Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-07-19
SAY IT Is OVER.
Officials Claim That the
Strike Is Ended.
Debs and His Lieutenants Say II Is still
On-Troops VIII BE Kept in the
Field-HistOry OF the
Struggle.
coNFLIcTINa REpoRrs.

TO the bitter end. Railway managers
declare that the strike is thing of
the past They claim to have many
of their old men back at work, and
are filing the places of others
with men recruited in other
cities and sent here by the car
load. Trains are moving with some
thing like their old-time regularity
Freight is being moved but the con-
gestion is not ended. Throughout the
city the trades-union men who were
called out in the endeavor to
make the strike effective by paralyz-
ing the industries of the town, have re-
sumed work in most cases, and their
part in the great strike was COM
plete failure. Uncle Sans troops
still grid the lake front with their
white tents, and the state
militia patrol the miles of railway
tracks. There is talk of
decreasing the force. but the authori-
ties await more definite information
as to the collapse of the strike. Presi-
dent Debs maintains an air of conf
dence in the ultimate result, and holds
that the blame for prolonging the
struggle rests with the general man
ayers.
outside of Chicago.
kilograms from other railroad CEN
tiers are more emphatic than ever be-
fore to the effect that the American
Railway union strike is at an end
outside Chicago. From Detroit, To-
ledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and
nthe points the news is much
. the same effect - that most
of the railroads are running freight
and passenger trains on sched-
ule time, that men who deserted their
posts at the order to strike are
applicants for unemployment; that
new men are plentiful enough to
managers and that some of the roads
emphatically refuse to reinstate
former employees who deserted at the
dictates of the union.
Managers Quit.
Saturday the General Managers as
ISOLATION adjourned sine die Recog-
| nizing that the railroad strike was
virtually ended, the members felt that
1 there was no further need for their
/ daily meetings.
/ Before the meeting Chairman St
John and Strike Manager Egan both
! reiterated the statement that the Gen
eral Managers association would not
recognize Mr.. D0bs or any of his asso-
ciates in the settlement of the strike
! 1t was also said emphaticallv that
none of the old bro+herhoods was in
volved in the settlement of tho strike.
/ None of the general managers seem
to place the slightest Importance upon
President Debs' intention TO try TO
call fresh strike upon every road in
the country over which the American
Railway union has any influence.
The association stated that a meet
ing of the Switchmen's union was held
Friday night at which the switchmen
voted to act no longer in connection
with the American Railway union, but
to cut loose from President Debs and
ignore all his orders and requests in
the future.
What 1t Cost.
CHICAGO, July let is estimated
that the strike cost the railroad com
panies in this city alone from $1,000
900 to So. 600, 900.
Say the Strike is Still On.
CHICAGO, July 16.-President Eu-
gene V. Debs, of the American
Railway union, held a long con-
ference Sunday with President Sam
uel Gompers. of the American Fed |
Grafton of Labor, and r. j. Mcclure, /
first vice president of the fedora
tion and secretary of the brotherhood |
of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer |
lea. In speaking of the meeting he I
said: The railroad strike is still on, /
and to-day we begin again. hacked by |
all organized labor"
History of the Broken 81 rike.
CHICAGO. July 1.-THE order to boycott
roads which refused ocut of Pullmans wentin-
to effect Tuesday June 26 The Illinois Central
was the first to be attacked, and the eext day
the Santa Fee Panhandle, Northern Pacific and
Baltimore g. Ohio fell into the hands Of the
strikers Thursday lawlessness began to
manifest itself, and engineers. fremen and /
other employees began to quit work. alleging
that their lives were in danger. Friday tower
men we're driven from their posts. trains were
stoned and switches spiked. Saturday was
marked by The deliberate wrecking OF a Rock
Island passenger train and the Illinois Central
Diamond Special" Sunday and Monday the
strike developed into riot, and when the in
junction Issued Tuesday by Judges Grosscup
ana WOODS OF the united states courts was
read TO riotous mob at Blue Island IL was
greeted with contempt.
Troops Appear.
July the government troops stationed a,
Fort Sheridan came 20 town, and they have |
been followed by soldiers from east and west
until there are now in Chicago over $500
regulars. The day after the boys in blue got
here the torch was applied AMI property worth
several million dollars was destroyed For
this Cook county win be asked 70 pay Fri
day Mayor Hopkins called on Sow. Aitgeld for
aid and almost the entire military force Of the
state Is 81 present on duty II Chicago
Loss of Life EntaIled.
A tabulated statement issued by Gen. Miles
tells the story OF loss Of life and Of damage