The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-11

T
no peace in sight for strike harrasse,
SAN Francisco. Despite the vigorou
and unremitting efforts of the peac,
makers, compromising citizens com
mittees appointed to bring employers
and employees together on some mid
die ground. no conclusion or decision
has been arrived at and no concession.
have been intlmated out of which com
promises might grow or settlements BIZ
made.
: The executive committee Of the com
nittee OF 80 appointed yesterday By
Mayor Schnitz held secret meeting
this afternoon and at its conclusion re-
fused 10 make any statement 1t is
however, understood that plan foi
subinIttance to the whole committee
was partially formulated land Will be
presented In the morning
Two of the sub committees of the
Joint Cancellation committee. compris-
ing n its membership such noted per-
sonages as Archbishop Riordan, Bishop
Nichols and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, re
ported today that there was possible
hope of reaching some settlement In
the laundry and telephone strikes. OPP
posed to this Is the unqualified decla-
ration of President Scott of the Pacific
States Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany that his corporation Will not un-
der any circumstances recognize the
local union of telephone operators, that
the company is willing and ready to
take back the striking girls as indi-
viduals but not as union members. The
girls on their behalf announce lhat
they will fight IL out"
The strike OF the iron workers shows
no change In any aspect.
Least of all Is there any indication
Of peace or OF cessation OF hostillties
SO far as can be learned from authori-
tativc sources. in the strike Of the
nnion carmen President Cornelius Of
the union says than he win welcome in
tcrvention only upon the proviso that
the United Railroads recognize the 10
cal union. by intervention Mr.. Corne-
Illus means mediation upon the basis
Of tho demand by the men that they
he paid So for an eight hour day and
time and a half for overtime Presi =
don't Calhoun OF the company remains
mistaken in his declared stand that
under no circumstances--the men hay
ing struck after fun warning by him
of what the consequences would be
Will he now or ever hereafter rccog-
nize the existence of the local union.
A high official Of the United Railroads
said tonight:
The United Railroads Will not COM
promise Events must take their
course
SAN FRANCISCO, May y.--itoses and
carnations Instead Of brickbats and
cobble stones featured today's run of
TWO cars of the United Railroads, man
ned by twenty strike breakers. from
th, car barns at oak and Frederick
streets for n distance of three or four
miles through the business and resi-
dcnce sections of the Western addition.
stirred to admiration by the courage
OF the unarmed strike breakers in
operating the two cars in the mob
crowded thoroughfarc, women all
;lloIg the route stood on doorsteps or
leaned from windows and waved hand
kerchiefs. clapped their hands. cheered
and threw kisses 10 the -unionists,
as the polio, protected cars ran SLOWLY
by. On thu return trip. on Sacramento
street. near Preside avenue. young
girl ran out from q florists shop and
tossed a handful of bright red. long
stemmed carnations to the platform of
one of the cars Lifting their caps and
smiling, several of the men leaned far
out and caught the posies. The cars
were halted then. while young women
brought clusters of carnations and
roses from the shop and offered them
to the men Soon every strike breaker
had a flower in his coat The extra
ones they tossed TO Assistant President
aI,,11onx- GuparinfpOdPDf Chairman.
Chief Surgeon Coffey. Assistant Pur-
chasing Agent Finegan and other OH
Gals OF the company, who were keep
ing pace in an automobile with the
cars. From a bakery shop in the neigh
borhood u stout woman came hurrying
brcathlcssly. her hands full of small
cakes hot from the oven. They were
dcyourcd in Il twinkling by the uni
formed recipients. and She ran back
To her shop and brought more.
But the afternoon trip was not all
cake and flowers. y tannting, jccrinG,
howling crowd of more than thou
sand strikers and strike sympathizers
jug-trottcd Tor blocks along the side
walks, revilinG the carmen yelling
rrcnZtcd threats to get them yet
crying "murderers, towards, ana
.scabs3 Now and again an unseen arm
WAS drawn back in the outskirts OF the
mob and q missile came hurting
through the air to crash against car.
AZ such times a mounted policeman
would whirl his horse about and dash
onto the crowded sidewalk in the di-
rection from which the attack came;
hut the guilty manor boy-hidden in
the recesses of the mob. escaped detee-
ton invariably Once a brick, hurled
from a sidewalk. cleared the top of
car and struck a union man in The
chest
Though no shooting was witnessed
nv the police. the company officials ar
the newspaper men who aecompa d
rhn cars on their run one of the motor
men declared after the return to tho
harm that a shot WAS fired from the
sidewalk on Devisadcro street between
Golden Gate avenue and McAlllst'r
street. In proof of his statement he
pointed 10 = clean cut hole in one OF
the. ventilator windows Of his car
The start was made from Oak 9nd
Eraderick streets shortly before :
oclock. after the police had taken pos
session of "A wagon load Of rock that a
iiniop svmpathiZrr was about to dump
on the Trucks In front of the carhonse
After the run had been completed
one of the employees of the United Rail
roads in a report To the company stated
thai in performing his secret service
work during the afternoon he scraped
an nconaintancc with tVe carpenters
~ work on a scaifolhine ~ the south
,a.t corner of DcVlSHaero an dMcAlll5-