very
broad and deep and the constituted authori
ties cannot mistake or ignore it, nor can
the people.”
General Gordon was asked what h*
though would be the result. He replied:
“I cannot predict. The situation is serious.
I hope the matter may be settled without
more bloodshed. But one thing is' certain,,
the law will be enforced and the public
peace preserved. The courts, the militia, of
the states, and the standing army, will
probably suffice for this purpose, but if not
there will be no necessity of increasing the
standing army, for every law-abiding citi
zen in this country from one end of it to
the other, will volunteer, if need be, to sus
tain the constituted authorities of the lan4
in upholding the law.”
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