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 III STILL CLOSED BY THE
STRIKE OF FIREMEN.
Prospects of Settlement Not Bright
City Hall Besieged by a ThronG
of Strikers.

CHICAGO, Nov. Cars under po1ce
protection. were operated three times on
the Wentworth-avenue 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 hoodlums 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 for 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. We will get the
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 tor all the cars we can put out"
This affarnOau oil fha nauvar hOfiGoC of thu
company were closed with one exception.
and it is not expected that they will be
opened for several days at least.
sters refused to deliver coal TO nonunion
firemen at the powerhouses, but this action
was not sanctioned by the officers of the
coal was steadily carried into the COM
pany's bins.
The prospect of peace is not promising to-
night. Both sides express themselves as
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 to 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-
ton to-day, but they were unable to do so.
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 q 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 m on local transpor-
tation was holding a meeting. They were
repulsed from here by the police and then
swept down to the mayors office to de-
mand the use Of the Council chamber for
the purpose of holding a meeting. The
mayor was not in, nor was any other city
official of wide authority. n the crowd
slowly melted away after two hours of
loud talking and much walking up and
down the Railways. The promise was made
by members OF the Council transportation
that the advocates of municipal
ownership would be given a hearing on
Nov. %. This was the entire result of the
attempt TO induce the city officials to take
action against the use of the police in pro-
tecting the cars of the City Railway Com.
pany. The visitors saw no city officers and
were unable to present demands or make
speeches TO anybody.