Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-19
All Efforts to Settle Chicago City
Railway Strike Have Sig
nally Failed.
MAYOR COULD DO NOTHING.
Company's Transfers Have Struck -
Strike Sympathizers Beat a Man
For Expressing His Opinions.

Chicago, Nov. bah efforts of the
mayor TO secure arbitration Of the diff
ferences between the Chicago City rail-
way and its striking employees have
failed.
This announcement was made today
following series Of conferences be-
tween Mayor Harrison and his media
tion committee of tiermen 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 amcable
settlement.
Renewal of hostllltles between the
city Railway company and the employ
es OF that corporation began promptly
today following the failure OF attempts
at arbitration. The first development
In the warfare was a strike of all the
teamsters in the employ OF the COM
pany. In all ~ drivers quit work.
The strike OF the teamsters was in
obedience to the command of the
transfers joint council. II is the lnten-
ton of the teamsters' union, IL posi-
BILE, to prevent the delivery Of coal and
supplies to the railway company and
the operation Of its repair wagons.
Thus far the company has been able
to keep three days supply Of coal In
its bins and no fear IL admitted by the
officials that there Is danger of the
powerhouses having TO be shut down
from lack of fuel
The action OF the Joint council was
taken, according TO the official records.
because Edward Dryer, a member Of
the teamsters' union, refused TO haul
non-union electric workers IN his wag-
on and was thereupon discharged.
Dwyer is secretary for the streetcar
teamsters' union.
ms is said TO mean that the com
pany cannot get pound Of coal or
supplies OF any kind without employ
ing non-union drivers. The company.
anticipating the refusal of teamsters
to haul supplies, IL said 10 be planning
to obtain foodstuffs by means of the
steam railroads, a shop at Thirty
ninth street and Emerald avenue is
connected with the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad tracks and with the
street railway company's barns by
means or switch tracks and will be
used II is said, as base of supplies.
The stand taken by the street railway
officials upon the CLOSED shop" conten,
ton of the strikers, which contention
was said to have been abandoned by
the men, was made clearer today when
the substance of the letter sent by the
directors to Mayor Harrison and the
aldermanic mediation committee last
night, was learned. The directors said
IN erect that Atty. Darrow, counsel for
the strikers, In drawing up the "clos-
ed shop proposition modification, had
only changed the wording and that
what was embraced In the clause mean,
the same as a closed shop. The direc-
tors, II was said. would agree to moth
ing except an absolute waiver of that
proposition. They would not. they
said, allow the union to control the
road.
The letter further charged that union
employees mad committed thefts and
more serious crimes and that the direc-
tors OF the company would not LET men
of that calibre have any voice, direct
or Indirect, in the management.
The tie-up on the Halsted street line
OF the Chicago City Street railway was
broken today by placing I'm commission
hve cars. This Is the fourth line to be
operated, Limited service on Went.
worth, Cottage Grove and Indiana ave-
nues was maintained today with little
trouble, Police details accompanied each
car and train sent out, but the force
Of patrolmen stationed along the three
lines previously opened was materially
reduced TO provide protection for the
Ilalsted street line, which traverses a
district IN which trouble Is believed to
be more likely to occur. This line Ia
one Of the main feeders for large ter
rltory surrounding the Union Stock
yards and extends southwest to Sew
street, traversing the
business center of the city by way OF
Clark street. which IL enters at Twenty
second street
In spite Of the fear that violence
would be encountered when the cars
reached the stockyards there was no
trouble,
Starting at seventy sixth street the
ears sped along al good rate and with
Dut Few stops. No attempt was made TO
collect fares. and but dozen persons.
chiefly newspaper reporters aside from
The police and the rail men, occupied
the cars.
Alfred Grannls. broker, iS years old.
was attacked and badly beaten today IN
A fight growing out Of dispute with
two young men as TO the street car
strike. Granns who sided with the
steps taken In placing policemen on
'ars. received blow In the face which
ielled him, Before he could regain his
'eet men set upon him kicked and pun.
neled him severely In the face and
bout the body. rendering him uncon.
'cIous. His assailants were pursued by
m angry crowd, which was only pre-
vented from wreaking vengeance upon
he men by policeman who arrested
hem,