The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-11-14
END OF STRIKE IS
NOT YET IN SIGHT
CHICAGO STREET CAR MEN SAY
ARBITRATION IS AGREEABLE,
BUT TAKE NO STEPS.
POLICE HOLD MOBS DOWN
Manage With Little Difficulty to Main
tain Semblance of Order, But
Traffic Is Badly Tied Up.
ny ASSOCIATED rRlSs,

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. Il.-Talk of arbitra.
tion caused no relaxation of efforts by the
Chicago city railway officials today to pro-
vide for prolonged struggle. In antici-
patton of sympathetic strike of team.
sters, every effort was being made by the
officials TO get i'll an adequate supply Of
coal for the company's huge bins.
Furthermore preparations were in prog
ress on a large scale for sleeping and
restaurant accommodations for the non
union men, who the officials announce will
operate cars. Officials Of the company
were kept busy rushing in cots to the barns
and power houses and buying cooking
utensils and provisions.
President w. D.. Mahon of the En-
ployes' association said definitely this
morning that the street car men would not
wait upon Manager McCuloch for an an
swer to their demands today
He Had 4s Hours.
"Thc proposition of Mr.. McCullock to
answer us at II o'clock today was ar.
rested fully and completely by the exc
cutive board of the union at its meeting
Monday night, when the board gave Mr.
ultimatum. The action OF the board has
since been indorsed by the union and in
sofar as we are concerned, the incident is
closed. Anything in the way Of concilia-
tion must come in the way of new negotia.
tions to which we are open. IL Mr.. Me-
Culoch wishes to meet us we are willing
TO arbitrate as We have been and will con-
tinue to be-"
a rpt nod lnEt ;,,o, 81. AL,
AIDES was put into effect today by the po-
lice. Whenever cars were passing from
the strike district the iloroughfare usel
was temporarily closed 10 all wagon traffic
The result was to practically eliminate at
tempts at interference by teamsters
friendly to the strikers.
Police Tactics.
Under practically the same police tactics
as were employed yesterday, four cars LETT
the Wentworth avenue barns in the south
crn outskirts OF the city at 8 40 a. m,
and headed toward the business district
nine miles distant. Police attended the
cars in patrol wagons and almost GORDON
ing each side oil the avenue, made inter
ference an undertaking difficult and haz-
ardous in the extreme.
A large crowd about the Seventy-sev-
enth street barn jcered and hooted at the
police and car men as the cars moved out,
but offered no violence. One hundred po-
licemen massed at that point kept the
crowd at a safe distance.
Eight or 10 policemen were stationed
in every block and the crowds were kept
moving. The first round trip was COM
pleted in practically schedule time ami
was attended by no exciting incident.
Meantime the State Street cable, which
had been kept in motion since the strike
began, came to a standstill, as the resu!.
of a walkout by engineers and irenen em-
ploycd at the power houses. ....
Company Hampercd.
1t was reported doubtful II the company
would try 10 operate more than the power
house at Twcnty-frst street and State
streets, where non-union fremen and en-
gincers continued to furnish sufficient
power to run the Wentworth avenue line.