The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-22
HAS ENDED.
The Strike Is Off at
Sacramento.
LAST OF THE FIGHT.
Local Merchants Did the
Business.
NO CONDITIONS ARE MADE.
Men Who Can Will Go Back to
Work.
FILLMORE FIRM TO THE LAST.
He Refused Utterly to Make Terms
and the Men Surrendered
at Discretion.

SACRAMENTO, July 21.-There is an end
TO striking in Sacramento. This much
was decided at a meeting of American
Railway Union men this afternoon. The
strikers have declared the fight off uncon-
ditionally. and peace and order are to have
a chance in the Capital City after three
weeks struggle, mental and physical. of
elements in fierce and sometimes disas-
trous combat. Every one about town re-
joices over this Iong-looked-for result of
the conflict. The militiamen of Sullivan
and Barry are jubilant to degree that
threatens fireworks and Chinese Ian
tern illumination of the Santa Cruz
camps. The regulars are also joyous to a
natural degree after their hot and uncom-
Portable stay in the dirty railroad-shops
and quite as dirty railroad-yards to see the
realization of what every one in Sacra-
mento predicted yesterday and had more
reason to safely predict this morning.
In the afternoon their predictions were
realized. There was a meeting OF the
American Railway Union members with an
attendance large and enthusiastic. 1t was
the most interesting and important one of
the few hundred sessions at which these
striking railway men have been repre-
seuted during the past few weeks of this
extraordinary industrial disturbance.
Tney talked and discussed aud addressed
vehemently and eloquently for hours.
They spoke of their rights and their
wrongs, their consideration for the suffer
ing which their fight has entailed upon
thousands of their felloW-men, and here
they paused in their debate. During the
past couple of weeks these striking rail-
ROAD men have been impressed not alone
with the importance of their struggle in
the possible readjCsimen of industrial
conditions in the country, but also with
the wreck and ruin which has come upon
persous who live apart from the sphere of
labor in the railro ad-yards and on railroad
lines. Farmers, fruit-growers and thous-
ands of others who have suffered extraor-
dinary misfortune on account of the strike
have not failed of picnring their sor-
rows in the minds of American Union
men here in Sacramento. Prominent men
have risen in their midst, and as develop
ments have demonstrated they have
been the successful instruments in
placing another view before The strik-
ers than tha. which merely con-
cerned their own particular purpose.
These have been the prominent men of
SACRAMENTO, and they have not been men,
bers of the Citizens Protective Assoca-
tion. which according to all reports was
little Intended to effect the settlement of
tho strike. Tonight the people of Sacra-
mento are up and talking on street corners,
in hotel corridors and cool verandas.
The settlement of the strike has caused
general satisfaction. OF course, every one
knew it was coming. Every one ALWAYS
knows that such things will happen, al
belt many of them are little late in their
predictions. The 81 -told-you-so" prophets
are loud of mouth and enthusiastic tonight
in the Capital City. Every one is also
pretty much enthusiastic, and with reason.
For about three weeks there has been
fear and trembling and general discomfort
among the pOpulace. The city has been
half way under martial law, killings and
cruel murders have had conspicuous places
in the chapter of incidents. and a general
social and industrial stagnation has been
the rule. Now all of this is over. Work
of all varieties will be resumed, and
within few days Sacramento will again
be a railroad center with a respectable
measure of activity. The military will
PROBABLY remain two or three days yet to
look after a few hotheads who have been
intmidating W orkmen.
There was not little preliminary ne
gotta ion before the final result was
reached. About fifty business men as
sembled in Exempt Firemen's Hall at 10
o'clock this morning. There was also
II
branches of the A. +. q. The occasion
was the receipt of a report of Colonel g. II.
Hubbard and David Lubin, committee
who had gone to San Francisco to see A. n.
Towne in reference to taking back em-
ployes
Mr.. Walthers of the A. r. U. committee
read the following letter from Mr.. Towne:
SAN FRANCISCO July 20, 1894.
d. Lubin and Colonel c. II. Hubbard-GEN-
TLEMEN: Your committee are at liberty to say
that when the strike is declared off our CON-
pany will employ, in addition to those now in
our service and few who are coming 10 us
under engagement, such men as we may need
in train and other service who have not, during
the strike. willfully damaged railroad property
or forcibly prevented our employees from per-
forming th, Ir usual regular duties. each TO be
considered separately and upon individual ap-
plication and to be disposed of according to the
merit of the applicant.
The company will be careful that no indivld-
ua suffers wrong or injustice at our hands.
Beyond this the men must trust 10 the leniency
OF the company. Very truly.
A. n. TOWNE,
Second vice-president and general manager.
Mr.. Wathers said that letter was not
sufficiently explicit and was susceptible OF
different interpretations. 1t left it entirely
with the officials of the company to say
who shall be employed and who shall not
be employed A good many employees
now on the strike took hand in moving
Pullman cars and cutting them off the
train at the depot on July g. 1t might be
said that they forcibly prevented en-