Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-08-12
TRACTION STRIKE
SEEMS PROBABLE
Indications for Settlement Of Street
Car Troubles in Chicago
Growing Darker.
NO DEFINITE OFFER TO MEN
Union Officials Are Insisting Upon a
Tangible Proposition
MORE PROMISES ARE MADE
North and West Side Lin = Sub
NIT Terms Toda
STRIKE COMING, SAYS EY
CITY Traction Expert Think u
sson of Work By MOtOrme Z
COnduetOrs is AImOa
Inevitable.
Union Officials Are Insisting Upon a
Tangible Proposition.
MORE PROMISES ARE MADE
North and West Side Lin -,
NIT Terms Toda

CHICAGO. August 1.-The street car
situation in this city became darker today
than IL has been at any time since the
union men voted 70 strike The failure Of
the conferences between the union leaders
and the officials Of the street railway com.
panies TO result in any tangible offer that
the union officials thought they could talk
to their men and gave rise TO a growing
dissatisfaction among the employees.
The union officials tonight demand some
thing beside promises TO place before their
men and declare that unless they can get
It soon they will not be responsible for
what might occur. At a conference held
between President I. e. Mitten of the City
Railway company and President NJ c.
Buckley Of the South side Street Car
Mems union, Mr.. Mitten proposed to give
the increase asked for. but making the
ao-cent an hour scale applicable only TO
those employees who have been in the
service ten years Buckley refused this
and said the only thing the unions would
accept would be an advance to 30 cents
within two years. Mr.. Mitten said he would
have 70 confer with his stockholders.
President John Roach of the North and
West side lines has promised to make the
unions q definite offer tomorrow.
Substantial progress has been made and
1 feel confident OF an early settlement,
said Walter L. Fisher the citys represen-
tAtive in the conferences.
"A strike among the street car employees
seems almost inevitable now" said NJ b
Herley city traction expert
EvictiOns BsEIn Today.
PITTsBURG. Aug 11--Early tomorrow
morning forty Schoenville strikers and thei
families will be evicted from the Pressed
Steel Car company's houses at McKee,
Rock by the sheriff of Allegheny count,
and force of armed deputies. The sheriff
warned his deputies tonight to use peace
able MEANS In itheasvfetions.t
The question of arbitration In the strike
trouble IL now in abeyance until August IS
At that time the common pleas court viii
rule on the advsability of invoking th'
law of arbitration passed in the state o.
Pennsylvania in 1893
Today was marked by several mno
clashes between the state constabulary ant
strikers.
After Governor Draper.
BOSTON. Aug. n.-Referring to the gov
ernor OF Massachusetts merely "Eben $
Draper" a committee appointed at a spe
cal convention OF the Massachusetts stat
branch. American Federation Of Labor
held here today, recommended that ever,
effort be made TO defeat in campaigns 70
public office Governor Draper, and al
other political enemies OF the trades unio
movement"
The convention was called to conside
Governor Draper's veto OF the eight-hou
labor bill passed by the last legislature an
the general defeat Of other labor messurs
by the legislature and to decide on recon-
mendRtions as TO what action organize
labor should take in the primaries an
elections next fall.