Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-07-14
DEDS STILL HANGS OUT
REFUSES TO DECLARE THE
STRIKE OFF.
nevertheless, II Is Very Much
Of-Switchmen Going Back To
wOrk--Civn Proc eedipg Against
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CHICAGO, July 14.-The building trades
council organization, representing 25,-
600 Chicago workingmen, met last
night. There were 160 delegates at the
meeting and for nearly five hours they
discussed the strike. Then a vote was
taken, and the order issued by the organ
ization, calling its members out last
Tuesday, was almost unanimously
rescinded. The strike, so far as the build
ing trades council is concerned, was
thereby declared off. No resolutions of
sympathy were adopted, nor was any
| sympathy expressed for the American
Railway union. This action takes away
the support of the Chicago workiugmen
from Debs.
Chicago is very rapidly resuming its
normal condition. The action OF the
conference of the Federation of Labor
yesterday afternoon supplemented by
the meeting OF the Building and Trades
assembly is accepted universally as the
deathblow Of the Pullman boycott. Of
course Debs and Sovereign arc saving
that it is not over and that they are
going to fight to the bitter end. Debs
goes so far as to say that be will tie I'D
every railroad in the United States, but
he also says-or did say in speech last
night to SOC strikers-"The only thing
that now remains for us to accomplish
is to get you boys back to your work"
John N. Eagan, chairman of the Gen.
eral Managers Association announced
at noon today that the action was
| final which was taken last night in re-
turning to Mayor Hopkins proposition
tor return of strikers to work as sub
mittcd by President Debs, of the Ameri-
| can Railway Union. Debs therefore re-
fuses to officially call the strike off
Many of the striking employees at the
stock Yards reported for work today.
Thirty seven switchmen, thirteen cngi-
neers and more unsk,lled laborcrs were
given work. Five engines were put into
service and handled all the cars received
from outside roads. The packing houses
received 5000 cattle. 10000 hogs and
| $4,000 sheep Armour, Swift and Nor
ris killed stock during the day and meat
trans were sent out.
The most authoritative body in the
switchmens organization has officia ally
discountenanced the strike, and the
switchmen, having been the backbone OF
the strikers force, the outlook for the
| Debs and Sovereign plan for continuing
the strike is dscourafiing.
District Attorney Mllchiist is prepar-
ing to begin civil proceedings against
| Debs and other strike leaders: that is to
cite them into court to answer contempt
in violating injunction. This will in.
clude Debs, Howard. Rogers. keliher
and other officers and directors of the
union who have not been indicted.
Some Small Troubles
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 14.-Gcncrll
Scholhcld received the following tcle-
gram late last night from General Nc,
Cook at Denver: "The situation at vii.
liams. Winslow and Peach Springs, on
the Atlantic and Pacific is so critical
that we have ordered three companies
of infantry from the barracks to the sta
tion at these points and to move from
point to point on the railroad as deemed
| necessary.
This is considered to be the
spreading of troubles that existed at
Trinidad and other points near the
Sante Fe on the road which connects
with Southern Pacific near Los Angeles.
These sporadic strikes distant from
main centres of disturbances are not
expected to amount to much. General
Schooltield anticipates number of such
small troubles and is fully prepared to
meet wherever they occur.
That Arbitration Committee.
WASHINGTON, July 1i.-Thc President
has been somewhat annoyed by the per
sistcnt attempts in some quarters to
make it appear that he had appointed
an anarbitration board at the request of the
strike leaders. Nothing is further from
the truth, the commission which he has
agreed to appoint eventually under the
law, having no power beyond that
OF making a general investigation
of the strike on the railroads
which led to his proclamation. The in
vcstigating commission when organized
cannot enter at all into the differences
between the Pullman company and its
employees. 1t will confne its work ex-
clusivcly to the American Railway Union
and the said Railway General Managers
Association.
About az 1t Was.
SAN FRANCISCO, July l4.-Strikc stu
uation in Northern California is practi
cally unchanged.