St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14
PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE.
"Baron" Ysrkes' Appeal for Peace Was
Only Blind.
HE FOOLED THE STRIKERS.
Hostilities Will Be Resumed To-Day
With ALI the Old Time
Vigor.
.E FOOLED THE STRIKERS.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Oct. lit is feared that
the peace which was patched up last
night between the street car company
and its employees will prove to be only
temporary. According to the agree
ment the West side men returned to
to work this morning and the cars ran
as usual all day. On the North side the
imported men, under pelice protec-
ton, ran few cars over all the lines,
and although there were rumors OF
riots and disturbances at various times
during the day, they all proved to be
unfounded and the new men were not
molested. At II o'clock committee of
the strikers waited upon Mr.. Yerkes
and remained in conference with
him for over an hour. This con-
ference resulted in nothing, owing to
Mr.. Yerkes' refusal to regard the West
side men as factor in the situation.
Mr.. Yerkes said that the West side
men had not acted fairly in the matter;
that the understanding was that they
should return to work and awit the re-
suit of this morning conference. In
stead of doing so, they had gone to their
meeting place and had passed resOlu-
lions fixing an ultimatum in scale of
wages for the North side men, declaring
that if he did not accept they
WOULD RENEW THE STRIKE.
on Sunday morning. He believed they
knew. when they adopted this ultima
tum, that he would not accept it. In
view of these facts. he asked the COM
mittee to go back to the strikers, state
the case to them, and, if utter consulta-
ton, return to him without an
ultlmatum, at 2:20 o'clock p. m.
The committee were not pleased
with this turn of affairs,
fairs, but returned to their hall and laid
the matter before their fellow strikers.
Ats o'clock second committee, COM
posed exclusively of North side men,
called upon President Yerkes, but
after a session lasting over three
hours the conference came to an
end without an agreement being
reached. Mr.. Yerkes made the first
proposition. He would pay 20I
cents per hour for gripmen on the small
cars, 81 cents for the large cars and %
cents for the regular grip cars, and the
men could arrange the schedule to suit
themselves. All the imported men must
be retained, and number Of strikers
who had made themselves obnoxious
must be discharged. The men rejected
this proposition. They wanted q, %
and 25 cents in the order named. and
while they made no objection to the
new men being retained, they refused
to accede to tee discharge of any strik-
erS.
BOTH SIDES REMAINED FIRM,
and there seemed no way out of the
deadlock. Mr.. Yerkes adjourned the
conference with the announcement that
he would give the men final
answer by 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning, after he should have
consulted the stockholders of the road.
In anticipation of possible failure of
the negotiations an order was issued
this afternoon for an all-night meeting
of both the North and the West side
men at their hall tonight, at
which the report of the conference
committee will be heard and action
taken as to the future course of the
men. At the strikers headquarters it
was said tonight that MI. Y erkes would
be given more time, and that the Yves
side men would again quit work in the
morning