Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — CLEVELAND STRIKE SETTLED. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND STRIKE SETTLED.

Street Car Men and the Company Reach an Agreement. Cars are running on all the lines of the Big Consolidated Street Railroad Company in Cleveland. The big strike was settled Saturday night through the efforts of the Council peace committee after all hope of settlement seemed gone. Chis committee drew up a set of articles of settlement which both sides readily signed, and the trouble was over. Cars were started early Sunday morning. The agreement provides for the hearing of grievances and a resort to arbitration in case the men and the company cannot agree, and it also provides for the reinstatement of "'practically 80 per cent of the old men at once, the remainder, except those who have been guilty of violence, being placed on the waiting list. Only one outbreak attended the resumption of traffic. There was objection in some parts of the city to the retention of the non-union men who were kept by the company. A party of twenty-five men assembled near the Brooklyn bridge, just south of the city, and whenever a car came along with a non-union crew the passengers were asked to disembark and wait for a car manned by a union crew. In most cases the passengers did as requested. Finally a n<*-union conductor undertook to argue with the crowd and he was promptly struck over the head with a club, and he anS the motorman driven away. The mob refused to permit the ■car to be moved until a union crew came along and pushed it to the bams. A member of the company says, the company expects most of the non-union men to leave now. The strike lasted just three weeks. The men practically gained what they were after, tacit recognition of the union and arbitration of differences.