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Show STRIKE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION Complete Victory For Chicago Street Railway. Chicago, Nov. 25. The strike of the employes of the Chicago City railway was settled at an early hour this morning morn-ing at a conference between the mayor, the aldermanic peuce committee. President Presi-dent Hamilton and E. R. Bliss, counsel coun-sel for the company, and the executive board of the local union of the strikers. The basis- on which the settlement was reached is a complete victory for the company, as far as the original demands de-mands of the men are concerned. The agreement reached will be ratified at a meeting of the men at 0 o'clock this morning and it is expected that traffic on all the lines of the company will be resumed today. The only important concession made by the company was an agreement to reinstate all the strikers, including the outside unions, who went out in sympathy sym-pathy with the trainmen, with the exception ex-ception of those who resorted to violence vio-lence during the trouble. The arbitration of the wage scale is to be according to the wages paid outside out-side of Chicago and not on the basis of the local street railways. These are the two points that have been the stumbling block to a peaceable adjustment adjust-ment of the strike for the past week. The company has insisted that it pays higher wages than any similar corporation corpora-tion in the country. The men were fearful that the arbitration on the scale paid in other cities would decrease their wages and they fought stubbornly stubborn-ly for their point. |