The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-07-12
REVIEW OF THE STRIKE.
The Situation as Reported Fran Inn.
pOrtant Railroad Centers.


portant Railroad Centers.
st. Paul, Mimi, July g. - According
TO railway officials the backbone OF
the graf strike is broken. It is
confidently asserted that by Satur
day night the whole thing will be called
of or the men will tumble over each
other in an effort to get back to their old
positions. They say this Is not an idle
statement, but a clear presentation OF
fact based upon the situation. They
point to the fact that passenger trains
continue to run as usual, the volume OF
freight busi2ess is increasing daily, and
that new men are taking the places OF
the old. On the other hand the men
claim that they are gaining instead OF
losing ground and that they will yet win.
There is no disorder in st. Paul.
The condition of supplies in the city is
Still q question of considerable interest
among commission and wholesale dealers
The prospects of a meat famine were
lessened this morning by the arrival OF
some eight cars of beef provisions which
were consigned to the various packing
house agencies in the city. Nearly 20e
carcasses were received and placed al
once on ice. The wholesale price OF
meats has not changed, except in the
&C Sc of one or two concerns, who have
rs ised their prices since the strike, I'm.
less there should be considerable extra
cSperse and risk in handling meats in
the next few days the wholesale men
ire not disposed, as a class, to raise the
rr;ces on the public.
Spakane, Wash, July 9. = A special
trein over the Northern Pacific from the
West is expected here this afternoon. The
train is manned by non-union crew and
is carefully guarded by deputy marshals
The train is hauling the private car oil
Assistant General Manager A. w. Dick.
inscn. Trouble is anticipated wher
Sprague is reached, as the town is
swarming with strikers and their friends
Chief Dispatcher FinnigGn and assistants
have arrived here from Sprague, and
opened temporary headquarters in the
Northern Pacific depot here. Union Pa.
cific trains arriving and departing or
Time, alteFnntely pualing aYuSnrI slnV
Pullman coaches.
Chicago, July 9.-The present strike OF
railroad employees in Chicago and the
entire country according to recent re-
ports, is not to be confined to settle
ment of the strike of the employees of
the Pullman Palace Car company. 1t is
the intention of the A. r. u. to force a
settlement of the wage question on all
railroads where they are organized be.
fore they agree to the final settlement of
the present strike. President Debs said
last night that the report of complica-
tion of the grievances now existing was
in part true. I'm some parts of the
country our local unions will demand a
readjustment of the wage scale before
they return to work." he said, ''but this
demand will not be general, nor is it made
part of the issue in the present struggle,
In many places, however, where the wage
scale has been lowered so far that the
men can no longer stand it the unions will
not return to work until they get same
satisfaction in that line"
San Francisco, July 9-Local trains
were run from Los Angeles over both
Southern Pacific aad Santa Fe lines, the
latter starting another with one Pull.
man attached. A train also arrived ut
Los Angeles from Albuquerque with O
Pullman. 1t is reported at Los Angeles
that the government will take steps to
compel the railroad to move freight as
well as passenger trains. Reports from
Oakland and Sacramento are to the eff
feet that everything is quiet. There is
no word of federal troops having YET
been ordered to either of these points,