The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-07-16
ALL TRAINS MOVING.
The Situation Far More Favorable
Than at Any Time Since
the Strike Began

Than at Any Time Since
the Strike Began
Yesterdays dispatches from Chi
cago and country surrounding de-
clare the strike situation brighter
than at any time before since the
trouble began, and all affirm that
the Worlds Fair" city is rapidly
assuming its normal conditions of
social and business life in all de-
partments. The latest news from
the strike center, Chicago, giving
details of the general situation in
that city, comes in the shape of a
special dispatch of Saturday, which
says:
The action of the conference of
the Federation of Labor yesterday
was supplemented by a meeting
of the Buildings Assembly last
night at which it was resolved to
call off the strike and resume work
at once is accepted as the death
blow to the Pullman boycott. Of
course Debs and Sovereign are say
ing that it is not over and they are
going to fight to the bitter end.
Debs goes SO far as to say he will
tie up every railroad in the United
States, but he says, or did say, in a
speech last night, that "the only
thing that now remains for us to
accomplish is to get you boys back
at your work. We made a PROPOSE
ton to the railway managers to-
day regarding this. We did not ask
for recognition of the A. R. u, be-
cause you and I know that nothing
will make a general manager sick
so quickly as any mention of the A.
R, U. We simply made the propo-
sition to them that we would call
the strike off if they would promise
not to be prejudiced against you
boys in taking on employees. All
we asked them to do was to take
back the honest, clean employees
former employes-those who had
not committed any crime. We of
fered to come half way in settling
the trouble. If any man here can
suggest to us any fairer a PROPOSE
ton we want him to do it, because
you know we want to be perfectly
fair in this matter.
'The switchmen have more than
once gone out to help the firemen,
engineers or conductors, but does
anyone know of any of the other
brotherhoods ever having gone out
in sympathy with the switchmen2
If the engineers and conductors had
shown loyal, brotherly spirit in
this trouble and acted as the switch
men did, affairs would now be in
very different condition. [ hope
boys, to see the day come soon when
every railroad man and laborer will
be ready and glad to lay down his
work to fight for the rights of any
body of brothers who are being
wronged, Not until you are ready
to do this can labor make any de-
mands on capital"
This statement, as has been all of
Debs statements during the last
forty-eight hours, is accepted as an
acknowledgement that he recog-
nizes his defeat and is now engaged
in an effort to undo the wrong that
he has been doing for the last week.
He called in conference this morn
ing the members of his Executive
Board, but they did not all respond
For the most part the railroads are
taking back their old employees as
fast as they apply and there were a
great many applications this morn
ing, They are not discarging any
of the men who were employed to
take the places of the strikers as
are re-employed are taken as indi-
viduals, 1t necessarially follows
that a large number of the strikers
find themselves unable to secure re-
instatement, and these are about
the only men who are insisting upon
a continuance Of the struggle.
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