Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-15
All Surface and Elevated
Lines Tied Up by Strike
- of 1880 Men.
cvMPATHIZERS HURT
. STRIKE-BREAKERS
LEGISLATURE May Today Order Utilities
Commission to Take Entire Charge
a, neutrality-suspicious. Towns Like
ly to Be Involved.

Chicago, June 14.-This city is
crippled tonight by strike involv-
| mo IA $50 elevated and surface car
employes and that has tied up every
surface car and practically every
| elevated train.
Except for one or two elevated
trains operated on the south side, not
wheel has moved on any of the
surface or az" lines from O'Clock
/ This morning, when the last surface
cars rolled into the barn and the
men who manned them went home.
The effort to operat2 the a." on
the south side resulted in a minia-
ture riot at the Twelfth street sta
| ton. Were cars were stoned by
strik: sympatchizers and two private
detectives were injured. S; far this
is the only indication of trouble be-
cause Of the strike.
Gigantic as this strike is. and
greatly as it affects the entire bust
ness and working community, tne
employees as whole show a dispnv.-
ton to preserve order and to obey
| the Instructions of their leaders S
William Quinlan, president of divis-
ion No. 421 of the Garments local
union and John j. Buce, president of
Division No. 308
Leaders Enjoin Sobriety.
49, eta n
nouncing the order to strike Sunday
night, these leaders said:
DO no act that will discre dit you
with your organization, and above
all things remain away from the sa-
loon and refrain from drink until the
strike is settled"
The episode at the Twelfth street
station alarmed the chief of police
and he appealed to the mayor to
swear in 1000 extra policemen and
arm them The mayor referred him
10 the finance committee, but that
committee deferred action.
The Chicago public has treated
lhe strike today as huge joke of
Which they are the admitted butt
confronted with situation that dis
arranged the entire business and in
aastrlal life, Chicagoans laughed and
lhen began to adjust themselves to
Inc new conditions in the most ami
SOle mood Imaginable.
Chicago ton ght, in the downtown
uElrlct, is quiet, Automobiles in long
PROFESSIONS are carrying passengers
through this and others districts OF
"e city, but there is no disorder.
steam railroads put on extra trains
sAa coaches, but were swamped with
BUSINESS. Lines of persons waiting
" get through the turnstiles stretch
W Tor blocks. Thousands walked to
Work.
rae rupture over hours of service
snu wages came last night when
mayor thompson Admitted that his
'"empt at mediation was failure
State May Take Charge.
~ SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, June 14.-Sana-
N NJ. John I. Denvir Of Chicago to-
~sn, introduced in the senate a
s,s sutton formally ordering the
, w." utilities commission to at once
s anv e!harge OF the Chicago strike
ii% 0a secure if possible an opera
,o rs .ruce, investigate all phases ant
o spu'' back to the senate at the
'' nm possible moment.
ord's resolution was made a special
'T ~a Tor tomorrow morning.
,nn "e Utilities commission has sweep
a aug, extraordinary powers to handle
sio, a.'ll'y situation. The commas
san.. Is subject to the order of the
''Aa'e Or the house.