Evening star., 1903-11-19
HOST|L|T|ES RENEWED
Between Railway Company
and Employees.
60 DRIVERS QUIT WORK
WILL MAKE IT HARD FOR COM
PANY TO GET SUPPLIES.
Alfred Grannis, Broker, Attacked and
Badly Beaten-Day Full
of Trouble.

CHICAGO. November 19.-Renewal or
hcstilities between the Chicago City Rail-
way Company and the employees OF that
corporation began promptly today, follow
Ing the failure of attempts at arbitration
The first development in the warfare was
a strike of all the teamsters in the employ
Of the company. In all, sixty drivers quit
work.
The strike of the teamsters was in obedl-
ence to the command of the Teamsters
Joint Council 1t Is the intention of the
Transfers Union, if possible, to prevent
the delivery of coal and supplies to the
railway company and the operations OF It's
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 shut down from lack of fuel
Can't Get Coal or Supplies.
The action of the joint council was taken,
according to official records, because Ed
ward Dwyer, a NE mper of the Teamsters'
Union, refused to haul non-union electrical
workers in his wagon, and was thereupon
discharged. Dwyer is secretary Tor the
Street Car Teamsters' Union.
This is said to mean that the company
carnot get pound of coal or supplies
of any kind without employing union
drivers. The company, anticipating the
refusal of the teamsters to haul supplies
is said to be planning to obtain foodstufs
by means of a steam railroad, which runs
close to the barns
That Letter to Mayor Harrison.
The stand taken by the street railway
officials upon the "closed shop contention
of the strikers, which contention was said
to have been abandoned by the men, was
made clear today when the substance of the
letter sent by the directors to Mayor Harri-
son and the aldermanic mediation commit
tee last night was learned.
The directors said in effect that Attorney
Darrow, counsel for the strikers, in draw
ing up the closed shop proposition modif-
cation had only changed the wording and
that what was embraced in the clause
meant the same a closed shop
The directors, 1T was said, would agree to
nothing except an absolute waiver of that
proposition. They would not allow the
union to control the road.
Charge of Thefts.
The letter further charged that union en-
ployes had committed thefts and more ser
Gus crimes and that the directors of the
company would not let men of that caliber
have any voice, direct or indirect in the
management.
The tie on the Halstead street line of the
city railway was broken today by placing
five cars in commission. This is the fourth
line to be opened and operated in a limited
way.
Service on the other lines to extent of
twenty-five cars on Wentworth avenue,
five trains on Cottage Grove and eight cars
on the Indiana avenue was maintained to-
day with little trouble or demonstration.
Police Accompany Trains.
train sent out, but the force of patrolmen
stationed along the three lines previously
opened was materially reduced to provide
Protection for the Halstead street line.
This line is one of the main feeders for
large territory surrounding the Union stock
yards, and extends southwark to west 10Th
street providing the business center of the
city by way of Clark street, which it enters
at 22d street
There Was No Violence.
In spite of fear that violence would be en-
countered when the cars reached the stock
yards there was no trouble.
Starting at 10th street, the cars sped
along at a 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. d broker, forty-three
years ora, was ana Dddly beaten
today in a fight growing out of dispute
with two young men to the street car
strike.
Received Blow in Face.
Grannis who sided with the steps taken
In placing policemen on the cars received
blow in the face which felled him. Before
he could regain his feet the men set upon
him, kicked and pummeled him severely
in the face and about the body, rendering
him unconscious.
His aSsailants were pursued by an angry
crowd, which was only prevented from
wreaking vengeance upon them by police
man who arrested them.
FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS.