The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-05
DISORDER In CHICAGO.
The Street-Car Strikers Quiet-SeriOuS
Trouble with the Iumber-ShOvers.

CHICAGO July 4-Everything is quiet in the
West Division this morning. No attempt has or
will be made to run cars, and there compare
lively few people on Madison street, the scene of
yesterdays disorder. A few of the strikers are
lounging around in the neghborhood of the STA
5les, apparently on guard. At the strikers
meeting last night it was decided to keep watch
over the barns during the Fourth, though with
little expectation that the company would at
tempt to run out any cars, and to be on hand at
the usual hour Sunday morning to prevent the
cars from being started
The report which was circulated last night
that had died from the effects of the
clubbing he received from one Of the policemen
turns out to be untrue.
Mayor Harrison has written letters to Presi-
dent Jones, of the West Division Street-railway
Company. and to the president of the Car
Conductors and Drivers Association, suggesting
that each side to the present dispute select an
arbitrator, and that between them they select
third, making an arbitration committee of three
whose decision with reference to the strike and
| its antecedents shall be final. No replies have
yet been received.
A mass meeting of strikers and SympathiZerS
was held this afternoon. which passed off
quietly, without any programme having been
arranged for to morrow. 1t is expected how
ever, that at meeting now in progress the
strikers will decide upon what action will be
taken should the company attempt to start cars
In the morning.
AT a meeting onight the strikers and their
allies passed resolution accepting the mayors
plan for settling the difficulties with
the company by arbitration, and appointed
committee to wait the Mayor to morrow
to ascertain whether the plan is satisfactory to
the other side. The plan, as indicated IN a
former dispatch, for the appointment
of three arbitrator, the third one
to be agreed upon by both
sides. In view Of this apparent possibility of
arbitrating the differences, the meeting took
no action as to operations on Monday.
In addition to the streetcar mems strike, there
has been considerable trouble on the lumber
docks here within the past few days, caused by
lumbernen attempting to unload lumber with
their own gang of men instead of employing
members of the Lumber Showers
Union. In several cases barges
have remained unloaded for several days
because the lumbermen would not employ the
union men, and the latter would not permit
| them to employ anyone else. What might have
been serious riot occurred at the dock of $ b.
Barker g. Co. 1t seems that the Y. W. Harvey
Lumber Company, owners of the barge St.
Joseph, who use their own men in unloading
their boat and ignore the Lumber Showers
Union, attempted yesterday to deliver con
signment of lumber to 5. b. Barker a. Co. Be
fore reaching the dock of the latter firm the boat
| took on a number Of non-union showers, who,
upon embarking al the dock, were met by
couple of hundred members of the Union who
began to attack them. The captain Immediately
ran the boat to the opposite side of the slip.
where the non union men deserted her He
| notified the down town Office of the company
which sent more men, but the union laborers
headed them off on Blue Island avenue, and per
suaded them TO turn back. A tug was then
loaded with other men, and sent up. In the
meanwhile, a detachment of fifteen officers was
sent from the Hinman-street station, under
command of Sergeant Enright On the appear
| ance of the police the crowd scattered, and the
work of unloading the barge proceeded under
the protection of the officers.