Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-08
STRIKE ENDED.
tors Compromise With the Company
aud will Return 10 Work.
CHICAGO, july :

CHICAGO. July !.
Nothwithsranding the riotous demonstrates
yesterday afternoon the West Division
Street Railway Co. sent out thirty-two of its
ears at 7.30 O'Clock this morning on Madison,
Randolph, Lake and Van Buren street lines
Six or eight policemen went with each car,
while the streets are patrolled by a heavy re-
serve force. The early downtown cars were
all well patronzed ladies and working girls
constituting the bulk of the passengers. Out
wardly everything is quiet along the several
street car routes, crowds not being permitted
TO assemble. Car driver Wallace Chaffee
who was assaulted by the mob Monday even
ing is at the county hospital in precarious
condition. Eight persons have been ar
rested for participating in the disturbance of
Monday. Pending settlement of the strike
the residents of the West Division are de-
pendent very largely upon express wagons
and other improvised conveyances by which
to reach the business portion of the city, and
are compelled to pay ten cents fare.
The Times is the only paper that has ex-
pressed any decisive views towards ending
the present street car strike. 1t saws this
morning: There can be no question that
the blockade should be broken at once, at
whatever cost. The spasmodic movement of
few cars loaded with police will not ac-
c0mplish this most important result, for ii is
well understood that the people will not
travel on cars under such conditions. Per-
sons who care for their own safety will not
take risks, and the number of those willing
to pay for ride with the chance of having
their heads broken. or fighting their way
through, is exceedingly small If it be true,
as has been said, that the police force is in
sufficient in numbers to insure the absolute
safety of citizens travelling by any convey
ance upon the streets of the city, then it is
manifestly the duty of somebody to invoke
higher and more efficacious power. The State
maintains militia of some strength which
should have been called upon long ago and
if this is not sufficient for the purpose then
the aid of the National arm should be invoked
1t would be cheaper for Chicago to pay the
cost OF lining every car street with soldiers
than to suffer for another day the calamity it
has endured for a week"
The men arrested for participating in the
attack upon the street cars yesterday were
arraigned this morning and the cases con-
tinued until the 10th inst. James Kennedy,
charged with having made murderous as
sault upon the injured conductor, Chaffee,
was held in $4,000 bail Up to twelve
o'clock no violence of any kind has been re-
ported today.
IL "A
other members of the Carmens' Association
are at this hour holding conference with
the superintendent. The Lake cars are now
running with considerable regularity on
Madison, Lake, Van Buren and Randolph
streets. They are manned by armed officers.
Thus far today no attempt has been made to
ditch the cars. The strikers are awaiting
with much interest the outcome of the con-
ference.
The strikers this morning addressed a
letter to the president of the West Division
Car Co. stating that they were willing to
compromise on basis to be determined by
three judges of courts. In answer to this
President Jones submitted to the strikers
proposition that the sixteen discharged men
be reinstated, with the exception of those
against whom the charge of neglect of duty
or incOmpetency can be made and sustained.
The demand on the company the day before
the strike was that the discharged men be
taken back and a guarantee given that in the
future no man would be dismissed without
chance to defend himself against the charge
preferred against him. President Jones
stpulates that all the men on the strike first
return to work, when he will submit the
sixteen discharged mems cases to any three
disinterested persons to determine whether
there was not proper cause for their dis
charge.
At a meeting of the striking car drivers
and conductors tonight it was agreed to ac-
cept President Jones last proposition and re-
turn to work tomorrow. In this way the
last barrier to a settlement of differences of
arbitration is removed, as upon the return of
the men the company agreed to submit the
question of reinstatement of the discharged
men to disnterested parties for final decision.