Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-12
ILLINOIS.
A. R. U. HEADQUARTERS RAIDED.

A. R. U. HEADQUARTERS RAIDED. GENERAL MANAGERS TO BE INVESTIGATED
 AFTER DEBs IS DISPOSED OF.
 CHICAGO, July 11.-It ia reported that when the federal grand jury concludes it's investigation of the American Railway union it will begin an inquiry into the policy and methods of the General Mana gers association. Among the leaders of Worklngmen the charge has been made openly and repeatedly that the obstruction of United States mail and the Interruption of Interstate commerce was due quite as much to the general managers to the railway union. It has been stated that the general managers agreed among themselves that no trains should be run on either road till they had gained their point in dispute with the men. This was done, it is argued, to hold back such companies as showed an inclination to treat with their employees and bring about resumption of traffic on.its r own mes. Ibis asserted by the men that they can prove that ialegrams were sent out from the General ManageTS associa- tion ordering certain railway lines to seId out n trains ill designated scheme hal been accomplished. All this, the men as- sert, is a clear case of conspiracy on the part of the General Managers association to render Debs and his associates indctable for conspiracy.
 Judge Grosscup and District Attorney Milcbrist have said that justice will be metcd out impartially to all violators of the federal statutes.
 Under a subpoena duces tecum the
 headquarters of the railway union were raided last evening while Debs, Howard, Keliher and others were awaiting in the | district attorney's office to pete their | bonds and all of the official papers of the union seized that could be found.
 | In the general sweep Debs' personal mail | was carried away by the officers from the | district attorney's office. Debs' mail was ] today returned to him by order of Judge | Grosscup, who declared the seizure to be | illegal.
 l The statutes under which the indict- l ments were yesterday found against Debs | and others provide, in addition to fines ranging from 5000 to $10, ,0O0, imprison- l ment under one statute for not more than
 twenty years and under another imprison- l ment of not less than six months nor more 1 than six years.
 l Judge Grosscup, when questioned upon | the possible action of the grand jury | against the General Managers association, l said: 1T have no doubt that when the | grand jury shall have finished the particu- lar matter 1t Is now Investigating it will | turn it's attention to others who may have | violated the law. It will widen the scope | of its inquiry SC as to include all persons | who may have interfered with or obstruct- | ed interstate commerce or the United
 States mails in any way or by any means.'
 "Will you give the grand jury additional
 instructions on that point?" l - cannot do so on that point now. l ! will do whatever is necessary to enable the 1 grand jury to do it's full duty. But labor | men have little faith in special grand l jury. They stick to their opinion that the grand jury was drawn not to investigate | violations of law, but to return indict-
 ments against the railway union men and 1 their sympathizers.'
 The ultimate effect of the appeal Sissued l last night by Grand Master Workman 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 about the
 same time by the representatives of all
 allied labor in Chicago to do likewise can
 not yet be certainly fcreseen. All that Is known is that the Knights of Labor at all
 points heard from, including nearly all of the large centers of population in the
 United States, remained at work today
 with practical unanimity, and that in
 this city the numbers of members of allied
 trades who remained at work 80 far out
 numbered those who quit as to make no
 apprecable change in the industrial ap- pearance of the City. The leaders, how
 ever, say that there is nothing in the sit.
 uatton to cause them Encouragement, and
 that the public, through lack of knowledge
 of the machinery of industrial organiza-
 tions, has been led to expect results which
 were in contemplation when the strike
 orders were issued. MT. Sovereign, for
 instance, points out that his appeal was
 not an order to strike; that in fact he