Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 9 | Omaha Carmen Strike

Union Men Stop Passen-f Passen-f ger Cars; Prevent Vio-I Vio-I lence of Sympathizers. I MAYOR'S SOLUTION City Will Protect Men 1 on Cars; To Repeal Jitney Ordinance. OMAHA, Neb. Dec. 4. Mayor Smith this morning proposed three plans in settling the street car strike: 1 Services of mayor and city commission com-mission will be offered as mediators, i 2 City will protect operation of' care. If men wish to go to work and: take out cars, city will protect them. 3 Repeal of the Jitney ordinances, requiring license and bond from jit-ney jit-ney operators. Police Superintendent Ringer said j the police will protect life and prop. ; crty. A crowd of packing house employes I sncountered a Ra'lston street car run- ' nlng and at Twcnty-sixth and q! strcctc made an attempt to overturn the car, but union street car men intervened in-tervened and prevented violence. The crew operating the car had not been notified that the strike was in effect.' jL An effort to take a car, carrying ex- I press, from the Twenty-fourth and I Vinton street barn at 7:30 o'clock this morning failed when union pickets pick-ets outside of the barn got in front of the car and refused to get out of !the way. The car with a trailer carrying car-rying express was returned to the barn. The car was marked "no passengers" pas-sengers" and sent out with the intention in-tention of delivcrying the express, ' car officials said. When a white mail car passed the I barn there was no jeering or demon- ' Jtration of any kind, the strikers paying pay-ing no attention to it. i The first two railway mail street . ;ars to start from the Pierco street barn this morning, -manned by union i men, made their way to the postoffice, 1 i then to the depots and back to the J II barn without encountering the slight- ' est difficulty. 1 Ben Short, president of the street' :ar men's union, organized the pick-sting pick-sting squad at the Pierce barn and at I 3 o'clock went home for rest, after being up all night. oo