The day book. [volume], June 10, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 2

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The men will not leave their cars
until the rush hour is over tomorrow
evening. Then they will run their
cars into the barns. Everyone will be.
given a chance to get home.
The strike will not affect the Chi
cago, Aurora & Elgin electric line,
which runs into the city over the
Metropolitan "L" unless an attempt
is made to use strike breakers on
"L" trains. If this is done the Elgin
trainmen will refuse to run into the
city.
Surface and elevated line chiefs
say the companies will not attempt
to run cars while the strike is on.
By Sunday it is believed there will
be thousands of autos in use as jitney
buses. The steam lines are prepar
ing to increase their service.
a fair proposition concerning wages 1 as long as the surface men stayed
wtipn sfillmtr ntir Inhor." I OUt.
This means that there will be no
arbitration unless the company .be
fore arbitration hearings start speci
fies just what it will grant The men
are not going to trust to outside per
sons to determine what is a "fair
propositidn" when their wages are
the issue. The car men have their
skill and labor to sell. They want
their price; enough to live decently
upon.
"The refusal of your company to
present any fair proposition must
make it responsible," says the union
letter to Busby.
Busby and the loop papers have
daily quoted from the 1911 agree
ment and the union's constitution an
an endeavor to show that the men
must arbitrate or break their solemn
word.
In, an ,Qfficial statement today this
fS5 shown to be untrue. The agree
ment ceased to be effective May 31,
therefore no clause of it is now bind
ing. Th,e clause in the constitution
provides for arbitration for petty
grievances which do not concern
salary, and it does not hold if the
agreement with the company has ex
pired. The elevated employes will also
walk out They wrote to Britton I.
Budd, president of the Chicago Ele
vated Lines railroads, today, an
nouncing this intention. The elevat
ed men rejected the offer made by
Budd yesterday. This offer granted
a one-cent an hour raise to some new
men and slight increases to ticket
sellers and switchmen. No in
creases were offered to older men.
The offer was given no serious con
sideration. In their letter to Budd the men
pointed out that the elevated must
make even greater profits than the
surface lines, since they did not
share their profits -with the city. They
emphatically stated that they would
go out with the car men and stay out
MAHON SAYS CARMEN'S STRIKE
IS SANCTIONED IF NEEDED
Telegram of W. D. Mahon, interna
tional president street car men's
union, reporting to the Chicago joint
committee action of the international
officers:
"Your strike is sanctioned, but we
recommend that you notify compa
nies and give them a chance to settle
without strike if they desire to do so."
FRYE CASE TO PRIZE COURT
Washington, June 10. The Wil
liam P. Frye case must go to a prize
court, Germany insists.
Through Ambassador Gerard, Ber
lin, state department today received
the German reply to this country's
representations relative to the sink
ing of the American sailing vessel,
with its wheat cargo, consigned "to
order" in England, by the kaiser's
raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
The Washington government had
sought to .have the matter settled be
tween the state department and the
German embassy in Washington and
it was supposed for a time that this
arrangement would be satisfactory to
the Berlin foreign office.
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