The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16
MAKING UP THE LOSSES.
General Managers Order the Strictest
EcunOlmy in All Depn RI mentS.

Chicago, July 1-Railroad officials devoted
their attention almost exclusively today
in getting their traffic departments back
into the old lines of doing business The
Rock Island, which had dispensed with
the entire forces in it's general offices dur
ing the strike, notified it's men today to
report for duty Monday morning. The Mil
waukee and ST. Paul, which led the way in
the general suspension of office business
p will put all it's men back to work on Tues
day. All other roads will resume their
usual routine
This was pay day on the Rock Island and
the office paymaster the third floor of
the Van Buren, street building was be-
sieged by an eager crowd The Chicago
and Northwestern also paid off it's men.
It's pay car stood in the yard just west
of the Wells street depot. a company of
regulars posted close by, so that had
any attempt been made to raid the it
q could easily have been frustrated.
The managers have laid down for them
selves a policy of the strictest possible
economy so as to Offset to the greatest
extent possible the losses of the strike
They expect that several weeks will elapse
before traffic will resume it's usual volume.
The work of assigning the men to the
positions they left will, for many of them,
be a slow process.
Pullman Strikers Firm.
The strikers at Pullman will stand firm,
can Railway Union and the Managers AS
ISOLATION, and they expect to win, despite
the apparent defeat of the present strike
believing that the public is still with them
in their fight against the Pullman Palace
Car Company Sam Meyers, secretary of
the Pullman grievance committee, said to-
day:
1--WE are not disconnected in the least,
although we had expected to win our
fight with the assistance of the railroad
men of the country in tying up the roads
However, our men have every confidence
in Debs and the American Railway Union,
and believe we will yet win the strike
and that our cause has not been injured
in the least. The situation will now prob
ably stand as it did before the railroad
men came to assistance"
The Federation Meeting.
The meeting of the executive committee
of the American Federation of Labor con-
sisting of Samuel Gompers, e. V. Mcclure
G. l.. Drummond James Brettell, William
II. Warden, James B. Lemon and Chris
Evans adjourned subject to call after a, ten
hours session today.
Their regular quarterly meeting should
have taken place on August LIST, but owing
to the labor difficulties, it was called earlier
than the date set. Nothing of Importance
was transacted except routine business, the
most important of which was a vote to as
on Studebakers goods. and especially in the
west through the help of the Farmers AL
lance.
The council appropriated $500 to assist Eu-
gene v Debs in the case now pending
against him in the federal courts; also
$500 to assist the Seamen National Union
in organizing and help their lobbyist A.
furuseth, in his attempt to have repealed
certain obnoxious statutes in the United
States law books.
The Building Trades Reconsidiar.
The building trades council organfza-
ton, representing $4,000 Chicago working
men, met last night. There were 1fO dele
gates at the meeting and for nearly five
hours they discussed the strike Then a
vote was taken and the order issued by the
organization calling its members out last
Tuesday was almost unanimously rescinded.
The strike, so far as the building trades
council is concerned, was thereby declared
off. NO resolutions of sympathy were
adopted nor any sympathy expressed for
the American Railway Union. This action
practically takes away the support of the
Chicago workingmen from Debs.
Switchmen Repudiate 1t.
The switchmen have taken a decided
action regarding the strike. A meeting
held today resulted in the following be-
ing promulgated
eve. the grand board of directors of
the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
of North America, assembled in the
city of Chicago, have carefully considered
our position in the pending strike of the
American Railway Union. and
Whereas. our grand master, Miles w.
Barrett, did not countenance the same,
but held that all members of the Switch
mems Mutual Aid Association be govern
ed by our constitution. therefore, be it
Resolved, That it Is the sense of this
body of the grand board of directors. as
sembled, to fully endorse our grand master
in his action on said strike.
Conductors Denounce the Strike.
Philadelphia, Pa, July 1.-THE LOYALTY
of the Pennsylvania railroad employees to
the company during the recent strike was
demonstrated last evening in decisive ac-
ton by one of the organized bodies This
action is explained in the followig commu-
niCation received today by General Manager
Provost:
''Philadelpha. July II, 1894-S NJ. Pro-
vOst General Manager Pennsylvania Rail-
road-Dear Sir: At a regular meeting of the
West Philadelphia division, No 1862, Order
of Railway Conductors, last evening, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, We as members of the Order
of Railway Conductors, in Philadelphia and
vicinity, passenger and freight, do consider
the railway situation at Chicago and other
western points a serious and deplorable
condition of affairs, entirely uncalled for,
therefore,
Resolved That we, as law abiding cti-
zens and faithful employees, do condemn
the action of those who took part in the
WantOn and indiscriminate destruction OF
life and property, causing a needless stag
ma ton of commerce to the detrlment Oh
the interests of their employers and the cltl-
zens of the United States. That at no
time or place in this vicinity has any feel
ing other than loyalty to our employers peeh
manifested, and that we have no a1nlldl ioh'
directly or indirectly, with the organlzalloil
known as the American Railway Union.
That a copy of these resolutions pe
presented to the general manager Oh .he
PENNSYLVANIA road for his lnfornatoh
Reoueninw the Central Pacific.
Omaha. Neb, July LIT is tediousiy slow
work reopenng the Central Pacific and titan
and Northern roads. Colonel Poland mas
a. construction train going along with troops
on the Central from ogden. Thus far 1t has
repaired two bridges, Il number OF places
where the tracks had been tempered with
and has literally worked it's way.
General Brooks's troops and those Of Cen
eral Ruger expect to meet in a few hours
near the California Nevada line. General
Brooks has sent a company of infantry
from Ogden, up the Utah and Northern, to
meet those from the Northern Pacific line,
the latter under orders of General Merritt.
These will reopen the Montana end of that