Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-12
DIDN' 'TCOMEOUT
Knights Have Not Responded to
 the Appeal.
WATT, SAYS MR. SOVEREIGN.
Today tho Federation Is to Take Ac.
 tion on the Matter.

Trains Are Once More Running Nearly
 All the Big Lines, and the Backbone of
 the Strike Appears to He Broken-At-
 torney General oincy Apologies to Debs.
 The Federal Grand Jury May Investigate
 the General Managers-vice President
 wickes Again Refuses to Listen to Any
 Talk of Arbitration-Brookly Knights
 sympathizc. but Have Not Yet Decided
 to Strike.
 CHICAGO July 12.-The ultimate effect of the appeal issued by Grand Master Workman Sovereign of tho Knights of Labor calling on all Knights throughout the country and those in sympathy with them to quit work, and the order issued at about the same time by the representa- tives of allied labor in Chicago to do like wise, cannot yet be certainly forescen.
 All that is now definitely known is that tho Knights of Labor at all points heard from, including nearly all the large cen ters of population in the United States, remained at work with practical unanimi- ty, and that in this city the number of members of the allied trades who remain ed at work so far outnumbered those who quit as to make no apprcciable change in the industrial appearance of tho city.
 The leaders, however, say that thcro Is nothing in the situation to cause them Encouragement; that the public. through lack of knowledge of the machinery of in- dustrial organization, has been led to cx- pect results which were not in contempla- tion when the strike orders were issued.
 Sovereign stIl Confident.
 Mir. Sovereign, for instance points out Hhaf .-gN- that, in fact, he has no power to order a walkout, but that persons acquainted with the working of the organization would know that in effect 1t would bo the same us m order. In short, he was perfectly confident that by Saturday next after the various local and district assemblies had time to meet and take formal action on the appeal and to rally their friends out side of the order the result would show 1000, 900 men idle as n consequence.
 The local strike leaders also claimed that n little time was tho only necessary condition to n walkout of the loo. GOO men whom they represent, and that by Satur- day, after the various suborgnniZations had had time to consult together, the pro posed ticup of business would bc fully as i effective as ho had predicted.
 Surface indications SD far. however, do not bear out tho claims of either Mir. Sovereign or the Chicago men. It Is not recorded yet that any district assembly of l tho Knights of Labor has voted to strike. On the other hand. the Brooklyn dis | trict which Is composed of railroad men and thercfore naturally in sympathy with their fellows in tho west, at q meeting | confined their expression of sympathy to | q tender of financial aid. but declined to strike. Locally several of the orRaniza- l tions members of tho federated trades, have given 1t to bo understood that thoy | do not intend to go out.
 Furthermore 1t Is known that therc was | a large conservative element in the rcprc- sentative trades meeting which passed the | resolution having n strike in view. and it is understood that they have been earnest ! ly at work ever since to minimize tho re- ! suits of that action.
 Railroad situation Improves.
 In the meantime continued improve mcnt in the railruad situation here and | elsewhere, except at Sacramento and Oak land, Is noted. At tho former place fcdcr- al troops wcrc landed. but the state mili- tia stationed on tho water front to cover their landing worc ilr'd on from ambush after the regulars had moved away, and n train which 1t was sought to send to San Francisco under guard uf government troops was thrown from n trestle by the strikers, resulting in the death of one of tho engincmen and the wounding of sev- eral soldiers.
 Tho general public as we'll as organized labor is looking forward with marked in tercst to tho meeting of tho executive
 board of the American Federation of La
 bor perhaps tho most powerful organiza- tion of tho kind in tho country, which will meet in this city today. and its action Is lexpected to have a marked effect on the
 outcome of the present. industrial strug- Iglo.
 It Is known that tho position of Samuel lGompcrs, its president, has boon one of Opposition to a sympathetic strike of Fed
 erntion men at thls time and thnt hc looks
 on tho existing situation ns critical. He
 has invited the heads of other labor organ
 izations to meet him hero at that time,
 and the belief Is that hc will strenuously
 advocate measures to bring the trouble tc
 an end.
 A new feature was injected into tho sit : uation when 1t was announced by some
 of the labor leaders that they wcrc ready
 to go before the federal grand jury with proofs that the general managers of the
 railroads had conspircd to delay mail
 trains as n part of their fight against the
 American Railway union and would ask
 that this body indict them.
 : The great railway strike is practically [ at an end in Chicago Trait on all road, l nrc moving. Passenger trans arc almost s Iwithout exception on time. and freight 9 traffic Is rapidly becoming regular. , ''Thc backbone of the strike Is not only f broken, ' said Manager EEan of the Gen z eral Managers association, but the back bono has entirely disappeared. The block ade is raised, and it will require but short time to get tho railroad business O 1 tho city into Its regular routine" 8 wIekes stnI Obstinate.
 May Hopkins, Mayor Pingrce of Do f troit ai.d Erskino M. Phelps of Chicag' a had a two hours conference with Vic r President Wickos, General Solicitor Run . nolls and General Manager Brown of tn Pullman company at Mir. wickes' office
 Mayor PinRreo's telcgrams wcro present ed, and arbitration was strongly urged 0 Tho conference was had behind close, Y doors At Its conclusion Mayor Hopkin t said that Mir. Wickcs still refused to arbi L ltrnte.
 O The federal grand jury resumed 1t n work Investigating cases growing out c - tho strike. Tho Michigan Central roa v had largo number of witnesses In attend anoo. and tho cases under invcstigatio vetc mainly thoso growing O T. of the rioi , Ing at Kcnsington. Englcwood and Gran
 Crossing.
 District Attorney MiIchrist said thu 'e scores of individual indictments will n returned against rioters who wcrc seen 0 commit lawless acts. Tho cases of all tl
 men arrested during tho last 10 days ar
 taken before Commissioners Hoyno will
 considered by tho grand jury without tl fl necessity of Q trial in the commissioners I. ofiioo
 Colonel Schnafncr of tho naval rcscrv - reported to tho mayor that hc was in T v ccipt of adyiccs from his reserves on tl s battlcship Illinois that n mob was burnir