Bisbee daily review., 1913-07-19
PHEON|X STRIKE
 YET UNSETTLED
Street Car Company Refu7cs Demands of Strikers. = Trades Council Calls on Commission.

The strike of the street car employees in the city of Phoenix has not yet reached settlement, though the state corporation commission. the PhoenIx business men and the various labor unions of the capital city have devoted much time to the settlement of the trouble
 Theggdemands oft he men on the strike are thus stated
 Increased wage scale of 2ls cents. per hour.
 Seniority of service to be recognized in giving out runs.
 Reinstatement of William Ward, along with the other striking lem ployes.
 Recognition of the right of execu, tive committee of the union to treat with management Of the company.
 The street railway comnany has agreed to submit to arbitration the question of wages and the right of seniority. but refuse to reinstate q discharged employe or to recognize the union and on this contention is standing firm. The street cars arc being run in an irregular manner but there has been so much interference with cars that the. public is not gen. orally patroniZing the system.
 The Phoenix Trades Commission this week again called on the corpor- atioR commission to settle the strike in the following letter:
 Phoenix. Arizona, July 16, 1913 Honorable Corporation Commission of
 Arizona,
 Capitol Building, Phoenix. Gentlemen;
 We desire to cali the attention of your honorable body to the following car situation in Phoenix.
 Price to the writing and adoption of the constitution of Arizona, the power of corporations and particularly of public service corporations, operating within the territory, was so much greater than that of the people them selves that Arizona was recognized as one of the worst cOrpoTation-ridden communities in the nation
 As a result of this, when the people came to write their own constitution, they incorporated Tn their fundamental law provisions creating a body which they clothed with nIll power to regu- late and control in the interests of the people of the state, all corpora tions operating therein.
 We desire to invite your attention specifically to Section 3, Article NV, which reads in part:
 The corporation commission shall have full power to, and shall. make reasonable rules, regulations, ana ord CTS. by which such corporations shall be governed in the transaction of bus -iness within the state, and may make and enforce reasonable rules, regulations, and orders for the con venience, comfort and safety. and the perseYervation or the health of the en- ployes and patrons ot such corpora tions."
 It is clear that the corporation com mission has full power and authority to enforce it's mandate upon the Phoe- nix Railway company of Arizona We wish to invite your attention to the fact that the striking employees Tn question complied with the one order issued by vour body when they con scented to submit all differences to arbitration, whereas the Phoenix Rail way company refused to recognize the authority of your honorable body by declining to submit more than frac- tion of the differences to arbitration.
 We had hoped that the corporation commission would enforce the nan dates of the constitution of the state of Arizona, which, however, to date have been ignored by the commission.
 Since there has been no change in the situation from that time to the present, we demand that you give this