Show BIG STRIKE IS SETTLED union men of the street car lines ol 01 albany and othea cities of new york state gain their fight and go back to work albany N Y may 18 the street railway employed emp loyes strike which was inaugurated eleven days ago on the lines of the united traction company in albany troy cohoes and Is at an end and opera alons on the entire system on both aldos will be resumed at noon today there has been concessions on both sides and an agreement was reached early today at a conference at which both the corporation and the operatives were represented under which it should be possible to avoid strikes in future the company part agrees to receive representations regarding grievances from any committee of its em aloyes representing organized or unorganized labor that the men suspended or discharged by the superintendent shall be entitled to appeal to the executive committee ot the company in case the employed emp loyes can disprove charges under which they were suspended or discharged they shall be entitled to pay tor the time they were idle during such suspension or discharge and there will be no discrimination against any of the men who engaged in the strike except thosa guilty of unlawful or riotous acts the company reserves the right to employ union or nonunion non union men and to discharge employed emp loyes tor cause the wages of all the motormen conductors linemen and pit men Is to be twenty cents per hour and of j pit men helpers seventeen and one halt cents per hour the men agree that no proposition tor a strike shall be acted upon by any division at the same meeting that it Is introduced but that at least forty eight hours shall elapse before such proposition shall be voted on and that it a strike shall be ordered it shall not take place until at least six days have elapsed after notice to the company during which time the employed emp loyes shall continue their work nonunion non union men brought here to fill places of strikers will unquestionably withdraw although the formal agree ment does not mention them |