THE GREAT STRIKE.
MEET I OF TRADES' DELEGATES. A GENERAL STRIKE RESOLVED UPON. . THE PRESIDENT DENOUNCED. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED AT CHICAGO. THE STRIKERS COWED. THE SITUATION AT SAN • FRANCISCO. STRIKERS ARMING AND DRILLING. WARSHIPS UNDER ORDERS. STATE OF FAMINE IN INDIANA. GREAT BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLIES. Press Association.— Telegraph.-Copyright. Washington. July 10. The Chicago trades delegates, representing one hundred thousand men, have resolved upon a general strike. A number of the delegates denounced the President for using soldiers against the strikers. The troops have received twenty thousand rounds of ammunition. The State of Idaho has urged the President to initiate a Bill in Congress for legalising compulsory arbitration. Indiana is in a state of famine.owing to the stoppage of railways. Newspapers are being printed on wall paper. The Chicago News says the Governor of Illinois, and Hopkins, the Mayor of Chicago, openly sympathise with the strikers. . Later. There is general consensus of opinion that Great Britain and Canada will soon be compelled in consequence of the disorganisation of traffic to rery on the colonies for food supplies. Martial law has been proclaimed in Chicago, and the troops have received orders to suppress outrages at any price.
This has cowed the strikers. The Postal traffic is being resumed, and the worst is believed to be over.
The threat of a general strike tomorrow is not believed.
The strikers at San Francisco are arming themselves with rifles and drilling.
Seven hundred blue jackets will assist the garrison to maintain order, and the warships will be brought up from Mare Island Naval Station.
The strikers dynamited a train at Pueblo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9560, 11 July 1894, Page 5
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266THE GREAT STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9560, 11 July 1894, Page 5
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