The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-07-06
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.
No Attempt Made to Run the Street
Cars Saturday.
They Will be Started Today Under
Police Protection.

CHICAGO, ILL, July 4. Everything was
quiet in the west division this morning. No
attempt was made to run cars. A few of the
strikers lounged around in the neighborhOOd
of the company stables apparently on guard,
as 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 attempt to run any
cars and to be ON hand at the usual hour
Sunday morning to prevent the cars from be-
ing started.
About hundred of the hundred and thirty
odd persons arrested on account Of disturb
ances incident to the strike have been released
on $500 bail. The balance were unable to
furnish bonds.
President Jones of the West Division
Street Car Co., after consultation with his
fellow officials refuses to make use of the
Mayors plans to settle the difference with
the strikers by arbitration. He says it is un-
just. to ask Of a Company acting in strict
conformity with the laws of the state, that it
place itself on an even footing with men who
have taken possession OF its property and
who have for several days been in open hos
tility and defiance to law. He added that it
was the Mayors duty to enable the Com
pany to run it cars and he should discharge
that duty promptly or admit that he is either
unable or unwilling to do so, in which case
the sheriff or Governor could be applied to
for protection.
Mr. Jones says: "The company is per
may arise between itself and its employees to
any impartial board of arbitration, but we
are entirely unwilling to admit the propriety
OF any such course as between a law abiding
a company and body Of men who are act
ing in open defence of law. l fully realize
and thoroughly appreciate the great incon-
venience and loss to the public and no effort
on our part will be spared to get the cars on
the street at the earliest possible moment. II
they are not it will not be our fault"
CHICAGO, July 5.-The Mayor, in
proclamation issued tonight for publication
IN to-morrows papers, gives notice that as
the West Division Street Railway Company
has notified him of its intention to run its
cars on Monday in accordance with its char
tered right, for the sake Of peace and the
frain from congregating on the streets where
the cars are run until all the excitement shall
have subsided, and must move on when re-
quested to do so by the police. The police
are notified in proclamation that they must
protect the property of the Street Car Com
pany at all hazards. The document closes
with an earnest appeal to the citizens to aid
in preserving the good name Of Chicago.
About 200 police have been detailed to look
out for the company's rights in the morning,
and it is understood the first car will start
from the barn at s o'clock.
CHICAGO, July 5.-The strikers had learn
OF the company's refusal to arbitrate and
seemed generally as they discussed the mat
ter during the day to anticipate struggle in
the. future, to which that Of today would be
insignificant by comparison. There was not
a sign of backing down, and yet no bolster
ous threats were INDUCED in. Few had any
doubt that the company, aided by the police,
would put the cars on the track Monday
morning, and to decide what course to be
pursued a meeting was called for tonight at
0 o'clock.
LATER.l
CHICAGO, July 5.-News from the meeting
of strikers now in progress is to the effect
that they have simply reatfirmed their action
OF Saturday night, namely their willingness
to arbitrate