The age-herald., 1900-05-13
EARNEST EFFORT
 TOWARDS PEACE But the St. Louis Strike Situa-
 ton is Unchanged. NO CARS RUN AF TER DARK Committee Worked Hard All Day to Settle the Question by Arbitration But No Propositions Could
 Be Agreed On

St. Louis, May 12.-An earnest effort was made today to settle the street railway strike by means of arbitration, along the lines suggested by w. w. Woodward and other employees of un:on labor. The efforts came to nothing, however, as the strikers and street car companies could not be brought together in any proposi- tion involving the recognition of the union in the manner desired
 The effort at compromise began with the Walhalla hall meeting this morning, after which the citizens committee waited up- on President Whitaker and Attorney Les mann of the transit company. Propositions which the company were willing to accept were found to be unsatisfactory to the union, and vice versa so after trips back and forth the committee of labor men found their mission unaccomplished They tried to arrange another conference to- night but MT. Whitaker said he was go- ing to leave the city. They will meet him Monday morning.
 With the assistance of the police the transit company succeeded in getting three more of it's lines open today, although one was disabled temporarily by cut wires and barricades. The new lines opened were the Page and Spalding divisions of the Lindel system, and the Laclede avenue line. In addition the Delmar, Park avenue, Comp ton Heights, Park and California avenue lines were operated more or less regularly No cars were run on any of them, how ever, after m The suburban system, as usual, managed to run nearly on sched- ule time on each of its three divisions.
 Suspension of Operations
 A suspension of operations.
 In general, the fifth day of ,ne strike was rather quiet. A few cases of violence were reported from various parts of the city and some shooting was reported, but without serious results A number of arrests on minor charges growing out of the present difficulties were reported
 An important meeting of the presidents, secretaries and business agents of all the labor unions in the city has been called for s o'clock tomorrow evening at Wallawalla hall to review the situation.
 Steps will be takn at tomorrow's meet ing to authorize the executive committee of the central bureau and labor union to call strikes whenever in their estimati the conditions demand it. In other words, the sympathetic strikes will be kept as q last card, which will be played only if it becomes necessary to help the street rail- way men in their fight.
 The federal authorities are watching the strike situation closely, Is shown by the statement of United States District Attorney Roster. MT. Roster demands that the mail be not interferred with either by barricading the roadWays, cut ting the wires or in any other way, and his talk contains threat that the United States government may yet take hand in the strike. The custom of piling stones old nm, fhn ctr tr1nl nd cutting the wires which has sprung up within the last few days evidently furnishes the inspiration of MT. Rosters words. No cars will be run in St. Louis Sunday. Chief of Police Campbell consd- cred it necessary that his men should have some rest and refused to detail them to keep the stret car lines open tomorrow.
 Switches Shattered With Dynamite
 Nine men succeeded in shattering num- Der of switches with dynamite on Papin street tonight. They worked openly and without being molested by the large crowd whom the explosion of the charges had at tracted When the police came to the scene the men scattered and escaped. Several ln- nocent bystanders were clubbed as the blue coats cleared the street. Considerable eX- citement was created at 9 o'clock tonight on Sarah and Manchester avenue because of a fusilade of shots fired by the police.
 A car on the suburban line was turning in and when it reached the point men, toned it was found that the track had been obstructed by stones and timbers. While the trainmen were removing the oD- structions a crowd collected. The police ordered the crowd to disperse. The crowd refused and the police drew their revol- vers. The police report that no one was hurt and after one voliey was hred the crowd dispersed