The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-14
Which the Managers
. Reject.
HE WANTED TO QUIT.
! In the Interest of the
Public.
TREATED WITH CONTEMPT.
Railroad Men Refuse to Deal
- With Him.
WITH CONTEMPT.
PULLMAN MAKES A STATEMENT.
At Last He Condescends to Give
the People His Side of
- the Trouble.

N.HlGAIOs U4J 10 y SAONh ihio
morning Debs called meeting of his di-
rectors at the Revere House, and for half
an hour the strike leaders were in close
conference. When the doors were un-
iaeked Debs announced calmly that he
had officially declared the strike off con-
ditionally but asserted that he would
: make NO statement until after his visit TO
: the general managers.
s.. It was generally understood, however.
: the: conference of the Federation of Labor
gave TO promise of material aid in set
Ting the strike, and that, with assurances
:: from Washington that Government arb-
*tration would be enforced, was the cause
Of the unexpected action of the strike
managers.
General Master Workman Sovereign at
10 O'Clock said: 1.-The papers to call the
strike off were drawn up yesterday. They
contained two provisions-frst, that there
should be arbitration, and second. that all
striking employees except those charged
with crime be taken back by the employ
. eTs. AS arbitration will be secured thus a
great victory is obtained. Debs has done
justright AS soon as [ see him shall
issue an order calling off the Knights of
Labor strike"
After the meeting OF the directors DebS
met Sovereign, and the two, with Howard.
went at once to the office of Mayor Hon.
- p. wke long consultation was held,
at the conclusion of which the Mayor,
Alderman MCCLELLAN, chairman of the
arbitration committee Of the Board of
Aldermen, went to the headquarters of
the General Managers Association with a
copy of the peace proposals su omitted by
= Debs and his associates.
But two of the general managers, Egan
and St John. were there.
=. In a conversation with Mayor Hopkins
.MT, Egan said informally: "The general
managers will under no circumstances
. have a conference with Debs on any sub
ject,- They will retain in their employ the
Hen who filed the strikers places and are
competent"
=. Mr.. St. John said the proposition from
the labor leaders will not be considered by
the general managers before the regular
meeting tomorrow, "if," be said signifi-
~~cantly, "it be considered at ALL"
= after this informal talk, when Mayor
Hopkins told Debs the result of his visit to
the general managers headquarters. Debs
said the strike was not off. He would re-
.pOrt the result of the Mayors visit to
the general managers to the meeting of the
executive board of the a. R. U. and let
them decide upon course of action.
- The publication of the story that q
= statement signed by Eugene V. Debs,
George W. Howard and Sylvester Keliher
:: has been presented to the chairman of the
Genaral Managers Association by Mayor
Hopkins caused a number of general
" managers to call at their Headquarters to
inquire if the statement was true. Upon
their learning that q communication had
d; been left with the chairman, and upon
hearing the views of the managers who
had called, which were forcibly expressed,
the chairman decided that it was proper
to return the communication to the Mayor
hlEUUuL hu6W6Es WulCu was uOu6, and
with the information that no communica-
tfon whatever from the parties signing
could be received or considered by the
association.
=; G0mpers said to-day to a reporter for
the Chicago Post that last evening he,
Debs and Sovereign had long conference
over proposition to be submitted TO the
= General Managers Association to-day. 1t
:: was agreed in case the railway managers
.ehouid refuse to reinstate all the striking
:employes who were free from criminal
=:charges. then Gompers should call out all
the members of the National Federation of
Labor throughout the United States.
T.. j. Mcguire, secretary of the Miners
:':Cnion' said to-day that he and Gompers
had refused from the beginning to order
:: their men out and had notified Debs that
.:'he must call the strike off, whether thew
were reinstated or not.
=. A joint meeting of the executive bcards
:;"of the A. R. U. and the Knights of Labor
was held at Ulrich's Hall at p. NJ to-dav
:: TO consider the trea tment which the rail
way unions proposition to the General
:. Managers Association received earlier in
::.the day. An informal discussion was fol-
" lowed by an adjournment until 70 O'Clock
: tomorrow.
: The feeling against the general man
:agers was very bitter. but the conclusion
a.. was to wait until the general managers
had acted on the proposition before taking
any further action themselves. The
: Knights of Labor representatives at the