Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-11
BOTH SIDES STANDING FIRM
Traction Employees Strike in San Francisco
Develops Into Finish Fight.
NEITHER is WILLING TO ARBrRATE
Committee Unable to Find Basis of
settIement-TwO Cars Make short
Trip Through Burned
District.


a fight to a finish. Neither side is will
ing to accept arbitration, and the citi-
zens committees appointed to secure in
dustrisJ peace have ben unable TO find
any of settlement. 1t has been
de- that the present police force
- - . an dthat strong measures
~ ~ cessary to secure a general re-
~ i OF service II the struggle is con-
. on present lines.
s. lie wish today OF the United Railroads
,fficials was to run a string of cars from
the barn at Oak and Broderick, through
the burned district and north on Market
| street to the ferry building. but the con-
sent of the police department could not
| be obtained. AS a compromise two cars
were run as far into the burned district
as Larkin street, being operated on Oak,
| Stanton, Page, Devisdero and Sutter
streets. This route was covered twice
/ on the first trip mounted police acted as
| outriders, and more than a score of pa
| trolmen rode in automobiles, but no vio-
lence was offered by the crowds On the
second trip the mounted officers were
| withdrawn as an experiment to determine
the temper of the crowds Missiles were
hurled from buildings and several persons
were injured.
Assistant to the president. Mullaly said
| today he had several hundred strike
breakers, motormen and conductors quar-
tered in the company's barns and that
| they are competent to operate practically
! the entire street car system. Mayor
schmitz said the police department rs
competent to cope with the situation" !"
J Chief of police Dinan said his men will
prtserve order.
In the meantime the population Of San
Francisco is deprived Of street car SER
vice. subject to the alternative of walking
| or paying five prices for an execrable
wagon service.
Reduced to an arithmetical problem is
| simply this:
III fifty police are required to afford
safe conduct to two street cars daily over
six miles OF tracks when no passengers
are carried. how shall 200 cars be operated
In passenger traffic over $50 miles of tracks
/ with q total force OF only 700 police, not
moro than half of whom can be on duty
| continuously"
That the running of two or three cars Il
| day may constitute the entire street car
service for a city Of 100000 people for an
indefinite time is perfectly apparent I'M
! less an adequate protective force is sup
piled.
DtsaensiOn In Committee.
Mayor Schmitz' committee OF 1fty.''
called by him to advise him about settling
the present Industrial crisis came near dis
! banding today when President Tracy Of
! the State Federation Of Labor charged
I that his Investigations led him to believe
! that certain men representing large fnan-
cial interests were opposed to a settlement
OF the street car strike because they
! wanted to have the troops called in and
unionism in San Francisco stamped uot.
| The discussion soon became acrimonious.
but was stopped by Mayor schmitz, who
called for less talking and more work.
The mayor named as the committee on
law and order the following e. J. Depue,
president of the Pacific Union club; Homer
S. King, president of the Bank of Califor-
MIA; A B. Anderson, manager Of the Bank
/ OF California; ]. E. Howell. a real estate
dealer; Walter ]. Bartnett, attorney;
George A. Knight attorney; Andrew Fure-
seth, president of the Coast seamen's
union; p. s. Mccarthy, president Of the
Building Trades council, and Michael Casey,
president of the Teamster' union. Other
committees will be announced tomorrow.
UItimntum 20 'LOnEshOremen.
NEW YORK May l0.-The resident heads
Of the steamship companies included in the
international Mercantile Marine company
| assumed the aggressive today. Following
a conference they served notice upon the
striking 'longshoremen that unless the lat
ter return to work within a week their
places would be permanently filled
The steamship officials reafirmed their
determination not to yield TO the demand
for higher wages A statement was made
public, in Fart, as follows:
'Longshoremen are now paid 30 cents an
time On most OF the piers the average
laborers can earn SIS without overtime and
SIS q week. It is absolutely untrue that a
demand was formulated on all piers be-
fore the strike was declared. On most Of
the PIERS the men stopped work without
Rny previous intimation.
In the face OF these statements Patrick
Connor, president of the 'Lougshoremen' 8
Union Protective association, predicted fnll
victory for the strikers within forty-eight
hours.
Twelve big liners are due here within
forty-eight hours and seven steamships are
scheduled 20 depart. Connor declared the
lines would be powerless to cope with such
congestion and must meet the stevedores
demands.
Smelling Plant shut Down.
SAITH LAKE CITY. Utah. May 1O.-The
plant OF the American Smelling and Rehn-
ing company at Murray suburb. en-
ploying between 1,OO0 and 1.zoO men, with a
monthly pay roll of $4,000, closed down in
definitely this evening. and the last one
OF the '1ive" furnaces Of the eight operated
; at the plant was allowed to cool This
; action OF the company follows efforts mad.
p for several days to reach a compromise
with about 800 Greeks and Austrians fur
mace chargers and ore hAulers who walked
: out because the company would not grant
} nat increase OF % cents per day. The
foreigneds intimidated the American work.
men az the plant who wished to work
but wede not allowed TO do so by the
q others Today the company offered L
! grant an increase OF from 10 20 IS cents
OF nothing and tonight the orders closing
down indefinitely was posted. The work
now done here viii be sent 10 the plants
az Denver. L,sadville and Pueblo.
Higher Prices az paH River.
FALL RIVER, Mass, May l0.-With tn,
/ recent advance in wages TO mill operatives
in this city amounting practically 70 Il
per cent in the present state Of the mar
, ket for cotton goods, the landlords started
a movement 20 increase rents. For severa
months the population has increased stead
p ily. with the mills calling for more opera
tives to keep pace with their business, ant
as a result the demand for tenements hal