Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-07
SLIGHT HOPE 0F
AV[R1|NG STRIKE
CAR MEN OF DES MONIES WILL
QUIT SUNDAY MORNING UNLESS
SETTLEMENT is EFFECTED.
NEW LIST OF AR6lTRATORS
SUBMITTED TO COMPANY
mont to Accept Third Arbitrator
For I O'clock a. mn ational Board
Member Comes to Take Charge.


street car men will so on strike not
later than l O'Clock tomorrow morning
unless an eleventh hour effort to
settle the differences between the COM
pany and the union Is successful.
AT an early hour today 1t was an
nounced that the strike might possibly
be averted by the selection of the third
member OF the arbitration board. AT
n meeting yesterday Arbitrator Urick.
representing the union. submitted a
final list of citizens to Arbitrator
Guernsey. representing the company
Th" latter was given until noon today
to accept one of the proposed citizens
as the third arbitrator. 1t was not an
ticipated. at least by union men. that
this final prorosa! 10 settle the diff
cul:ies will meet with success.
At O'Clock this aftcrron was the
time limit set by the union for the re-
instatement by the company Of the
three dscillrSct! car men Unless ac-
ton is taken by that time the strike
order is EXPECTED imm ed!ately.
Fred Fay. Of Ypsilanti. Mich. mem
ber of the national board OF the car
mems union. is here in active charge OF
the situation.
The Breaking Point
That which really precipitated affairs
was the conviction borne in upon the
workingmen that they were being
trifled with and that the attorney for
the company was merely playing for
time until he could get assurance that
in case OF another conflict the state
militia would be used to run the cars.
no Of her
there was any foundation for their be-
lief or not. that arrangements had
been or were about to be. made to Sc
cure the participation OF the guard
companies.
It is known that at the time the
court injunction was issued before.
preparations We're already under way
for calling out the militia The delay
then was caused by the fact that there
was no rioting and no actual danger
to anybody y desperate effort was
made To lay the foundation for use OF
the militia by publication of the most
ineXcusably exaggerated accounts OF
the terrors Of the situation in Des
Moincs: but the imported strike break
ers did not have the nerve to start
trouble and so the scheme fell thru.
or course if the discharged men are
reinstated before . o'clock this after
noon strike will be temporarily
avoided The workingmen left string
to tho strike order.
An interesting question would ari="
as to the contempt Of court action in
case the men by striving are found to
violate the orders. TIL" men claim that
the company is NOW violatin" the court
orders and has been all along Tho
corr pany claims it has lived ur to tho
agreement and is willing to so on With
the arbitration.
Names Of Good Mon Submitted
The general view in pas Notnes Is
that at least since the publication OF
the list Of names submitted by each
side from which 10 choose the arhitra-
tor. the street car employees have the
best Of 1t in tho matter Of public SYM
patl,v The list cuhmittod bv the attor-
nev fnr tho connanv contained only III"
narcs Of large Inancicrs or employers
of labor and persons who might he
sIprosed to favor tn" company. The
workers presented Il list including men
Of tho highest character who could not
POSSIBLY havc any has one way or tn"
other II arhitrators can not be secured
out Of {, list containing such names as
r. r Deemcr George Cosson James
z Harr,. II W. Rvers and others of
thot Kind no list Of ton thousand
names would he sotis factory. Tho fact
that .hc cornr,rv rejected tho nam cs
Of thoen mon hns gone FAR to convince
tho n,,h''c that there va. c'ther no real
c,.e a-oirst tho DISCHARGED mon or
tina, th~ cor'r.nv wa. in fact merely
plsrir, for time and WAS not acting in
good faith.
Orc element In the ras- before !. out
" II 10 the ndvarta%. Of the eo,rr.ny
n i. choose. to hrtng on war and that
Is the fact that there IS no state fair
lust ahead and business interests vii!
not he so insistcnt on at least tenn
porarv settlement Otherwise the sit
nation i. not greatly changed from that
which the court found in August when
il gave orders to start arbitration.
No Agreement Reached.
Attorney Y. r. Guernsey, the COM
pany's member OF the board OF arbi-
tratior, failed 20 select third member
of the board from the list OF names
presented to him by A. l.. Urick. the
unions member of the board. at noon
today. Another meeting will be held
at O'Clock ut which time fina, ef-
fort will be made to reach an agree
ment. If the men iaii 10 agree upon n
third member a strike order probably
will be issued at o'clock this after
non to take effect at / o'clock Sunday
morning.
Governor Takes Hand.
SPECIAL to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Oct. I.-Governor Car