Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — REGAIN THEIR LIBERTY. [ARTICLE]

REGAIN THEIR LIBERTY.

All the A. R. TT. Directors Except President Debs Released from Jail. All the directors of the American Railway Union except President Debs left the Woodstock (Ill.) jail Thursday, after having served a three months’ sentence for contempt of court All of them resume their duties in the field, obligating and instructing members and organizing local unions. They have demands now which will require them fully three months to fill. Keiliher goes direct to Minneapolis and Goodwin to St. Paul. Rogers, Bums, Elliott and Hogan go together to Chicago, where they will separate. Rogers goes to Pueblo, Col.; Hogan to Ogden, Utah; Elliott to Philadelphia, stopping at Cleveland, Ohio, until after Labor Day, while Burhs will remain in Chicago and establish district headquarters there. Their release marks a new departure in the work of organizing railway employes. District headquarters wall be established in all the large railway centers throughout the'country. In each of these districts solicitors will be employed to obligate members, keeping their names absolutely secret. Since their imprisonment 150 local unions that were shattered by the strike of last summer have been reorganized and twenty-seven new ones instituted. Tom Wilbur, aged-91, committed suicide at Norwich, Conn., by severing his jugular vein with a razor. He was a wellknown quarryman.