The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-12
GUERILLA WARFARE.
Dastardly Act Charged to Strikers
in California,
TRAIN WRECKED AND FOUR KILLED

CHICAGO, July t9-The great railway
strike is practically at an end in Chicago
Trains on all roads are moving, passenger
trains are almost without exception on
time and freight traffic Is rapidly becom-
ing regular, "The backbone of the strike
Is not only broken" said Manager Egau,
of the General Managers association,
''but the backbone has entirely disap-
peared. The blockade is raised, and It
will require but short time to get the
railroad business Of the city back into its
regular routine"
The ultimate effect of the appeal issued
Tuesday night by Grand Master Work
man Sovereign, of the 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 foreseen.
! All that is definitely known is that the
| X. Of L. at all points heard from, nclud.
| ing nearly all Of the large centers of pop
ulation I'm the United States, remained at
work yesterday with practical unanimity,
and that in this city the number of mem
bers of the allied trades who remained at
work so far outnumbered those who quit
as to make no appreCable change in the
| industrial appearance Of the city.
The leaders, however, say that there Is
nothing in the situation to cause them
| encouragement. Mr.. Sovereign, for in
stance, points out that his appeal was not
an order to strike: that, in fact, he has no
power to order a walkout; but that the
! persons acquainted with the working of
| the organization would know that, in ef-
| feet, it would be the same as an 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 outside of the order, the
| result would show million men idle.
The local strike leaders also claimed
| that a little time was the only necessary
condition TO a walkout of the hundred
| thousand men whom they represent aud
| that by Saturday, after the various sub
| organizations had had time to consult to-
! gether. the proposed tie up of business
| would be fully as effective as they had
| predicted.
Surface indications so far, however, do
not bear out the claims of either Mr. Sow
| ereign or Chicago men. IL is not recorded
! yet that ary district assemblytof the
! e.
! On the other hand, the Brooklyn district
! which is composed of railroad men and
| therefore naturally supposedly in sympa-
! thy with their fellows in the west-at %
| meeting yesterday confined their express
! sion of sympathy to tender of financial
aid, but declined to strike. Locally sew
eral Of the organizations, members of the
| federated trades, have given il Co be uu-
| derstood that they do not intend oEo out
| The general public, as well as organized
labor, is looking forward with marked in
terest to the meeting of the executive
board of the American Federation of La
bor perhaps the most powerful organiza
tion of the kind in this country, which
met in this city today, and its action is
expected to have a marked effect on the
| outcome of the present industrial strug-
| gle. 1t is known that the position of
Samuel GOmpers, its president, has been
one of opposition to a sympathetic strike
| of Federation men at this time.
1t is reported that when the federal
grand jury concludes its investigation of
the A. h. Z. it will begin an inquiry into
the policy and methods of the General
Managers association. Among the lead
ers of the workingmen the charge has
been made openly and repeatedly that the
|
the interruption of interstate commerce
was due quite as much to the general
managers as to the railway union. 1t has
been stated that the general managers
agreed among themselves that no trains
should be run on any of the roads until
all have gained their points in disputes
with the men. The men insist that there
is as clear a case of conspiracy on the part
of the general managers as the acts of
Debs and his associates rendered them in
dictabe for conspiracy. Judge Grosscup
and District Attorney Milchrist have said
that justice will be meted out impartially
to all violators of the federal statutes.
The federal officials from Judge Gross
cup down are not little annoyed over
the blunder made by the over Jealous
deputy marshals and postofiice inspectors
who illegally seized President Debs pa
pers. The seizure was wholly illegal. un-
justihable and unwarranted. 1t was an
outrage against the rights of the citizen.
committed by ignorant petty officials In
their zeal TO serve the corporations which
are prosecuting Debs and his associates
10 was q fragrant violation of law, deceucy
and everything elise that makes up thelib.
erty of the individual So gross was .hi.
crime that Judge Grusscup, iu open court
yesterday, virtually apuiog.zsd TO Debs
and ordered chat his papers be returned
to him.
Private William j. Downing, Of com,
| pauy is, Second regiment Illinois Na
tI.uUl Guard. while walking down Hat
ated street WU- Jesred and h1I.ed Uy o
crowd of men, women and children Ir
rosgd at tbeir persistence Downing
drew his buyouet aud turned ou the
l crowd pa#r.uE D'I,uuDr 3D. l,Dar....