St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-10
Chairman Egan Reports All Passenger
and Many Freight Trains Moving
Out Of Chicago.
Labor Leaders Threaten Extreme Meas
ures by Talking About Gen.
eral Strike.

| arbitration will have upon the final de-
! cisionS of the labor leaders and their
followers remains to be seen. At 2
O'Clock this afternoon ajotnt committee
Of the city council and of the federated
trades unions called on Mr.. Wickes and
! asked him to consent to the appointment
of five citizens, whose functions should
not be those of arDitrators, but to deter
| mine whether or not the Pullman COM
pany had anything to arbitrate. The
committee as proposed was TO consist Of
two citizens chosen by the Pullman
company, two by the circuit court
judges and one by these four. Mr..
Wickes stated at the outset that arbi-
tration was impossible, but listened
while Aid. McGiIlen, chairman of the
committee, talked of the gravity of the
situation, and urged that the company
| take steps looking to an amicable set
| tlement of the strike. At the close OF
| the
! INTERVIEW, MR. WICKES
retired with his attorneys, and, return
! ing after brief consultation, decided
! that the company could not receive the
] proposed committee.
Aid. McGilen again urged that the
company receive the committee, and in
timated that corporation that had de-
! rived such benefit from the government
as the Pullman company should be will
! ing to make some concessions for the
welfare of the city and state.
I'VE have nothing to arbitrate," Mr..
! Wickes replied. 1--WE cannot receive
! such a committee"
Tonight's action of the city council in
! respect of President Cleveland's order
bringing federal troops to Chicago was
| tOrStalled by large number of indorse-
ments OF his action sent him by promi.
nent business men of the city. The list
of signatures included those of almost
every conspicuous merchant, manu-
facturer and banker of Chicago.
! Touching the situation in general, it
may be said that in Chicago the roads
were all doing better than on any pre-
J viouS day since the strike began. Pas
! senger trains were moving with more or
less regularity, and some freight traffic
! has been cared for. A large number of
| striking freight handlers Of the Illinois
Central returned to work, and other
roads noted accessions to their oper-
| atlng forces.
At st. Louis, Kansas City and Denver.
it was reported that
RAILROAD BUSINESS
had about returned to normal condi
tons. Nashville also reported an I'M
provement.
About the only points at which the
strike managers showed any gain were
in the partial walk-out of tiremen at
Fort Scott, Kan., the freight men on the
! Kanawha & Michigan, at Charleston,
w. Va, and the strike of the A. R. u.
! men on the Big Four at Mattoon. Ii
( will thus be seen at the leading railroad
centers the strikers have made per-
ceptible losses, while their gains are at
comparatively uHimportant points.
Regulations which prevailed in the
government building today were near
approach to maftlal law. Deputy
marshals were stationed on every floor,
and everybody was challenged who
could not show that he mad business in
the building.
Tomorrow's sunrise will see in this
city one thousand more federal troopS
than there were this morning. These
with the forces already in the heid, it is
believed, will be able tomorrow to make
8 further betterment in the conditions
in this city. and the mobilization OF
troops and marines at San Francisco
and of regulars at other points on the
Pacific coast will suffice in ali prob
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