The morning call., 1894-07-12
NO STRIKE YET.
Knights of Labor at
Work.
SOVEREIGN HAS HOPE.
His Men Will Follow Him
Soon.
MATTERS THAT TAKE TIME.
Assemblies Must Vote on the
Proposition.
INDIcT The GENERAL MANAGERS
Labor Leaders Charge That They
Have Also COnspired to OBJ
struCt the Mails.

CHICAGO, July 1.-THE ultimate effect
of the appeal issued last night by General
Master Workman Sovereign to the Knights
OF Labor calling on all knights through
out the country and those in sympathy
with them TO quit work, and the order
issued at about the same lime by the rep
resentatives of allied labor in Chicago to
do likewise. cannot yet b. certainly fore
seen. All that is now definitely known is
that the Knights of Labor at all poin
heard from, including nearly all of the
large centers of population in the United
States, remained at work to-day with prac-
teal unanimity. aud that in this city the
number of members of the allied trades
who remained at work so far outnumbe
those who quit as 10 make no appreciate
change in the industrial appearances of the
city. The leaders. however, say there is
nothing in the situation to cause any dis
couragement, and that the public through
lack of knowledge of the machinery OF
| industrial organization has been made to
expect results which were not in contem-
platoon when the strike orders were issued.
Mr.. Sovereign, for instance, points out
that his appeal was not an order TO strike,
that. in fact, he has no power to order
the working of the organization will know
that in effect it will be the same as an
order In short, he was perfectly conf
dent that by Saturday next, after the
various local and district assemblies had
time to meet and take formal action on
the appeal and to rally their friends out
side the order, the result would show
1000. 900 men idle as a consequence.
81, nj hat
little time was the only necessary condi-
ton to a walkout of the 100000 men VIII ON
they represent. and that by SATURDAY.,
after the various organizations had had
time to consult together. the tie-up of
! business would be fully as effective as
they predicted. Surface indications 50
| far, however, do not bear out the claims
of either MIR. Sovereign or the Chicago
men. 1t is not recorded yet that any dis
trict assembly of the Knights of Labor
has voted 10 strike.
On the other hand. the Brooklyn dis
trict. which is composed Of railroad men.
and therefore naturally supposed TO be in
sympathy with their fellows in the West,
at a meeting to-day confined their ex-
pressions OF sympathy to tender of finan>
cial aid, but declined to strike. Locally,
|
the Federated Trades, have given it to be
understood that they do not intend TO go
out Furthermore it is known that there
was a large conservative element in the
preventative trades meeting, which
| passed the resolution having a strike n
view, and 1t is understood that they have
been earnestly at work ever since to
minimize the result Of that action.
In the meantime continued Improvement
in the railroad situation here and else
where, except at Sacramento and Oak
| lard, California. is noted.
The general public as well as organized
labor is looking forward with marked in
erest to the meeting of the executive
board of the American Federation Of La
Dor, and, perhaps, the most powerful or
ganization Of The kind In the country, in
this city Tomorrow and is action is eX-
pected TO have a marked effect on the out
come of the present industrial struggle. 1t
has been known that the position of
Samuel GOmpers. its pres dent, has been
one of opposition 10 a sympathetic strike
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