Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — CAR STRIKE IS OVER. [ARTICLE]

CAR STRIKE IS OVER.

AGREEMENT REACHED WITH CHICAGO RAILWAY MEN. .• r . Peaceful Conditions Again PrevailWagc Question to Be Arbitrated— Company Frea to Employ- Non-Union Men —Facta About the Strike. Chicago’s great street car strike was settled at noon Wednesday when the strikers at a mass meeting voted to accept the agreement made Tuesday night nnd return to work at ouce. Secretary, Barnes of the union issued orders to the men to' report at the different barns, ready to take out cars. Before night the entire South Side system was in full operation and the congestion on the elevated and steam roads relieved. The acceptance of the treaty of peace by the strikers was complete. The opposition that developed was satisfactorily explained away by President Mahon, President Buckley, Attorneys Prentiss and others prominent in arriving at the provisional agreement. Section by sectioif the terms of the compact were taken up, and each was accepted with a great show of enthusiasm. The union leaders and their followers were enthusiastic in the declaration that the strike’s end was a signal triumph for unionism. The company offieials, however, declared that the terms of the agreement showed that the company had won, practically, in every feature, with the concession of taking back employes who went out on sympathetic strike. The arbitration of wages—the present scale to be set aside and the new scale to be based on the actual worth of labor—rethe men as a favorable and acceptable phase of the agreement, in reality was nothing more than the company was willing to grant all along, so the officers say. Teamsters, cable splicers, linemen, etc., who stopped work out of sjympathy with the ear service men, won the privilege of returning to their places. But this concession by the company was apart from any of the original demands of the strikers. ,