The Green Forest tribune., 1894-07-19
WILL NOT GIVE IT UP,
PRESIDENT DEBs STILL HOPES THAT THE
UNION WILL WIN THE STRIKE,
At Meeting Of the A. R. U. Directors II Was
Decided to Send Out New Aaitators.

CHICAGO, July 16.-Eugene V.
Debs, president of the American
Railway Union, declared positively
last night that 5000 employees of
the stock yards and packing houses
would strike this morning to assist
the railroad strikers and also pre-
dicted walkouts on more than one
railroad. Neither of his predic-
tions were verified. None of the
railroads were incommoded in the
least and at the stock yards there
was no sign of eup. On the
contrary all the great packers re-
sumed without trouble. The police
received information that a raid by
mob was planned for the yards
today for the purpose Of stopping
work in the packing houses. A
force of 500 officers was secreted
about the yards to be kept on duty
all day. The yards today contained
about 1900 cattle, 10000 sheep,
anu II ,OOO noSS.
When Debs was seen at the Rev
ere house he expressed himself as
being still IN hopes of winning the
strike. eve have by no means
conceded that the strike is lost at
Chicago" said he. "The men
who are out are enthusiastic, and
from what I saw in addressing sew
eral thousand of them yesterday I
am satisfied that the cause is not
lost. Hereafter we are not going
to make our plans public before
they are executed. I am strongly
of the opinion that the American
Railway Union will give evidences
of its strength here by moves that
will be made by railway employees
very soon"
At noon today the strikers head
quarters at Uhlrich's S hall were en-
livened as much as possible by
speech making. Debs himself par
ticipated in the oratory. He con-
fined his remarks largely to roast
ing the newspapers.
"The strike is not over" Debs
declared at noon. eve are going
to win. The railroads are running
freight trains but they are carrying
littlo freight. Three months more
of this sort of thing and every rail
road in Chicago will be bankrupt.
The strike is still on and will be
until we win.''
aside from the crowd attracted
by the addresses, the American
Railroad Union headquarters ap-
peared almost deserted today.
Now and then "missionary"
dr.fted into the Offices OF d COM
mitteeman appeared TO MAKE a re-
port, but the usual crowd and hustle
was lacking.
Mayor Hopkins said today that
the statement that some of the
troops doing duty in this city would
be sent home by him today was
without foundation. None would
be sent home today though possib-
ly some of the outside companies
would be sent home tomorrow,
At a meeting of the American
Railway Union directors yesterday
it WAS decided to send out agitators
to all paats of the west to arouse
new interest in the strike. Direc-
tor Kern was sent to st. Louis,
Hogan over the Northern Pacific,
Goodwin over fhe Northw estern,
and other men to other points.
Then mass meeting was held and
Debs made an address, in which he
denounced Chief Arthur of the en-
gineers, and declared that the
strike was sure to grow stronger
each day. At meeting Of stock
yards strikers he advised all to
stay out.
SAN Francisco, July 16.-The
strikers here are still belligerent.
but in spite of their efforts trains
are running quite generally on
schedule time. The closest guard
is kept on all trains, and every
train goes with a good supply of
for making repairs in case
of wrecks.
MunpHREEsBoRo, ILL.,, July l6.-I
The local A. r. U. today declared
the strike off, threw up the charter
and will return their books to Pres
ident Debs, |