The evening world., 1894-07-10
NO STRIKE LIKELY.
So Says the Pre- d,nt O. ho Sur
ACE Road Em,.oyees' Unioa.
RidicuIes GoMpers and the Am srican
Federal oa's Claims.
Byrncs Anticipates No Trouble at
tao big Mass- Meeting.

ployoes, laughs at the idea OF Il strike
taking place IA thic city. he also r!di-
cGlca tic Idea Cf Samuel tionlpera, or
the America an Fedora Ion of Labor, GO
Ing 10 Chicago TO bring about Il settle
ineht Of the trouble In thet city.
why" he sail, "the American Fed
eration OF Labor is absolutely poweri,s IS
to do anything lin TITS cl,y. and 1
doubt very much II Mr.. Compers would
be able 10 call out $500 men, The
strength az that orguui2Rtio here lies
III The Carmen Workers. of whom 30
per cent. ha,l been out Of work for over
nine months. There would be little fun
IN calling them out on strike They
have got the cigar-makers and one or
two locals of the bakers. That about
winds them up.
II see the American Federation men
claim TO control the street railway men.
Now, L want to denounce that as Use
They have nothing whatever to say to
the street railroad men of this city, nor
have they got n single steam railroad in
their federation.
II have said that in my opinion the
strike will never reach this city. Why?
Because ii will fall to pieces long before
reaching this place. 1t is fast crumbling
row, and I can see nothing in It but
mop less defeat. Tn" only thing that can
ma acne ne Is to nave Syerg state LeEisia-
son OF Ill labor troubles to arbitration
II Should be made compulsory.
lf you examine the roll Of the Ameri-
can Federnti on-that document in which
they claim to control $4,000 mcp--you
VIII find that they take in the locomo-
i've engineers. .iremen. switchmen and
e eye yn But II is on paper only: In
| will claim that his organization is the
| strongest at some place remote from
the strike.
the conference OF Zig railroad men held
| in Chicago q few days ago. Debs, Sow.
eregn,. McBridc and the. others Were
! with a fIourlsh Of tr,impets ana declared
| that he reprcsepted the Amal3amateC
Associati ton of street Railroad Employ
ees As matter Of fact Mr. Malone
does not and cannot control as many as
50, mon. ! hope Mr.; Gompers does not
From another well-knUwn labor mar
| II was learned that the street-cRr meI
of this city are nopeless,y disorganized
| An attempt was made recently to or
Sanize the Third avenue, road. and al
that could be mustered We're rfteer
! men. Their request to be organized wa.
! refused on account Of the smallness Of
| the number
| on the Fourth Avenue Railroad it |,
claimed that no organization OF any
| consequence exists, and 1t Is the sam,
way with the other roads Out of 4
total of about 10000 street-car men here
1t IL asserted that only little over one
tenth are organized.
With Brooklyn 1t is different. The
recent strike on the Atlantic avenue
road showed that the men were thor
oushly organized. The employees OF The
Brooklyn city, road are Organized with
the consent Of President Lewis.
out OF the Ten orga nizations OF bakers
in this city. nine Of them stand togethci
tgehed 10 any othec orga,ization. They
viii not strike, neither will the Build
ing Trades, who are governed by 4
Board OF Walking pelegsteSs; s~ou,,
that the strike is lost. That. however
will not Prevent sympathetic r!eetinf'
from be'ng held.
Srmuel Gcmpers. PRESIDENT OF th'
goes to Chicago tonight, was at hi
hea 'nnartcri all the M IrninS. He sai'
there had beer 20 n any newspaper me-
calling at h!s-residfnce lat nif''t that r.
| vas forced II come a." lto~n an
sleep n. his Cousins house. he Wen
c'rGfu:!y oyer. ne naming Paoer :, an n,
wouli give out 4 statement later.
70 Committees 1910 ntnd h the Cen
ira, Lnho' uni-n and ne CENTRAL L?hni
Fader iio1 fo- the two mass-me'eting
a aEoNUts. one Of the meetings undel
is. Cru.ral aSOr Cnion viii he Held OF
Inn stay ripht In Cooper Union. Las
Ina, ire Committee prepared the fol
east to-day:
To MAINTAIN CIViL RIGHTS,
. WINCH Is THE DICTATOR
"PfREsrnGNT DEBs OR PRESIDENT cLEvE
re; , ,TFAL Authorities HAsrEN 70 PRO
| ~.
Tal,NpLE TrmT THE RfGnfS OF LkPoR
rHE? KEsPEcr NEITHEh TRIAL ~ BY; JURY
FEDERAL MriTARY RIFLE IN FREE AM
SELF COZ ERNlNn STATES
Is MONARCHICAL.
DOWN WITH rfIiI ~ AMERICAN c'u
| hon ardp 81 ialustriOus Al intelligent wnrE
| inu.ea In Pullman ar" p"WerioFs q" Srrn'" d
ar5israton ol their cenr'slnn and ius, Grie'
Corporate Moro,aiy Is 90 alright ,hat r1Ilw'
'amplnics 9rs-k thrir e ",f&.,, rn' r-,'sP
with the OF .nsYe sri aH"Hting t'iiT'7 r'"roi
Ir,, An.rlraa Esi,wtv Union daily rcpr,
seatad il, President l'rLs hR- IntrgurStri
,,mpIta aic movcmeut oi nrE"rig'd I.rhor, q
| ruIa.ed 10 centre The act'Cr'S atrnu N upon n
Iniusricea OF the fphaan's msnesnmc1t and
| establish tho RICH. e.! wsgc-eetler8 to UNI;
,saias, oppressive cn9i, gsc-s. a.. 49,.
In thr iutcrcgt o. oofror'uors, The FodHrt
| dminlstration hiss caused CnalSua inJlA' toi
10 be isslad which sac. gstes 'isrcgs-d @. III
established principles q American lnet;ntinn'
this unprecedented anu unsarrsntab!e procedure
It is therefore time 70 cali meeting Of q
/. 10 eIprers sympathy with the Pullman en-
: p'ayses, sad with President pebl and H. 70
u eondcna the col2 detst By which ii
Feicrll courts sai tle Fehert' m,ltery ~
rtI'.ed prGct.,slD ~ anru cate TIE rights ~ re
. speech, rial b. Jury an .So'ls '57r4a, IL srt'
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