The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-19
NO SETTLEMENT IN CHICAGO
PROSPECTS FOR ARBITRATION
 NOT VERY BRIGHT.
Conferences With Mayor Harrison Fall to Bring Any AEresment-TrolIsy Company stands Where 1t Did at First -win ArBItrate Wages but Not the Running of Hts Business.

Running of Its Business.
 Chicago, Nov. 1S.-'The prospects, for a speedy settlement of the strike of the employees of the Chicago City Railway are not as hopeful as they were yester- day."
 This statement was made by Mayor Carter H. Harrison tonight after day of conferences between the city coun- cfl peace commission, delegates of the strikers union and representatives of the Chicago City Railway company.
 whether the difficulty will finally be adjusted by arbitration, am unable to say" continued the mayor. Every possible effort was made to-day to have both sides to the controversy adopt this means of settlement. but without sat isfactory result. The officials of the company, however, have promised to send me tomorrow morning a more complete statement of their position than they were able to give tonight, but from to-day's developments I am not so sanguine as I was yesterday that they will agree to the proposition of arbitration as submitted by the strik- CTS"
 The meeting which terminated just before Mayor Harrison made his decla- ration regarding the dubious prospects of settling the strike, was held between the mayor, President Hamilton Iand Colonel B. R. Bliss, attorney for the railway company. President Mahon of the union was also invited. but declin- ed to attend, saying that he had no power to settle anything alone, and there YVES therefore no need of his at- tending the conference. The meeting lasted until Il o'clock and the entire ground was gone over. None of the parties to the meeting would say what was done. but 1t is generally under stood that the company stood where it stood at the commencement of the rikewilling to arbitrate wages, but unwilling to arbitrate the "closed shop" the right of the union to control the discharge of employees, or the claim of the union to the right of arranging the time and manner of routing" cars.
 It was decided tonight by the trolley company to start cars tomorrow on the HaIstead street line. This will make the fourth line in operation. the cars hav- ing been steadily run on the Went worth avenue. Cottage Grove avenue and Indiana avenue lines. The Halstead street cars run through district where the chances for trouble are many and if this line can be successfully op- erated, the company will feel confident of being able to resume business in a very short time even though the at tempts by the mayor to secure arbitra- tion prove to be somewhat protracted. To-day was the most quiet of the strike. Cars came and went on wentworth ave- nue, Cottage Grove avenue and Indiana avenue with very little trouble. All os them were under the protection of the police and they carried very few passengers. but they were not inter- fered with in any serious manner. The weather probably had some influence in bringing about these conditions, for the temperature was low and a sharp biting wind blew all day long, making 1t very uncomfortable for pickets and causing the teamsters who have caused so many of the blockades to hurry along without paying much attention to anybody's troubles save their own.