St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-11

I CHICAGO. July 1o.-Knights of Labg
throughout the entire country, number.
ing 100000 men, have been called
upon to strike for the cause of organH
lied labor. General Master Workman
Sovereign Issued an order late thii
evening to all members of the organizat
J ton to cease work until the conflict
originating in the strike of the Pullman
employees shall have been settled. FOIL
owing is the text of the order: :
| Chicago. July 10.-To the Knights of
| Labor of America. Greeting: A crisis
| has been reached in the affairs of this
nation that endangers the peace of the
| republic. Every fiber in our civil
structure is strained to the breaking
| point. The shadows of factional hatred
hover over our fair land with terrible
| forebodinas. The arrogant lash OF
superiority is being applied by our cor
porations 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 ma
ton saved from acts repulsive to the
conscience of all Christian people, there
must be wise action, and tha. quickly,
Sincerely believing that the
FLAMES OF DISCORD
are being purposely famed by the rail-
way 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 peo'
pie, lmploring you to lay down
the implements of toll for a short
season, and, under the banner Of
peace and with a patriotic desire to
promote the public welfare, use the
power of your aggregated numbers
through peaceable assemblages to ere
ate healthy public sentiment In favor
of an anicable settlement of the issues
growing out of the recent strike of tine
Pullman employees, and you are fur
ther requested not to return to your
usual avocations until a settlement of
the pending trouble is made known to
you through some authentic sonrce. In
the present strained relations be-
tween corporations and their en-
ployes is involved principle near
and dear to all American citi-
zens-the right of labor to present
its grievances to the owners and rep
resentatives of corporate capital. The
Pullman Palace Car company refused
to arbitrate the differences between
itself and its employees on the ground
that cars were built below cost, and
therefore there was nothing to arbitrate.
hA al, Of
udiced mind must be that if such were
the true facts it could have nothing to
fear at the hands of an arbitration COM
mtittee. But the Pullman company goes
farther In its
AUToCRATIC POLICY
than refusal to arbltrate. 1t has re.
fused to join with the business men
and the board of aldermen of Chicago
in committee to discuss the question
as to whether there is anything to arbi-
trate or not, and behind this autocratie
policy stands the managers association
of the railway corporations, backed by
the United States army as the aiders
aud abetters of this social crime. Sup.
pose the Pullman company had in
vited labor to arbitrate and organ
lied labor had declined the invita-
alton and refused to discuss the QGeS-
ton 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
cIuld be form 70 the next fifty years,
The stigma of such position would
follow every name connected with or-
gauiZed labor to the grave. But in the
present crisis the corporations whose
wealth has been created by labor
fol 81, hot
prior and choke their creator.
Like the brigandS of Old, they
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