Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-07
Operation.
NEW WAY TO SETTLE STRIKE
Mandatory Injunction Stops Promised
Bitter Struggle.
MEN OUT ONLY FORTY HOURS
Hiatt Cause of Trouble, One of First
Men to Go Back.
CROWDS CHEER CREWS AS PASS
Scenes Rivaling Walkout at Resump-
tion of Business.
CROWDS CHEER CREWS AS PASS
SYSTEM LAWYER DOUBTS LAW
Declares Serious Question Whether
Order of Judge DeGraff within
Law, but Company obcys
Reluctantly.

.DES MONIES. Aug. 6.-Promptly at
o'clock this afternoon street car traffic
was resumed in Des Moines and the forty
hour strike. which began at LIS o'clock
yesterday morning, when the union en-
ployes walked out. wos terminated.
For the first time in the history OF the
country the order Of court has put an
end to what gave eevery indication of be-
coming one of the bitterest struggles ever
waged between organized labor on the one
hand and capital on the other.
The mandate issued by Judge Lawrence
DeGraff of the district court last night was
promptly obeyed by the Des Moines City
Railway company and the carmen's union,
and while there is ample prospect of a
fight later in the courts one thing is GER
tain. an Injunction has restored. tenn
porarily at least. nearly 500 conductors and
motormen to their original positions.
The scenes attending the resumption of
traffic rivaled those of Friday night when
the men turned the cars in for what many
of them thought would be the last time
The streets in the vicinity of the central
waiting rooms at Sixth and Mulberry
streets were thronged for nearly three
hours before the time set for the first car
to pass When extras announced that the
first car had left the Twenty-fourth street
barn enthusiasm began to show itself. and
when car No. 1SS of the university line
passed the station the crowd rendered the
crew a rousing ovation.
Cheers for All Crews.
II was not long before the first cars on
every lien had reached the station and each
of the crews as they came up was greeted
with cheers. BY o'clock traffic had al
most resumed its normal condition.
| That new method of handling labor
difficulties has been discovered. was the
statement of N 7. Guernsey attorney for
the street car company tonight, following
the acquiescence of the company in Judge
DeGraff's order. At the same time he
said his clients were by no means satis-
fled that the court was within its jurls-
diction in i1/CIing the mandatory injunction,
but for the present they were willing to
abide by it, leaving to a later date the
trial Of the case on it's merits.
Fred Fay of Ypsilanti, Mich. interna-
tional board member of the Amalagamated
Association of Street and Electric railway
employees of America, who conducted the
brief strike. was much pleased with the
turn of events tonight. He said that while
he and the members OF the executive COM
mittee had preferred that the strike con-
tinue until a new agreement had been
signed, the Intervention of the court was
acceptable because 1t gave to the union
exactly what IL had asked. This was the
reinstatement of Conductor benjamin j.
Hiatt, whose recent discharge without an
investigation led to the trouble and the
order that arbitration must decide whether
or not he is to remain with the company.
Hiatt One of FIrst Out.
Hiatt was one of the first men out OF the
Twenty-fourth street barn this afternoon,
and his friends along the route gave him
ample evidence of their esteem in frequent
cheers.
The suit in equity which terminated tho
strike, was brought by the city OF Des
Moines, through its city counsellors, II. w.
Byers and Robert o. Brennan, upon the
order Of the city council late last night. A
hearing to determine whether the in
junction shall be made permanent probably
will be had tomorrow.
n. I. Guernsey, counsel for the COM
pany. on behalf Of Manager ]. r. Harrigan
discussed the legal phase of what he calls
a new method of settling strikes. in the
following statement which he gave the AS
ISOLATED Press:
THE order in the suit brought by the
city last night was signed and filed with.
out any notice to the company that It was
: proposed to bring this suit. We have OBJ
! talned a copy OF the petition and have
had conference over the matter, which
has resulted In the following conditions:
First, the company is a law-abidinl
citizen and while II believes that the ordei
in question is clearly erroneous. and papert
are absolutely void for want of jurisdiction