. Electric railway journal . y men from Detroit,Pittsburgh, Chicago and other places, who have no interestin the affairs of the city of Indianapolis, who are not tax-payers or even residents of the State of Indiana, but whoare here to unionize the employees of the street railwaycompany by brute force. If the men can get the protection November 8, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1019 of the police, the cars will be operated on every line inthe city. The so-called demands submitted to the company byJ. J. Thorpe, of Pittsburgh, vice-president of the Amalga-mated Association, are founded entirely
. Electric railway journal . y men from Detroit,Pittsburgh, Chicago and other places, who have no interestin the affairs of the city of Indianapolis, who are not tax-payers or even residents of the State of Indiana, but whoare here to unionize the employees of the street railwaycompany by brute force. If the men can get the protection November 8, 1913.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1019 of the police, the cars will be operated on every line inthe city. The so-called demands submitted to the company byJ. J. Thorpe, of Pittsburgh, vice-president of the Amalga-mated Association, are founded entirely on misrepresenta-tion and exaggeration, without any consideration for truth eluding time allowed regular crews for meal relief (whichis paid for in Indianapolis but not in Cincinnati J the wagescale practically amounts to from 20 cents per hour the firstyear to 26 cents per hour after the fifth year. The popula-tion of Cincinnati in 1910 was 364,463; that of Indianapoliswas 233,650. The rate of fare in Cincinnati is 5 Indianapolis Strike—City Cars Stored in Traction Terminal Train Shed for Protection or fair dealing. In reference to the demand for an in-crease in the rates of pay of motormen and conductors toa flat rate of 32 cents per hour, it should be known thatafter a state of riot and bloodshed had been brought aboutin Cincinr.^ti during May of this year by the same organi-zation which has now produced a similar condition ofaffairs in Indianapolis arbitration was finally agreed upon,with the result that the following wage scale was adoptedfor motormen and conductors: commencing at 20 cents perhour and running to 27 cents per hour for and after thetenth year, this scale to be effective to June 30, 1914. Im-mediately upon the award being made, W. D. Mahon, in-ternational president of the Amalgamated Association, without any reduction for tickets. In Indianapolis sixtickets are sold for 25 cents and twenty-five tickets for $ ticket fares are more than four-fift
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