People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — A GENERAL TIE-UP. [ARTICLE]

A GENERAL TIE-UP.

Failure of All Effort* to Settle the Great Northern Strike. St. Paul, Minn., April 30.—A1l efforts to settle the Great Northern strike have failed, and President Debs, of the American railway union, shortly after noon Friday issued orders for a strike on all the Minnesota divisions of the Great Northern. This completes the strike from St. Paul to the coast. Wages of Railway Employes Reduced. Toledo, 0., April 28.—A 33>tf percent cut was made Thursday its the wages of the 1,500 employes of the Wheeling & Lake Erie railway. Orders to this effect have been issued from the general offices here in this city. The cut will affect all grades of employes from the top down. This action is caused by the present big strike among the coal miners. In the Coke Region*. Connellsville, Pa., April 80.—The coke strikers have adopted peaceful plans for the future. There is an exodus of foreigners from the regions, the leaders saying they have become tired of the constant struggle against starvation. A number have left for the old country. An Official Bulletin. Columbus, 0., April 30.—0 n Friday afternoon at the national headquarters of the United Mine Workers was prepared an official bulletin to the mine workers of the country. Miners were enjoined to “remember the resolution of the convention that none go to work until a general settlement is made.” Then followed a greeting and detailed reports of the number of men out The greeting advised that no attention be given newspaper reports, and encouraged the strikers.