The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
NO ADJUSTMENT IN CHICAGO
SOME PROGRESS BUT NOTHING
 DEFINITE.

Trolley Conpany Submits Counter
 Proposition to the Proposais of the
 strikers-The Answer Not an Uiti-
 matum-serious Riot Queiled by the
 pelIed to Use Their Clubs. Chicago, Nov. 19.--Despite the united efforts to-day of Mayor Harrison and the aldermanic mediation committee to bring about peaceable adjustment of the Chicago City railroad strike, there lis little change in the situation to- night. Some progress was made to- day, but nothing definite was accom- plished.
 After an all-day session of the board Of directors of the company, at which the proposition submitted by the strik- CTS to Mayor Harrison, stating terms lon which they would settle. was con- sidered, a counter proposition was pre- pared by the officials of the company and sent to the mayor tonight. As soon as the document was received at the city hall, the executive committee of the strikers union was sent for, but as only about half the members of the committee put iil an appearance no ac- ton could be taken on the answer of the company until tomorrow morning. Mayor Harrison said that some slight nnodifications had been made by the colnpany's officials in their original answer to the demands of the men. What these notifications were the mayor declined to state.
 "All I can say" said he, lis that the company's answer is not an ultimatunl. The proposition has been submitted to the officials of the union and I expect some definite results tomorrow"
 To question as to the prospects of a settlement of the strike, Mayor Harri- son said: "Well. I am more hopeful than I was after our conference last night. when the outlook was decidedly gloomy. Both sides seem willing to con- tinue negotiations, and while there is life there is hope"
 | President Mahon of the Amalganated Street Railroad Employees union, after reading the communication from the of- l ficials of the railroad company, declined to make any statement saying that the proposition would have to have the con- I sideration of the entire executive com-
 nittee of the local union before any thing could be made public. This, he said. would be done just as soon as all l the members Of the committee could be communicated with and that he expect ed to have reply to the company's counter proposition by 10 o'clock to- morrow morning. l A serious riot occurred this evening at Thirty-eighth street and Wentworth avenue, which was quelled by the vigor- ous work of the police. They were com pelled to charge the mob and use their clubs freely. The trouble commenced when wrecking wagon manned by a non-union crew and guarded by six special policemen, passed Thirty-sev- enth street and Wentworth avenue. A
 crowd quickly gathered and followed it
 When Thirty-eighth street was reach ed 200 men were around the wagon
 which they were threatening to destroy
 and offering violence to the men.
 | Just in the nick of time two cars car.
 rying eighteen regular policemen came
 up. The crowd drew back and allowed
 the wagon to pass. Soon after the
 wagon and cars carrying the officers
 had left Thirty-eighth street two cars
 came up from the opposite direction
 As they were crossing Thirty-eighth
 street the mob let fly shower ot
 stones, demolishing the car windows l and causing four passengers on the first
 car to flee for their lives. The mol 1 then swarmed upon the cars and had
 begun to beat the crews, when the two cars with the policemen and the crew
 of the wrecking wagon came hurrying
 back.