Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-25
MEMPHIS CARMEN
 WIN IN BRIEF, ' .~ QUIET STRIKE
Company Recognizes Un- ion, Men Not Demanding
 a "Closed Shop"

The Memphis stre,t car strike ended Sunday afternoon in com 1iete victory for the recently -organ- lzed union. Details oe he last hours of the strike. and the signing of a truse agreement are given in yester- Giys Commercial Appeal, as fol- lows:
 The street car strike was stttled at 2:25 o'clock Sunday afternoon at conference between the general committee of the strikrs and T. H. Tutwiler, president ot the Memphis Street Railway company.
 A compromise agreement was reached, put into the ft rm of con- tract, and signed by roth parties % the conference.
 The carmen won their principal de- 1nands-recognition of their union, arbitration on future wages, hours of work and other ml.ters that shall arise in the future bet ve4n the com rany and it's employees and reinstate ment of all men whom the carmen alleged were discharged for taking part i2 the attempt to organize the union. A closed shop was not de- manded.
 As soon as the agreement was reached the strikers committee went to Carpenters hall, where 300 of the riking employees were assembled. The agreeemsnt was read by Ben Commons, the union organizer, amid much cheering and au enthusiastic demonstration.
 Immediately after reading the agreems nt, Commons o'Gcred the men to go at once to the car barn and resume the street car service.
 At 3:10 o'clock Sunday afternoon the first car left the earns. It was Vance avenue car aud was man.:ed by Conductor Greer and Motorman Martin. It was the first car in Mem- yhis manned by union men.
 When the agreement was reached between the company officials alid their employees the stfike had lasted exactly 24 hours and 25 minutes. During that time street car service had been completely tied up.
 During the first few hours of the strike an attempt was made to run cars with two policemen in each This effort was fruitless. however. Large crowds wers' assembled on downtown streets and blocked the movement of the cars. They per- suaded every crew to join their ra'ks.
 No effort was made 10 run street cars Sunday morning, and not a single car wheel turne,, on the down. town streets.
 The conference that ended tle r;1 u1, pOypn officials. T. H. Tutwi,er. presi ten! notified Theodore E. Hoepfner. a member of general committee com losed of 10 membsrs of the leading unions in Memphis, that the com pany was ready to consider the 1e- mands of the strike.
 The committee met MT. Tutwiler ln the company's offic- in the Memphis Trust building at :30 o'clock Sunday afternoon The 12 original demands presented 10 MT Tutwiler by tae same committee Saturday was pre- sented again but later Ben Com mons, the union organizer. produced new agreement. After short dis cussion this agreement was adopted. Mir Tutweiler affixed his signature at 1.25 o'clock. Members Of the com mittee also signsd at once
 The car company employees ask fo' a 10-hour work day, with time and a half pay for all overtime work. They ask that the pay of motormen and conductors begin at 22 'eHts and increase one cent each year until a maximum of 2S cents an hour Is reached. It also is demanded that the slopmen be given 25 cents day increase in wages.
 The union men did not want tae agreement published They claimed It was only a tentative one and was only the forerunner Of . permanent agreement to be deci led upon.
 After the strike had been declared off, the strikers immediately started for the car barns. going out Union av- enue, Their ranks were augmented Ly several hundred others on the way, and when the barns gre reached demonstration was held Commons, sitting in an automobile. signed up more than 30 men as 'lembers of ne union who had been faithful to their employees It was said ,ast night that every employe of the company. eX Cept one or two scattered men, are members Of the union.
 As the cars left the barn the car employees cheered. Many people llv- Ing nearby assembled and joined in inc demonstration. Car service was normal once again at o'clock.