The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-06-24
STRIKERS SUCCESSFUL.
St.. Paul and Minneapolis Street Car
Lines Tied Up For Day.

ST. PAUL, June 19.--It is the unex-
pected that always happens, and the
old saying was again verified Sunday
morning when the 700 and odd men in
the employ of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company in this city and the
l,200 employed in Minneapolis went
out on a strike.
There had been some talk among the
men on Saturday night about the action
of the company in requiring its en-
plOyes to sign a new contract. but
neither the company officials nor the
men had the least idea that the strike
would occur until after the last car
was housed for the night. The strike
originated in Minneapolis, the decision
to go out having been arrived at about
$3.50 Sunday morning. Delegates from
the Minneapolis meeting at once came
to this city and succeeded in getting all
the conductors and n.otoneers to go
out. With the exception of five cars
on the East Seventh street and Selby
avenue cablo lines, manned by barn
employees, not car was moved. In
Minneapolis the strikers We're even
more successful, mot a single car leaving
the barns.
Conference Held.
Meetings of strikers were held in
both cities during the morning and
committees appointed to wait on the
company officials and attempt to settle
the controversy. Mayor Eustis of Min
neapolis took hand in the matter and
q meeting was finally arranged between
the committee and Messrs. C. &. Good
rich and w. j. HELD of the Twin City
Rapid Transit company. The meeting
and every door leading thereto was care
fully closed. The meeting continued
from about IL: 30 to 80, and all were as
cool as cucumbers when it broke up
The peaceful and quick settlement ol
the trouble, which for long time
looked as if it might extend over &
long and trying period, was not accom-
| plished without several exciting ant
thrilling scenes, for the men We're in
No Mood to BE Trified With,
and would have secured their end i
they had had to fight it out all sum
mer. The settlement was reached a
2 p. m, and the first car to turn ;
wheel in Minneapolis after the declara
tion of the end of the embryo strik,
moved from an East Side barn 20 min
utes afterward amid the cheers of thu
men and the applause of every sym
pathizer In this city, however, mat
ters were much slower in getting int
shape and it was nearly Z o'clock wheI
the meeting of strikers in Labor hall ad
journed. The men at once reported t.
the barns and in less than an hour car
were running on all the lines.
The Obnoxious Contract.
The order of the company whicl
caused the tie-up of its lines is in sub
stance as follows:
"All street railway conductors ant
drivers will be held responsible here
after, not only for breakage to thei
cars, windows, trolleys, etc, but t.
vehicles broken in collisions in acci
dents due to the negligence of the con
ductor or motorman."
In addition to this the strikers aske
that the portion of the application
which they are compelled to answe
whether or not they belong to labo
organization be stricken ont and
standing board of arbitration fror
among the men be recognized by tn
company. The company acceded to tn
demand in regard to the contracts an
agreed to arrange the other matters t
suit the men.