Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-07-19
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men. as tw, members of a board of
arbitration. For the neutral men,
ber," the statement continued. I'VE
can very well agree that the best
man would be a Boston man, and
We have therefore suggested to the
governor and the trustees that we
would accept the man who is the
present chief executiv of the city in
the absence of the mayor"
The union officials added that they
wanted the people ito have the ear
Hest resumption of street car ser
vice" and that they had done every
thing in their power to prevent the
strike.
James W. Jackson, one Of the trus-
tees, said tonight that the strike
could not be settled until a board #
arbitration has made an award as
the trustees were not in a position
to make any Compromise offer to
the union.
We have no money with which to
raise the mems pay" he said. IF
this is done 1t will be a matter be.
tween the board Of arbitration which
AiohCo OH al u anu Tile
mo effort will be made to operate
the cars with non union workers. It
would be unsafe to attempt it,"
Mr.. Jackson said that the trus-
tees had not been informed whether
one of the men named by Governor
Coolidge as the neutral arbitrator
had been accepted by the union. He
said that the trustees would be at
their office early tomorrow. ready to
continue their effort to end the
strike.
Although thousands of workers
commute daily by train In normal
times. their numbers were swollen
today by tens of thousands who are
in the habit of getting from home to
office, store or factory by surface,
subway and elevated lines. Extra
trains in the rush hours helped to
care for the crowds somewhat more
cxpeditiously than on the first day
of the strike. but thescongestion in
the north and south stations was
tremendous.
The sidewalk crush was made still
worse by the addition of large num-
bers of people who ordinarily come
uptown from the stations in the tun-
nels. Every few minutes the massed
lines came to a standstill to wait for
a crossing to clear. The number of
vehicles in the city never has been
closely estimated, but the outpour-
ing today was a revelation. Pas
senger cars Of every description ap-
peared, many Of them of ancient vim
tage. But it was most emphatically
the day of the motor truck. Fitted
with chairs. settees and in at least
one instance with pews obtained
from an abandoned church, they
chugged noisily through the city
with capacity loads of people whose
homes are far from railroad sta
tons.
Hundreds Of these trucks were
used by manufacturing and mercan-
tile establishments to carry their en-
ployes to and from work without
charge. Hundreds of others pro-
duced better than war time profits
for their owners by running as BUS
es" over regular routes. with charges
in many instances considerably
above even the recently established
ten-cent street car fare.
Heavy showers late in the day
caught the crowds unawares. I'm
protected from the downpour, girls in
filmy gowns suited to the sultry
weather and men in SUITS Of crash
and mohair sat helpless. huddled to-
gether on top Of huge trucks and
were soaked to the skin. The mar
row streets were so filled with veh-
icles that rapid progress was i'm
possible and the discomfort was