Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
DYING BY INCHES.

The Great Strike to Enforce the Pub man
Boycott Believed to be Nearing Its Close
The Crisis Is Safely Passed and the
Supremacy of Law Over Mob Rule As
sured-Order Prevails Everywhere.
CHICAGO. July 12.-It is the opinion of
careful and conservative observers to-
night that the labor troubles so far as
Chicago and it's vicinity is concerned,
are dying by inches. There may be a
few more manifestations of the con-
tinued existence in the form of minor
walk-outs and similar demonstrations,
but these will be but the spasms that
precede final dissolution. In this opin-
ion the authorities at army hea6quar-
tiers. at the government building. and
at the police department are practi-
cally unanimous.
United States Marshal Arnold, who
has kept his finger upon the key of
the situation from the moment that
the authority of his office was invoked.
said this afternoon to the United
Press. as he issued orders for the call
ing in of 800 of his deputies:
THE strike. or revolt. or whatever
it may be called, is practically a thing
of the past. Order prevails every
where within this jurisdiction. and it
is my opinion that the troops ight be
withdrawn tomorrow without appre-
hension of the possibility of further
disorder. The crisis has been passed.
and that with safety"
The same impression prevailed
throughout the city. Business of all
kinds, which has been in a state of
to show symptoms of returning vitali-
ty. The retail stores were thronged
with customers, and country buyers
began to show their faces at the whole
sale establishments. The ticket sellers
at the various depots were kept busy,
and at the box offices of the theaters,
which have done beggarly business
for week or more, advance sales are
actually reported. Everywhere there
were indications of the general belief
that. even if the trouble was not abso-
lutely over, the worst had been seen.
The railroad managers were espc-
cially elated. Reports from every quar-
ter showed that men by the thousand.
strikers as well as those unemployed
by no fault or action of their own,
were applying for work, and that bust
ness of all kinds was being resumed as
rapidly as could be expected under the
circumstances. Some of the roads that
have been most directly affected, posted
notices in their downtown ticket Of
fees to the effect that they were pre-
pared to receive freight and to forward
it with reasonable proInptness. At the
same time they gave it out that the
commercial community could not eX-
pect normal conditions to be resumed
in day, if e-en in a week.
AS General Manager Egan pat it tn is
afternoon. the railroads are in the posi-
ton of a merchant whose place of bust
ness has been burnt down. The build
ing is recommended almost before the
ruins arc cold, but the reconstruction
takes time. and even when he is ready
to begin business again it takes some
little time for the public to become ac-
custOmed to the new order of things.
Alss with the railroads. They have
plenty of help to take care of traffic
now offering. and as this traffic in
creases they will need more men and
they will be able to get, even if they
nave not already, as many men as will
be needed at high tide conditions.
To put it in the concise words of Mr.
Egan. 1--WE consider the strike over.
although it would be folly to assume
that the effects of the trouble can be
cffaced in a single day and night"
At the headquarters of the American
Railway union. however, there was nc
falling off in the enthusiasm or in the
claims of ultimate victory that has
been manifested since the boycott was
declared. The officers insisted that
the strikers are standing firm: that
their position was being even reinforced
by tens of thousands of men of every
trade. who, while having no direct in
terest in the outcome, were determined
to manifest their sympathy in the
strongest possible manner. and that
such thing as stampede was out OF
the question.
The reports received from the officers
of the various local trade organizations
placed the number of men that had
gone out in response to the call at 15,-
900 to 10000, but at the same time nc
authenticated figures We're produced
to justify the claim.
The officers and directors of the I'M
ion held brief conference during the
afternoon with w. w. Erwin. who has
been retained as special counsel. but
no definite line of policy either in re-
gard to the threatened prosecution of
the railway managers or the defense
of the officers and others arrested un-
der the indictments found by the fed
eral gran jury was mapped out. The
questions involved will be further dis
cussed tonight or tomorrow morning.
The situation from the strikers
standpoint conferred mainly to-day
about the special meeting of the exec
utive council of the American Fedora
tion of Labor. The radicals were in
hopes that President Gompers and his
associates would favor a general re-
quest to all the unions affiliated with
the federation to lend their aid to the
sympathetic strike already inaugu-
rated, but the early expressions of the
New York labor leader failed to give
them any great encouragement. He
was anxious, he said. to do whatever
could be done to bring order out of
what threatened to become chaos, but
whether this could be accomplished by
a general strike among the members of
the federation was a question open
to argument.
That the members of the council
were equally conservative was evil
denced in the fact that the outcome OF
the first session was the adoption of an
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