The record-union., 1894-07-16
A. R. .. to Make a Desperate
Struggle to Hold Their Prestige.
REVIVALISTS TO BE SENT TO ALL
SECTIONS IN THE WEST.
Patriotic Words From Archbishop Ire
land on the Present Trouble-Presi-
dent Debs Addresses a Gathering
of Strikers at Chicago-Meeting of
the Central Labor Union at New
York.
Special to the REcoRD-UNIox.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoy.
CHICAGO, July 15.-The American Rail-
way Union officials have determined to
make desperate struggle to regain for
that order the prestige it has lost in the
great strike now approaching close.
The Executive Board of the union held a
meeting this morning, the object of which
was to map out a course for the future.
After a long discussion it was decided to
send out ''revivalists'' to all important
sections of the West. Six agitators had
been sent out Saturday. and it was de-
cided to augment this number.
1.-The names of those sent out Saturday
will not be given." said Debs to a reporter,
"for fear of their being arrested for incit-
ing a riot" It was learned elsewhere,
however. that this morning Director
Kern was sent to st. Louis to rally the
forces there. Hogan was sent out over
the Northern Pacific to stir up the en-
ployes of that company, and Goodwin
was sent over the Northwestern to use his
influence with the employees of that sys-
tenn, and, if possible, induce them to go
out. These delegates are all members OF
the Executive Board OF the union. Other
enissaries were sent out to work with
the employees of the many lines entering
this city.
After this meeting adjourned an en-
thusiastic meeting was held in Ulrich's
Hall, President Debs presiding. He
made a rousing speech, reminding one OF
The early days of the strike. The
strike" said he, 'sis now, right now.
more prosperous and encouraging than
ever before. We can and must win. The
rf,O kaoa RI nT
will again come back TO US, and victory is
ours. Grand Chief Arthur Of the en-
gineers is a scab jobber, and will go down
in history as q traitor to organized labor.
He instructs his men to go to work with
scabs, and tells them that scabbing is
honorable. He is a tool in the hands of
the General Managers.
1.-The strike is weaker in Chicago than
elsewhere" continued Debs, "but it will
grow stronger just as in the West it is
growing stronger every hour"
Fifteen meetings were held in different
parts of the city during the afternoon and
evening, several of which were addressed
by Debs. He will tomorrow give out q
statement in answer to the one made by
Pullman.
Mr.. Debs said that several of his COM
Imitteemen had reported TO him that the
Rock Island, Lake Shore, Eastern Illi-
nois, Grand Trunk and Western Indiana
men would all be out again tomorrow.
Nothing could be learned outside to
verify this assertion, however.
ALLOWED REST.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Government
officials of this city who have been con-
ministration during the strike were al
lowed to rest to-day. No reports of inn
portance were received and no orders
sent out. No action has as yet been
taken toward recalling the troops from
Chicago, but if everything remains quiet
this will be done in very short time.
sRRMoN ON THE STRIKE.
New YORK, July 15.-Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., who finds q text for each
Sundays sermon in the events of the
preceding week, preached in Association
Hall to-day on the strike. 'Thls great
uprising Of laboring classes which has
cost the country Sl,000,000, and was
likely to cost it S5,000,000 more. had its
origin in q great injustice perpetrated by
somebody. 1t was impossible to imagine
the laDorIng classes, alter enduring the
miseries consequent on the depression of
the past year, leaving their workshops
unless there was injustice somewhere.
Three lessons, however, have been learned
by the strike: First, the railroad man
ayers were utterly incapable to handle
the railroads the moment a strike was
and disorder would under no circum-
stances be tolerated by the American
people; that tie Rational Government
alone has the power to break such a
strike and raise the railroad blockade.
from which follows the logical conclu-
sion the National Government should
6wn the railroads of the country"
The railroads, he said, were built
strictly for the accommodation of the
public, and neither labor leaders nor
railroad managers should have the power
nor be permitted to interfere with these
public rights. If the National Govern
1nent owned the railroads it would be
high treason to do such thing.
WORDS FROM ARCHBISHOP IRELAND.
CHICAGO, July Archbishop Ireland
of ST. Paul, being asked what he had to
say upon the railway strike, to-day spoke
as follows: II dislike to speak of the
Chicago strikes, because in so doing |
shall blame labor, while, because of my
deep sympathy with it, should wish to
have never said but words OF praise foI
It, But in a momentous social crisis,
such as the one through which we are
passing, it is duty to speak loud and to
make the avowal Of the truths and prin-
ciples which will save society and justice.
/ am glad of the opportunity which q rep
resentative of the Associated Press
affords me. The fatal mistake which has
been made in connection with this strike
is that property has been destroyed. the
liberty of business interIered with, hu-
man lives in danger, social order men,
aced. the institutions and freedom of the
country put in most serious jeopardy.
The moment such things happen all pos
sible questions as to the rights and griev-
snces of labor must be dropped out OF
sight, and all efforts of law-abiding citi-
zens and of public officials made
TO serve in maintaining public order and
guarding at all costs the public welfare.
Labor must learn that however sacred It's
rights be, there is something above them,
and absolutely supreme-social order and
the laws OF public justice. There is no
civil crime as hldeous or pregnant OF evil
results as resistance to the law and the
constitutional authority of the country.
This resistance is revolution; it begets
chaos; it is anarchy; il itdisrupts the whole
social fabric. Labor, too, must learn the
lesson that the liberties of the citizens are
TO be respected. One man has the right
TO cease from work, but he has nc right
to drive another man from work. He who
Tesnects not the liberty or others shows
bimself unworthy of his own liberty and
incapable of citizenship in free country.
Riots and mob rule, such as have occurred
in Chicago. doimmense harm to the cause
of labor, and set back its advance for
whole decades OF years. Labor thereby
loses the earnest sympathy of thousands
of friends and gives courage ana triumph
70 it's enemies
s.Worse yet, the principle of popular
Government suffers. 1t is no wonder
FRAT. reading of the occurrences IN
America. Europe announces that the re.
Duhiic is failure and that strong mon
archy only can hold society together.