Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — DECIDE NOT TO STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

DECIDE NOT TO STRIKE.

Chicago Street Railway Employes Will Invoke the Law. At 1 o’clock Friday morning the mass meeting of Chicago street car employes in Coffey’s Hall, 63d and Halsted streets, unanimously adopted a resolution indorsing the organization of a local branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employes of America and boldly declared for further activity.in organizing the street car men of Chicago. It was decided to notify Superintendent Bowen of the Chicago City Railway Company that the cars of the company on the South Side are now run by union men and that an injury to one is the concern of all. The plan of the executive committee to resent any further dismissals was ratified, and future action was referred to that committee with power to act. A secret ballot of the men gives the executive committee the power to order a strike without any notice to the company. It was developed at the meeting that the claims of the organizers concerning the numbers of men who had joined the union were exaggerated. Meetings of men loyal to the company were held and resolutions adopted declaring against a strike and announcing that no grievance exists. W. J, Allen, a member of Company G, 112th Illinois Regiment, an inmate of the national military home at Dayton, 0., and John Brandenberger, a soldier, were found dead. Death was probably due to heart disease in both cases.