The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-07-21
81 Y IT is OVER.
Railway Omcials Claim That tho
!, Strike Il Ended
Debs and His Lieutenants Say It II sti1l
On-Troops VIII he Kept I'm the
Field History Of the
IS struggle.

~ On-Troops VIII BE Kept I'm the
Field History Of the
Struggle.
CONFLICTING REPORTS.
CHICAGO, July 1B.-Strike leaders say
that the strike is still on and that war
against the corporations will be waged.
80 the bitter end. Railway managers
declare that the strike is thing OF
the past. They claim to have many
OF their old men back at work, end
are filing the places OF others
with men recruited In other
cities and sent here by the car
load. Trains are moving with some
thing like their old-time regularity.
Freight is being moved but the con-
restion is not ended. Throughout the
.1ity tine trades-union men who were
called out in the endeavor to
make the strike effective by paralyz-
ing the industries Of the town, have re-
sumed work in most cases. and their
part in the great strike was a COM
:plete failure. Uncle SANS troops
still grid the lake front with their
white tents, and. the state
militia patrol the miles of railway
tracks. There is talk OF
decreasing the force, but the authori-
ties await more definite information
as to the collapse of the strike. Presi-.
dent Debs main. ainsx an air of conf
dence in the ultimate result, and holds
that the blame for pro}onging the
struggle rests with the general man
ayers.
Outside of Chicago.
kilograms from other railroad CEN
ters are more emphatic than ever be-
gore to the effect that the American
Railway union strike is at an end
outside Chicago. From Detroit, To-
1edo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and
other points the news is much
% the same effect that most
of the railroads are running freight
and passenger trains on sched-
ule time, that men who deserted their
applicants for reemployment; that
new men are plentiful enough to
supply the needs of the railway
managers and that some of the roads
emphatically refuse to. reinstate
former employees who deserted at the,
dicta ties of the union.
Managers Quit.
Saturday the General Managers as
eociation adjourned sine die. Recog-
MIXING that the railroad strike was
virtually ended, the members felt that
there was no further need for their
daily meetings.
Before the meeting. Chairman st.
John and Strike Manager Egan both
reiterated the statement that the Gen
eral Managers association would not
recognize Mr.. Debs or any of his asso-
ciates in the settlement of the strike.
It was also said alphabetically. that
none Of the old brotherhoods was in
yolved in the settle ment of the strike.
az What 1t Cost. 5~ .
CHICAGO, July 16.-It is estimated
that the strike cost the railroad com-.
panies in this city alone from $5,00O,-
900 to So, 100000 ~~.
Say the Strike Is Still On.
CHICAGO, July 16.-President Eu-
gene. V. Debs, of the American
Railway union, held q long con-
ference Sunday with President Sam
uel Gompers. of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and P. j. Mcclure,
first vice president of the fedora
ton and secretary of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
tca, In speaking Of the meeting he
said: The railroad strike is still on,
and to-day we begin again. backed by
all. orpaniza6 labor"
Took an Oath Of Fealty.
Richard Powers stood before $500
persons at Brlcklayers' hall Sunday
night and bound the assembly by q
solemn oath to renounce the two old
political parties and espouse the cause
Of the peoples party. Resolutions
were. adopted hailing with Joy the
action of the trades union, the farm
ers' alliance, the single-tAxers, the So
cialists and populists in Joining hands
in common effort to restore the lib
critics of the people bya means Of the
ballot; renouncing Internationally
allegiance to either the democratic or
republican party; declaring in future,
as trade unionists, socialists, federa-e
.tionists, single-taxers and all other
elements outside the old party ma
chimes, for independent political
action, and that to make straight
fight in accordance with this resolu-
ton they would rally under the BAN
ner of the peoples party.
Fired on the Mob.
CHICAGO, July 1e.-.A mob wrecked
an oil train on the Calumet Terminal
road near East Chicago Tuesday
morning. Company q, Indiana
state militia, was sent from East
Chicago to. .quell the. mob. On
arriving at the scene of the wreck,