Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-09-28
Speakers Roast Dahlman and others
for Signing Report.
lSK GOVERNOR TO INTERVENE
President of Central Labor Union
Sends Message to Lincoln.
,OUNCIL FAvoRs ARBITRATION
Recommends for Passage Resolution
Asking Company 90 settle Dff-
fercnces Through Unpreiu-
diced Hoard,
DAYS STRIFE DEVELOPMENTS.

DAYS STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS.
President wattles fails TO send a copy
of his proposal to the strikers TO the mass
meeting at Labor temple and the meeting
ignores 1t.
Strikers denounoe the mayors and mem
bers of the counoilmanio committee for
signing the conference report.
President Ford of the Central Labor
union asks Governor shallenberser TO
make an official investigation Of the
strike conditions.
The city council recommends for pas
| sage a resolution asking the street railway
company to arbitrate.
| Failure on the part Of the striking car
men to accept the proposition of the street
railway company left the status of the
strike in practically the condition 1t was
in before negotiations for peace were be
gun through the five mayors Instead of
giving serious consideration to the over
lures for a settlement the men rdculed
the proposals Of Mr.. Wattles and scored
the five mayors and the members OF the
city council for attaching their names to
the document
The next step say the strikers, is the
appeal to Governor Shallenberger to take
a hand in his capacity as state labor com
missioner and a telegram requesting him
to make an investigation was sent to him
yesterday afternoon.
The city council at a meeting of the com
mttee of the whole at the earnest request
of a committee from the Central Labor
union recommended to pass a resolution
asking the company to arbitrate and put
a speedy end to the trouble This resolu-
tion will come up at the meeting Of the
lcouncil tonight
Strikers Get No Statement.
Declaring that they had received no
statement of any proposition from the
street railway company, the leaders of the
striking car men announced at a gathering
held at the Labor Temple Monday after
noon that there was nothing to consider.
1t had been announced that at this meet
ing the strikers would receive and act upon
the street car company's proposition OF
settlement. About 400 attended the meet
ing. Addresses were made by a number
Of labor leaders and Rev j. L. Fisher,
pastor Of the Saratoga Congregational
church.
Patrick Ford, president Of the Central
Labor union. recited what he said was some
'unwritten political history, denouncing the
city administration for the stand taken I'm
relation to the strike. An appeal to the
governor for an investigation Of the strike
in the following telegram was forwarded
during the meeting
Governor Shallenberger, Lincoln, Neb.:
The united labor movement of this entire
community urges your honor to make i'm
mediate Investigation as to the street rail
make known your findings
+. FORD, President c. l.. u.
Commons scores Five Mayors.
THE five mayors have put themselves
in false light" said Ben Commons They
sign and endorse a proposition which they
have not the courage TO submit to a body
of those who toll for a living. They have
given their report to the newspapers, but
p not to us.
, The company is diplomatic The reason
it has not submitted anything to this
meeting today is that In doing so IT would
admit that il knows there is a union here.
our appeal is now to the people and to
{ the governor to use his good offices TO
, settle this question, to make an investiga-
tion as the law provides
I'VE have now separated the sheep
from tho goats declared the speaker in
discussing the return Of some OF the old
men to work. He insisted that the men
who had returned were hired by the COM
pany to go out and then return to work for
effect on the public.
c. o. Pratt also denounced the conference
Of mayors as being In bad faith.
They didn't have the manhood 10 call
in representative working men interested
in this controversy for a suggestion" he
exclaimed bitterly. Il want 20 tell you
: men that II you will stand together 10
, wipe some Of these political skates out Of
existence you can have my assistance"
He encouraged the strikers, saying that
e there was no question OF ample financial
! -s-4r. IL n
n also suggested that It was time for a
g demonstration by the laboring people.
d Preacher Makes Fiery speech.
. Rev. }. l.. Fisher, pastor Of the Saratoga
e Congregational church, took up the ques-
g tion Of municipal politics i'm relation TO the
u strike Referring to Mayor Dahlman he
+. said:
n "Thc business men tell him what 10 do.
Il Yet he can not go another step politically
4 unless you men let him.
- you men want to elect some one 10 rep
;, resent you AT Lincoln. Let him be the right
Il man and when he gets there let him stand
y up and demand a state board Of arbitra-
It ton to handle these labor troubles"
IS Rev. Mr Fisher implied in his speech
IS that the fight was against an Of the capital
,r of omaha. lie advised the men that boy
q colt would be one valuable weapon in the
- fight.
n Let your wives wear that old hat an
# other season. Let her get along with that
D., old coat When you buy shoes buy them
~ in Chicago. It is you who buy the goods
a from these people here, YOU who wear
- the clothes, you are the consumer. Let
them keep their goods. then they will ap-
preciate you.
20 Don't worry; the strike will be settled
i- settled without blood. 7 hope Don't fight
'r unless you have .o. h1.s-bu' n you have "a
X fight bare your arms u the very core
p Don't start trouble, but II they force you
T. 10 II, remember that your homes and your
firesides are as good as theirs. Let thea