The record-union., 1899-07-28
I In the Conduct of His Campaign Against
LaWIessness in the Ohio City.
Speaks in No Uncertain Language
at a Meeting Of the City Coun-
Gil When a Proposition Was
Brought UP to Appoint a Com
mittee to Investigate the Rail-
Way Strike.

( CLEVELAND, July 27.-Mayor Far
gley proposes to conduct the campaign
against lawlessness in Cleveland on
the lines he has laid down, and he will
not tolerate any interference. That
was made clear at the special meeting
of the City Council this evening, when
2 the attempt to institute an investiga-
ton of the strike on the Big Console
dated street railway lines by a special
committee of that body was defeated.
When the previous strike was settled
a month ago an agreement between
the company and the strikers was
brought about by a special committee
of the Council. The agreement pro-
.Xided for the taking back of a certain
percentage of the old men. for the re-
tention of a certain number of new
men, and for the loyal treatment of
, the company and the men by the old
men who were taken back.
Is 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
spany charged that the men had not
been loyal to it or the non-unionists.
1t was the purpose of the special
committee to institute a semi-judicial
investigation of the present strike by
subpenaing witnesses and 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 executive for
crushing out the disorder He said the
only result would be to keep alive the
agitation, and that no good purpose
would be served.
In time of peace" he declared, "pre-
pare 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 good
time" the Mayor declared, for every
body to mind his own business"
Several of the Councilmen favored
the appointment of the committee but
when the resolution came to vote it
was lost.
Many of the strike sympathzers have
been very bitter toward Mayor Farley.
In public meetings they have charged
him with responsibility for the present
troubles, and threats against his life
have been made This has led him
to prepare a guard for his residence
on Euclid avenue, and detectives watch
the house every night.
The presence OF the troops has had
n 6lvA sci, OFF 49,
and up to 10 o'clock tonight there had
not been a single outbreak of violence.
The cars We're 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 effective. He thinks people
are deferred from riding from the fear
of personal injury, and he says that
as soon as the safety of passengers is
assured the cars will be filled as usual.
The boycott has extended to the SOL
diers. Merchants are refusing to sell
them any supplies. and representatives
of organized labor have refused to pa
tronize anybody who takes a soldiers
money for anything or supplies any of
his wants
The Mayors of the suburban villages
had a meeting to-day. at which the
presence of troops in Collinwood and
South Brooklyn We're discussed The
Mayors of both these hamlets said the
troops were not needed
Mayor Phelps of South Brooklyn said
he did not particularly object to the
presence of the soldiers. but said the
whole trouble was caused by the nom
union men. who fired revolvers in the
air recklessly. Tonight the troops
were withdrawn from Collinwood on
the promise of the Mayor to preserve
order there.
There was grave apprehension of
trouble tonight 1t had been an
nounced that there would be a meeting
of strike sympathizers in the public
square, and the police had been in
structed to prevent it. 1t appears, how
ever, that the announcement was un-
authorized, for while a small crowd
assembled, there was no attempt to
hold a meeting, and consequently no
trouble occurred.
The Coroner's inquest into the kill
ing of Henry CornZweit last Monday by
a non-union conductor named Ralph
Hawley has been in progress for two
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