The herald., 1894-05-01
THE GREAT NORTHERN STRIKE.
President Debs Confident of a
Settlement.
President Hill Determined Not to
Give in to the Men.
Commercial Bodies OF tho Twin Oitis q
Trying TO Got the Opposing
Forces to Arbitrate Their
Differences.
By the Associated press.

ST. PAUL, April 30.-President Debs
of the American Railway union is more
confident and President Hill Of
the Great Northern is more
determined than at any previous time
since the strike began two and a half
weeks ago. Mr.. Debs said he had to-
day told the committee from the COM
mercial bodies of the Twin cities
that the employees would like to
meet Mr.. Hill and talk matters over in
their presence, having them act some
thing in the way OF an arbitration board.
He made no formal proposal, but sug-
gested this plan, not promising to be
bound by their decision. However, when
Mr.. Hill was asked about it, he
promptly insisted that the suggestion
was not a formal proposition, and that
he could not consider anything until it
came in more formal way before him.
de announced that he proposed to con-
tinue his work of running his own road !;
that the old men would be ordered to
work and when one of them Jailed to
respond promptly, his place would be
Immediately filled by some OF the large
number of men he has heard of along
the line ready to work.
1--WE expect to win the fight within
48 hours" President Debs said today.
He said he made the statement on the
authority OF the general manager OF
another road who had told him Hill
would grant the demands Of all the en-
ployees within that time.
Passenger trains were sent out as
usual today. One hundred deputies
were sent to Breckinridge.
President Debs claims the tiremen and
engineers will stay by the union, not
withdrawing the increased wages Of
fered the Brotherhood committee, but
the company claims to have kilograms
from the engineers and firemen an
nouncing their intention to stand by
the company.
The strikers seem unwilling to consent
to arbitration in any form, President
Hill talks freely aa ever.
Samuel Hill, president Of the Mon
tana Central, said today: 81 wish to
deny the SANDER circulated about the
people of Montana. l know the people
there quite as well as the gentlemen
from the White. Cap district of Indiana.
Montana people are not the rUffians,
thugs or towards the American Railway
union calls them. They do not resort to
dynamite or burning bridges at night"
GRAND Forks, N. d., April 30.-A
special train bearing four companies OF
United States troops from Fort Smelling
arrived today. There we're POI men,
under command OF Mai. J. H. Peters.
Several missiles were thrown at the train.
At st. Cloud one soldier was hit
in the head with brick, and another in
the pit of the stomach with couplin
pin. At Crookston some one fred q
shot at the engineer. The train brought
pile driver and two bridge crews to
rebuild the burned bridges west OF
Minot. AS soon as these are replaced
it is believed train will be sent through
to the coast.
Serious trouble is feared on the Mon
tana Central, and possibly ct DEVILS
lake, N. D.
A special from Hinckley, Mimi. the
junction of the Great Northern and
Eastern Minnesota, says a mob of 200 is
waiting to prevent any train going
through.
HELENA, Mont, April 30.-The Mon
tana supreme court today refused to
issue writ of mandamus ordering the
Great Northern to operate it's line of
railway in this state as it had been &C.
customed to prior to the strike of all it's
trainmen. The court held that the pro.
ceeding was equivalent to asking
the court to inquire into and
determine what would be reasonable
scale of wages for the men required to
operate the road, and then ascertain
whether the requisite number of men
could be employed at the wages deter
mined. The court said it was not csr-
tain it had Jurisdiction of the srbitra-
ment OF these questions and power to
enforce it's decision should it decide
them. Furthermore, the court is not
sure that it has jurisdiction to issue such
a writ by reason of the relations of the
railway property to interstate jurisdic-
ton.
In the United States court the attor
neys for the Great Northern read aft
dsvits in support of their petition 70
an injunction restraining the strikers
from in anw way interfering with the
operation of the road. The men were