Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-12

 effect it would be the sime as an order
 In short, he was perfectly con ntident that by Saturday next, after the various local and district assemblies had lime to meet and take formal action on the appeal and to rally their friends outside of the order, the result would show 1000, GOO men idle as consequence. The local strike leaders also claimed that little time was the only nec- essary condition to the walk-out of the 100, 900 men whom they represent, and by Saturday, after the various sub organize lions had had time 10 consult together. the proposed tie-up of business would be fully as effective as they had predicted.
 Surface indications so far, however, do not bear out the claims of either Sovereign or the Chicago men. It is not recorded yet that any district assemblies of Knights of Labor have voted on the strike. On tue other hand the Brooklyn district, which IS composed of railroad meu and therefore naturally supposedly in sympathy with their fellow workmen in the west, at meeting today COL fined their expression of sympathy to a tender of financial aid, but declined to strike.
 Locally several of the organizations, members of the federated trades, have given 1t 10 be understood that they do not intend to go out. Furthermore, it is known that there was large conservative element in the represel tative trade4' meeting which passed the resolution having strike in view, and it is understood that they have been earnestly at work ever since to minimize the result of that action. In the meantime impI ovement continues in the railways here and elsewhere except at Sacramento and Oakland, Cal. At the former place federal troops were landed this morning, but the state militia st1nI tioned on the water front to cover th aM landing were fred on from ambush after the regulars had moved away, aud train which it was sought 10 seEd to San Fran cisco under guard of government troops was thrown from trestle and fired into by the strikers, resulting in the death of one engineman and the wounding of several soldiers.
 The general public, as we'll as organized labor, is looking forward with marked in- terest to the meeting of the executive board of the American Federation of Labor, per- haps the most powerful organization of the kind in the country, in this city to- morrow, and its action is exp .cted 10 have a marked effect on the outcome of the present industrial struggle.
 It Is known that the position of Samuel Gompers, its president, has been one of opposition to sympathetic strike of feder- ation men at this time, and that he looks upon the existing situation as critical. He has invited The heads of other labor organ iZations to meet him here at that time. and the belief is he will strenuously advocate measures to bring the trouble to an end. The great railway strike is practically at an end in Chicago. Trains on all roads ard moving, passenger trains are almost with out exception on time, and freight traffic is rapidly becoming regular.
 "The backbone of the strike is not only broken,' said the manager of the General Managers association this evening, 'but it has entirely disappeared. The blockade is raised, and it will require but short time to get the railroad business of the city back in regular routine. '
 On the Chicago and Grand Trunk pas senger service is regular and freight and suburban service was resumed today. The Wabash ran local freights and part of it's suburban trains in addition to the through passenger service, and the Michigan Gen. tral moved mass of merchandise which has accumulated at Michigan City. The Wisconsin Central reported both freight, and passenger trains running on time, ldnd the Chicago and Northern Pacific an nounced that all daylight trains we,re run ming regularly, although night service has not been resumed.
 i, The Santa Fe ran trains regularly in and out of Chicago, and tbcJ Erie resumed freight traffic, with it's, passenger and ex- press trains .innine, oyn time. The Louis | vile, New Albany and Chicago ran all trains on time all day, the burned bridge at Hammond having been repaired. | On the Chicago Great Western all pas. senger and freight traffic, as well as yard work, was handled reg gularly, and the Chi | cago and Alton reported all trains on the entire road running without interruption. | The Chicago and Eastern Illinois experi- | onceQ no trOuDle Wltu bu6 eACepIiou Ol | demonstrative crowd at Brazil, Ind. The l Illinois Central had 190 loads of inbound | freight today, and it's through passenger service was regular. The Chicago, Bur | lington and Quincy handled several freight and stock trains today, and it's passenger | and suburban trains were all on time. On the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi | cago all passenger trains ran regularly and freights were moved more freely. The Pan Handle moved freight freely and re- l ;tn r,,in mi ,far ,tod
 and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul l handled the regular number of freight,
 passenger and suburban trains.
 | rhe Lake Shore and Michigan Southern announced that owing to the strike 1t had | suspended reception from western connec. tions of perishable freight and live stock.
 NO MORE NEW MEN.
 | THE GENERAL MANAGERS SAY THEY WILL | IMPORT NO OTHERS.
 CHICAGO, July 11.--No more men will
 be brought to Chicago by the general man. agers to take the place of strikers.
 General Manager Egan said today:
 "During the last week the General Man. | agers' association engaged more than 2500 competent men in all departments of rail | roads and has distributed them among the
 various roads. In addition to these the
 roads have also engaged many men and | brought them here direct from the east. | Fully 5000 men have taken the places of
 railroad strikers in Chicago. There are still plenty of applicants for work, and the l roads have no difficulty in supplying all the vacancies caused by the strike.'
 THE CONFERENCE
 BETWEEN MAYOR HOPKINS, MAYOR PIN-
 GREE AND THE PULLMAN COMPANY. | CHICAGO. July n.-Mayor Hopkins,
 Mayor Pingree of Detroit and Erskine M.
 Phelps of Chicago had two hours con-