St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER.
Chicago's Street Railway Magnate
Refuses to Treat With His Men,
and the Great strike Is On.

Refuses to Treat With His Men,
and the Great strike Is On.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Oct. Sat $50 o'clock to-
night, after five hours consultation with
President Yerkes, the committee of
drivers and conductors of the North
Side street railway system were unable
to reach an agreement, and strike will
be inaugurated at o'clock tomorrow
Saturday morning. Two hundred thou
sand people will therefore be, temporar-
lily at least, without street car facilities.
In the course of the conference the
strikers, it is said, offered to submit the
matters in dispute to board of arbitra
tiOn-two to be CHOSEN 10y the employees,
two by the company, and these four to
choose fifth, but Mr.. Yerkes declined
to accede to the proposition. The griey-
ance of the North side men, as stated
by them, is that they are, for no appar-
ent reason, paid considerably less than
the West SiderS, and besides have
HOURS OF DUTY SO SPLIT UP
that the amount of sleep required by
the average human being can not be
had without interruption. The meet
ing that decided the strike was held to-
night between Mr.. Yerkes and COM
mittee representing the men. Mr..
Yerkes insisted at the outset that all
communication between himself and
the committee should be in writing.
The committee went in room
to themselves and were handed
a document from Mr.. YerkeS, de-
Ginning to entertain any revision of
the hours that would at all increase the
f.nnnanu1c 1nannnt The
mems other proposition, asking an in
crease of salary in addition to the re-
vision of the hours, was rejected wholly,
as were other minor propositions, es-
pecially one relating to payment by the
hour instead of by the day. The COM
mittee drew up reply, offering to sub
nit the whole subject to two arbi-
traitors from each side, the four
to choose a fifth. The commit
tee offered to wait until midnight for an
answer to to this, but Mr.. Yerkes sent
back curt negative considerably be-
fore the hour named. The committee
then Withdrew, and almost at the same
moment the first installment of the men
being imported by Mr.. Yerkes from
other cities to
FILL THE PLACES OF STRIKERS
arrived at the union depot from Phila-
delphia. There were twenty-five in the
party that stepped from the train, and
they brought word that 125 more were
to arrive in the morning. They had
been in the employ of the Yerkes syndi-
cate on its lines in Philadelphia. I'm
like the Chicago men, few of 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
corners. Great preparations have been
made by the strikers to provide omni-
buses, express wagons and other con-
veyances for the public, and the sights
on the streets in the morning, when
something like a quarter of amillion
people patroniZe these vehicles and
the sidewalks, are expected to be OF the
most picturesque order. Whether
there will be any greater disorder than
this no one retendS to say.