The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-28
Will DECIDE TODAY,
The Street Railway Officials WIN
Come to a Decision,
II WILL PROBABLY BE A FIGHT
If Mr.. Klmball Does Not Como the
Demands of the STRIKERS win be
Considered by General Manager
Jolly, who Win Come to q Decision
To-day.

Wheeling halfway NolnPhuy WIZ SN"''
10 an amicable understanding with its
striking employees and thus end the
strike, which has been great iacoa-
venience to the general public or
whether all negotiations will be broken
otf between tho company and men and
what will surely be q long and bitter
fight result.
This prediction is based on conver'
sation Yesterday evening between Gen
eral Manager Jolly aud an ISTELuaES'
GER man.
"what about the rumor that Mr.
Kimball will not be here Tomorrow
and that the settlement Of the strike is
10 be in your hands, Mr., Jolly?"
oMr. KimbaIl may come on to-moF-
row, and in that event q decision of the
company will be handed in to the arbi-
tra,ion committee Of the Trades and
Labor Assembly" ~
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Gomez iii.
Mt once proceed with the matter and
riyo the committee my decision"
il will be soon that the matter Is
sure 10 De settled to-day whether or
moi ex.President Kimball comes 10
Wheeling, and in tho minds OF people
who have closely observed the events
of the week, there is hardly q doubt
but that the company will tight the
union, and refuse to reinstate Murrins
and Schmittle, who tho company claim
were discharged for sufficient cause.
The company also, as il well known,
takes the stand that the strikers dis
charged themselves when they went
GU. Saturday night, SO that II an amica-
bic settlement ia made, 1t must neCes-
sariv be complete back-down on the
part Of the company. Even tho strikers
do not anticipate such a course Of action
by tho company. A big fight seems
the only result that will evolve to-day.
Yesterday afternoon there was
in circulation a fairy story to
the effect that the. company
had brought in u number OF armed
men from outside points, that they had
boarded car and proceeded to the
barns on the South Side. The company
officials denied the story emphatically,
in fact laughed att. Whatever tounda'
ton there was for the story was the fact
that car with q number Of the COM
pany's new men on board proceeded up
town, tho men being on board because
the company had been informed that
there would he trouble. Mono OF the
men were armed.
The men we're paid by tho company
yesterday, and we're requested to return
their punches. This alone points to the
fact that the company intends to fight.
A call was issued last night by Presi.
dent Dobler, OF the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor. Assembly, for o special meet
Ing OF thut body for tomorrow alter
noon. This probably means that some
decisive action In regard to the street
car strike will be taken then.
Mr., jesse Murrins called at the In
TEELlGENoER office yesterday to object
TO the reference to him in yesterdays
issue as one who had been q blacksheep.
The remark quoted turns out to have
been based on confusion Of Mr.. Muir
rims with another man OF tho same
name. He never was o "blncksheep"
anywhere, and the remark quoted did
him an injustice.
Last night tho following official state
ment was received at tho IETELtldRNcER
Office:
CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
We, the Electric Street Car Workers.
Union No. 5l9S, OF Wheeling, W. Va,
take this method OF correcting numer-
Gus misstatements that have been made
in our papers by other parties and false
Impressions that have resulted thereby.
On last September committee OF our
men and representatives Of the street
car Company made a settlement and
signed articles OF agreement to govern
both until September 4, 1898. One ar
tico Of that agreement is that no en-
plOye shall be discharged without suit
cient cause. This the company has
violated by discharging the two men
accused and failing to show sufficient
cause To show that We we're willing
To- treat the company fairly, our COM
mittee held three conferences with tho
officials Of the road before any definite
action was taken on our part II seems
that the company has been issuing
rules that would have a tendency to
cause hard feelings between tho en-
ployes, One Of which is-wheh o car
is late leaving the starting point the
starter will notify tho conductor to run
number Of blocks without stopping
Tor any one, The consequence is that
passengers who have been waiting some
,imc must still wait, and tho men got
blamed by tho public when they aro
simply obeying ordera
Az is we'll known by the travelling
public, they have not been running
enough cars for q period back to &C.
commodato the people who wish to
fidO. We have tried every thing honor
able since tho trouble originated Ia ef.
feet settlement We have been baffled
OIL by tho Compony and all they have
done and arc doing goes to show plain.
y that this lie only what they have been
looking fora test case to destroy our
organization as union men, and till our
places with non.union labor. This, as
union mon, We are not willing to sub.
INIT to. The men are not discouraged
at tho outlook, and reports to the con-
ttary arc false. We are contonding for
our rights a. union workmon against
mon who arc known TO DO opposed to
organized labor, When our contract
was made tho company was very atx'
, lou, 10 have a scalof for only six months,
which would expire tho first Of March.
since the first OF August we have emily
peOn getting about half time and con.
loquohtly the company thinks this the
proper time TO mako q eight TO destroy