. Electric railway journal . taken very unexpect-edly with eight Aldermen absent andwithout waiting to hear various civicorganizations which had given notice Franchise Settlement Plan Started Initiative petitions for the passageof a city ordinance providing for theservice-at-cost plan of street railwaytransportation proposed by the Detroit(Mich.) United Railway have been filedwith the city clerk. More than 8,000signatures have been secured for thepetition, it is reported, a numbergreatly in excess of that required bythe city charter. If the proposed ordinance is laid onthe table or meets with
. Electric railway journal . taken very unexpect-edly with eight Aldermen absent andwithout waiting to hear various civicorganizations which had given notice Franchise Settlement Plan Started Initiative petitions for the passageof a city ordinance providing for theservice-at-cost plan of street railwaytransportation proposed by the Detroit(Mich.) United Railway have been filedwith the city clerk. More than 8,000signatures have been secured for thepetition, it is reported, a numbergreatly in excess of that required bythe city charter. If the proposed ordinance is laid onthe table or meets with adverse actionon the part of the Mayor or the CityCouncil the proposition will be sub-mitted to the voters for decision at acoming election. A printed copy of the ordinance willbe sent by the Detroit United Railwayto each of the 320,000 registered votersof Detroit to afford them an oppor-tunity to study the ordinance provisionsprior to the election. Articles of incorporation for the De-troit-Service-at-Cost Railway, accord-. !■( )l,(j.\ Kl. KlOALi Tin-: IKXTUAI, KIHI KE AMUM ; I to UP OF HIS E3MPL0TEES He said that the good judgment ofthe men in adopting the co-operativeplan had been vindicated, for under itthere had been great improvement ofservice to the public and material bene-fit to the employees. Moreover, em-ployees elsewhere, more paiticularlyin the East, were finding the plan asinstalled at Kansas City to be almostan ideal application of the general prin-ciple of participation toward whichemployers and employees were moreand more tending. Back Pay Obligations Anticipatedby P. R. T. Payment of back wages of $1,000,000to the trainmen of the PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company will be madeon Feb. 1. This announcement wasmade by President Thomas E. Mittenof the company to the men at theannual meeting of the members of theCo-operative Welfare Association, towhich reference was made in the Elec-tric Railway Journal of Jan. 22,page 187. Mr. Mitten is quoted asfollows: Y^ou re
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