The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-03
Reject HARMON
AS ARBITRATOR
Columbus Strike Situation
Is Unchanged.
GOVERNOR CALLS MEETING

Rall-Light Officials Refuse to Discuss
Peace Terms In Presence of Car
mems National Organizer - Major
General Dick Suggests curtaiment
OF Service In Order to Dispense
With Presence OF Part Of Troops.
strikebreakers Desert Company.
Columbus, o., Aug. 3.-The Column
bus Railway and Light company and
the striking union conductors Snd
motormen having both refused to ac-
cept Governor Harmon as final arbl-
traitor, the Columbus car strike Is as
far from settlement as ever.
Governor Harmon made strenu-
Gus effort to bring the Rail.Light
company and the strikers together.
President Sheldon and General Man
ager Stewart and two other represen-
tatives of the company appeared at
the executive Office in answer to a
summons from the governor. Later
Business Agent Millet and Organizer
Fay of the carmen's union went to
the governors office. When the union
men arrived Stewart and Sheldon re-
fused to enter into conference with
Fay present
A meeting is in progress today in
Governor Harmon's office, in which
officials of the Rail-Light company
and the executive committee of the
carmen's union are in attendance. If
there are signs that the warning fac.
tions will soon get together, the gov
ornor will late today relieve the Sec
ond regiment, with headquarters at
Lima; the Sixth. located at Toledo:
the First Hospital corps and First
Ambulance corps of Cincinnati, Troop
4 of Cleveland and the Toledo Signal
corps from further strike duty, leav-
ing on the ground the Third regi.
ment, Dayton; the Eighth regiment,
Bucyrus; the Fourth regiment, Co.
lumbus and the local hospital and
ambulance corps and Troop b of this
city.
Quiet has been practically restored,
which is the principal reason for the
contemplated change.
1t is reported that Mayor Marshall
has hired a large number of plain
clothes detectives, some from Colum.
bus, some from outside cities, to
serve until the end of the strike.
They will mingle with the crowds
and be prepared to make arrests the
moment anyone starts trouble. The
report is that there will be several
hundred such detectives in the city
before THE end of the week.
Dick Makes Suggestion.
The state administration, through
Major General Dick and Adiutant
General Weybrecht, put up to Mayor
Marshall the proposition of abandon.
ing all car service except on North
and South High street, West Broad
and East Long.
Mayor Marshall said that service
would be continued on all lines. He
said that as fast as possible he would
release the troops, but just at pres.
ent he wasn't ready to put tho sug.
gestion from Dick and Weybrecht
into effect.
Strlkebreakers are beginning to de-
sert the company, six from the West
Side barns having quit their jobs,
giving as the reason that they were
not paid the wages promised them
and that the food furnished them Is
not good enough.
In the neighborhood of the Colum.
bus insane hospital a squad of sol
diers saw a nonunion crew throwing
stones at their own car. II is believ-
ed that they wanted the company's
inspectors to believe that they had
been attacked by strike sympa.
thizers.