The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-28
Strikers Are Bitter Toward the
Mayor of Cleveland.
HIS HOME IS GUARDED
OWING TO HIS DETERMINATION
TO PREVENT RIoTING.
The Presence of Troops Has a De-
pressing Effect Upon the Disor-
DERBY Element-Plan For An In
vestigation By Special Commit
tee of the City Council Defeated.

Cleveland, O., July Mayor Farley
purposes TO finish the campaign against
1awlessness in Cleveland on the lines he
has laid down, and he Will not tolerate
any intel ference. That was made clear
at the special meeting of the city coun-
Gil this evening, when the attempt to
institute an investigation of the strike
on the big consolidated street railway
lines by a special committee of that
body was defeated.
When the previous strike was settled
month ago, an agreement between
the company and the strikers was
brought about by a special committee
of the council The agreement provided
Cor the taking back of a certain per-
centage of the old men, for the reten-
ton of a certain number of new men,
and for the loyal treatment of the COM
pany and the new men by the old men
who were taken back.
When the present strike was inaug-
nrated it was charged that the agree
ment had been violated by the COM
pany, and on the other hand, the COM
pany charged that the men had not
been loyal to it or the non-unionists.
1t was the purpose Of the special COM
mittee of the council tonight to author
lie that committee TO institute a semi
judicial investigation of the present
ny SQbpOCltdAL5 MlALtSSE5 anu
by sending for books and papers TO
ascertain whether the agreement had
been lived UP to, and to inform the
public where the blame for the strike
lay.
Mayor Farley opposed the proposed
action in vigorous speech, in which he
declared that the appointment of the
special committee would interfere with
the plans Of the eecutive for the crush
Ing out of the disorder. He said the
only result would be to keep alive the
agitation and that no good purpose
3Tould be served.
Bitter Toward Mayor.
'In time of peace" he declared,
--prepare for war but when you have
war. the best thing to do is to bring
about peace, but that cannot be done
by keeping up the agitation which
caused the war. This seems to be a
good time" the mayor declared, for
everybody to mind his own business"
Several of the councilmen favored
the appointment of the committee, but
when the resolution came TO a vote it
was lost.
Many of the strike sympathiZers have
been very bitter toward Mayor Farley.
In pubic meetings they have charged
him with responsibility Cor the present
troubles. and threats against his life
have been made. This has led him to
provide 2 guard for his residence on
Euclid avenue. and detectives watch
the house every night.
The presence of the troops has had a
depressing effect upon the rioters, and
up to 10 o'clock tonight there has not
been q single outbreak of violence. The
cars were operated on nearly all lines
on nearly the usual schedules, but in
some parts of the city they ran almost
empty. the boycott Of the lines by the
working people being almost universal.
President Everett says. however, that
he does not believe the boycott is effect
i've He thinks people are deferred from
riding by the fear of personal injury,
and he says that as soon as the safety
of passengers is assured the cars viii
be filled as usual
The boycott has extended to the SOL
diers Merchants are refusing to sell
them any supplies, and representatives
of cr2aniZed labor have refused TO pat
ronize anybody VINO takes a soldier
money for anything or supplies any of
his wants
Say Troops Are Not Needed.
The mayors of the suburban villages
had meeting today at which the pres
ence of troops in Collinwood and South
Brooklyn were discussed. The mayors
of both these hamlets said troops were
not needed. Mayor Phelps of South
1srOoklyn said he did not particularly
object TO the presence of the soldiers.
but said the whole trouble was caused
by the non-union men, who fired revol-
vers in the air recklessly. Tonight the
troops were withdrawn from Collin
wood on the promise of the mayor TO
preserve order there.
There was grave apprehension OF
trouble tonight. 1t had been announced
thta there would he a meeting of strike
sympathizers in the public square and
the police had been instructed to pre-
vent it. It appears. however, that the
announcement was unauthorized, for
while n small crowd assembled, there
was no attempt to hold meeting, and
consequently no trouble occurred.
The coroner's inquest into the killing
of Henry Cornsweit last Monday by
non-union conductor named Ralph
Hawley has been in progress for two
days All the witnesses who have tes-
titled thus far have told practically the
same story. which is to the effect that
the shooting was unjustifiable, the boy
having done nothing which would have
warranted a resort to violence on the
~>arf f.f the conductor