The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-15
FEW CARS ARE RUNNING
POLICE PROTECTION IN CHICAGO
 NOT SUFFICIENT.
Strikers Comparatively Orderly Yes- terday-Each Side Said to Be Ready to Arbitrate Some
 of the Differences.

Chicago, Nov. 1A-Cars, under police protection, were operated three times on the Wentworth Avenue line today with out interference or material disturbance. The police. under Assistant Chief Sciuet- tier. kept moving on all streets through which the car4 passed, and no crowds were allowed to congre&ates There was much less disorderiy disposition manifest ed by strike sympathizers. and the day was one of comparative peace. Two ob- streperous hoodiuf11s were clubbed and thrown into a police patrol wagon and this comprised the hostilities
 The work today has encouraged the company to announce that it will run cars on Sunday. the advisability of which has been heretofCNs a matter of debate among the company's officials. The first run will be made at $40 o'clock in the morning, and thereafter cars to be sent out at intervals of five minutes until evening.
 The strike managers are building great hope of success on the trouble whic hthey believe the company will have in replac- ing its engineers. They claim that it will be impossible to procure licensed en- gineers in Chicago to replace those who have gone out, and for new man to un- dergo his examination and qualify for the work will require a length of this time which, the men declare, will embarrass the company beyond it's powers of endur- ance.
 General Manager McCulIoch, in view ing this aspect of the case, talks as he has talked of all other difficulties that have confronted the company.
 we will get engineers, and we will run the plants,' he said. We look for no trouble in getting all the men we need. The only difficulty is the inability of the city to afford police protection for all the cars we can put out"
 Thie afternoon all the power houses of the company were closed with one ex- ception. and 1t is not expected that they will be opened for several days at least. In the early part of the day several teamsters refused to deliver coal to non- union firemen at the power houses. but this action was not sanctioned by the of ficers of the Teamsters' Union, and throughout the day coal was steadily carried into the company's bins.
 The prospect of peace Is not promising tonight. Both sides express themselves as willing to arbitrate but each is wait ing for an advance from the other side. The main difficulty in the way of arbi- tration Is an agreement on the matters to be arbitrated. The company will arbi- trate wages only and the men desire all grievances which they allege to be sub
 
 the members of the State Board of Arr bitration that they would be able to ar range the scope of arbitration to-day, but they were unable to do so.
 An 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 owner ship leagues, with a few hundred men moved by curiosity. poured into the city hall late in the afternoon. damned the corridors and attemtped to break into a room where the city council committee on local transportation was holding a meeting. They were repulsed from here by the police and then swept down to the Mayors office to demand the use of the council chamber for the purpose of holding a meeting.
 The Mayor was not in nor was any other city ofticial of wide authority and the crowd slowly melted away after two hours of loud talking and much walking up and down the railways. The visitors saw no. city officers and were unable to present demands or to make speeches to anybody.