The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-24

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23-The great
trolley strike is ended
This is final.
John Wanamaker is the man who
brought about the settlement. He was
aided by members of the Christian league.
The basis of settlement follows:
Ffrst-While the Union Traction COM
pany will only treat with the workren
In its employ, it will allow them member
ship i'll any lawful organization: second If
VIII take up their grievances and give
them full and fair consideration: third.
IL VIII so far as it has vacant places i'm
mediately put on the old men, and as
last as vacancies arise will give prefer
eEce to any of the old men vet unern-
Ployed' and endeavor to arrange the trips
OF the cars to favor the old men as far
as possible without violating its contract
with the new men.
Compensation and Hours.
The question of compensation and hours
are left for future determination. Con-
cessions We're made on both sides. The
battle has been mainly fought on the
question of the employees membership il,
Inc AnnalgaInated Association OF Street
railway Employees, which the COMMAND
mas persTStently refused to recognize Tho
new men engaged since the strike beean
NUMBER nearly thousand. There were.
about i've thousand strikers They will
report for work tomorrow morning.
Mr. Wanamaker submitted the ideas
embraced IN the settlement to the strik-
ers. Ihey accepted them and in turn sub
nitted them to the company. Considera-
Die correspondence and many conferences
followed, and late this afternoon an
nouncement was made that both sides
had agreed to the terms To properIy-
round out the matter mass meeting Of
the strikers was held tonight for the
purpose of ratification. Here the strike
was officially declared off. all the leaders
were called upon for speeches, and there
was a verftable love feast.
In consequence of today's violence, it
was thought advisable to delay the re-
stump zion of railway traffic until tomorrow
morning.
How it Ended.
Thus ends a strike that lasted exactly
one week and cost the city, the company
and the strikers thousads of dollars. The
loss in fares alone to the company is eS-
timated at S350GO0. Apart from the de-
struction of cars and other property
there has been considerable bloodshed al
though fortunately no fatal results. The
business men of the city have been the
heaviest sufferers. The strike coming in
the midst of the holiday trade, brought
unparalleled disaster to ShopkeeperS and
much hardship of a. financial character is
anticipated. The most peculiar feature
of the strike has been the fact that the
puDHC ana the strikers nave Deen almost
as one-the first because of the indigna-
ton resulting from the recent abolition
of free transfers and consequent increase
of fares. 1t was undoubtedly this uni
versal sympathy for the strikers that en-
couraged the hoodlum element into COM
hitting violence
How He Did 1t.
Mr.. Wanamaker told an Associated
Press reporter how he had consummated
the settlement Said he: THE Traction
people were determined to treat with the
men only as employees and not through
Intermediates. l conferred with Mr.. Do
Ian and had much talk with the men,
helping them to form a Judgment as to
what was involved and what they might
expect under the circumstances. / found
them moderate in tone, patient and will
ing to he advised. On Saturday they came
to me and again when they presented
the propositions and the executive COM
mittee asked me to use my good offices
in their behalf. With two of their rep
braced in the proposed settlement of the
strike so that they were prepared for
the proposition received today from Cen
eral Manager Beetem. Late this after
quarters, where, after going over Mr..
Beetems letters and seeing that 1 was
fully understood, 1 advised the accept
ance and at a full meeting by the men
later where upon their invitation I agreed
to attend
Today was certainly the most violent
since the struggle began, and for. the
first time the police shot TO kill. About
10 o'clock this morning a tremendous
crowd gathered at Eighteenth street and
Girard avenue, and as the cars passed
each with several policemen aboard the
stones began to fly. n dozen or more cars
had been completely wrecked when the
police opened fire They first fired into the
air, but as the situation became more
threatening one of them fired his revolver
into the crowd. William II. Matthews, a
striking motorman, fell with a bullet in
his head, and Samuel G. CroSsley Strik-
ing conductor. was shot in the knee Both
are in a serious condition at the hospital.
A number of arrests were made Other
almost every section of the city. In one
of these H. F. Graham, of Brooklyn, who
admitted he was an organizer for the
knights of Labor, was arrested. He came
here to work ON a car, but soon became
a sympathizer and has been very bolster
Gus in egging mobs on to violence.