The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15
Police, However, Protected Them and
Kept the Crowds ON the Streets
Constantly Moving.
ONLY ONE POWER PLANT OPEN
OTHERS ARE STILL CLOSED BY THE
STRIKE OF FIREMEN.
Prospects of settlement Got Bright
City Hall Besieged by a Throng
of

CHICAGO. Nov. 14-Cars, under police
protection. were operated three times on
the MISUNDERSTANDING line to-day without
interference or material disturbance. The
police, under Assistant Chief Schuettler.
kept the people moving on all streets
through which the cars passed and no
crowds were allowed to congregate. There
was much less disorderly disposition mani
tested by strike sympathizers and the day
was one of comparative peace. Two OBJ
streperous hnodlums were dubbed and
thrown into a police patrol wagon, and this
comprised the hostilities.
The work to-day has encouraged the COM
pany to announce that it will run cars on
Sunday. the advisability of which has been
heretofore a matter of debate among the
company's officials. The first run will be
made at $40 in the morning, and thereafter
cars are TO be sent out at intervals of five
minutes until evening. The strike man
ayers are building great hopes Of success
upon the trouble which they believe the
company will have In replacing their engi-
neers. They claim that it will be impossible
to procure licensed engineers in Chicago to
replace those who have gone out. and for a
new man TO undergo his examination and
qualify Cor the work will require a length
OF time which, the men declare, will en-
barrass the company beyond its powers of
endurance.
General Manager McCulloch in viewing
this aspect of the case, talks as he has
talked Of all other difficulties that have
confronted the company. I'VE will get the
engineers and we will run the plants" he
said. I'VE look for no trouble. 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
company were closed with one exception,
and it is not expected that they will be
opened for several days at least.
In the early part of the day several team
sters refused to deliver coal to nonunion
firemen at the p~owerhouseS, but this action
was not sanctioned by the officers of the
teamsters' unions, and throughout the day
coal was steadily carried into the COM
pany'S bins.
The prospect Of peace is not promising to-
night. Both sides express themselves as
willing To arbitrate, but each is waiting
for an advance from the other side. The
main difficulty in the way of arbitration is
an agreement upon the matters to be arbi-
trated. The company will arbitrate wages
only. and the men desire all the grievances
| which they allege be submitted 10 the board
1t was expected by the members of the
State Board OF Arbitration that they would
be able to arrange the scope of the arbitra'
II llOn lO-Odls O0l tACt WCAC " w 81
The attempt to bring pressure to bear
upon the City Hall was noisy but not pro.
ductive. A great crowd OF strikers, repre-.
sentatives Of the Chicago Federation OF
Labor and members of municipal ownership
| leagues with a few hundred men afflicted
with an aggravated attack Of curiosity
poured into the City Hall late in the
| afternoon, jammed the corridors and at,
| tempted to break into a room where the
City Council committee on local transpor'
tation was holding a meeting. They were
| repulsed from here by the police and ther
| swept down TO the mayors Office to de-
mand the use of the Council chamber fol
the purpose Of holding a meeting. Tn,
mayor was not in. nor was any other city
official of wide authority, and the crowC
slowly melted way after two hours o.
loud talking and much walking up anC
down the Railways. The promise was mad,
by members of the Council transportation
committee that the advocates of municipa
ownership would be given a hearing OF
Nov. %. This was the entire result of thu
attempt to induce the city officials to TAX
action against the use of the police I'm pro
tecting the cars of the City Railway Com
pany. The visitors saw no city officers an,
were unable to present demands or max,
speeches TO anybody.