Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-04-24
END OF STRIKE is AT HAND
street Car Trouble In san Francisco
To he Quickly SettIcd-sympRthy
L. with the Men.


SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-The end Of
the street car strike in this city appears
to be at hand 1t is generally expected
that the conference Of the officials of the
United Railroads with Mayor Schmitz and
a committee representing the strikers, to
be held today, will result in an amicable
settlement Of the questions at issue.
The three issues involved are fiat pay
ment Of 25 cents an hour for consecutive
work the reinstatement of men discharged
because they belonged to unions and rec
ognition OF organized labor in the adjust
ment Of future grievances. The strikers
have succeeded, without resort to violence,
in tying up all the roads recently pur-
chased by the capitalists known as the
Baltimore syndicate, and the belief is gen
eral that the meeting today of the oppos-
ing interests will result in the granting OF
liberal concessions
significant feature of the controversy
was the adoption by the grand jury of reso-
lutions commencing the action Of the mayor
In refusing to permit the police to help
in the opening of the tieup and condemning
the United Railroad company for the atti-
tude It mad adopted toward its men.
The board Of supervisors had already
adopted a somewhat similar resolution
The labor council has endorsed the strike
and nearly every newspaper in the city
has editortally espoused the cause of the
strikers. Pending a resumption Of street
car traffic, the people of the city are walk
ing or riding in jolting wagons along the
prominent streets, with complacency that
is surprising.
At noon 1t was said that the conference
between the strikers committee and the
railroad officials which was arranged for
by Mayor Schmitz to take place In his
office, is off for the time being at least, the
railroad officials refusing to treat with the
men in the mayors office and demanding
that the conference be held at the Office
of the company in the Wells Fargo build
ing. The men refused to go to the railroad
office. Mayor schmitz is hopeful of getting
one side or the other to make a conces-
sion as regards the place of meeting.
CINCINNATI, April 23.-It is said today
| that the attention Of the court will not be
called to the action Of Secretary Frank
Morrison and others until arguments are
made tomorrow on the application for the
temporary injunction to be made perma-
nent. In the controversy between the en-
gineers and firemen on one side and the
! United States Brewery Workers on the
other the American Federation ordered
the engineers to shut off steam where non
union brewery workers were employed
| after last Monday night.
On Monday the brewery proprietors Sc
cured an injunction and the engineers and
| firemen yesterday obeyed the order of the
court instead of the order OF the executive
council OF the American Federation. Just
before leaving for Washington last nigh
| Secretary Morrison ordered the charter Of
the local union of engineers revoked. The
international officers OF the engineers were
then here and after executing Morrison's
order they also left the city and it is today
1 claimed that all of these general officers
are in contempt of court The engineers
are working today rs susuai:
HAZLETON. Pa, April The Halle
! ton mines collery of the .ehigh Vale,
Coal company employing about 500 hands
| is idle today because of a strike in
augurated by the breaker boys this morn
| ing, following the refusal of the foreman
to reinstate twenty Of their lumber wit
had been suspended, the company officials
assert on account of Ilackness OF work.