The record-union., 1894-04-30
GREAT NORTHERN TROUBLE.
Strikers Reject Proposition to Arbi-
trate the Difficulties.

tTdL0 Gu9 DIIlcuICloS.
ST.. PAUL, April 29.-Business will be
resumed OH the Great Northern to-mor-
row. In some respects. the strike situa-
ton is unchanged from last night, al
though there have been some interesting
developments. A proposition of the
commercial bodies of the two cities for a
submission to an arbitration board of
five disinterested persons has been gen.
orally discussed, being the chief topic at
the union mems mass meeting at Labor
Hall this afternoon. Mayor Eustis, of
Minneapolis and Labor Commissioner
Powell were present and addressed the
men, urging them to accept the PROPOSE
ton for arbitration. The suggestions
were Iairly hooted down.
At the same hour in another part of the
city, President Hill was telling some
business men that he would agree to any
fair proposition for arbitration, on the
condition that the men resume work at
once. President Hill said he could not
tight and arbitrate at the same time, and
made this one condition of immediate re-
sumption OF work in case arbitration was
agreed upon.
President Debs privately said he was in
favor of the scheme proposed by the
commercial bodies, but when he ad-
dressed the Labor Hall mass meeting he
spoke as mouthpiece of a committee
whose majority is against him and very
radical, and he said the men had de-
manded justice. and that arbitration was
out OF the question. After this an
nouncement and the formal rejection of
the arbitration by the mass meeting, Mr..
Debs went to his hotel with other leaders,
for the purpose Of seeing if it was not
possible to come to some agreement that
would be acceptable to both the men and
the company. So far as any official
proposition for arbitration has been
again rejected, and the strikers are in the
same position as before demanding their
last years pay and admitting no possi-
blllty OF compromise.
The only train sent out to-day was the
one bearing the regulars from Fort
Smelling under Major Patterson, which
started at 6 o'clock this morning and
reached Barnesville at O'Clock tonight.
leaving there for Grand Forks later.
From that point they will go to DEVILS
Lake, to help Marshal Mays prevent in
reference. Tomorrow the company ex-
poets to start the usual trains on sched ule
time, and it Will become clearer whether
the men will stay with the union or ac-
cept the company's offer to the brother
hoods and stay at work.
TRAINLoAD OF TROOPS.
ST. CLOUD (Minn.), April "a train
consisting OF i've coaches with mails and
baggage-car arrived here at 11:20 to-day,
bearing 800 United States regulars. The
train stopped twenty minutes and re-
sumed the trip to Grand Forks, where
the soldiers will be turned over to United
States Marshal Cronin, who will proceed
with them to DEVILS Lake, where they
Will assist in making arrests which Gro
MN and bis deputies were unable to
make. AS the train was pulling out of
the yard someone threw heavy piece of
iron, striking Brake man Frank and cut
ting deep cash. The train was held at
Fergus Falls while the injuries were at
tended to. 1t is asserted this was done
by striker. though he escaped among
the cars. and his identity is unknown.
FIREMEN REFUSE TO GO OUT.
SEATTLE (Wash.), April 29.-The break
in the Great Northern strike in the coast
lines, for which the local officials had ar
ranged, did not take place yesterday, in
consequence of the refusal OF the firemen
to go out. One cause of the weakening of
the trainmen and engineers was the fact
that they have not yet received their
March pay. and are beginning to get
hard up. The pay checks are sent from
st. Paul, to arrive on every division on
tHS 1OIus duu DIS tu0 SGTlko began on the
18th the pay-car is supposed to be tied up
at some point east. The strikers accuse
the company of holding back the March
pay in order to force them TO yield, and it
was the prospect of getting their paw
which largely caused the weakening.
MAY COST THE COMPANY CONSIDERABLE
EXPENSE.
FARGO, April 29.-The local members
of the American Railway Union have
scheme on foot which they say will
cause the Great Northern considerable
expense and may result in the company
having to pay the salaries of the Deputy
Marshals employed, ostensibly to protect
mails, but in reality, they say, to enable
the Great Northern passenger trains to
run. The men claim to have positive
evidence that the company has sent out
trains having neither mails nor mail
agents aboard, although mail cars were
attached to each of the trains, and they
were manned by United States Deputy
Marshals. thus fraudulently securing the
services of Deputy Marshals to enable
them to run a train under the guise of
securing the protection of the United
States Marshal. They will lay the matter
hQf0rQ Cnnnroca OF