The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-25
LABOR TROUBLES.
RAILROAD AND OTHER sTRIKD
STILL CAUSING ANNOYANCE,
H. Louis street Car Drivers and Em.
pIOyeS InauEuFato = StFiGe-OuiSid-
era take u Hand and Become
RIoIOus-PubIIc Sentiment
with the EmpIOyes,

ST, LOUIS, April 23.-Ths strike oil street
railroad conductors and drivers was inAu'
gurated this morning according TO the
programme, and all the lines In the city,
except two, are greatly crippled. The
men on the franklin Avenue road, all ot
whom have been with the company U:any
years, did not join in the strike, and are at
work as usual,
The President OF the BslleiontAlns Line
aCCeeded 10 the demands OF the strikers,
and has his full number OF cars in service,
but all the other roads are having much
trouble. The Olive and Market Street
Lines, owned mainly by ex Congressman
Erastus Wells, have but ten cars running.
and are feeling the strike very seriously.
A car on the Market street road, having
an old conductor and q new driver on
board, was mohbed to-day at Sixth and
Chestnut streets by gang Of outSide
men, aud the conductor seriously hurt on
the head, but aside from this no disturb
anCe has taken place.
The Filth street road, the longest one In
the city, has but eix cars running; the
Washington Avenue and Blue Lines, ten
cars bstween them; the Blue Line on
Twelfth street, six cars, and the other
roads about the'Bame number, except the
Cass Avenue road, which has not turned q
single wheel yet. Superintendent Gravais
made o proposition to his men to work
fourteen hours day at an increase OF 25
cents in wages, and they are now consid-
ering 1t. In the meantime sixteen cars
out oil twenty.Iour on this road are run.
ming,
The few cars in service are mainly
manned by new men, very few OF the old
employees having failed to join the strike.
The companies so far have been greatly
disappointed In procuring new men, ARd
II looks now asthough they will be Obliged
10 comply with the demands oil the strik.
eTs. Public sentiment is In favor OF the
meh, and will doubtless remain on their
side as long as they behave themselves
properly. some four or five hundred
strikers formed into procession down
town this morning, and with an impro.
vised band of.music, marched 10 Turner
Hall. They were heartily chsered by the
citizens on the streets as they passed
along.
No sLrset railroad cars are running to-
night except on the franklin avenue and
the Bslllontaine lines which have run reg.
ularly all day, the men on the former
having failed TO Join the strikers, and the
President Of the latter company having
complied with the demands OF the men.
All the other roads hold out and show no
signs Of yielding.
The strikers had d very large meeting at
Turner Hall, being In session most OF the
day, but transacted no business OF note.
Between three aud four O'Clock some three
hundred OF them paraded through the
principal streets in q very quiet and order.
" way, and were everywhere received
with cheers and other manifestations OF
approval by oil classes. Managers Of
roads say they would have little or no df.
RCulty In finding new men 70 run their cars
II the authorities weuld furnish pro.
lection TO them against the lawless acts OF
the crowds which, congregate at different
points, and they complain bitterly Of the
lnefticiency OF be police. On the other
hand, and in point Of tactlthe police. have
been quits active, aud have done almost
everything they could except make whole
sale and indisOFiminate arrests 10 preserve
order and keep the uars moving. The
truth Is there has been almost universal
sympathy with the strikers, and among
the less orderly classes Il has found ex.
preston In acts calculated to annoy and
provoke the men and induce them TO
abandon thelr cara, but no real violence
has been seen, nor any disposition 10 In.
lure property manifested. s.'-
CLEVELAND, o., April 23.-The Iron
Founders association to-day determined
under no circumstances to raise the wages
moro than ten per cent Sbovsthe average
March rates. The Moulders' Union met
this afternoon and positively refused TO
accept less than fifteen per cent advance.
They cay they have money enough 10
hold out some time.
The street car strike is failing. Some
arrests. .'