Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-06-06
STRIKE TODAY
EXPECTED Of
Street CARMEN
Dismissal Of Eight En-
ployes Follows Organiza-
ton Of Local Union.
TRADES COUNCIL
NAMES COMMITTEE
Company Will Be Called Upon to Re.
instate Men and Recognize Union,
Refusal Is Expected, and Strike
Cali Will Follow.

A special committee from the Cen
trail Trades council, composed of five
men, and with full authority to act as
they deem best under the circ,lm-
stances. was named last night at a
special meeting Of the council and
was instructed to call upon the Of
ficers of the Pine Bluff company, in
behalf of the eight employees dis
charged by the company Sunday and
yesterday, and of the street car mems
union, announcement of the organi-
cation of which was printed in The
Graphic Sunday morning.
The committee is authorized to re-
quest Of the Pine Bluff company the
reinstatement of the eight discharged
men, unless the company shall be in
position to give real cause" for their
discharge
The committee is authorized also
to inform the company that the new
union insists upon the reinstatement
of the men and the recognition of the
union by the company.
The committee has authority to
order members of the union, now in
the employ of the company, to quit
their cars, if it is unable to reach an
agreement with the officials of the
company, and if it deems Such action
advisable.
Briefly. the committee will ask that
the discharged men be reinstatted,
that the company recognize the union,
otherwise a strike will be ordered.
Make No Other Demands.
1t was announced on behalf of the
street car men. after the meeting OF
the trades council last night, that the
men intended to make no other de-
mands upon the company. 1t was
stated the men will insist on two
things only, and will present but the
two things to the company. through !
the trades council committee, these:
being the demand for the reinstate-
ment of the men and the recognition |
OF the union.
The men discharged are as follows:
A. ]. Kennedy, president of the
l. ]. Varnell, vice president of the
union.
P. G.. Huntley, financial secretary
and treasurer of the union.
C. NJ. Reidinger, recording and cor
responding secretary of the union.
T. M, Simpson. conductor of the
union.
Robert Dennison, warden of the
union.
Ben Young, sentinel of the union
r. L. williams
Williams is a pitman of the COM
pany. He was discharged yesterday
morning. The Others are car opera
tors. and were discharged about noon
Sunday.
Councils Lively Meeting.
The meeting of the trades council
last night, it was stated, was attend
ed by between IT'S and 200 members,
representing every allied organized
trade in the city. 1t was stated the
meeting was called by President
Hicks. to receive the report of the
trades councils committee on organi-
zation, this report being to the effect /
that the street car men had perfected |
organization, had received their {
charter, had elected and installed Of
ficers and that eight members of the Is
union had been discharged.
Several of the men who had been {
discharged made talks to the meet
ing, saying they had been led to re- !
l:eve their discha ge was caused by
their joining the union. Lengthy dis .
cussion of the matter followed, it
being brought out in the discussion !
that the discharge of the men had
come before members of the new
union or of the trades council had E,
even intimated there would be a.:y :
demands made upon the COMPANY. :
Inc statement was made during the; !,
discussion, and generally accepted d,
tnat the members of the new unicn /
intend to ask for nothing that will
cost the company anything, lone cent" t
oelng the expression used, and that t