The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-09-09
All O'clock This Morning Car
mems Union Decides That
Peace With the Electric
Company Is No Long
er Possible

The Threatened clash be-
tween the Seattle Electric CO. ard
iss employees has Oeeurrsd. and 20.
day ths asmbsrs Of the Seattle
Stree, Railway Employees union 90
on ssrsks 70 secure better wages,
ard recognition 81 is urion--prir.
eleAiiS reeesnitioa 81 the unien.
Tire recently organized Seattle
Trnsenen's Association. a ascsdina
body From, shs old union, refuses 60
Join IN tire strike. arc its men are
operating the ears Ct the eompany
todsy. Every svsii4sss man 10 be.
100 used IN q frantic sffert 20 main.
tain service. bot aetsS withdrawing
this fact. the company had only IS
ger cent Of its cars IN operation this
n,ornfes-
The determination "a strike WA
reached at a iaint meeting % the
ssseutiss COMMITTEES Of ths Street
Car Mems unisn, ard the advisory
beard composed 81 = Representatives
~ zach labor union n the city.
TIE eornrnittses vent inle session
shortly after 3 o'ciosk. bus a sas
ret untll sftsr o'slsek thlz nsorr
e-~~~s>- --ss~s ~--~>-e--
reached.
TIE grievances % the nssn are
Too little ssssss. Dismissal % uniss
s.sn fer trivial causes. ans refusal
Of the earnpHny 10 rscoaniEs tire
srion. OF the differences. shs enc
81 resoactsion Of the uniea 10 tire
real cause Of tire strike. On this
point the union has been tsrseieusiy
firm. Tire dismissal % snsn for
slight effsnss eouid probably have
been settled 80 well a. the matter
81 wages. The rsen asked fer fiat
scale % % cents per hosr.
u Vas positively stated At tire
meeting Of ths IeiHs eanfersnes iast
night. that every sz1of gnioa IN Sc
sttls would be back 81 tire Seattle
Street Railway Employees unien.
financially. morally and even 10 tire
extent Of Being ready 70 Engage IN q
sympathetic strike y Il was deem
ed advisabls b. the loint exseutiSs
committees 81 the Employees union
ard tire sdVisory board
u is lrnprosahis that any % tnsss
vniona s~iU be called cut today, how
ever. The strike leaders declare
that trey vsiIl call the union cut as
. last resort. and rot until they see
that TREY are being sxorsssd IN Tire
soaflies.
There are but few unions that
could be o. real benefit 20 TIRE stril
ere, unless . gsnerai syupathstic
strike ~srs 20 be declared. and such
Is not the present intsntien-
II - learned. however, that the
adSiszbilitr Of calling cot the lire.
men ard eoaf carriers IL being cor
siecrad. the striking 81 either ef
~hich would seriously handicap the
Seattle Electric CO. II "a reported
asBo that should the Iinsnen % out,
THAT tire snosuairnis Power Co.'S
plant could be tied up, and the Sc
attic Electric Co. thas seriously
handicapped BY lack Of power. Il
Is also intiniatsd thas = strike on tire
Part Of the lonashersnsn would also
help tire cause % the strikers IN
Various ways. Another report j.
shat the coei miners at Rsuton will
be called out.
The proposition 10 strike was
brought to 4 focus BY the action Of
President Furtn of the Seattle Eise-
tric Company. yesterday afternoon,
IN refusing 70 arbitrate the differ
ences with the men after promising
a HUs.aa saaH
Mr. Furth called forth the HaVeFaat
esnsuHe from the members 0f the
advisory board "a we'll az from tire
executive COMMITTEES q the sm-
nI0ves nniau. ard was regarded as
q breach 81 faith. The action % the
foint committees was calm aud de-
Hibernate. the situation was thorough
" canvnssed before u vas decided 70
strike.
The hand u the Seattle Electric
Company vas seen ia the actions -
the newly formed Seattle Tralnmeu'H
organization last aiRhf. a commit
tee from this union appeared on the
scene shortly after 10 O'Clock and de-
nanded the riFht 70 so before the
foint conference with a proposition
q effect a Hpeaeeable settlement.
This privilege WIS az first refused.
but later u was deemed advisable hy
the Joint committees % heHf what
the new organization had 10 hay.
The sacessionisfs told the confer
ence committees that they had Sc
cured a conference with President
Furth and Manager Grant Of the Sc
attic Electric Company and that
they had been assured that the COM
psny would not only pay n scale Of
wages that would be satisfactory to
all concerned, but that the company
would aiso recognize the union.
Their arguments apparently Great
81 little excitement at the confer
ence. and the Eecaasioniata were put
through a swcat-boK process that