Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-07-09
SITUATION IN GENERAL.
What the Dispatches Tell of the Condi =
tiOns on the Hailwavs

| what the Dispatches Tell of the COndi q.
tions on the Railways.
As TO the general situation it is claimed
| by the postal authorities here and the
| railway managers that the situatioa shows
positive improvement; more trains are
| running and plenty of men are Mt hand.
| they say, to run many more trains if il
can be done safely. \ significant fact is
the refusal of the y r. L. men at Louis
! vile, Colorado Springs and Denver to obey
the order OF Debs to strike. On the other
hand. so far as this city is concerned. the
building Trades Council called ont all the
steamftters Mt the stock yards rs a pre-
l!mlnary to the calling out of the :!5.GOO
members of the council
Probably of equal Importance to auy of
the ioregoIng-if not of greater-was the
action OF the council OF federated en-
pioyes OF the Union Pacific at Cheveuue
ms meeting addressed bulletin to all
the men employed on that road, si-ued by
the officers of the engineers, trainmen.
swltchmenI knights OF Labor telegraph
ers, hremen aud conductors, declaring
that while the Pullman strike is A inst
one, Judge Hallett having given the uni
ons standing in court and the unions
haNlnS written contracts with the road
which contracts Judge Hallett holds that
the receivers cannot obrogGte al! MEM
bers are urged to stand BY said contracts.
which are equally binding upon them as
upou the receivers. To recede from this,
position would be to forfeit all that has
.been gained for labor by Judge uallett's
decision.
At Cleveland aud Toledo, O., the stua-
tion Is unchanged. At the former place
freight traffic is still tied up, bat passenger
trains are on time; ut the latter there il;
n situation of uncertainty pending the
action os the unions. At Dayton, O., the
report Is chat If men are put in the places
of those who have struck all union
| men viii quit and fight the new men The
Northern Pacific is moving between
Duluth and Montana and no trouble
reported. At Brazil and Frankfort, Ind.
there Is little change. 4 new man was
driven out of town at Brazil, and word
was received from Debs for the strikers to
stand firm and promising success; AZ
Frankfort the Clover Leaf people say they
, VIII start with new men today. All
strikers are discharged
The report from st. Louis is that the
strike Is practically approaching the end
! Oh the west side of the river the strikers
are returning to work in troops and traffic
Is practically uninterrupted so far as
trouble in the borders of the city is con
cerned. 1t is calculated that of 1860 men
who struck AL but 100 have returned to
work. Strikers on tine east side OF the
river are falling over each other TO secure
their places again. At New York no ac.
tion has yet been taken by the trades un-
ions except to pass resolutions of sym pat '
with the strike. The attempt to organic
the y. r. L. on the Lehigh Valley has
failed, and the promised strike at Buffalo
has not yet materialzed.
At Wabash, Ind, the strikers have
gained, and they ignore the federal in
junction entirely. Wabash traffic is par
alyzed and the Big -Four is in little better
condition, while at Anderson, Ind. the
Big -Four promises to raise the blockade
to-day. The agents OF Debs attempted at
Cincinnati to tie up junction points be.
tween the Ohio river and lake ports. The
information from Hamilton, DAYTON.
Springfield, Columbus, Delaware, Lima,
Gallon and Crestline, from employees and
railway officials, is that the plan failed.
South of the river the strike is nearing the
end. Locally the roads are doing better
every day.