The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-11
DID NOT STRIKE
Sovereign's Order Calling Ont
Knights OF Labor,
appears to Have Been a Flat
Failure.
NOT a. SINGLE STRIKE
Is Reported in Any Part of the
Country.
The Expected Trades Union
Strike at Chicago
is ALSO "A FAILURE.
Scarcely Fifteen Hundred Men
Walked OUT.
The Railroad Men Are Also Re
turning to Work
STRIKE is ENDED
STRIKE IS ENDED
On Erie, Big Four, Lake Shore
and Other Roads
Grosscup Compels Milchrist to
Return Debs' Letters

CHICAGO, July 1.-The general strike
which was to have been inaugurated last
night I'd force arbitration Of the Pullman
failed to materialize today.
Throughout the city this morning
there was little evidence of the business
paralysis which has been so confidently
predicted BY the labor leaders Every
street car line in the city running,
the elevated roads carried the usual
number of trains and the early morning
crowds of Norkingmen on the way to
their shops and benches seemed undi-
minished
OF ali the trades which had threatened
a strike. the seamen. the ciearmakers
and tho carpenters were the only Unions
which sign4tied their intention Of stop
ping work today. Reports from these
trades were anxfously awaited, but their
action one ay or another. was regarded
as only drop in the bucket
AT 1 o'clock D. m. the threatened gen
eral paralysis Of labor Of all sorts in Chi
cago, and the general walk-out of the *
Of L. and their sympathizers in all parts
of the country which were to have taken
place this morning, have proven failures.
In this city in the shops and factories.
in the building trades and IN the lines of
interurban travel, there are no signs of
representatives Of allied labor; not only
that but the railroad lines centering here
show decided improvement in traffic
Passenger trains, through local and sub
urban are moving everywhere and their
freight business Is assuming a normal
condition For the first time within a
week train loads Of live stock were re-
ceived At the stock yards and other train
loads Of beef and hog products to the
east were sent out in very considerable
volume.
Advices to the Associated Press from
the great centers Of population of the
United States. and from many of the less
important cities, fail TO show that the or
der or request Of Grand Master Work
man Sovereign has met with the
slightest recognition by the members of
that order.
From the Pacific coast comes the in
tellIgence chat this morning federal
troops entered Sacramento unopposed
AT this hour the situation at Oakland
continues to be one OF open revolt, but
1t is expected that order will be restored
there without bloodshed-
A dispatch from leveland stated that
a message signed BY Sovereign. saying:
s'Do not strike, see press reports was
received there.
The story that Grand Master Workman
Sovereign Of the Knights of Labor had
wired his men at that place not 10 strike
Is emphatieally denied by labor leaders
Secretary Sim psOn of the local union
X. Of IL. said that Air. Sovereign had been
privately informed Of the Cleveland
message THAT telegram was a forgery
said Secretary Simpson. '.and Mr.. Sover-
eign has already forwarded a denial to
Cleveland There has been no counter
mand Of last nights order"
The 0f X. strike a Failure
In spite Of the statement that Sover-
eign did not call off the strike, it has up
to this time at least been a dead fat
failure, as the following Associated Press
bulletins show:
Toledo--Up to l p. m the K of L.
here paid no attention to Sovereign's
order.
Omaha-No strike had materialized
here at II a. N
There are no K of I.
men here. Sovereign's order had no vis-
ible effect
Columbus. O.-There are no KNIGHTS
of Labor in Columbus.
New 40rk--The request Of Grand
Master Workman Sovereign that ali
Knights of Labor quit work in sympathy
with the Pullman strike has met with no
response here. Knights assume that the
address contains no mandate. and that
therefore they may exercise their own
discretiOn IN the premises.
Cincinnati.-District Master Workman
Hugh Kavanaugh Of the Knights of La
Dor. when asked today what would he
done here under the order of Grand Mas
ter Work man Soverei gn, said the grand
master had no authority to order i GEN
eral strike All he could do was to al
wise and request it The request wouId
then 60 to the local Assem- blies for con-
slderatiOn, aud unless they agreed there
would be no strike. Mr. Kavanaugh has