Now for a few facts about the strike. It began May 11, 1894, and was
perfectly peaceable and orderly until the army of “thugs, thieves and
ex-convicts,” as Superintendent of Police Brennan called them in his
official report to the Council of Chicago, were sworn in as deputies by
the United States marshal at the command of Edwin Walker, attorney of
the General Managers’ Association and special counsel to the government.
Let us quote the report of the Strike Commission, consisting of Carroll
D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, who served ex-officio; John D. Kernan,
of New York, and N. E. Worthington, of Illinois, two lawyers, appointed
by President Cleveland.
Let it be noted that the railway employes, that is to say, labor, the
working class, had no representative on this Commission.
From the report they issued we quote as follows: