The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-26
SEEING DAYLIGHT
THE STRIKE ON SOUTHERN PAcI.
FIG TO BE SETTLED MONDAY.

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The Brotherhood of Engineers on the
wabash Are Not Acting in a Very
Brotherly Manner at Present.
Chief Arthur Talks.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.-It is pro
phesied on all sides that the Southern
Pacific strike is to be settled by Mon>
day next. 1t is rumored about that
negotiations OF some sort are pending
between the strike leaders and the
railroad, but these rumors positively
can not be authenticated. 1t is
simply known that the strikers at
Oakland wired to President Debs ask.
ing whether they were authorized to
negotiate with the president of the
road. In the face of these stories of
pending negotiations it is a significant
fact that the strikers are no longer
Offering any violent resistance and
that the number of guards going on
trains have been greatly reduced.
Notwithstanding these evidences of a
desire on the part of both sides for
peace the railroad officials still insist
that they are running their trains
without the least difficulty and they
need no more men, while the strikers
on the other hand declare that the
company's operating department is
woefully crippled. The general man.
ayers though have been asserting for
several days that they are running all
trains as usual. At Sacramento today
6O9 men were at work in the shops.
Yesterday only 526 men could be in
duced to return. The postoffice de.
partment has withdrawn its coast
mails from the steamships and has
fully restored it's service on the rail-
road. 1t is claimed that the last of the
delayed Eastern mail has reached
Sacramento.
NOT VERY BRoTHERLY.
TOLEDO, o., July 20.-A condition of
affairs ha- developed among the
Brotherhood of Engineers on the
Wabash system which may lead to
trouble in that order. Since the
Wabash resumed traffic after thestrike
some 700 enginemen, of whom 400 are
engineers, largely brotherhood men,
and the other 300 firemen, have never
been called on to report for duty,
while their engines are run by new
men. Neither have they been notified
of their dismissal They are simply
chung up" The brotherhood engin-
GERS assume that they are not wanted
They say that the new men who have
taken their places are number of
brotherhood men, and that for the
latter to displace them is contrary to
the laws of the order. They propose
to make things lively in the order for
some one, particularly Chief Arthur.
CHIEF ARTHUR TALKS.
CLEVELAND, o., July 20.-When
Chief Arthur's attention was called tc
the Associated Press dispatch from
Toledo today in reference TO the Wa
bash engineers being "hung up" he
said: The engineers of the Wabash
struck out of sympathy for the Amer
lean Railway union without the sane
ton and in clear violation of the laws
of the brotherhood. | have repeatedly
stated of late, under these conditions
any member of our order has the full
right to take place vacated by E
striker. l have received many en-
quiries from engineers out of employ
ment asking if they would be permit
ted to take positions on roads where
our members had gone out in sym
patty, have not sent nor advised a
single engineer to take strikers
place on the Wabash, but have simply
quoted the rules to them.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR IN SESSION
CHICAGO, July 20.-The members o.
the general executive board of the
knights of Labor are in Chicago and
tomorrow morning will begin a sew
eral days session. Routine business
is said to be the cause of the meeting
though the strike will be taken ur
and measures will be adopted to push
| forward an impeachment of Attorney
General Olney.
GETTING THEIR BAIL FIXED.
CHICAGO, July 2O.-One of the two
men indicted by the federal grand
Jury gave bail in the United States
court today. Most of the day was
consumed in making out bench war
rants against the indicted. The men
who gave bail were j. ]. Hannahan
vice grand master of the brotherhood
of tirenIen and August Hodges one o.
the Brighton Park strikers. This
aftern Don bench warrants for all the
men included in the indict'
ments were handed to the marshal
to be served. They number 70. Han
nahan is charged with intimidsting
and endeavoring to induce fireman
to leave his cab. Debs, Howard, Keli-
her and Rogers figure in five of the
are charged with conspiracy with
Hannahan. In another they are charg'
ed with conspiracy to oostruct inter- inter-
state commerce, in the other three
thew are Joined ss conspirators with
other persons who committed lawlesa
acts. .,