The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-08-10
CARS RUNNING
STRIKE ENDED
Traffic Again Resumed on DesMoines
Street Railway.
DONE BY ORDER OF THE COURT
First Car Leaves the Barn at 4:45
O'clock Sunday Afternoon. Both
Sides Claim vicaory in the
Settlement at Present.


Des Moines, Aug 7.--Special: The
rattle OF street cars is heard again in
Des Moines. The rattle will continue
indefinitely so long as no court order
interferes with the operation of the
vehicles.
Both car company and union obeyed
a mandatory writ of injunction issu-
ed Saturday night by Judge Lawrence
DeGraff at the request of the city of
Des Moines as quickly as possible.
The injunction commanded the union
strikers to go to work and command
ed the street car company to rein
state Conductor Ben l.. Hiatt and al
low the union men to go back to their
cars. The obeying of the courts man
date on the part of both defendants
to the action resulted in ending the
tie-up of the Des Moines street car
service, during which not a car NOV
ed for twenty-seven and one-ralf hours
The strike order, which went into
effect at lis o'clock Saturday morn
ing, was revoked yesterday afternoon
by the unanimous vote of the car men
at a massmeeting at the labor head
quarters. The first car in operation
after the order was rescinded, Perry
interurban, left the waiting room at
4:45 O'Clock Sunday afternoon.
Regarded as Victory.
Union men generally hail the court
action as a victory for the organized
labor movement with the right of en-
joining used in their behalf. The lead
ers, however, hesitated to express, an
opinion on the matter. They want to
see what comes of it. At the pres
ent time, however, obedience to the
order of the court is their aim, it is
declared. That the men will continue
at work indefinitely until some court
order interVenes, is understood. Also
there is an undercurrent of feeling in
several quarters that the entire con-
troversy isvsettled now, and that the
relations between the company and
the men are back to what they were
before the Hiatt matter came up.
Company's Statement.
Mr.. Harrigan positively declined to
discuss the situation. Mr.. Guernsey
will talk for me-" he declared Mr..
Guernsey attorney for the company,
was retcent, he refused to talk of
the company's plans for the future,
but he issued the following state
ment:
The order in the suit brought by
the city Saturday night was signed
and filed without any notice to the
company that it was proposed to
bring this suit. We have obtained a
copy of the petition and have had a
conference over the matter, which
has resulted in the following cOnclus,
ions:
First-The company is law abid-
ing citizen, and while it believes that
the order in question Is clearly err
roneous, it will obey this order SO
long as it continues in force.
Second-The company will, with
the least possible delay, in the proper
way, bring up for determination and
have determined the question whether
this order was properly entered, and
il it was not so entered, will have it
set aside.
This disposes of the existing stu
alton. What the company will do
when the situation changes, it will
determine at that time.
We hope that we are wrong and
that the city is right with reference
to this order. If this order stands it
means that public service corpora,
tons, having contract with a labor
union, has right to go into court
and secure a mandatory injunction
prohibiting the labor union from
striking, and requiring it, in case a
strike has been called, to rescind the
order calling the strike. 1t is OBJ
viOus that if this is the law way has
been pointed out for handling these
labor difficulties which will be more
economical and efficient than any
method that has yet been suggested.