Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-09-21
OWE TO AVOID ANY TROUBLE
Taft's Secretary Wires to Suspend
Strike During Taft's Visit.
AYOR THEN CoNsULTs wATTLEs
Latter Can't Suspend, but He Does
Stop All Cars for Time.
STRIKE BREAKERS NUMEROUS
Four Hundred i'm All VIII he Here
Tuesday, wnttIes says, when
Normal Schedules Are
Promised,
$1,000 Coz strIl.e sItustion.


street Car Strike Situation.
At the request OF Mayor DahlmRn street
car service was suspended Monday after
dents visit and VIII not be resumed until
President Nattles says practically full
service will be resumed Tuesday morning
on all lines.
The company SAYS $50 strike breakers ar
i'm the car barns and on company properly.
| Enough to make 400 win come in by Tues
Both Mr. Pratt and Mr. wattIes made
the statement Monday morning that there
are no Developments looking to settle
ment Of the controversy
Such street car service as tho company
could give yesterday terminated abruptly
at p. m. The cars were stopped by the
company as the result of a telegram from
President Tafts secretary asking that tho
car strike be called off for the day. This
was impossible, and the company, at the
request of Mayor Dahlman, made the Z
p. m. order.
! President Wattles asserts by Tuesday the
company will have on hand 400 experienced
men from other cities to take the places Of
such men as remain on strike. The service
Monday was about the same as Sunday.
ment Of the trouble have failed. Both Mr.
Wattes and c. o. Pratt, a vice pres,dent-'
of the international organization Of street
railway men, who is conducting the strike
said that no overtures looking to a oon-
ference had been made by either side
Ihe mayors action In requesting the
street railway officials to stop all traffic
after o'clock, followed the receipt of a
telegram from Mr. Fred w. CARPENTER.
secretary at the White House, which read
as follows:
The Mayor, Omaha: Please wire me at
once condition Of strike In your city. Cam
not arrangements be made to have strike
called off TOR period of the presidents
visit? FRED w. CARPENTER. Secretary.
The mayor sent the following telegram In
reply;
Fred w. Carpenter, washington-Hvery-
I lroin running before president arrives ana
during his stay in the city.
JAMES C. DAHLMAN.
Before sending his answer to the mes-
sage, Mayor Dahlnian called up President
Wattles and asked II the strike could not
be suspended while the president was in the
city.
Didn't start II, Can't stop IL.
1--WE did not call the strike and we can
not suspend it," was the answer, but IL
you request it. we will suspend all street
car traffic during the time the presidents
party is here"
Later Mayor Dahlman called up and
asked that traffic be stopped, and an order
was at once sent out from Mr.. WattIes' Of
flee to run no more cars after 4 o'clock
Efforts Of the strike officials are being
directed to the organising OF the Council
Bluffs employees OF the company. Head
l,a,,
Ben Commons, one Of the leaders OF the
international union, has been sent over to
help in the work.
At the headquarters OF the local union
it was stated that men who have been
running cars since the trouble began have
been filing applications for membership
in the union. Secretary o. J. Randall OF
the union said fifty-one applications had
been received from one barn.
Mr.. Randall said the union had re-
ceived over 400 applications for member
ship since Pratt and Commons had reached
Omaha
Pickets At All Barns.
The strikers are maintaining pickets AZ
all the car barns and will continue TO do
so during the trouble. The plcksts are
divided into three shifts of eight hours each
Mr.. Pratt says they will not do more than
try to persuade men who are running cars
TO quit their jobs and join the striksug
ranks.
On the other hand, the charge is made by
street railway officials that men are bainE
intmidated by threats OF assault and that
strikers are calling up by telephone the
homes of men who are working and telling
their wives to keep their husbands at
homes as they have been spotted" and will
be dealt with harshIy.
Sheriff Bradley will swear in between
forty and fifty special deputies who will
be located at important intersections to
watch for possible trouble The regular
staff Of deputies will be kept at the office
with two automobiles IN readiness TO an
swer calls from the specials. While care
ful preparations were made to prevent
clashes, the strikers asserted there would
be no trouble If they could avoid IL They
insisted they intended 70 use only peace
able means OF winning the str1kA
New Men Doing Wen.
The men who nave been imported arrived
on the Northwestern from Chicago during
sunday night. and we're switched around
TO Twenty street and AmAs avenue
over the Missouri Pacific Belt line AT
the car barn they got out OF the box
cars and scampered for the back door OF
the barn. Several OF them are said TO
have been frightened out Of their Jobs
while getting TO the barns and fled from
the cars
They will not be used to any extent
by the company for a day or perhaps
longer They are housed and fed az the
barn and can be kept there indefinitely.
Many Of the new men were In service
Monday, and we're doing we'll, apparently,
their greatest drawback being their unao-
quaintance with Omaha's streets. They
appear 10 be experienced men so far as
running cars are concerned, and are, in
ard to be in their seats In the arena by
most cases, well attired and behaved.
The company withdrew as many OF ita