The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-11


 States grand jury. against Debs and his allies is felonious conspiracy to inter- rupt and delay the. mails. while that against Murwfn Is for throwing a switch or otherwise interfering with Lake Shore tracks.
 ALL KNIGHTS CALLED OUT.
 Sovereign Has Issusd Ills Call for striks All Over tho Country.
 Chicago, July lo,-General Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights oi Labor, tonight issued the following: Chicago, H., July 10. To the Knights of Labor of America Greeting: ..-...,-. -..
 A crisis has been reached in the af. fairs of this nation that endangers the peace of the republic. Every fibre ill our civil structure is strained to the breaking point. The shadow of fac tional hatred hovers over our fair land with terrible forebodings.
 The arrogant lash of superiority is being applied by the corporations with relentless fury, and the chasm between the masses and the classes is growing deeper and wider with each succeeding day. If peace is restored and this na- tion saveds from acts repulsive to the conscience of all Christian people there must be wise action and that quickly.
 Sincerely believing that the flames of discord are being purposely famed by the railway corporations at the risk of the life of the government, take the liberty to appeal to you and through you to the conscience of the whole people, implormg you to lay down the implements of toll for a short season and under the banner of peace, and with Q patriotic desire to promote the welfare, use the power of your aggre- gated numbers through peaceable as semblages to create healthy public sentiment in favor of an amicable set- clement of the issues growing out of the recent strike of the Pullman Palace Car employees, and you are further request ed not to return to your usual avooa- tions until settlement of the pending troubles is made known to you through some authentic source.
 In the present strained relations be- tween corporations and their employees is involved g principle near and dear to all true American citizens-the right of labor to present it's grievance to the owners and representatives of corpora tions. The Pullman Palace Car com- pany refuses to arbitrate the difference between itself and it's employees on the ground that oars were built below cost and, therefore, there is nothing to arbi- trate. But the conclusion of every un- prejudiced mind must be that if such were the facts it could have nothing to fear 1t the hands of an arbitration com mittee. ,.'-- .
 But the Pullman company goes fur ther in its autocratio policy than re- fusaF to arbitrate. It has refused to join with the business men and the board of aldermen of Chicago in . con- mittee to discuss the question as to whether there is anything to arbitrate or not and behind this autocrAtic policy stands the general managers assooia- tion of the railway corporations, backed by the United States army as the aiders and abettors of this social crime.
 Suppose the Pullman company had in- vited organized labor to arbitrate and organized labor had declined the invita- ton and refused to discuss the question as to whether there was anything to arbitrate or not; it Is needless to say a wave of popular indignation would obliterate every labor organization from the face of this country and no more could be formed for the next fifty years. The stigma of such position would follow every name connected with or ganized labor to the grave. But in the present crisis the corporations, whose wealth has been created by labor, take the position that they are prior to and above their creator.
 Like the brigands of old, they rob the laboring masses and employ the sword and the bludgeon and set up a. throne on the bones of the vanQuished and de- clare their divine right to rule over the remainder of mankind. The Pullman company claims that rlotwithstanding the wages of it's employees were reduced to the starvation point there Is nothing to arbitrate, because cars have been built at loss, yet 1t neglects to state that the stocks of the company have been watered three times over and that the company has not only been able to pay its regular dividend on water and aiL but that its stocks have long been and are at the present time at a pre- mium on the stock market.
 MT. Pullman cries poverty to his starving employes and then retreats to his princely summer mansion on Pull man island in the St. Lawrence river and wires the business men Of Chicago that he has nothing to arbitrate. Like 3 Nero he lsughs In luxury while the devoted martyrs burn.
 If the present strfke is lost to labor 1t will retard the prosress of ciyilization and reduce the possibilities Of labor to sver emancipate itself from the thrall- dom of greed The dignity Of labor and all the vic- tories won h tho past are II stake in | this confiiet ,!s 'ss
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