The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-01
Regardless Of the Boycott Against
the Big Consolidated,
The Company Shows No Indication Of a De-
sire to Change lis Policy.
President Everett Asserts That the
Company Will Make No Move
for a Settlement Of the Trou-
BILE, BIZ. Will Go Ahead as It
Has Been Doing.

CLEVELAND, July 31.-Whether the
boycott on the Big Consolidated Street
Railway Company is having any effect
or not, the company shows no indica-
ton of desire to change it's policy
with respect to the strike. special
meeting of the Directors of the COM
pany was held this afternoon.
At it's conclusion President Henry A.
!, Everett was asked if the strike had
been discussed.
incidentally it was was the reply.
lis it the intention of the company
to move for settlement of the striker"
was asked.
mo- said President Everett. eve
are going ahead as we have been 60
ing. We are hiring new men all the
time and we now have nearly all we
want. Some of the new men are be-
ling discharged when found to be not
the men we want, and others put in
their places. We are satisfied with the
situation, and ] might say that the
Board of Directors has been unit
from the start and it is in favor of the
policy being pursued
On the other hand, the leaders of the
strikers profess to be very much en-
ecouraged by the working of the boy
colt and they say they must surely win,
because, they declare, the public is with
them The President of the union has
been busy all day listening to the COM
plants of merchants and others who
claim they have been boycotted with
out warrant, and when he discovers
that the person who complains is inno
cent of the charge of having ridden on
q Big Consolidated car, he gives notice
to union men accordingly.
Secretary Bishop of the State Board
of Arbitration, arrived in the city to-
day to look over the situation. He
said he was willing to undertake an
investigation of the strike if it is de-
sired. He had a conference with Pres
ident Everett, but refused to say what
transpired. 1t is intimated that he
may visit the strike leaders in the
morning.
Beyond an outbreak in the Polish set
tiement which was promptly sup
pressed by the military, the night
passed without serious trouble. Many
street cars were stoned in the suburbs,
but SO far as learned no one was in
iured. A mob which formed in the
south end of the city was dispersed by
the militia with fixed bayonets and
number of the ringleaders arrested.
Several Cleveland military companies
will probably soon be relieved from
duty by Adjutant General Axline. The
troops which have been brought here
from other cities will be retained until
all danger of rioting is past and then
be withdrawn.
The boycott movement has reached
a point where it is almost imposs BILE
for any one who rides on the Big Con-
soIidated cars to purchase the neces-
saries of life. This is especially true
in the outlying districts of the city.
Every branch of the Big Consolidated
system was in full operation to-day,
but aside from the Euclid and Cedar
avenue lines the cars carried very
few if any passengers. That the boy
colt has become a most important fac
tor in the struggle between the com
pany and its striking employees is now
admitted on all sides.
The Big Consolidated officials say
that the movement is bound to fall OF
its own weight in few days On the
other hand the labor union leaders de-
clare that the boycott has just begun;
that when it reaches its full scope all
classes and interests will be affected
Not only are the Big Consolidated
lines in Cleveland to be boycotted, but
all street railways and other proper
ties in other cities in which President
Everett is in any way interested, the
strike leaders state, will also be reach
ed and tabooed.
The Cleveland Naval Reserves, under
command of Lieutenant Raider, were
released to-day from further strike
duty by Adjutant General Axline.
Coroner Simon to-day rendered a ver-