Identifier: streetrailwayjo221903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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enue under a guard of1000 policemen on Tuesday. Twenty-five cars were operatedon the Wentworth Avenue line under police protection, andarrangements were made to open other lines. Chief of Police ONeill instructed his subordinates to boardUnited States mail wagons if the drivers showed a dispositionto blockade street car tracks or hinder the police in their effortsto keep the streets clear. The drivers in such cases are to bearrested after the mail is delivered at the post office. As usual, all sorts of hold-ups are resorted to by those whohope to profit by the strike. The executive board of the StreetRailway Mens Union decided to proceed against the ChicagoCity Railway in the courts to compel the company to providevestibules for all its cars according to a law passed during thelast session of the Legislature. Another move was made when George F. Harding, Jr., ina bill, filed before Judge Holdom, asked that a receiver be ap-pointed immediately for the Chicago City Railway, and that the
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RESERVES AT DANGER POINTS receiver proceed at once to operate the road under the oldagreement with the strikers, or settle present troubles by arbi-tration. Mr. Harding, in making the application, alleges thatthe railway has been operating since last June without a fran-chise, and makes this allegation the basis of his application. A conference was held on Tuesday between Mayor Harrison,the officials of the company, and the special Aldermanic PeaceCommission appointed by Mayor Harrison at the direction ofthe City Council. This was followed by another meeting inwhich President Mahon of the Amalgamated Association ofStreet Railroad Employees and his legal advisers took part.Mayor Harrison declared that the outlook for a settlement ofthe strike by arbitration was decidedly flattering. A noteworthy feature of the situation is the fact that boththe firemen and the engineers were under contract with thecompany not to engage in any sympathetic strike. Theirunions are entirely independent of

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