The Mankato free press., 1903-11-27
BASIS OF THE SETTLEMENT Is A
COMPLETE VICTORY FOR
RAILWAY COMPANY.
employees SCORE A POINT
ALL OF THE STRIKERS WHO DID
NOT RESORT TO VIOLENCE
WILL BE REINSTATED.

employees of the Chicago City street
railway was settled at an early hour
this morning at conference between
mittee, President Hamilton and e. r.
Bliss, counsel for the company, and
the executive board of the local union
of the strikers.
The basis on which the settlement
was reached is a complete victory fo1
the company as far as the original de-
nands OF the men are concerned. The
agreement reached will be ratified at
a meeting of the men today, and it is
expected that traffic on all the lines
of the company will be resumed today.
The only important concession made
by the company was an agreement tc
reinstate all the strikers, including
the outside unions who went out in
sympathy with the trainmen, with the
exception of those who resorted to vio-
lence during the trouble. The arbi.
tration of the wage scale is to be ac-
cording to the wages paid outside of
Chicago, and not on the basis Of the
local street railways. These are the
two points that have been the stumb-
ling block to a peaceable adjustment
Of the strike for the past week. The
company has insisted that it pays
higher wages than any similar cor
poration in the country The men
were fearful that the arbitration on
the scale paid in other cities would
decrease their wages and they fought
stubbornlv for their point
Company Had Been Gradually Gaining.
Ever since the Inauguration of the
strike, thirteen DAYS ago, the COM
pany has been gradually gaining the
upper hand of the men. Under po-
lice protection traffic was opened on
the wentworth avenue branch of the
system twenty-four hours after the
strike was declared and the service
has been gradually increased ever
since. On the third day of the strike
another trunk line was opened for the
patronage of the public and since that
time three other important branches
have been put in operation, making y
total of five lines that had been operat-
ed with nonunion crews while the
strike was on.
While there was considerable vio-
1ence displayed by sympathizers OF
the men during the first few days of
the strike. still there was remark
able dearth Of disturbances when the
extent of the struggle is taken into
consideration. Numerous cars were
damaged during the. riots that devol-
oned. but the loss to the COMPANY on
this score is small. Hundreds of ar
-. %1o ~. .r4N DIV
that the trouble lasted and a number
OF shots were fired by rioters, but not
a single death occurred that can be
charged up to the strike.
Distractions Caused Trouble.
DISTINCTIONS such as cut wires,
plugged cable slots and manholes filled
with debris caused the City Railway
company all manner of trouble Tues
day in operating its State street car
line There was comparatively little
violence offered to the men handling
the cars, which were as usual guarded
by the police. but as the cars had
passed the crowd would swarm upon
the tracks, drive spikes in the cable
slot and fill the manholes with stones.
The cars when running between Thir-
ty-ninth and Sixty-frst streets were
compelled to take from fifteen to
twenty minutes to run square. On
the last trip crowd of 1000 men fol-
lowed the cars when they started
back from the down town districts.
Jeers and boots filled the air, but no
missiles were thrown and no arrests
We're made.
The police on the cars Tuesday were
ordered by Inspector Hunt that if CON-
PEELED to use their revolvers they were
to fire into tie mob with the intention
Of hitting somebody. There is to be
no more shooting over peoples heads,
the inspector declared. However,
Tuesday was the quietest day Of the
strike when the police were around.
1t was during their absence that the
damage to the lines was done.