The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-01

they will submit to arbitration and that
the transit company make known whether
or not it is willing to consent to arbitra-
ton. President Whitaker asked for a state
ment of the matters TO be submitted TO ar
bitration. After a conference with W.. ID.
Mahon. of the Amalgamated Association
of Street-car Employees, and the grievance
committee, Ex-Governor Stone addressed to
the committee a statement signed by II. r.
Edwards, chairman of the grievance COM
mittee. 1t is as follows:
what we now ask the Transit Company
to do. as a condition to the resumption of
work. is:
"First-To agree to recognize our organi-
zation; to make no discrimination against
the members of the organization on that
account. We insist that members of the
union uI should be fairly treated and that the
tlves of the organization in matters affect
ing the rights of its members.
"Second-We' ask for the reinstatement
OF all our men TO the positions formerly
held by them and that members of the
union. discharged on that account, be REIN
stated.
ences should arise between the company
and it's employees who are members of our
organization that they be submitted to ar
bitration if they cannot be amicably adj
Justed between the two parties.
"Fourth-We ask that such portions of
the agreement of March 10. 1900, above re-
ferred TO, as are not inconsistent with the
above propositions shall stand and remain
in force"
After remaining in session all the after
noon the committee decided that Ii would
use its influence to induce Mr.. Whitaker to
accept Clauses 1. 3 and 4 in the conditions
submitted by the strikers, under which
they will consent TO resume work. Clause 2.
relating TO the reinstatement of the men,
the committee viii not recommend to Pres
fdent Whitaker for acceptance. The reply
OF the grievance committee will be SUBJ
mitted to Mr.. Whitaker tomorrow.
A committee of South st. Louisians an
pointed TO rpnFpSQnt "a mass pnaafinO loI5
to-day called on the chief of police and
President Whitaker. of the Transit Com
pany and presented a significant ultimatum.
1t was that unless the police or the COM
pany disarmed Its employees in the power
houses and carsheds the committee would
take the work of doing so in its own hands.
Ihey said they proposed TO protect their
wives and children, Ter the result be what 1t
would.
1t developed to-day that four persons
were shot during the street-car trouble last
night. full details of which were not gath
cred until a late hour. Thomas Kehoe and
Thomas Riley, both union motormen, are
seriously wounded. 1t Is said Kehoe's in
jury may be fatal.
Kehoe was shot In the abdomen during
a fight near the carshed at Broadway and
Usage street. He says he was a block
away and took no part in the disturbances.
He was a member of the Third United
states Cavalry during the Sp~anish-Ameri-
can war, and saw active service in Cuba
and Porto Rico. Riley received a bullet
through the chest near the heart during a
pistol battle between several supposed pas
senyers who left a Union-line car at Twen-
ty-fifth and Farrar streets and a crowd
that pursued them. Others wounded dur
ing the fracas weres Fred Potter and John
A Davis. Potter was shot in the left hand
and arm. Ora Havill, formerly a captain in
the Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. is
hoe. He is employed as a Waterman by the
Transit Company.