Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-19
DEBS DECLARES
THE STRIKE OFF
Formal Announcement Of the
End of the Great Revolt
of the A. R. U.
MANAGERS REMAIN FIRM
They Refuse TO Confer With Debs About
the Strikers.
GOMPERS AND SOVEREIGN TALK
Pleased With the Arbitration
Movement.
FINAL ECHOES OF THE GREAT REVOLT

After n Conference with the A. II. U.
Directors, This Morning, President Dehs
Declares the Great Raiiroad strike nt
an End-- Ii 6 Tried to Call ON the General
Managers Association, to Arrange for
the Return OF the Men to Work, hut
Was Refused an Interview Labor
Leaders Discuss the Arbitration Move
ment.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 12.-Export
butchers at the stock yards left their
work this morning, in accordance to the
plan for a general strike. They num-
4 (ber about 80 and are employed by
4 Armour, Swift and Morris. Their
action will interfere seriously with work
at the packing houses.
Two hundred bakers in Heissler Il
Junges' shop struck this morning.
DYNAMITE ON THE TRACKS.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 12.-George w.
Loyejoy of Lasalle, ILL.,, a prominent
member Of the A. r. u, was arrested
last night as he was stepping of Rock
Island train at the Van Buren, street
depot, on a warrant issued by Commits
sioner Hoyne. Loveioy was a yard
master in the employ of the Rock
Island and he is charged with intimidat-
ing John Il. Campbell, a telegraph
operator in the employ of the road at
Spring Valley, July 4th When Love-
Joy reached the United States marshal's
office he at once wrote note to Presi-
dent Debs and ssnt it to the strike head
quarters by messenger. He was kept
prisoner in the office of the marshal,
but he was not locked up in the cage.
He denied all knowledge of attempts on
his part TO intimidate telegraph
operator
A guard train on the Baltimore &
Ohio last night ran over large quantity
of dynamite this side of south Chicago
and 1t exploded with a terrific report.
The shock was felt by every one on the
train and the guards on the rear plat
form were nearly thrown from their
seats. A passenger train was following
close behind and both trains stopped.
No damage beyound the disturbance of
some paris of the locomotive had re-
suited.
LEADERS CALL ON MAYOR HOPKINS.
Messrs Sovereign, Lindholn, Adams
and Fitzgerald called upon Mayor Hop
kins this morning and conferred with
him for about an hour. Their object
was to call the attention of the mayor
to the provisions of the O'Neil law of
1888, under which it is thought the
President may compel George NJ. Pull
man to arbtrate his differences with his
employees. Mayor Hopkins promised the
committee he would call the matter to
the attention of Corporation Counsel
= Rubens and also speak of it to Governor
Altgeld who, he said, he understood is
in the city to-day.
THE FEDERATION MEETING.
The Federation executive committee,
five members of which were in secret
session all morning, at II o'clock con-
vened with large number Of officials
Representatives of labor unions, at the
Briggs House. Among the rational
labor organizations represented were:
The printers, cigarmakers, painters
and decorators, carpenters, brewers,
trainmen, miners, firemen, building and
trades council, bakers, tailors, iron and
steel workers, musicians, machine wood !.
workers aud seamen, said to represent
in all about 100000 men.
The meeting was presided over by
President Gompers and the strike situa-
ton from the time of its inception fully
investigated. Particular attention was
paid to the Pullman strike and reports
were heard from the various local or
EhnlLdIlOuo WnlSll udNG ulICuNlJ NCGldGu
to strike.
CHICAGO, ILL, July 12.-"Quiet all
over the State" was the report sent to
Adjutant General Orendorif to-day from
the assistant adjutant-general. Nothing,
hover, is taken for granted at the mill
tary headquarters either OF General
Miles of the regulars, or of General
Wheeler of the National Guard. The
regulars put up fagpole on tine lake
front park to-day, and made other
preparations that look as if they were
expected to make long stay, and a
number of their officers said they should
not be surprised if they were to remain
here all summer.
There were times to-day in various
parts of the city and in the suburbs
when Il repetition of the violent scenes
that distinguished the opening week Of
the big strike were threatened. The
quick work of the police the militia
and the regulars was what prevented it.
At the stock yards this morning, after
the 600 butchers employed by Armour,
Swift and Morris, the meat packers, had
dropped their knives and walked out, a
mob gathered in the street near the big
killing houses. There were about 500 in
it, most of them half-grown hoodlums,
and they carried sticks and stones. The
The superintendent of the killing house
in anticipation of the act of the butchers,
had hired lot of non-union men, and
it was against these that the wrath of
the mob was directed.
OF the acts of violence reported to-
day, one of the most serious is the
derailing of an engine at the stock yards
and the assaulting of a crew and the
stoning of half dozen trains on the
Illinois Central and Burlington roads.
This afternoon an incendiary fire was
started in one of the Union stock yards
and Transit Company's big buildings,
near Halstead and Forty.third streets,
and for a time threatened the destruction
Of this and many other structures. A
boy discovered the blaze and gave the
alarm and the flames were soon extin-
guished. The ineendiaries had soaked
a lot If rags and waste in oil and set
them ablaze in the building.
CHICAGO, LIZ, July l3.-President