The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11
CHICAGO BIG CRISIS.
To-day a Turning Point in
the Strike.
ALL LABOR ORDERED OUT.
Ii the Order Is ObGyed the Danger
Will Be Grave.
DEBS UNDER ARREST,
He and Four Others Held for
Obstructing Mails.
DEBS UNDER ARREST.
He and Four Others Held for
Obstructing Mails.

Their Bail Fixed at $4,000 Each.
The nishment for Their Offense
Fine of From $1,000 to $4,000.
The Day Passes Without a Riotous
Outbreak, but Apprehension Felt for
To-day-The Railroads Claim to Be
Moving Trains More Freely.
Chicago, July 10.-There is no disguis-
ing the fact that the local situation to-
night in the labor troubles is more grave
than it has been at any time since two
weeks ago this noon, when the American
Railway Union issued its boycott against
the rolling stock of the Pull
man Car Company with the view of
enforcing the demands of the strikers at
the town of Pullman. This is not the
view of an alarmist. 1t is the opinion en-
tertained tonight among all classes of
the community, which are looking for
ward with fear and apprehension to what
the night or another day may bring forth.
There was that same feeling of
unrest and foreboding in the
air that those who have witnessed
uprislngs on the part of the masses in
England and on the continent remember
full we'll. There were three times as
many people on the streets to-day as were
to be seen on any day for many months
past Nine-tenths of the men and women
alike displayed some emblem. The ma
jority wore the white ribbon, emblematic
of sympathy with the strikers, and
against the use of the white ribbons the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has made fervent, but apparently inef
fectual protest
MINIATURE FLAGS.
Silken miniatures of the stars and
stripes, too, made their appearance this
morning, and before noon they were to be
seen by the thousands, serving the purpose
& of boutonieres or being pinned to breasts.
!. In many instances these emblems of 10y
n atty to the national government, the
silent testimony of the wearer to the fact
that he was prepared to support and vim
u dicate the laws of the country, was fast
81 ened with the significant bronze button of
the Grand Army of the Republic. Many
q others, discarding both the white
ribbon and the stars and stripes,
wore as an emblem a tri-colored piece
of ribbon which, like the flag, was in
tended as an evidence of their adhesion
to and support of the sovereign power of
the land. 1t was significant also that the
stars and stripes were hoisted on scores
of flag poles, both in the business and
residence district, that are generally bare
except on the Fourth of July, Decoration
Day and similar national or local holi-
days. The people on the streets kept
3 moving. There was no congregation of
crowds except about the military camps,
on the lake front and the government
building and in the region of the various
headquarters of the labor organizations,
"a But as they walked they talked, and the
present and future of the labor situation
was the engrossing topic. So it was at
the clubs, in the restaurants, in the sa-
looms and in all other places of public re-
SORT. In commercial circles there were
lamentations loud and deep, for retail
4 business of all kinds is in a state of paral-
Az ysis, and the wholesale trade is faring
but little if any better. Everybody
agreed that something must soon drop"
to bring relief.
THE ARREST OF DEBs.
This morning, as anticipated, the arrest
of President Debs aud his associates was
the sensation of the day. The president
of the American Railway Union and his
colleagues were brought in quietly and
without the lurid fires or cutbursts
of popular indignation that had
been predicted. The grand jury,
composed almost entirely of out-of-
town residents, occupied less time than
had been expected in reaching the de-
IS csion that the evidence presented for its
consideration was sufficient to justify the
return Of true bills against the leaders OF
the union No other result had been eX-
pected by those who listened to the
charge of Judge Grosscup, and while al
though denounced with fury at
the headquarters of the various
labor organizations to night II
is generally commented upon IN
commercial and professional circles as a
mastery exposition of the line between
the legal and iustihable methods OF trades
organizations and defiance Of the law. or
rebellion against the authority OF the
United States. The iurists took the
ground emphatically that, while the right
OF labor to organize could not be success
fully attacked, and that while IL was the
lmperishable right OF free man 10 work
orquit work as he saw fit, and that whlle,
moreover. he was entitled 10 all the frults
and strategy of work or of cessation from
work, yet that at the same time trades
organiLatious are subject 20 the same laws
hs other associations; that their leaders
Pre- also subject 10 the same laws govern
Ing all other men. aud that no OrRahlfh
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