Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-06
TELECRAPHIC.
STREET CAR STRIKE.
CHICAFo STREET CAR DRIVERS
ASK FOR MORE MONEY
And Better Hours, Less Labor, Longer
Sleep, or no Work at All-Chioago
ETas to Hoof It.

CHICAGO, Oct. 5.=One-third OF
Chicago will be without street cal
facilities tomorrow morning, and
within twenty-four hours another
third Of the city will be in the same
predicanient. President Yerkes, OF
North Chicago Company, tonight,
after a week of temporizing, finally
refused the demands OF his employees,
and afterwards declined peremptor.
lily to accept an invitation from
the men to arbitrate. All the
North Side employees, $50 in number
will therefore, according to their an
nounced program, strike at 6 a. M,
tomorrow. Interviews today with
representatives Of the employees on the
West Side show that they will strike
probably before the ensuing midnight
in order, il possible, to cripple the en-
tire Yerkes system and bring him
quickly to time.
The grievance Of the North Side
men as stated by them, is that they
are, for no apparent reason, paid con-
siderably less than the West Siders,
and besides have hours Of duty 50
split up that the
AMOUNT OF SLEEP REQUIRED
by the average human being cannot
be had without interruption. The
meeting that decided to strike was
held last night between Mr.. Yerkes
and committee representing the
men.
Mr.. Yerkes insisted at the outset
that all communication between him
self and that committee should be in
writing. The committee were given
a room to themselves, and were hand
ed a document from Mr.. Yerkes de
clining to entertain any revision of
the hours that would increase the
cOmpany'S expense account. The
mems other proposition.
ASKING AN INCREASE
of salary in addition of the revision
of the hours was rejected wholly, as
were other minor propositions, espec-
tally one relating to payment by the
hour instead of by the day. The
committee drew up reply offering
to submit the whole subject to two
arbitrators from each side, the four to
choose a fifth. The committee of
fered to wait until midnight for an
answer to this, but Mr.. Yerkes sent
a curt negative considerably before
tho hour named.
The committee then withdrew, and
almost at the same moment the first
of the men being i'm
ported by Mr.. Yerkes from other
cities to
FILL THE PLACES OF STRIKERS
arrived at the union depot from Phil
adelphia. There were two hundred
in the party that stepped from the
train, and they brought word that
one hundred and twenty-five more
were toarrivein the morning. They
had been in the employ of Yerkes'
syndicate on its lines in Philadel-
phia. Unlike the Chicago men few
them, if any, are Knights of Labor.
They work in Philadelphia on the
system for which substantially the
Chicago men are striking, but it is
not generally believed that this will
cut any material figure with the new
Great preparations have been made
by the strikers to provide omnibuses,
express wagons and other convey
ances for the public, and the sights
on the streets in the morning, when
like quarter of million
people patronizing these vehicles,
and the sidewalks are expected to be
of the most picturesque order.
there will be any greater
disorder than this no one pretends to
saw