The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-10
TO SETTLE THE STRIKE.
The Street Gar Strike Win Most
Probably End To-day.
ARBITRATION COMMITTEE TO ACT,
VIII Meet the General Manager this
Afternoon If He Returns, IL Not the
Conference VIII Take Place To-
morrow = MIR. Jolly's Proposition
Win, it is thought, be Accepted.
Saturdays Conference,

The indications are that the long, and
to both sides disastrous street railway
strike, will within twenty.four or al
the most forty.eight hours, be settled,
There may possibly be another hitch
but none appears probable on the sur
face now, The immediate settlement
of difficulties will DO hailed with salts
faction by all classes in the community,
The street railway company is no doubt
tired OF the long and bitter struggle in
which it has been engaged, and the ac'
ton OF the Trades Assembly yesterday
shows it to be anxious for settlement
People not directly concerned, including
business and professional men, and
the large number OF laborlng men o.
Wheeling, who more than any other
class have been Inconvenience by the
strike, are interested in the chances Of
a settlement at once,
When the arbitration committee Of
the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor AS
sGmbly and General Manager jolly OF
the Wheeling Railway Company, met
Saturday afternoon in conference to-
gether with the committee OF business
men, through whose efforts the meet
ing was made possible, Messrs, Frank
Cruise, Lewis Steenrod and DR., Stathers,
the hope was expressed unanimously
all over the city, that satisfactory
basis for the adjudication OF tho trou'
BILE, be fixed upon. Though the confer,
ence, so far as settlement on Saturday
was concerned, was unsuccessful, il
brought out from the railway company
ali expression as to what basis would
be satisfactory to it. Tho citizens
named and the arbitration committee
composed OF L, NJ. Milligan, chairman
Messrs. Roman Dobler, and Harry
Chew, OF the committee and Richard
Robertson, met Mr.. jolly at tho con
struction company's office in the Haw-
ley block at 8 o'clock in the afternoon,
and remained in session for over two
hours, Contrary to statements made
in the press, the meeting was not on
tirely harmonious.
Tho committee from the Trades AS
sembly first proposed that all men now
out on the strikeshould return to work.
This proposition, Mr.. Jolly stated he
could not consider, and made counter
proposition to the effect that he would
re.employ such number OF the strikers
as he had places to fill. Mr.. Jolly also
agreed not to require the men to sign an
agreement to abide by such rules as are
in or are to be enforced. This, the arbi-
tration committee said it it could not
accept.
Considerable talk without much re-
sui: then ensued, and the citizens
committee learned for the first time OF
the original offer OF tho railway COM
pany to submit the difficulty to disin.
terested arbitration. This offer, it will
DO remembered, provided that all OF
the strikers should return to work and
the disinterested arbitration commit
tee to decide the trouble. This offer
which was made Sunday morning, the
same day on which the men quit work
was fatty refused by the street caI
workers union.
There was some discussion as tc
what would DO done about tho mel
now in the employ Of the road.
One of the labor men present pro
pounded the question to Mr.. Jolly it
regard to the non.union men and re
ceived a reply in unmistaliable terms
The labor representative was OF the
opinion that the "scabs" should all b.
discharged. Mr. Jolly replied that any
basis Of settlement involving the pro
posed discharge Of all or any competen
men now in the employ Of the com
pany would not for an instant be con
sidered, "Why" said the genera
manager, Sooner than be so dishonor
able as to discharge these men wht
have stood by the company in the hou
OF its need, l would sink the road int
tho Ohio rive" That ended all talk OF
settlement on such basis.
Mr.. Jolly's otFar to take back the old
men as fast as there arc vacancies oil
they are needed seems to he received
by the labor people generally with
favor At present about fifty non.uniot
men are operating the thirteen cars oil
the road. AS was told exclusively il
Saturdays lNTELLlGENcER, it is the in
tention to increase the rolling stock t
tweLty.four or twenty-five cars. This
will neCessitate the employment OF a
least half q hundred more men. Alto
gether there are nearly hundred
strikers, OF these, about half hav,
already secured equally as good or bet
ter employment, so that it may be sale
with almost certainty that but half o
the original number Of strikers woult
want to return to work, just about thu
number that will be needed.
Through the arbitration COMMITTEES
could not accept General Manager Jol
lys offer Saturday, it was stated tina
the matter in all its bearings would OF
the next day, Sunday be presented a
tho regular meeting OF the assembly.
PRESENTED TO TIE ASSEMBLY.
The Ohio Valley Trades and Labo
Assembly met at Its hall on Marke
street yesterday afternoon, Proslden
Roman Doblcr in the chair.
The main subject to DO considered
oil course, was tho report OF the arbitru
ton committee as to its conferences til
preceding day with Mr.. jolly. TIL
committee made its report which wa
received. Considerable discussion fol
lowed and the almost unanimous opin
ion among the delegates was that tn
strike should DO settled. Tho moro til
offer made by the company was cor
pidcred tho better IT was thought oil
There was. OF course, some opposition
in tho meeting from certain men agains
any settlement to be founded on MI