The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-15
CHICAGO STRIKERS
ARE LESS UNRULY
Cars Are Run Without Disturb
ance-Attempt to Secure
Arbitration Fails.

CHICAGO, Nov. 14-Cars, under po-
lice protection, were operated three
times on the Wentworth avenue line
today without material disturbance.
The police kept the people moving in
all streets through which the cars
passed. Much less disorder was mani
tested by striking sympathizers, and
the day was one of comparative peace.
Two obstreperous hoodlums were
dubbed and thrown into a police patrol
wagon, and this comprised the HOSTILE
ties The work today has encouraged
the company to announce that 1t Will
run cars on Sunday.
The strike managers are building
great hopes of success on the trouble
which they believe the company will
have in replacing their powerhouse en-
gineers They assert that it will be
impossible to procure licensed en-
gineers in Chicago to replace those
who have gone out, and for new man
to undergo his examination and quail
fly for the work will require length
of time which the men declare viii
enbarrass the company beyond it's
powers of endurance. General Man,
ager McCulloch said:
1--WE will get engineers and we will
run the plants. We look for no trou-
BILE in getting all the men we need:
The only difficulty is the inability OF
the city to afford police protection for
all the cars we can put out
This afternoon all the power houses
of the city were closed. with one ex-
ception, and it is not thought that they
will be opened for several days at
least
In the early part of the day several
teamsters refused to deliver coal to
non-union firemen at the power houses.
but this action was not sanctioned by
the officers of the Transfers union,
and throughout the day coal was
steadily carried into the company's
bins.
The prospect of peace is not promis'
ing tonight. Both sides express Will
Ingness to arbitrate, but each waits
for an advance from the other side.
The main difficulty in the way of ar
bitration is an agreement on the mat
tiers to be arbitrated. The company
will arbitrate wages only, and the men
desire that all grievances which they
allege exist be submitted to the board.
1t was thought by the members Of the
state board of arbitration that they
would be able to arrange the scope or
the arbitration today but they failed.
The attempt to bring pressure to
bear on the city hall was noisy, but
not productive. A great crowd of
strikers, representatives of the Chicago
Federation of Labor and members Of
municipal ownership leagues, with
few hundred men afflicted with an ag-
gravated attack Of curiosity, poured
into the city hall late in the afternoon
and attempted to break into room
where the city council committee on
local transportation was holding
meeting. They were repulsed by the
police They then swept down to the
mayors office to demand the use of
the council chamber for meeting.
The mayor was not in, nor was any
other city officer of wide authority,
and the crowd melted away after two
hours of loud talking. The promise
was made by members of the council
transportation committee that the adj
vocates of municipal ownership would
be given a hearing on Nov. %. This
was the entire result of the attempt
to induce the city officers to take ac-
ton against the use of the police in
protecting the cars of the city railway
company. The visitors saw no city
officers and were unable to present de-
mands or make speeches to anybody.