The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-23
BAN MAY Be LIFTED FROM
FUNERALS IN CHICAGO
Liveryrnen'S Association and Strik-
ers May Agree to Some Plan
of Arbitration.
UNION LABEL FUNERAL
Wagon and Carriages Placarded
-Burying Dead Under
Difficulties.
UNION LABEL FUNERAL

CHICAGO, Dec. 22-The Liverymen's As
ISOLATION at a meeting this afternoon. de-
cided that unless peaceable settlement OF
the drivers strike was reached tomorrow
they would open for business with nom
union employees and would appeal to the
courts for Injunction to prevent the
strikers from interfering in any manner
with the driving of carriages or hearses.
Word of the injunction proposal reached
the strikers just as a vote had been COM
pleted to submission of the issues in the
controversy to arbitration and the action
of the employers bitterly criticised by
the men. No announcement of the result
OF the vote of the strikers was made, but
the general impression was that arbitra-
ton has been accepted.
At the same time that the men were vot-
ing on the question of Cancellation the
members Of the Liverymen's Association
decided submit the whole dificulty to
arbitration, provided that the strikers took
the initiative In the matter and that the
demand for a peaceabl settlement should
come from the men. In anticipation of the
proposition being accepted by the men q
committee was appointed to receive any
overtures that the union might be willing
TO make. The union officials were mme-
diately notified of the decision reached by
the EMPLOYERS and the latter. 1T is said,
VIII nave a reply ready tomorrow morn
Ing.
UNION LABEL FUNERAL.
The first union label funeral" since the
strike began was held to-day. The funeral
the body or the decedent being removed In
dead wagon" bearing a placard pro-
claiming the vehicle to be owned by an un-
dertaker paying the union scale. II was
also the first funeral in which a procession
OF carriages was supplied to the mourners
c-ao 1n1.o l<l
Impoverished hearse.
The funeral of John J. Kelly was held
under cover of darkness last night on ac-
count OF the possibility of disturbance that
pickets. After simple services an under
takers wagon conveyed the remains to a
rallroad depots from which the corpse was
Headed by solitary black wagon and a
band the mourners of prominent resident
of the Italian quarter marched slowly
through the city's business district to-day.
No violence was shown as the cortege
tramped through the slush and half frozen
| mud. The route of the little procession
was directly past the union headquarters.
The county commissioners who attended
the burial of the father of County Com
missioner William Busse could get nothing
ride in the funeral proeession M The Heie Como no
missiopers were unable to secure even a
single carriage.
BODY ON A HAND TRUCK
The body Of Mrs. Catherine Masterson.
the mother Of Rev. John Masterson. was
borne through the street on hand truck
while undertakers and liverymen and their
drivers argued as to whether they ought
to submit the contest to arbitration. The
coffin was carried along sidewalks from
home to the church of the Holy Family on
an undertakers truck, which was used I'm
substitution for hearse. Six pallbearers
walked bareheaded beside the fiower-strewn