Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-13
Arbitration Committee Ob- tains Consent Both Sides
 to Compromise Pact.
MEN RECEIVE: PAY
 FOR TIME LOST
Company's Proposal, Addressed to Arbitration Committee, Consents to Treat with Employees Only, and
 Not to Discriminate

The street car strike was ended shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday even- ing, and at 7:3O o'clock the first car since last Tuesday evening at o'clock when the strike went into effect, reached Main and Second, with Motor man Robert Dennison in charge. The car, and those which followed it, was greeted with cheers from the unusual i ly large number of people on the streets, gathered to learn the outcome of the negotiations which had been carried on throughout the day.
 Last night, the following copy of the agreement was made public:
 The Peace Agreement. "To Messrs. Simon Bloom, w. B. Sor- rells, John Wilbourne, A. H.
 Powell, J. c. Clary.
 "In order to have the differences between the Pine Bluff company and it's employees adjusted and to give the public immediate car service, the com pany in response to request by you gentlemen for it to name the condi- tions on which it would restore it's employees to their former position, agrees with you:
 q. The company will restore it's employees whose respective connec- tions with the company have been severed during the month of June, 1916, to their respective positions, under the same wages and conditions as existed before controversy, as indi- viduals, and without discrimination against any of such employees on ac- count of being a member of any labor organization.
 "2. The company will under no cir cumstances discharge any employe be- labor organization.
 "3. All differences between the company and it's employees, if any should arise, shall be settled between the company and it's employees only, and the company will allow the em- ployes to appoint a committee of themselves to adjust with the com pany all such grievances, and the company will not discriminate against any member of such committee.
 A: The company will pay to it's employees whose connection was severed with the company during the month of June, 1916, as referred to above, the wages they would have earned if they had continued to have operated the cars in the same manner as before the controversy.
 Signed this 18th day of June, 1916.
 THE PINE BLUFF COMPANY" :. lsigned) Byron c: Fowles, Approved: Superintendent. (signed) IF. G. Bridges.
 President"
 "We, the undersigned, accept the above.
 (Signedl
 "Simon Bloom,
 "W. B. Sorrells,
 "John Wilbourne,
 "A. H. Rowell,
 "J. c. Clary,
 "Committee."
 Strikers Express Thanks.
 Ben Commons, fourth vice president of the carmen's international union, said last night:
 'In behalf of the strike committee, we wish to publicly state our apprecia- ton, through the columns of The Graphic, for the loyalty of organized labor and the sympathy that was so profoundly expressed by the entire community. and we sincerely hope that the friendliest relations between the employees and the officials of the Pine Bluff company will again have been established, and that in the fu- ture there will be no cause for a repe- tition of what has occurred in the week just passed. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to The Graphic for it's fairness in giving to the public at all times the true conditions as existed. We want to also thank Mayor Simon Bloom, Judge Walter Sorrells, Labor Commissioner J. c. Clary, Attorney A. H. Rowell and John Wilbourne, our postmaster, for the public service they have rendered"
 Was Busy Day.
 Immediately following the adoption of resolutions at Sundays mass meet ing, Chairman Wilson of the mass meeting named Mayor Simon Bloom, Circuit Judge w. B. Sorrells, Post master John Wilbourne, State Labor Commissioner J. c. Clary and Attor- ney A. H. Powell as a special commit tee to present the resolutions to the strike committee of the central trades council and to the officials of the street car company.
 Immediate acceptance was announc- ed by the Central Trades councils strike committee. which was com posed of w. B. Hicks, chairman. Bert Smith, Frank Hughes, Walter Davis, T. White and N. H. Alexander.
 The officials of the company asked until o'clock yesterday afternoon to
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