Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-28
THE BREAD Oh BLOOD BRIGADE.
Status Of the st. Louis Street Railway
Strike-Ammunition Imported.

Status of the st. Louis Street Railway
Strike-Ammunition Imported.
ST. LOUIS, April 27.-The Globe Demo
crat, which has heretofore been on the
side OF the striking street car conduc.
tors and drivers, expresses itself edito.
rially this morning as follows: The
hope which we expressed yesterday for
an honorable and peaceable settlement
of the street car troubles has been, We re-
gret TO say, disappointed. Mr.. Wellsyes.
terday conceded substantially all that
had been asked OF him, but the offer
was rejected. The truth is that
the object of the strike has
been perverted from the original
and honest effort TO secure
a reduction OF the hours OF labor. 1t
became yesterday an impudent demand
for a control of the business OF the diff
ferent street railways. The so called
trade unions have entered to dispute,
with which it can legally have no con-
cern, and now the question is not how
manv hands the men shall work or how
much they shall receive, but whether
the companies are willing to be governed
by the rules laid down oy an utterly y ir.
responsible organization OF utterly ire
sponsible men controlled by jour.
nsymeu, jaw movers in the pretended
name OF labor. To this demand the
honorable men can make but one re.
ply and that is in the negative.
The ReDuHican has long editorial on
the same subject, from which the fol.
lowing is taken: Whatever the origi.
nal purpose OF the strikers may have
been, the form in which it presented
itself Yesterday demands immediate and
decisive action at the hands OF those
in authority. So long as the men con.
tented themselves with a demand Tor
shorter hours and refusal to work till
their terms were complied with, no one
could object to their action, and every
one was at liberty to support these
claims by peaceable means. But the
moment the strike assumed, as was
witnessed yesterday, an attitude
of hostile defiance OF the legal officers
of the city, and boisterous attack upon
the rights Of person and OF property,
that moment the strikers and those en-
gagged in these demonstrations forfeited
the sympathy OF the Law abiding public
and classed themselves among the enc
mics OF the peace and good order OF So
ciety.
A Gatling gun, with ammunition and
everything necessary to work IT, also
ammunition for rifles, was brought to
the city in a very quiet way this morn
ing from the United States arsenal,
twelve miles down the river, and ls now
in the armory OF the National Guard,
under the control OF Colonel Chapman,
commanding the first regiment, and IS
ready for any emergency that may arise:
No cars are running this morning, and
no efforts TO run them will be made to-
day. The police authorities have not
vet succeeded in obtaining all the spe-
cial men they want. The Police Com
missioners are now In session.
II is now understood that three roads
WI begin to run cars ia the morn nI-.
the Olive, the Washington Avenue and
the Union Depot lines. The police will
be stationed along the lines at short in
te.vals, and they viii protect the cars
from violence or molestation, and, II
necessary to accomplish this, viii use
their clubs and other weapons on the
riotously disposed, which has not been
done heretofore.
Samuel Cupples, Vice President OF the
Police Commissioners, publishes a
card requesting all persons not to
gather in crowds on the streets
during the present excitement, as 10 the
efforts OF the police to arrest those who
are violatine the laws they must neces-
sarily use force, and in doing % may