Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
New Men Are to Get Twenty Three
Cents First Six Months.
TROOPS GUARD FORT wnLIAl
Strikers Who Resist Being Disarmed
Are Arrested.
MORE TROUBLE IS FEARED
General Manager Bury of Canadian
Pacific Places Blame for Out
break on Greek
LabOrers.

CHICAGO, Aug 1s-The last shadow Of
the trouble between the street railway
companies Of this city and their employees,
which threatened to lead to a strike of
great proportions. passed away tonight.
Formal peace under three and a half
years contract was agreed at a meeting
between the officials of the companies and
Of the unions
The proposition made yesterday by Presi-
dent J. NJ Roach of the North and West
Side lines was made to the South Side
unions by President T. E. Mitten Of the
South Side lines. 1t was accepted by Presi-
dent NJ. Z. Buckley, representing the union
men.
The only two bitches in the proposition
as advanced last night were smoothed
away. The new men are given q cents an
hour for the first six months, "A cents for
the next six months, 25 cents for the second
year, rs cents for the third year and q
cents until the contract expires on Febru-
airy /, 1918.
| The proposition made and accepted to-
night by the South Side interests is the
same as that made and accepted on behalf
of the North and West Side interests to-
/ night. Inc contract TeauS.
The men now in the service are to con-
tinue at the present rate-2S cents an hour
for six months. 25 cents for the next six
months and q cents after one year. All
men in the service one year at q cents an
hour are to have % cents next year, then
% cents, and finally 30 cents, the maximum,
after two years.
Work of DisarminR Strikers.
FORT WILLIAM, Ont, Aug. l3-The
I only developments in the Canadian Pacific
| dock strike were the vigorous steps taken
| by the military under Colonel Steele in dis
| arming strikers.
| The presence of bayonets and the sight
Of men loading rifles with ball cartridges
| cowed the leaders. The mob is threatenin s
| and more trouble is feared when $50 strike
breakers start work. Those who resisted
being disarmed were jailed
The 800 soldiers patrolling the streets in
the dock district tonight are keeping close
watch to prevent any outbreak, as It is
known that hundreds OF weapons are hid
away by the foreigners on strike.
General Manager Bury of the Canadian
Pacific said: We don't anticipate any fur
ther interruption OF traffic with troops
here. We are ready to rest on arbitration.
| lHes6 men quit WOIh WllnOul nOtlCS ana
without any effort to confer with the com
pany. We attribute this to the Greek ele-
ment of which there are some 200 among
the dock strikers We had 1000 men all
together the rest being Hungarians and
Italians. The Greeks told them Monday
that they must quit work or they would
shoot them adding that they were goins
to hold the company up. They did not
make any demand and have not done SC
yet We are paying day laborers 1sh cents
an hour and q cents for night work. II
was from this good pay that they struck
/ cannot say what we will do, except that
we don't propose to have traffic further
interrupted. as we can bring in all the mer
we need"
Under the escort of soldiers the frs
strike breakers arrived today. They were
100 French Canadians, a sturdy lot, wei
equipped for muscular work around this
dock or for fight. If necessary.
This evening Colonel Billman at winni
peg received word from the minister o.
militia at Ottawa to hold the Nineteenth
regiment and machine guns in readiness t
come.
Strtkebreakers at PfttsburR,
PITTsBURG, Aug. 1S.-Two trainloads o
strike breakers were placed in the Presse,
Steel Car company's plant today before tn
; striking employees OF that company wer
aware of the coup The heavy fog whiol
hung over the Ohio river served as a shield
for the company's men TO cover thel
! operations. and 1t was not until the las
E Of the imported men we're being trans
a ported across the river that the strik
Q pickets learned of the move. The strik
e breakers were put to work at noon. The,
q win receive from S1.75 TO 81 a day. Tobacco
J. Will be furnished free and a hotel near tn
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