Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17

weeks because of the opening of the
city theaters,' explained Mr.. Davis,
so the company has decided to wait
until next year to open the amuse-
ment resort"
Discharge Carmen
Alderman James 3. DeShong last
night dismissed the charges against
the ten striking carmen, charged with
being implicated in the attack on a
Ihlrd street trolley car at Third and
State streets. last Wednesday night.
Inc strikers were arrested several
days ago. and at the hearing last
night were discharged because of a
lack OF c~orroborative evidence. The
men heard were Wilbert l.. Bricker
and Albert Yingst. charged with ma
ncious injury to railroads: Edwin w.
Shoop, John S. Dunkle, Albert Mehaf-
ne. Ralph D. Arnold, Samuel c. Tay-
Tor, Thomas E. Clark, George l, Car
penter. Anthony Wendler, striking
carmen, and c.. NJ. Housed. who ad-
mttted that he was a private detective,
/. d. Rechtel and Housed testified for
the Commonwealth.
Until Housed too the stand. il was
not known that he had been doing
detective work. Some of the strikers
unde arrest proved alibis. or were
not identified as being at the scene of
the attack. and were released before
the other hearings began.
The strikers were represented by
Attorneys Oscar G. Wickersham and
w. l.. Loeser. The prosecuting attor-
neys were Horace Segelbaum and ].
z. B. Cunningham.
To-day, according to Harrisburg
Railways Company officials, 81 of SO
regular cars were in service, and dur
ing the afternoon cars ran on the
Mtddletown line every ten minutes
TO accommodate crowds going to the
fair.
Thorpe's Statement
John j. Thorpe, strike leader and
organizer Of the carmen. in a signed
statement to-day commented as fol-
lows on the result of the hearing last
night Of the ten strikers:
Why did the police court discharge
ten striking carmen?
The Traction Company tried its
best to get charges against ten of
their striking employees, they hired a
bunch of would-be detectives to try
n lead the men into trouble. They
even went so far as to make all kinds
OF suggestions as to what should be
done to those strike-breakers now
working on the cars. Some of those
very same would-be detectives tried
their best to become members of our
organization, but we were wise TO at
least some of them. The
here would not stop for nothing: they
would like to see the strikers hang
and they would all be hung if the
company could have their say. This
company reminds me of the Indianap-
oils car company. When their men
organized they went that far as to
connect a piece of trolley wire to the
overhead switch in the front and rear
cabs, making a direct connection with
the trolley wire on the car. and thev
gave their employees strict orders to
take and lay this wire against any
man nyhn AarIAI @I-g-
organization with them! Kill them If
% can, were the orders: there being
enough electric current to kill anv
person who came in contact with that
wire. Just think what a traction com
pany will resort to in order to Keen
their employees from being organized.
Nearly all companies are alike in this
respect, they will not stop for moth
ing, l believe the public of Harrisburg
know by this time that this car COM
psny is Just like all other companies
when 1t comes to their employees or
gantztng into a labor union.
I'VE wish to call attention again 10
the fact that we tried everything in
our power to avert a strike here in
this city, we tried to get the traction
company to agree to arbitration, the
very same thing that our President
of the United States is now fighting
for between the railroad managers
n their employees, but Mr.. Musser
frankly told the committee that he
had nothing to arbitrate with them.
We tried to get this company to arbi-
trate. Now. do YOU know what arbi-
tratton Is? It means that the company
select n man, the employees one man.
and the two chosen to select the third
man. and then the company and the
employe to go before those three men
and argue their cases and then let
those three men decide who is right
and who Is wrong. and their decision
to be final and binding upon both
parties for a period of. say one or
two years, as the case may be-. But
no. the traction company is afraid
of arbitration. because they know that
they are in the wrong and the men
are within their rights.
we again appeal to our friends to
not forget that on next Monday. Au-
gust 81. o can 90 to the City Clerks
office. No. s. Courthouse. and sign a
petition for an amendment TO an
ordinance entitled: AN ordinance to
regulate the oneration of motorbuses
in the citv of Harrisburg and urovid-
ing for the licensing thereof" Now