New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-30
Plan to Submit Disputed
Question to Justice Rice
Accepted by Company.
IA MORE MEN BEATEN
IN PLYMOUTH RIOT
Wilkes-Barre's Mayor Adds loo
TO Police-Warns Children
to Stay Home.
Iron, +. star Correspondent, Of m. TriOune.l


Wilkes-Barre, Penn, Nov. 2s.-All
NEGOTIATIONS looking toward settle
ment Of the traction strike ended TO-
night with the refusal Of the strikers
through P. ]. Shea, Of the executive
hoard of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Railway Employees. to submit
the question in dispute-the validity
Of the existing contract--to Presiding
Justice Charles E. Rice. Of the Supe-
rior Court.
This proposition. made in the Cham
Der of Commerce. the directors OF the
trolley company accepted. They also
agreed TO reinstate all of theenen now
on strike, but they refused to agree to
the abrogation of all existing contracts
or the further demand of Shea that in
the future all men dismissed for any
cause should have the right to have
the matter of their discharge arol'
trated.
With the demand that all existing
contracts for working conditions, hours,
etc. be cancelled, Shea insisted that
new agree ments be arranged by COM
mittee to be selected from residents OF
Luzerne County.
Arbitration Refused.
Following the refusal Of Shea to
agree to Justice Rice as an arbitrator,
Fred VI. Kirby. one OF the directors,
told Shea that there would be no fur
ther negotiations.
While the representatives Of the
Chamber of Commerce were laboring
with both sides to the controversy to
bring about peace Mayor Kosek was
issuing a statement decrying the disor-
derby conditions. that revail in the city
and calling upon all citizens to refrain
from loafng about the public squares
and taking part in movements which he
declared could not but end in disorder.
Mayor Kosek's determination to put
more men at work was prompted by the
storm of indignation aroused by last
nights riots. The Management OF the
Hotel Sterling was very bitter in de-
nouncing the lack of protection given
it's property and its guests, and from
other sources there were threats that
unless the Mayor showed himself capa-
BILE Of preservinS the peace Sheriff
Kniffen would be asked to take posses
sion of the city and bring in state con-
stabulary.
Threat to Impeac.: Mayor.
Unofficially the Mayor was also told
that an effort would be made TO i'm
peach him unless the Police Depart
meat bucked up. The Mayor, however,
is vastly handicapped by the fact that
tn members of the police force SYM
pathize in the main with the strikers.
In the rioting last night one of the
leaders of the mob which stormed the
Hotel Sterling was the brother Of a
policeman.
Mayor Kosek is also handicapped by
the attitude of the local magistrates,
who refuse TO punish severely the local
men who may be brought before them.
This morning there was more dis
order with the running of the first car
into Plymouth. This arrived an hour
before any of the state police were on
duty, and the men operating it were
set upon and badly beaten. The next
car crew TO arrive met with similar
treatment In all. fourteen OF the
company's men went to the hospital
to-day.
Another effort to secure action look
ing toward peace was announced late
tonight, when the Taxpayers Associa-
ton, a local organization inactive so
long that most persons thought it de-
funct. announced that it would try and
get DR.. John Price Jackson. whose
right about face on the matter of the
scale is blamed for the existing trouble,
TO come here. Just what Jackson
could accomplish is not clear to those
back of the move. for whatever inhu-
ence he may have possessed has
ceased to exist, and he Is now popular
with neither the strikers or those who
aye opposed TO them.