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The Age Herald
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
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St. Louis citizens' committee failed to resolve street railway strike on June 2; union rejected settlement proposition requiring rehiring of strikers. National Guard mobilized amid ongoing dispute.
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Citizens' Committee Failed to Bring About Agreement.
A PROPOSITION SUBMITTED
Ex-Governor Stone Said the Plan Submitted Was Not in Such Shape That the Railway Union Could Accept It
St. Louis, June 2.—The citizens' committee which has labored so zealously to bring about an amicable adjustment of the street railway strike, failed to consummate its object today.
Early in the day the citizens' committee submitted a proposition for a settlement of the strike to President Whitaker of the Transit company and to ex-Governor William J. Stone, attorney for the railway men's union, providing that the railway company restore to its employment not less than 1,000 of its former employes immediately and not less than 500 in addition to them within twenty days. This proposition met with the approbation of Mr. Whitaker and he approved it. Governor Stone called the members of the strikers' grievance committee together and they went into secret session to consider the proposition. After the adjournment none of the members of the grievance committee would talk. Mr. Stone stated that the committee had made no progress. He said:
"I may say that the proposition as submitted cannot be accepted by the union. I do not care to specify the points that prevent acceptance, but speaking generally the proposition will have to be changed before we can accept it.
"I desire to say that the citizens' committee did not succeed in securing from the company the concessions that they led us to believe they would secure."
Members of the First Missouri regiment, national guard, have received orders to report at the armory at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. At night Company B was on guard. The nature of the duties they will perform is not known.
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St. Louis
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June 2
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the citizens' committee failed to bring about an agreement; the proposition was not accepted by the union. members of the first missouri regiment ordered to report at the armory.
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The citizens' committee submitted a proposition to settle the street railway strike, providing for the railway company to restore not less than 1,000 former employees immediately and 500 more within twenty days. President Whitaker approved it, but after secret session, the strikers' grievance committee, advised by ex-Governor Stone, found it unacceptable and requiring changes. The committee did not secure expected concessions from the company. Members of the First Missouri regiment, national guard, ordered to report at the armory; Company B was on guard at night.