The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-04-28
OUT At ST. PAUL
The Great Northern Strike Has
Been Extended 10 the Twin
Cities.
The Order Given by President Debs
Immediately Following thu Con-
ference With Hill. r.
Doth Hill and Debs Express Them
selves as Confident of Coming
Out ON Top.

ST.. PAUL, April 2S.-At high Dor the
Great Northern strike went into effect
ut ST. Paul and Minneapolis and at all
points ON the line from this city to the
coast. Within five minutes after the
committee had arrived at the decision
to call all the men out the order had
been sent ont by President Debs, and
the fight is asw in dead earnest. The
company claims that it has sufficient
men now in its service who will remain
at work, while the American Railway
union assert just the contrary.
President Debs TaIks.
President Debs was asked the situa-
ton at noon, when the committee adj
journed, and said:
THE strike is declared on, over the
entire line, and every member OF the
American Railway Union win ut once
quit work. This order, of course,
applies to st. Paul and Minneapolis"
Have the members Of the committee
gone homer
''Some of them have" replied Mr..
Debs, shut a representative man from
each Of the classes of employees viii re-
main here to watch developments. The
committee was unanimous in its action,
and the steps now taken will meet with
a ready response"
1.-The conference with Mr.. Hill dur
ing the morning was then without re-
sult?'
"That conference was simply to talk
over some matters upon which we
thought Mr.. Hill might throw some
light; it was really a going over again
of the ground which was travelled be-
fore, and the committee reiterated its
demands for q complete restoration of
the old schedule as the only basis upon
which the men would go to work. The
conversation with Mr.. Hill was carried
on pleasantly, but without the effect of
bringing as any nearer together"
Can't Get the Msn.
'.Do you think Mr. Hill has, rs he
claims, enough men to operate the
road?"
mo. ! believe he has been misin-
formed by his own friends, who over
estimated their numbers. Mr.. Hill
told me that he was assured
not one in twenty of the
employees were In sympathy with this
movement, and / replied to him
that it was just the other way, and that
he could not get one man In twenty 10
continue at work. III he can get the
men of course he will proceed to operate
the road, but I don't believe he WILL"
will the strikers offer any resist
ance to the operation of the road, or do
you anticipate any disturbances
None whatever. Strict orders have
been issued by the committee that all
the strikers all along the line stay in
their homes and refrain from any inter-
ference with the trains which the COM
pany may attempt to move. III
any violence is offered, or il
any injury is done TO the property of
the company it will be in direct viola
ton of the instructions of Of the COM
mittee. But the trains will not run,
simply because the company cannot get
men to handle them. It Is supposed
that acts of violence may be committed
by parties who are DESTROYS of raising
up a feeling against the men, but we
shall do our best to prevent anything of
this kind"
1.-The freight train which went out
Thursday night has gomez no further than
st. Cloud because they cannot get d
fireman" interjected Mr.. Howard, 'tand
it will be the same with all other
trains"
THE committee takes the ground, y
says MI. Dets, ''that having appealed
against a wrong that wa inflicted upon
them the men should not be asked 10
arbitrate. A positive and definite inius-
tice has beendone them and they ask TO
have this reciiied. 1t does not admit OF
arbitration"
MR. HILLS OPINION.
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