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NUMIiER I'D.
KNIGHTS TO STRIKE
An! the Typographical Union' Will
Fellow Tnn.
LET THE CORPORATIONS AXSWER
Tbc Situation in Ciilifornia I'ltlluinn
docs to Europe and Liou-h the
Strike to Settle Itself.
' ftlatnilielit KriMii lrl.
Chicago, July fi. Fiigciio V. ImI)h,
president ( the Aiui'ricun ICuil wity
Cnimi, I:iih i-aued it long statement in
jiutilication ol tin- greut strike of which
u Is ilii" central ligurtt. The article in
tililrce-r'I tti tint public, and reud in
part b" follows :
"Th" Till' ' " employe who struck
liny ii u.o " t?ntiroly u( tlifir own
trcnnl. I'lm nicer of llm American
Kiilwiiy I ihkii ii ! 1 ull their influence
to purify llm employes, mill udvised
Itiein rcpc.itedly not to atrike, hut to
bear put ifiitly their grievance until u
neui'i-uhle settlement could lie effected,
Ti e triil h nf lliix statement Hit) cm
plnye thcmselvea w ill licur witness to.
Bet Ihi" grievance of thu cmp oyos, men
anil women, hud lire. me ho aggravated.
mi gulling, tlmt putience deserted them,
nil they ubundonod their employment
rut her thiin submit longer to condition
aiwinst which their very souls rebelled.
The Pullman company, lie it understood,
own tne town of Pullman, ow ns the
home of the em ploy en, control the
li).'ht nml water und other neeessorie of
lile, und wanes are ihi adjusted lo living
expense that in a large majority of
ram the employe" are acurccly able to
Itipport tlieir futilities. At the time
they struck the employe were iu arrears
tu ihe I'ullniuii compuny $70,000 for
rent uloue. Wage liad Uien repeatedly
reduced, hut the rent aud all other ex
peniMrkTeiimined the iiiliie.
"The employes from the l'inning
havr been willing to arbitrate tlieir dif
ference with the company, hut the
company arrogantly declare that there
in nothing to arbitrate, lfttii.be true,
why not allow board of fair and im
partial arbitrator! to determine the fact.
Committee after committee waited upon
th olliciulit of the Pullman com puny,
but ull thuir advance were repelled,
t'p to thin iMiint the trouble wai confined
to ihe rulluiHii Company ami Im em
employes and how then dij the atrike
extend to the mil way it? t the answ er
be given in nccorduni-e witli the fact.
"The day before the order for the men
to dec inn to pull J'ullitinn cars went in-
to effect, thu malingers' association, re
itecnting the principal western rail
ways, met and udopted a aeriea of reHo
iutioiiH, declaring in mi balance that they
would uphold the I'u'lman Company in
iu fiuhl ti i Hjii it eiiiplovuM, that they
onld liaul I'lillmiin car. and would
land to(elher in cruahintt out the
Ainericun lluilway I'nion. It will thin
If .'ten that the railway compauie vir
tually joined force with .the l'ullman
Coinpuiiy; went into partniTHhlp with
hem, vo tu opeak, to ruduco and defeat
their hulI-Mtarved emtiloyep. In thin
ay the trouble wa rxtemled from
y Ntt-iii to ayatem until a crinis hna lieeii
teaeheil.
"Wliutcan lie done to dinpel the ut
preheiiNiou thnt now prevuilH and re
Ittire c iiidence7 Tlie American liail
I'nion, by whose authority, nod in
Wimi hcjiulf thin BtHtemuut i made,
tainla rcaily, and bun from the begin
ning atoud ready, to do anything iu ita
P'er, provided it ia honorable, to end
thin trouble. Thin, it cm bo stated, I
the poniiion the organization occupies.
It Dim ply inmHta that the Pullman Coin-
Pny ahull moet Ita employe and do
tinmi jiiHtice. We guarantee thut our
niphijeea will accept any reanonable
pmpoaition. Utt them agree aa far a
they can and where they fail to Agree,
It the (Hiinta in diapute be eubmitted
to arhitrntion. The iUCHlion of the
'wngnition of the American Ilailwoy
I'nion or any other organisation ia
ived. I,et the aplrit of conciliation,
'iiitiiul conceaalon, and compromiae
iiimato both aidea, and there w ill be
oo trouble in reaching a aettloment that
"ill le tutiafactory to all concerned.
"It haa been aaked what aenae there
' in ayinpathetic ilrlkea. Lot the cor
Porationa anawer. When one la atHftiled,
411 a" to the reunite. They aland to
Hfther; they aupply each other with
ni", money and equipmenta. l.ikir,
1,1 ijnifying ita force, aimply followa
t''ir example. If the proceeding ia
v' ioiin and indert-naible, let them tlrat
''"'li-h it. In thia content lab-r will
"bind by labor. Other orgaiii.at iona
iH not be called out, but they w ill o
"'".Hnd the apectucleof Mr. I'tiUman,
funned by the breer.ea of the Atlantic,
"i'ile hia einployea are etarving, ia not
calculated to prevent tlieir fellow wage
j workera from going to their rescue by
j the only mean at their command. Let
I toe repeat that we aland ready to do our
I part toward averting the pending crima.
' 1( the .'orporiit ions refiiHn to yield and
atublmrnly maintain thut there ia noth
ing to arbitrate, the reHonnaibility for
what may euaue will lie upon tlieir own
h-u lnttlid they cannot emrape ita penal
ties" t rlonilljr I.oliur Ori.ulz.tlon'
I'u k aoo, July 5. I'reaident Deba and
the directora met repreaentativea of the
Chicago Typographical I'nion thia after
noon, and were informed that if it could
be Hhown that any giod would be done
by audi a move, every union printer in
the city would atrilco in sympathy with
ttie American Uailway I'nion. They
only await the proper allow ing and a
reijucHt from the union olllciul to atrike.
At the afternoon conference it waa ar
ranged thut a meeting of the leader of
all national labor orpin r.alio:i. of the
country, including the typographical
I union, aliould be called. The chiefs of
1 a number of the national organizations
w ill be here tomorrow, and It bus been
lurruiiged that a meeting of the repreaen
j tativea be held at 10 o'clock in the
! morning for the purpoao of (tiwimsing
ihe Htiiution mid ascertaining whether
the members arc depirona of lieing called
ot before any conference to aetllo the
. rouble ahull lie held. It waa given out
by the directora today that unleaa'a
change occurred tomorrow morning a
mineral atrilte of ull labor organizations
in ay in pa thy with the I'nion and ita
frienda would be ordered by tomorrow
evening. At the meeting of the lalior
chief tomorrow it ia likely that a
moiiKter meeting of atrikera and nviu
puthixera will he called, the time and
place to be agreed upon nt the morning
meeting.
The Trlrft-r.uu.r..
Nkw Yoke, July 5. A morning paper
aaya: "A story waa circulated last
night to the effect thut the tnemliera of
the grand lodge of the Order of Com
mercial Telegrapher hud been called to
gether hurriedly to hold a special section
in conjunction with the grand officer of
the Order of Kailway Telegraphers, the
meeting to take place in Philadelphia.
The object la suid to be to bring
aUmt an understanding between the
two orders on the railw ay strike, and lit
case of the railroad men being called out
the commercial men are expected to fol
low. Io Chicago nearly 500 commercial
telegraph operator are allied with the
American Kailway I'nion, and in other
parts of the country a similar union haa
been formed. A circular letter baa
beeo railed to all commercial telegraph
operators warning them to keep away
Iroin Chicngo, St. Louis, Kansas City
and other Western Mtinta where labor
troubles exist. Should the railroad op
erators go out, there ia not the elightert
doubt but that the commercial men w ill
follow. This, together with theexialing
troubles, would cripple the entire conn
try, and in such an event it would aeeiu
aa though there w as but one step to lie
takt u by the government for the protec
tion of the public at large, and that
would be to assume control of the tele
graph line nt once. A diligent search
w as made throughout thia city luat oigut
and resulted in finding but one officer of
the gruudlodge of the order of commer
cial Telegraphers'. That gentleman de
clined to be interviewed on the subject
of the Philadelphia meeting, but ad
mitted that some of the executive com
mittee were out of the city."
Trouble Croa.lus; the Hay.
Oakland, July 6. From before 6
o'clock until after 10 this morning
thousands of people who live on this
sido of the bay and do biiHiness in San
Francisco stood on the shore waiting
for transportation. The regular ferries
were all stopped. To make the blockade
complete three ferry boat temporarily
running on the Creek route grounded
in Oakland Creek and stuck fast. They
were nut floated until late in the fore
noon. The last Oak landers to reach
San Fruncuco arrived there at 10:30,
after having made their way to the old
Ferry landing in Almeda, where the
company Anally landed boat.
At 11 o'clock this morning 1100 strikers
marched to the mole, the avowed inten
tion being to kill two locomotive which
the men killed luat night, but which
were fired again Ihi morning through
the assistance of the United Sim tea
marshal. The strikers crowded by the
deputy mnrahula, and unresisted ran
the enginea on the switches, blef out
the aieain and let off the water.
Mnlnrla III any of II. K.oui",
Chill and fever, congestive chills, :nn
be prevented or cured by the use of
Simmon l.iver Regulator, it purely veg
etable medicine, mpt-rior to calomel and
quinine.
THE CARS BURNED
The Daniace Over a Million end
DEBS MAKES A SEXSIBLE APPEAL
Mure than 2000 Cars Burned, and
Many of Tbcm Loaded with
Valuable Merchandise.
Ini;eiifliMrlMn Itampmit.
Chicago, July 6. With flaming torch.
! lawless hordes of firebug are at work
at a score of points in the ninth half of
Chicago. Fire aru raging in every di
rection among the numerous railroad
yards, hundred of acre and ten of
thousands of dollars' worth of merchan
dise have gone up in smoke or been
carried off by the now frenzied mob of
rioter. Incendiarism is rampant, alarm
ufter alarm has followed iu quick eucces-
I aion ull day, and tonight at 11 the glare
I reflected from the heaven shows the
! disorderly pastime continues UDubatcd.
From euily morning until this hour,
midnight, reports of fresh fires followed
each other w itu rapidity, being confined,
j however, principally to railroad rolling
; stock and buildings, ugainat which thin
j fur the greutest part of the mob'a fury
liua liven directed. J.arly this morn.ug
a hluze started among some overturned
I cura at Kensington, quickly communi
cating lo other trucks filed with long
line of car, and many containing
valuable merchandise. These w ere soon
ruging furiously, fanned by strong
wind. There is, athi jioirit, a total
of 80 car wiped out.
At the stock yards one blate after an
1 other was reported and from the out
I lying districts came urgent cilia for
engines aud police protection. Hut
with the fulling shades of night came
the climax of the fiery festival. In
the Panhandle yardB, from 55th to C.ld
street, 80 stock car are on fire. The
tracks contain 1000 to LtMXi cars. Half
of them are loaded. They will lie a
total loss. No water being at hand the
fire must burn itself out. The Pan
handle station at G.'td street waa also
fired and destroyed. The Grand Trunk
yard at Klaton is a sea of flame. t Five
hundred box car are supposed to have
been burned and eliorts to check the
flumes have been futile. While direct
ing the movement of the 11th bat tnl lion
at olst street, Fire Marshal Fit.patrick
was seixed by the thoroughly frenzied
mob of firebug aud thrown into a
pond, from w tiich he was rescued by the
to'ice more dead than alive, l-'very-thing
at this point will probably be a
total loss. At Hyde Paik, near the
world's fair grounds, the ashes of -10
cars are smouldering and word has just
come in that after numerous efforts the
moil succeeded in firing the Illinois
Central shops at lurntide.
At the stockyards tonight about dO
toughs, some of w hom are railroad men,
were skulking from point to point, and
staried a large number of fireP. Their
methods were thoroughly unique,
lyiading several hand-ears with buckets
of waste and oil, they would glide
around among the cars in the darkness,
lighting wads of stuff, w hich would be
thrown into the open door of the cats
as they passed by. Fires sprang up on
everv hand, aud no organized effort on
the part of the police seemed to be un
der way to intercept them. This is the
banner district of the citv, if not of the
entire country, for bll-uiouud toughs,
and it ia as much as a man's life Is worth
to interfere w ith them.
Troops are hurrying south. Company
after company on heavy marching or
ders are moving to the turbulent dis
trict from the center of the city. The
aggregate losses of the railroads will be
enormous. Miles of their tracks have
been ruined by the fierce bent, hun
dreds of switch and signal towers with
their expensive mechanism are utterly
ruined. Thoiuauds of cur aud untold
quantities of merchandise of every im
aginable descriptiou have fed the flames
and filled gorges and larders of the
thieves. Valuable locomotive have
been wrecked and disabled, and mile
of tangled wire and prostrate, poles
litter the ground. Telephone, telegraph,
electric light and fire alarm w ire are
now the special object of attacks. The
plugging of the fire alarm boxes consti
tute new and doubly dangerous ele
ment in the tremendous wave of incen
diarism sweeping over the southwest
portion of the city, preventing us it d.jes
notice being received of the starting of
fire, until, w ith the poor water supply
in these outlying districts, a tire h as at
tained such a heudwiiy that it CHunot be
stopped except throught lack of further
material on w hich to feed. The maddened
mobs, now worked lip to the highest
pitch of fury, are paralleling the scenes
of the commii-!, and at this hour it ap
pear as though nothing thort of the
miraculous can prevent an armed
demonstration against them and the
uRcrifice of many lives.
About 80 cars were burned altogether
in the Illinois Central yards, and to
night at 10 o'clock the flame were
smouldering, but no further spread of
the fire at thia point is feared. Much
apprehension waa felt this evening con
cerning the Pullman shops. The feeling
among the strikers is intense. This
evening a committee of strikers made a
tour of the works and ordered the watch
men to leavo the place or suffer the con
sequences. Some of those became
greatly alarmed ami did o, but later be
ing reassured by tho company an I the
arrival during .the evening of Ktutc
militia, they returned ti their posts.
During the early evening it was said te
Pullman plant was adequately manned
with guards. The intention of the strik
ers was not known, but there are those
interested who fear incendiary work, or
the posfciblo Hie of explosives.
The first detachment of the National
(inards reached Kensington at 8:oll
o'clock. The train ran around to Iliver
dale, where a company was left on
guard, and theii returned to Kensington.
Here the town seemed full of people,
and there wereevidently many strangers.
Tho people lined up along the tracks
w here the troops were leaving the cars
and the citizen soldiers were received
w ith thnuts of derision and despairing
cries. There w as no offer of violence,
however, and the troops soon com
pleted their camp arrangements and
entered upon the work of guarding the
property aud pieventing riots.
An Appeal from Deb..
Chicago, July C President Debs has
issued the following proclamation, ad
dressed to all striking employes :
"In view of the report of disturbances
in various localities, I deem it my duty
to caution you against being a party to
any violation of law, municipal, state or
national, during the existing difficulties.
We have repeatedly declared that we
respect law and order, and our conduct
must conform to our professions. A
man who commits violence in any form,
whether a member of our order or not.
should be promptly arrested and pun
ished, and we should be first to appre
hend the miscreant and bring him to
justice. We must triumph as law
abiding citizens or not at all. Those
who engage iu force and violence are our
real enemies. We have it upon reliable
authority that thugs and toughs have
been employed to create trouble so as to
prejudice the public against our cause.
These scoundrel? in every case should
be made to pay the penalty of law. 1
appeal to you to be men, orderly and
lav abiding. Our cause is just; the
great public ir with us, and we have
nothing to fear.
"Let it be boiue in mind that if the
railroads can secure men to handle their
trains, they huve thut right. Our men
have the right to quit, but there their
right ends. Other men have the right
to tuke their places, whatever the opin
ion of the piopriety of so doing may be.
Come away from railroad yards, or
rights-of-wuy, or other place where
crowds congregate. A safe plan is to
remain away entirely from places where
there is any likelihood of there being
an outbreak. Tl: railroad manager
have sought to make it appear that
their lines do not operate because of in
terference of strikers. Thia statement
is au unqualified falsehood, and no one
knows thia better than the managers
themselves. They make the falsehood
serve their purpose of calling out the
troops. Kespecl the law, conduct your
selves a becomes men, and our cause
shall lie crowned with success."
Knlg-hi. of Labor to Strike.
Chicago, July 5. At noon today it
was announced at the General Manager's
Association headquarters that infor
mation has been received of an order is
sued today by General Ma9ter Workman
Sovereign for a strike of all the Knights
of labor between Omaha and the Pacific
coast. The strike order, it was stated,
included employees in all lines of busi
ness, not merely those working for the
railroads.
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ONE VOLLEY IS FIRED
Bnt That Was Enough rwentr Killed,
Twenty Vonnflefl.
MARTIAL LAW IS PROCLAIMED
Regulars Have a Battle With a Mob of
Two Thousand at Hammond,
Illinois.
The 1'r.nlflent'H Determine! AcM'tll.
Washington, July 8. Just before
midnight President Cleveland issued the
following proclamation :
Whereas, By reason of unlaw ful ob
structions, combinations and assemb
lages of persons it has lieoune impracti
cable, in the judgement of the president,
to enforce, by the ordinary course of
judicial proceeding", the law of the
United States within the state of Illinois
and the city of Chicago within said state;
and
Whereas; For the purpose of enforc
ing the faithful execution of tho laws of
United States and protecting its prop
erty and removing obstructions to the
United States in the state and city afore
said, theiresident has employed a part
of the military forces of the United
States.
Now, therefore. I, Grover Cleveland,
president of the" United States, do here
by admonish all good citizens and all
persons, who may be or may come with
in the city and state aforesaid, against
aiding, countenancing, encouraging or
taking any part in such unlawful ob
structions, combinations und assem
blages; and I do hereby warn all per
sons engaging in or in any way con
nected with such unlawful obstructions,
combinations and assemblages to dis
perse and retire peaceitbly lo their re
spective abodes on or before 12 o'clock
noon, on the 7th day of July, instant.
Those who disregard this warning and
persist in taking part with riotous mobs
in forcibly resisting and obstructing the
execution of the laws of the' United
Slates, or with interfering with the
functions of the government, or destroy
ing or attempting to destroy the prop
erty belonging to the United States, or
under its protection, cannot be regarded
otherwise than as public enemies.
Troops employed against such riotous
mob w ill act with all moderation and
forebearance consistent with the accom
plishment of the desired end, but the
necessities that confront them will not
with certainty permit discrimination be
tween guilty participants and those who
are mingled with them from curiosity
and without criminal intent. The only
safe course, therefore, for those not ac
tually unlawfully participating is to
abide ut their homes, or at le'ast not to
be found iu the neighborhood of riotous
assemblages. While there will be no
hesitation cr vacillation in the decisive
treatment of the guilty, this warning ia
especially intended to protect and save
the innocent. In testimony whereof, I
hereunto set my hand and cause the
seal of the United State to be hereto
atlixed. Hone at the city of Washington,
this 8:h day of July, in Ihe year of our
1-ord, 189 1, and of the Independunce of
the United States of America tho 118th.
The proclamation practically declaring
martial law in the city of Chicago was
decided upon after a full disscussion in
tno cabinet meeting. This is the action
w hich General Miles dceiied from the be
ginning, as it will give him ample au
thority in the city.
The following sent from the war de
partment to General Miles this evening,
serves in a measure to interpret the in
tention of the president' action :
"In view of the provision of the stat
utes and for the purpose of giving ample
warning to all innocent and well dis
posed persons, the president has deemed
it best to issue the following proclama
mation today. This does not change
thu scope of your authority. You will
make this known by Mayor Hopkins."
Srrlou. Unlit With ICeg-uUr..
Chicago, July 8. The rioting at
Hammond, Ind., culminated this after
noon in a conflict between the mob and
company ii Fifteenth infantry, in which
Charles Fleischman was killed, one man
'utally wounded and another shot
through both legs. A number of people
were slightly injured, but were curried
Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
llWwcy
Absolutely pure
away by friends und secreted, so that it
will be impossible to learn the react
, number wounded. The trouble began
j l:i't night. The rioter kept their work
up all night, burning cars and disabling
I engines. This morning they burned a
I Pullman cur. Most of thia work waa
' done inside the Illinois state line, anil
I as soon as the Illinois statu militia nr
I rived on the scene, the men jeered at
the troops. At !) o'clock this morning u
I crowd gathered at the union depot.
Several freight cars w ere overturned and
i the Michigan Central tracks blocked.
Tho sheriff and his deputies were power-
less to restrain the mob, and as there
I was no hope of the Indiana militia ariv
j ing until Into, an appeal was made to
ttie leuerai authorities in Chicago.
Company B, of the Fifth infantry, was
sent out nt once. Its presence quieted
things for awhile, and the blockade on
i the tracks was finally raised at 1 o'clock
in tho afternoon, and several train
I pulled through.
Thia seemed to anger the mob, and
j with an increase in numbers it passions
grew to a frenzy. The regulars were
j greeted with oaths and shouts of de
j riuion, and volleys of sticks and stones
were enowereu upon them. Ihe men
stood their ground, however, and kept
the mob f,.r several hours from ap
proaching tho buildings. Py 3 o'clock
fully 5,000 rioters were assembled.
! They had been aroused by their leaders
j to a frenzy that made an encounter with
i the soldiers certain. Several times they
rushed upon the company of troops, but
were met w ith fixed bayonets and driven
back. At last, however, the entire body
of strikers madt a determined rush to
ward the depot.
"Make ready, fire," was thecommand,
and the 30 Springfiehls rang out in re
sponse. A second volley quickly followed the
surging crowd. The first volley stagg
ered them, and the second stopped them
as effectually as if they had run against
a stone wall. Several men were seen to
fall, bnt were taken away by their con -rades,
and the extent of their injuries
could not be learned. Fleishman fell in
the front rank of the strikers. He wag
taken to the hospital where he died in a
little while. In the rush w hich followed,,
scores of woman and children were
trampled under foot and a half a dozen
women fainted on the tracks at the
Russell-street crossing.
The news of the killing spread with
remarkable rapidity, and 10 minutes
afterward the street in the vicinity was
filled with a threatening mob. Major
Hartz left his company for a few min
utes to assist the firemen and doctors in
placing a man iu the patrol wairon, and
was surrounded by a crowd. "Kill him."
"shoot him" down," were the cries of
the several excited men, as tho mob
surged around the major. Hartz, how
ever, did not pay any attention to them,
and was not molested. The excitement
by -his time waa intense. Men ran from
house to house borrowing shotguns,
rifles and other firearms. "To arms,"
was the cry heard on every sido, and
fully 3,000 people responded. Matters
looked so threatening that a call waa
sent to Chicago for reinforcements, and
two more companies were sent out on a
special train. These additional troopst
were stationed at the scene cf the
trouble, and Itectually cowed the riot
ers for the time being. Major Harfz ar
rested four of the lcudersof tho mob and
took them to Chicago with a detachment
of troops. While the train was pulling
out of the city, a crowd guthrtcd and
stoned it, but quickly disporsead on the
approach of a company of infantry.
THE STATr.H TO ACT JOINTLY.
Tonight Governor Altgeld grunted
permission to the Indiana troops to
como into Illinois and wired for tho Il
linois state troops to co-operate witlt
the Indiana soldiers to suppress tho dis
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