The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-09
Arbitrators Reach an Agreement
Which Strikers Counsel Say
They Will Abide by-Night
of Disorder.
(sDecial Dispatch to The Times.)

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NORFOLK, va, March sSss-After per-
haps the most violent demonstration Of
I the strike Syinpatlfizers since the strike
| began, lasting for three hours, at the cor
II ner.of Main. and Church Streets, IN which
a mob of one or two thousand men bonn
| barded cars beat 1lon-nnions employees, ana
| and in "a hundred other ways showed
their vehenlence against the Norfolk Rail
| way and Light. Company. the committee
kof Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, having
| i'll charge Decentralization of the strike,
made their report shortly after midnight
I5to-nigLt having been.in session for fifty
six hours. =zgszst.z.
I The arbitrators' decision was that the
company shall take back 50 per cent. OF
| their former employees anu may retain
| L. per cent OF. the non-union men I'M
| ported after the strike occurred They
| declared the Surety Company bond which
| the strikers refused to sign is reasonable
and shall be signed by the men Ihat
| the company must register transfers !
! or cmploye {. transfer man.
They held that the notice given the men
| that they must sign the bond was too
short. but aver their belief that no dis
| courtesy was meant in, this regard. The.
| strikers are given until Monday noon to
! sign the surety bond and re-enter the
| conpany's employ.
me responsibility for calling out the
! troops was placed upon Sheriff of Norfolk
county. Cromwell.
! The soldiers shall be withdrawn after
! the 13S men are re-employed by the COM
| pany.
The arbitrators were A1essrs. John l.
Roper, r. Henry Jones, j. w. Grandy,
| r. f.. Rogers and c.. w. Pridtiy. In the
| Judgment of the correspondent, the men
gained no advantage of any sort by the
strike.
WILL THEY ACCEPT?
The strikers have as yet not made
known what they will do The general
belief is that they will demur at the nom
| are union men.
Hugh Miller, counsel for the strikers,
declares that they will abide by the de-
/ cision of the arbitrators.
A meeting OF the strikers will be held
to-day (Sunday), at which the whole mat
| ter will be laid before them. The militia
viii remain until a decision is given.
TROUBLE CAME WITH NIGHT.
! Trouble arose when night fell. Some
/ body cut a feed Wire and sixteen street
| cars struck a dead circuit a nd for@an hour
were blocked in front of the building
/ where the Chamber of Commerce COM
mittce sat arbitrating the differences be-
| tween the street railway company and
I their striking employees.
! An hour ater several hurGred men and
! boys gathered ear the intersection of
the two principal streets. Church and
| Maic. and stonc'l passing cars. Kidding
| the glass, but striking none of the SOL
| diers who rode in them. The police call
/ sied for assistance and the companies of
|, troops, previously in reserve. were thrown
| upon the street. where The disorGerIy
crcwtl was. THIS hldno effect, E;tt
. when big; chief-of- Police Velines person.
4 ally walked up Church Street tapping a
man here and there on the. shoulder and
! asking him to move on, he il! five MN
.,1tcs cleared the street OF q thousand
men.
i BEAT "A A+CONDUCTOR-
i Prior to this sosne Of the mob jumped
i .son a. passing car and beat a anon-union
4 conductor severely with their fists. La
i ter Corporation Court Judge Hanckel
i pcremptorily ordered all the saloons IN
i lhe city. closed The disorder ceased Sew
eral arrests were made during the eve
sning of persons charged with stone
i throwing.
Strike npathizers or enemies of the
i street railway. creased the tracks on
4 3i8Lamberts Point trestle, making 1t I'M
1 slSpessible to move cars.
Severa me n now rest behind the bars
Il In the police station having been ar
rested by the police and other officers.
Corporal w tier Truxt ton. a grandson of
Commodore Truston. fought a hand-to-
4 shanl1 conflict with a strike sSmpathizer
s| on the8rear atformE of car In the VI
E5cinity of a thousand people and held his
man, whose name wassEee Curtis. It was
necessary 70 bring a revolver into playst TO
q do it.
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