Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-07
GAR SERVICE Crippled.
Chicago Street Car Service Partly
Tied up by Power House
Strike.
Places Of the Strikers Taken BY In.
experienced Men Cause Of the
Trouble
The Men Demand an Eight Hour
Day and Full paylhe
Markets.

0QA hClS. 81
Chicago, April 1.-THE engineers, oil-
ers and helpers in the power houses of
the Chicago City railway went on strike
at s o'clock p. m. yesterday, and in ten
minutes The entire system was para
iszeu. Ten thousand employees of the
union stockyarls We're obliged to walk,
and Halsted streetaand Wentworth ave-
nue. at $50 O'clock were like rivers of
humanity With the mutitudes of work
ing men and women, boys and girls on
their was, home. 1t was estimated that
10 miles of electric and fifteen miles of
cable lines We're temporarily tied up by
the strike.
Tram after train OF unlighted, inert
trolley cars stretched along the middle
of the electric car routes FOR mics, and
their helpless crews lolled about the
street, wondering what had happened at
headquarters. In the meantime the
strikers Were waiting upon General
Manager Robert McCulloch with final
notice that they would not resume work
I'M he rescinded the order which re-
'Guires them to work twelve hours a day
That order is the motive and sum Of
their grievances.
Mct'ulloch refused to treat with his
einpioyes, and at once set about sup
piying their places with green men. He
got the men, but they had little success
III quickly re-establishing traffic. AT
intervals street cars scattered along the
various routes woud start up with
sudden current, run few yards and
then relapse into darkness and stand
stiil. by 1so'clock Halsted street motor
nisi ceased to make use of the desu1tory
currents even for a short run. Repeated
efforts We're made to resume service on
the cross-town lines, but the service was
uncertain and slow
Along the principal blockaded lines
transfers, expressmen and hack drivers
were i.ot slow to take advantage of the
situation. They Offered to carry passeri-s
gers twenty blocks or less along the
street car route for 10 cents. and they
did a thriving business in Ha,ss.i
street. Wentworth avenue and Thirty
nth street
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tiat Only one man man could run the entire
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