Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18
TOR GENERAL Strike
Failure to Settle Street Car Strike
In st. Louis May Increase
Labor Troubles,
Large Number Of Unions Signify
Willingness to Join sympa.
thstic Strike.
Meeting to Be Held Tonight to Fer.
feet Arrangements Cars
Running Today.

st. Louis, May 1S.-rhere was gen
eral mass meeting of the strikers on the
st. Louis Transit Company's system,
last night. relative TO the future coui Sc
of the men in View of an abrupt .ermi-
nation of peace negotiations in the af-
terIoon.
1t was decided to continue the fight
by every peaceable means at the dis
posal of the union, and to call upon or
ganized labor of st. Louis to walk out.
in q general sympathy strike beginning
next Saturday, or as coon thereafter as
the laws of the various unions will per-
nit.
David kreylng, president of the
Trades and Labor Union, has called a
meeting of the representatives of all the
labor unions in ST. Louis affiliated With.
the American Federation OF Labor. This
meeting will be held tomorrow night,
and judging from the sentiment of the
working people generally and the trade
unionists in particular Il general strike
will be called.
a general strike would likely so par
alyze business and cause SO much dis
order that state and possibly national.
troops would be required 10 maintain
the psace.
1t looks as if serious trouble We're to
come.
I The strikers have issued an appeal to
the public asking sympathy and moral
aid in winning their cause.
Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday aft
ternoon the union grievance committee
and the Transit company officials again
met at the Planters hotel and CONTINUED
in session two hours. The strikers,
committee Submitted a counter PROPOSE
ton 20 the one handed to- them by the
railroad officials last night and which
was rejected by the executive committee
of the railway mems union at an early.
hour this morning.
The Transit ompary's officials at this
afternoons conference in turn rejected
the counter proposition of its employees,
the hitch resting entirely on clause
Which calls for the complete reinstate-9
ment of all the old men. The railroad
officials fatty stated that under no cir-
gcli,nstanees would the men. employed by
them to superssde the strikers be dis
placed.
After the adjournment President
Whitaker of the Transit Company
stated that his offer was final, and that
it lay now altogether With the men
whether the strike was to continue or
be called off.
The grievance committee at once left
for the West End Coliseum. where the
general committee of the strikers union
and practically all the striking en-
ployes We're assembled in mass meeting.
The proposition of the railroad company
was submitted TO the meeting for rati-
/ fication.
The point on which we cannot
agree" said i. b. Edwards, chairman Of
the grievance committee lis the first
clause in the proposal made by the st.
Louis Transit Company The company
demands that all men now in their en-
ploy shall be retained in the positions
assigned them. That means that the
strikers when they returned to work
would be put on the list back of these
tnenunion men and would have To wait
i perhaps for years before they would
regain the positions they held before
4 the STRIKE was declared
i'he men Will never agree to return
| To work ard let the non-union men fill
4 the places that Mere formerly theirs. 1T
1.-The company does not change that
/ clause in the proposal We Will not be
1,ableto agree ard nothing Hide left for
5lus but to fight IL oft"
4 President Whitaker said: The pro-
A posGi made % T. r., Edwards, chairman
y Of the grievance committee of the union
land his associates. is final. ] viii never
Il .cpnssnt tptiie discharge Of the men who
were employed 10 take the places left
4 vacant by the strikers. i also insist on
giving the increased scale Of Wages IL
4 those nen who have served long enough
10 "ntitle them TO that benefit. should
.!.css. s,,szsiie il.
Disturbance were reported at a
number Of points along the lines. j.
4 Richards, lnotornan, from Cleveland
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed. john Ficks. an employee of the
Transit Company. was shot. Crowds
upset q wagon containing coffee and
n lunch for non-union men. No police
We're IN sight.
After suffering from severe dyspep-
STA over twelve years and using many
remedies without permanent good l f.
nally took Nodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1,
did me SO much good 1 recommend 1t tt
every one writes ]. z. Watkins, clerl
and recorder, chi!licothe Mo II digests
what you eat. All druggists.
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