Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-14
MAY ARbITRATE.
General Manager Said He Would
 be Glad to Meet Strikers.
STRIKE MAY END TO-DAY.

bOLn SlueS Seen EerrecCly Willing to
 Get Together-Ten Thousand Per
 sons Expected at Mass Meeting to
 Be Held To-Morrow Night.
 Chicago, Nov 14.-Arbitration of the strike on the Chicago City Railway system may be effected to-day and the tie-hp of the various lines ended. Pros poets are more promising of concilia- ton than at any time in the last week.
 General Manager Robert McCulloch of the railway company said:
 Saturday forenoon at Il o'clock was the time set by the company to make reply to the employees arbitra- ton proposal: I will be here, in my office, when the clock strikes Il. will be glad to meet accredited representa- tives of the men," Gs
 International President Mahon of the Employees association said: "We are willing to leave disputed points to the state board of arbitration, as we agreed to, but if the company does not care to arbiTate, and wishes to meet our committee in a conciliatory manner, We are ready to meet it on that ground"
 Further strengthening the feeling that the strike may be ended, is a re- ply to a proposal from the members of the state board of arbitration by E. R. Bliss, general attorney of the traction corporation, who informed the board that he would probably be able to "say A1oS Jafp, IT., ter'' to-day.
 The strikers and their friends have been stirred to great efforts and called two mass meetings, one to be held this afternoon in the corridors of the coun- Gil chamber of the city hall and the other to be held in Tattersall's Sunday night.
 At this latter meeting they expect to have an audience of 10000 men and women and ''begin powerful move ment against the Chicago City Rail- way sJ
 The strikers have also appealed to the governor not to order out the mi litfa and planned quo warranto pro ceedings against the city for permit ting the police to man the cars.
 President Mahon this morning reluc- tantly admitted that he had been called into a conference at which the question of a sympathetic strike on the part of the employees of other t1ac- ton companies in the city had been discussed He said the question had been putIto him whether he would per init a sympathetic strike if the state militia or regular troops were brought here to break the strike on the south side. To this step he refused to give his consent, but said he believed that if soldiers were brought to Chicago the union employees on all other street and elevated lines would quit.
 The Chicago City Railway, encour- aged by its success yesterday in send ing cars on three trips over the entire Wentworth avenue line and return-a total of IS miles-resumed operations at o'clock this morning under police guard.
 Under practically the same police tactics as were employed yesterday four cars left the Wentworth avenue barns in She southern outskirts of the city at $40 a. m,, and headed toward the business district, nine miles dis tant. Police aboard the cars, in pa trol wagons. and almost cordoning each side of the avenue made interfer- ence hazardous.
 A large crowd about the Seventy seventh street barn jeered and hooted at the police and carmen as the cars moved out, but offered no violence. A hundred policemen nassed at that point kept the crowd at a safe dis tance. A detail of police rode on the first car. Eight or ten policemen were stationed in every block and the crowds were kept moving.