THE AMERICAN RAILWAY STRIKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4773, 14 July 1894, Page 3

THE AMERICAN RAILWAY STRIKE.

Order Being Restored. \ Wasiiisotox, July 11. ( Some 3000 aimed strikers marched in | procession tlirougli the streets of San j Francisco, declaring they would not j yield to the troops, and were waiting for , their arrival. The populace cheered j them. j The chief official of the Inights of , Labor lias ordered them not to strike at ( present. Debs, head of the liailway Union, has been committed for trial, bail being allowed. He will not be tried till October. July 12. The railway strike is collapsing, but numerous isolated outrages continuo to be reported. A train was derailed at- Sacramento, and three soldiers were killed. ,'l'hc general strike is a fiasco. Tho Senate warmly endorsed tho President's conduct, Troops occupied the railways at Sacramento unopposed, the strikers dispersing at their approach, Chicago is covered with flags iu celebration of tho strikers' defeat. Previous to the withdrawal of the' order to strike, a section of the Kuights of Labour had refused to obey it. The following resolution was carrcd 1 by the Wellington Tradw Council on Thursday evening:—" Thai this Counci, . while regretting the action Ukcn by the : strikers in destroying propoity, desires , to place on record its fullest 'sympathy f with the employes of the Pullman i Palace Car Company of America, aud - condemns tliaf Cpmpany for not allowi jug the question to go to arbitration; s and that the necessity for ..compulsory i arbitration is demonstrated by tuut res fu«al>"