Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-07-12
|VOI 10 renew STRIKE.
Street Car Men at St. Louis Claim
Company Has Violated the
Agreement Made.
ITS EXPLANATION NOT. SATISFACTORY.
Hundred Members OF
the Union Hold Meeting and Take
Prompt Action The Strike and
Boycott Will Be Renewed on Tues
day Night. N

day Night.
st. Louis, July TO- Twenty five hun
dred members of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway, En-
ployes of America met in the West
End Coliseum Monday to discuss the
ACCESSIBILITY. Of resuming the strike
on the lines of the st. Louis Transit
company recently declared Off after
two months dura ton.
/ Chairman Edwards, Of the grievance.
committee, read the correspondence
between the company and the COM
mittee regarding violations of the
agreement charged
He presented a5list of specific cases,
in which. the committee alleged that
the company had violatede the agree
mlent of. July 2 by employing new men
since that time. sstsaFFs r9ass
Harry A. Bryan, national organizer
Of the order, said:
"By the manner in which the. street
railway officials have broken their agree
ment, it is patent that their words are 4
unworthy of belief. You men here hold
the key to the situation. 7 It. is for you
to say if you want to keep the strike off.
Or, it is for you to say if you want to
declare it on again"
Finally, after some time had been
spent by the men listening to
speeches, motion was made to de-
clare the strike on again.
Before the motion could be put, how
ever, Chairman Edwards was called out
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his way to the platform and spoke. He
said that after reading the company's
statement, Monday morning, he went
to some of the heavy Transit stockhold-
ers and asked them what the company
intended to do. He declared that some
Of thes stockholde rss asked President
Whitaker over the telephone What the
company's intentions were, and were
told that he (Mr. Whitaker) was pre-
pairing aSlettersto the men at the time.
Letter Not Satisfactory.
Shortly aftersone o'clock~a letter
from President Edwards. Whitaker of
the Transit company: was sent to the
members ofsthe Streets Railway union,
setting forth how the company pro-
posed to carry out it's agreement en-
tered into Julys2: EygTk
The letter stated the position Of the
company in regard to the agreement
and the method which the company
is using in reinstating the men.
It further says that a number of the
men have already been reinstated, and
that others will be as rapidly as pos
sible. The letter denies that the COM
pany has broken its agreement with
the men, or has any intention of do
ing so, and says. that the company
proposes to keep absolute faith
At the. conclusion of the reading OF
Mr.. Whitaker's letter, Chairman Ed.
wards said it was not satisfactory to
him and he was willing to take vote
on the question of the renewal of the
strike at once.
At this point it was announced that
Attorney Frederick w. Lehman, of
the Transit company. desired the priv
ilegeS of addressing the meeting. Mr.
Lehman, who was invited to the plat
form, said in part:
THE agreement Of July was entered
1IIlO III SOOu ldlCn by tnOSe whom l rep
resent and with the purpose of carry.
ing it out to the letter. I propose to use
every influence I possess to see it is car
ried OUT II EN&&&$Y II tkEfg
Vote to Renew Strike and Boycott.
A vote was then taken and it was
unanimously decided at $3.50 Monday
afternoon to resume the strike and
boycott against the ST. Louis Transit
company. It was ordered by the
union that the, strike go into effect
Immediately, and that the boycott be
renewed at five o'clock Tuesday morn
ing.