The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
ARBITRATION IN SIGHT.
Third Day of Chicago Strike
Shows Little Change.

Chicago. Nov. Adjudication of the
strike on the Chicago City railway sys-
tenn may be effected today and the tie
up of the various lines ended. Pro-
Spects are more promising of concilia-
ton than at any time the last week
General Manager Robert
of the railway company said:
Saturday forenoon at IL o'clock was
the time set by the company to make
reply to the employees arbitration pro-
posal. ] will be here in my office when
the clock strikes II. I will be glad to
meet accredited representatives of the
men,"
I-nternational President w. D. a
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Employees said:
w are willing to leave disputed
points to the state board of arbitration,
as we agreed to, but if the company does
not care to arbitrate and wishes to
meet our committee in a conciliatory
ann we are ready to meet it on that
ground"
Further strengthening h feeling that
the strike may be ended is a reply TO a
proposal from the members of the state
board of arbitration by E. r. Bliss.
general attorney of the traction corpor-
alton, who informed the board that he
probably would be able to SAY some
thing definite regarding the matter to-
day.
The strikers and their friends have
been stirred to great efforts and Il
two mass meetings, one to be neia tniS
afternoon in the corridors OF tne councn
chamber of the city hall and the other
to be held in Tattersalfs Sunday nlgnt.
At this latter meeting they expect 10
have an audience of 5000 men and Wo-
men and begin a powerful movement
against the Chicago city railway"
The strikers have also appealed TO
the governor not to order out the mill
tiamen and planned quo w~arranto pro
ceedings against the city Tor permitting
| the p01ioo tn man the cars,
President Mahon this moring reluct-
antly admitted that he had been caiieo
into a conference at which the questlop
of a sympathetic strike on the part OF
4 the employees of other fractions had
been discussed. He said the question
had been put to him whether ne Woulu
permit a sympathetic strike IL lne stase
militia or regular troops We're prouSn'
here to break the strike on the south
side. To this step he refused TO give
his consent, but said he believed tant II
soldiers were brought to Cnicago aannss
union employees on all otner street anu
elevated lines would quit.
The Chicago city railway,
by it's success yesterday in sending cars
on three trips over the entire ven,
worth avenue line and return-a totaI
of eighteen miles-resumed operations
at 8 O'Clock this morning under heavy
police guard
Under practically the same n%ae+d p9nee
four cars left the Wentworth avenue
barns in the southern outskirts of the
CITY at $40 a. m. and headed toWaru
tbe business district, min miles dis
tant. Police aboard the cars. in pa
troll wagons and almost cordoning each
side of the avenue. made interference
an undertaking difficult and hazardous
in the extreme. A large crowd about
the Seventy-seventh street barn jeered
and hooted at the police and car men
as the cars moved out. but offered no
violence. A A hundred policemen massed
distance. -,
Police Captain Shippey with a detail
of notice rode on the first car: At
Thirty-ninth street Inspector LAWN
was waiting to AXE the cars the re-
mainder of the way. Nc relaxation in
police vigilance was apparent. Eight
to ten men were stationed in every
block and the crowds were kept NOV
in@.