Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — STREET CAR STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

STREET CAR STRIKE.

CHICAGO’S SOUTH BIDE LINEB ALL TIED UP■ceaea of Disorder Mark Opening of Warfare oa tk# Traction CompanyStrikers and Sympathiser* Hart Bricks and Other Miasllea. Chicago dispatch: Following Ao wish es Ae cheering throng of employes of Ae City Railway who cried down final efforts to avert a crisis, train aervlca man es Aa big SouA Side system declared Aeir long-expected strike on at 4 a. m. Thursday. The tie-up virtually wa* eomplet*. Bloodshed, rioting and disorderly scenes marked the first attempt es Manager McCulloch to move cars. Tha points in dispute leading to Ae etrike may be summarized as follow*: Demands of tha Man. L WAGES —(a) Crew# on electric car* Sg cents an hour. <b) Cable train ran*, $2.80 a day; trailer conductors, $2.49. • (c) Overtime at mt* of time and a half. 8 OPERATION—(a)’ Work day not more than. 11 hours nor leas than 10. (b) AH day runs to be 10 houm straight. 8 ARBITRATION— Grievance# to b* adjusted by an arbitration board eemffnsing a company arbitrator, a representatlve of the union end a third man A. THB * CLOsTeD^SIIOP—AII employes t# be union men; new employes to be taken into the union at the expiration of a 45-day probation period. ’ 8 RECOGNITION OF UNION OFFICIAL* —The company to receive officers of the union and committees when grievances shall arise; also to aUow officers leave 8 P^NALTyCfO R UNJUST SUSPENSION The company to relmburae any onion man upon reinstatement If anepenaloa 1* proved unjust. I. DATS OFF ALLOWED—Th# company to allow men to register a week la advance for days desired off. 8 PAT FOR INJURIES—Tha company to pay for medical attendance and all tlma lost owing to Injury on duty. Replies by the Company. 8 WAGES. Increase not possible. Reasons: Advances given a year ago; no corresponding Increase In business during the year to warrant a further advance. 8 OPERATION. Refused on ground that Aa company could not enter into any agreement the) would hamper or restrict it In A# pa* 1 forma nee of Its duty to tha traveling ARBITRATION Accepted CLOSED SHOP. Refused on tha ground that it would give the union “complete and absolute control of th* selection; employment, retention In service and discipline of all employe*.” 8 RECOGNITION OF UNION OFFICIALS 8 PENALTY’FOR UNJ USt’ SUSPENSION. Answered with the statement that ‘A* company will not unjustly suspend or discharge any man.” f. DATS OFF ALLOWED. Accepted In so far as It does not lnterf(% with the company’s service. L PAT FOR INJURIES. Refused with the statement "the company will not undertake so extensive an Insurance scheme.”

AU the Union Men Ont. Nearly 8,000 members of Ae street railway men’s union and oAer employes affected by Ae strike pocketed Aeir badges and sought Aeir hastily Improvised headquarteM in various sections of Ae city. Then they looked to Aeir leaders-to see Aat A* fight against A* company was carried ont along winning lines. Shrewdly pursuing a partially mapped ont plan, the company moved mail cars behind cable trains and trolley cam and had the satisfaction of seeing the whit* vehicles that carry Uncle Sam’s mail delayed, but not molested. Men close to Ae weelAy stockholder* of Aa City Railway admitted Aat this interruption of the mail cars waa expected. Application to Ae federal courts for relief was th* plan to be resorted to by Ae company in case Ae mail cars war# molested. Two places became Ae storm centeM Immediately after the cars were sent out At Van Buren and Clark streets blockaded Wentworth avenue cars were mobbed. Strike breakers were stoned and bruised. The cars were almost wrecked by missiles. Cable trains sent out from Ae barns at Thirty-ninA street and Cottage Grove avenue also encountered Aa mobs. Lives of Ae volunteer non-union crews were jeopardized by Ae fusillade of bricks, atones and other missiles. What the Strike Mesne. The following figures give an ides of what Chicago's big street car tie-up actually means: Employes of all kinds 8,098 Union trainmen affected 2,400 Union shop and barn men 610 Number of •employes. Cara. Cottage Grove Avenne Cab1e...516 2SB State Street Cable 356 1T( Wentworth Avenue Electric... .212 106 Halated Street Electric 172 86 Archer Avenue Electric 76 88 Indiana Avenne Electrio 120 00 Wallace and Center 104 62 Forty-seventh Street 62 81 Sixty-third Street .. 00 8$ Thirty-first street 38 1} forty-third Street 88 12 Fifty-ninth Street 34 17 Thirty-fifth Street ..42 19 Sixty-ninth Street ...23 14 Thirty-ninth Street 22 11 Twenty-alxth Street 12 8 Fifty-first Street S' 4 Western Avenue 6 6 Kedzle Avenue 4 2 Throop and Morgan • 2 1 State and Vincennes 4 2 South Chicago line 2 1 Receipts of average day (Monday, Nov. 2) $19,552 Number of fares collected dally (average) 400.000 Transfers Issued to conductors per day 600,000 Number of passengers carried last year * 128097,799 Dally pay roll $6,106 Pay roll of last half-month 111,878 Miles of tmek 820 Total number of cars 1,874 Motor ear* 1,078 Grip cars Trailer* 555 Mall care f Number of power house* 4 Nnaaber of car barns 7