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Show OAR STRIKER ETTLE D PEACE IN PHILADELPHIA AFTER STRIKERS HAD VOTED TO DROP THEIR FIGHT. The Cases of the Men Whose Discharge Dis-charge Precipitated the Strike Will be Submitted to Arbitration, For Final Settlement. Philadelphia. Tho committee of nineteen, composed of representatives of the striking motormen and conductors conduct-ors from each of the barns of the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Rapid Transit company, mot Thursday night nnd voted to accept a settlement offered by tho company through representatives of tho American Ameri-can Federation of Labor. The terms of the settlement have not been made public, but It Is said they Include many of tho features of the proposal made through Mayor Rey-burn Rey-burn on March 20, when tho company agreed to take back all the strikers nnd to guarantee them two dollars a day until regular runs could be 30-cured. 30-cured. The cases of the 174 men, whose discharge precipitated the strike on February 19, wnl bo submitted sub-mitted to arbitration. Since the beginning begin-ning of tho strike twenty-eight persons per-sons hnvo been killed by trolley cars. These accidents, the strikers claim, were caused by Inexperienced motor-men. |