United labor bulletin., 1909-10-29
THREE-cENT CAR FARE.
johnson Wins a Long Fight-city May
Purchase Lines.

Purchase Lines.
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conference was held Tuesday to ar
range final details which will result In
an absolute settlement of the Cleveland
street railway difficulty which has been
bitterly agitated for eight years. During
the life of the controversy it has been
political issue at all times. Partial set
Elements have been made and many pro-
posed. but all failed of their object. Now
peace is assured.
The basis of the strike has been Mayor
Tom l.. Johnson's contention for three
cent fare The proposed settlement VIII
be on this rate of fare, and will ellmln-
ate the street car question from the fall
campaign.
All the main points have been settled
1t is agreed that the city shall give the
Cleveland Railway company, the owner
of the local lines, a 25-year franchise.
revokable at any time any of the details
of the contract with the city is violated
The city reserves the right to purchase
the lines at any time municipal owner
ship is made lawful, providing the city
desires to take over the lines. The city
also reserves the right to name pur-
chaser of the lines after eight years. The
initial rate of fare is to be three cents
on all lines, with a one-cent extra charge
for a transfer.
Both the city and the railway company
have agreed to let Judge Robert W. Tay-
Ior of the United States court determine
the value of the railway property and
the maximum rate of fare. 1t is agreed
that at no time shall the rate of fare be
greater than will allow the company an
earning power of more than per cent.
on the value of the property, consistent
with good service. Judge Tayler has IN
dicated that he will make the maximum
rate of fare four cents for a cash fare
and the regular ticket rate seven tickets
for 25 cents and cent extra for trans
fers. This proposition has been accepted
both by the city and the railway com
pany-G Gailsburg News.
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The insurance features of labor unions
from the latest object of attack by vigil
ant plutocracy, ever alert to the danger
of losing a penny. At the last meeting
of the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, President Gompers
was ordered to issue circular to the
various internationas, in which coopera-
tion is asked to resist quiet movement
in several states having for it's object
the classifying of out-of-work, sick and
death benefits with old line insurance.
The insurance companies are alarmed
al the growing tendency of workers to
furnish their own insurance and efforts
are now being made to surround them
with such restrictions that they will
either be of no benefit to the workers or
force them to go out of business. The
Insurance companies want this trade
union feature checked The circular
warns the workers of their danger
which also includes fraternal societies.
Artisan.
La Exploridad, manufactured by Liv-
ingston Cigar 90.
WHERE PROHIBITION
MAKES PERJURERS
Here is what District Attorney Jerome
of New York says about Maine: I'm the
state of Maine the number of stamps
sold by the federal authorities for liquor
and the number of licenses per capita
are as great as those issued in the state
of New York. A former chief justice OF
Maine said that in his boyhood the peo
pie of Maine were law-abiding and God
fearing, but that the operation of the
liquor law had turned them into a race
of perjurers. In hundreds of cases in
which he had sat he declared that there
WAS not one in which perjury was moi
committed"