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Show CARMEN TO CONTINUE STRIKE. Offer of Settlement Made by the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Rapid Transit Company Is Rejected by the Men. Philadelphia. Repudiating the offer of settlement trom the Philadelphia Rapid -Transit company through the assistance of United States Senator Penrose, the executive committee of the striking carmen late Sunday night voted to continue the strike against the company until all the demands are granted. The proposition for their consideration considera-tion provided for the immediate rein-statement rein-statement of as many strikers as possible pos-sible with the payment by the company com-pany of all surplus men of $2 a day until places are provided for them, a wage increase to 23 cents an hour on June 1; an annual increase of one-half one-half cent an hour .until the wage reaches 25 cents; recognition or a grievance committee and a reservation reserva-tion by the company to recognize other grievance committees; disposition disposi-tion of the cases of the 173 men whose discharge led to the strike, by a board of arbitration composed of President Kruger of the company and President Driscoll of the carmen's union, with a third to be appointed by these two in case of a disagreement. This proposition differed from the others in that until jobs are provided for them, the strikers were to receive $2 instead of $1.50 a day and that the 173 men are to be handled by an arbitration ar-bitration board instead of as provided i by the act of le93. |