The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-19
TRANSFERS QUIT.
Chicago Street Railway Strike
Has Been Extended
By the Company's Transfers
Refusing to Work.
TO SHUT OFF COAL.
Aim Is to Deprive the Company
of Necessary Fuel.
Move Will Be Met by Using
Steam Railroads.

Chicago, Nov. 19.-All efforts of the
mayor to secure arbitration of the diff
ference between the Chicago City rail-
way and it's striking employees have
failed.
This announcement was made today
following a series of conferences be-
tween Mayor Harrison and his media
ton committee of aldermen and COM
mittees representing the company and
the strikers. 1t was stated that today's
meetings developed no common meeting
ground for the opposing sides and that
for the present there is no sign of an
amicable settlement.
A meeting of the executive councils
of all teamsters' unions was called to
meet this afternoon to take action upon
the refusal of Mayor Harrison to ac-
cede to a demand by the Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor that the police be re-
called from the car lines pending ne
gotiations for arbitration.
TRANSFERS GO OUT.
Chicago, Nov. 19.-Renewal of hostili-
ties between the City Railway company
and the employees of that corporation be-
gan promptly today following the fail
ure of attempts at arbitration. The
first development in the warfare was
strike of all the teamsters in the en-
ploy of the company. In all so drivers
quit work.
The strike of the teamsters was in
obedience to the command of the team
Sters joint council. 1t is the intention of
the teamsters' union if possible to pre-
vent the delivery of coal and supplies
to the railway company and the opera
ton of its repair wagons. Thus far the
company has been able to keep three
days supply of coal in its bins and no
fear is admitted by the officials that
there is danger OF the power houses
having to be shut down from lack of
fuel.
The action of the Joint council was
taken, according to the official records,
because Edward Dwyer, a member of
the teamsters' union refused to haul
non-union electric workers in his
wagon and was thereupon discharged
Dwyer is secretary for the street car
teamSterS' union.
This is said to mean that the COM
panseseans not get a pound OF se0alzsor
supplies of any kind without employing
non-union drivers. The company, an
ticfpating the refusal of teamsters to
haul. supplies, is said to be planning to
obtain food stuffs by means of the
steam railroad. A shop at Thirty-ninth
street and Emerald avenue is connected
with the, Chicago and Eastern Illinois
railroad tracks and with the street rail-
way company's barns by means OF
switch tracks and will be used, it is
said as a base of supplies.
way officials upon the ''closed shop
contention of the strikers, which con-
tention was said to have been aban-
doned by the men, was made clearer
today when the substance of the let
ter sent by the directors to Mayor
Harrison and the aldernanic media
ton committee last night was learned.
The directors said in effect that Attor-
ney Darrow. counsel for the strikers,
in drawing up the closed shop PROPOSE
ton modification had only changed the
wording and that what was embraced
in the clause meant the same as a
closed shop The directors it was said,
would agree to- nothing except an alb
solute wai@er of that proposition. They
would not, they said, allow the union
to control the road.
The latter further charged that
union employees had committed thefts
and more serious crimes. and that the
directors of the company would not let
men of that calibre have any voice,
.HALSTEAD STREET LINE OPENED
The tie up on the Ha1stead street line
Of the Chicago City railway was broken
today by placing in commission five
cars. This is the fourth line to be open
ed Limited service on Wentworth,
Cottage Grove and Indiana avenues
will be maintained today with little
trouble. Police details accompanied
each car and train sent out but the
force of patrolmen stationed along the
terially reduced to provide protection
for the Halstead street line, which ira
verses a district in which trouble is
believed to be more likely to occur.
This line is one of the main feeders for
a large territory surrounding the Union
Stock yards and extends southwark to
West Seventy street, traversing
the business center of the city by way
of Clark street which it enters atTwen-
ty-second street. In spite of fear that
violence would be encountered when
the cars reached the stock yards there
was no trouble. Starting al Seventy
ninth street the cars sped along at
good rate and with but few stops No
attempt was made to collect fares and
but a dozen persons, chiefly newspaper
reporters aside from the police and
trainmen occupied the cars.
Alfred Grannis a broker As years old,
was attacked and badly beaten today
in a fight growing out of a dispute with
two young men as to the street car
strike. Grannis who sided with the
steps taken in placing policemen. on
cars. received a blow in the face which
felled him Before he could regain his
feet the men set upon him, kicked and
pummelled him severely in the face and
about the body, rendering him uncon-
scious. His assailants were pursued by
an angry crowd which was only pre-
vented from wreaking vengeance upon
the men by a policeman who arrested
them.
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