The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-14

FOAu managers WnlCn WOulO contain bn6
only condition they We're bound in honor
and duty to the strikers to impose. Pres
ident Debs and his colleagues realized
this morning when they read the
dispatches from Washington that If the
investigating commission, with power to
arbiJrate, were appointed and came to
Chicago it would not take that body long
TO determine that the railroad strikers
having no grievance directly against their
employers should return TO work at once
If the railway managers would take them
back. The proposition anticipated the
condition which President Cleveland
would impose before the investigating
commission was sent to Chicago
MEANS A RELENTLESS WAR.
Every American Railway Union,
Knights of Labor, and Federation of
Labor leader spoken to at headquarters
to-day, declared that the refusal of the
railway managers to restore the strikers
to their positions, except those convicted
of crime, would be the signal for the
waging of a relentless war on the corpora
tions, compared with which the present
strike'would be lame
General Master Workman Sovereign
and the other members of the executive
board of the Knights of Labor had con-
ference this afternoon at Ulrich's Hall
with President Debs and the executive
board of the American Railway Union.
The subject of the discussion was that of
ordering a strike of all the knights in the
United States. No definite action was
taken by the executive board of the
Knights of Labor, and the conference
with the American Railway Union will
be resumed tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock.
SOVEREIGN NOW AROUSED.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign said
to reporter: "If the fair and square
proposition made to the railroad mana
gers by the railway union is rejected the
knights of Labor will take up this fight
with renewed power and determination
to bring the aggregation of capital to our
terms. We will consider that we, just as
much as the American Railway Union
and the Pullman strikers, are fighting for
the very existence of organized labor and
! living wages. This fight has not reached
| its zenith yet"
TWO NEW STRIKES THREATENED.
A strike of all the American Railway
| Union men employed in the Chicago Mil
waukee and St Paul and Chicago and
! Northwestern railroads is threatened. 1t
may be ordered tomorrow The cause
| will be the summary dismissal
/ to-day from the service of the
| Northwestern company of 80 union
switchmen and of seven engineers,
one fireman and seven brakcmen on the
| St. Paul road The news of these dis
missals was conveyed tonight to 500 rail
road men who met at Lincoln and West
Indiana streets by Vice President How
ard of the American Railway Union.
The strikers met to hear addresses and
reports of the officers of the union. Vice
President Howard urged all the men
] employed on those roads to protect those
who had been discharged by getting
together tomorrow morning and going
out in body. He called upon
them to stay out until not only all the
men had been reinstated but until all the
non-union men who had taken their places
| had been made to walk" With one
voice. every man shouted that he would
A storm of indignation followed the dec
| laration of Mr.. Howard that General
Manager Earling of the St. Paul road
| had notified the men discharged that they
would never be allowed to do another
stroke of railroad work in the United
| States.