Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-25
TROUBLE EXPECTED
On the Manchester Line. Be.
fore an Amicable Settle
ment Is Effected.
SUNDAY STONE THROWING.
One Woman and an officer Injured
by Flying Missiles.
EFFIGIES STRUNG ON THE WIRES.
Car Tracks Creased and Blockaded Down
at Woods Fun.
SUNDAY STONE THROWING.
EFFIGIES STRUNG ON THE WIRES.
Car Tracks Creased and Blockaded Down
at Woods Fun.
THE STRIKENIEwEDFRoM THE PULPITS

All day long yesterday Allegheny peopl,
anticipated trouble along the line of tn,
Manchester road The strikers had been re
inforced by sympathizing workingmen tax
ing their Sundays rest. Most of the lattel
were mill men who reside down at Woods
Run. But no signs of violence were showI
by the men during the day, and their ac
tions s&vored more of ridiculous pranks
such as greasing the tracks on up grades
and hanging efigies of the new employees
over the trolley wires.
When it began to grow dark crowds col.
lected at different corners, hooting aud
yelling as each car passed. Down al
Woods Run crowdof ], 900 people gath.
cred about one point, and distractions OF
every sort were placed on the track. As
soon as the police would remove these and
the cars pass on, the same performance was
repeated. Finally, at o'clock, it was ut
terly impossible to continue running. All
along Beaver avenue;it was very threaten
ing, and fortunate it was that all the
saloons were closed. If some of the men
had been fired with liquor, with rash
leader at their head, there undoubtedly
would have been trouble.
Extra Police on Guard.
Chief Murphy detailed an extra police
guard all along this thoroughfsre. Shortly
before o'clock a large lump of coal was
thrown through a car window passing
Beaver and Ridge avenues. 1t struck a
woman in the face, bruising her slightly
and frightening the other passengers con-
aiderablv Officer Charles Bushy, who was
riding on one of the'cars was struck twice
bv stones thrown at Rebecca and Lee
streets He was not hurt seriously. The
cars ran almost on schedule time until
about 8 o'clock, when they were as uncer-
tain as the weather.
Some of the new conductors complain
about the police. They contend that the
ofiicers are in sympathy with the strikers
and do not make much attempt to pursue
and arrest them after committing their un-
lawful acts. The officers contend that it is
= matter Of great difficulty to chase these
men, because theyrselect dark corners to do
business, and also, when a big crowd is col
lccted, il is hard to tell who is the guilty
party.
Vt 9:3o there was a large crowd gathered
al Federal and Ohio streets, hooting and
raising a general disturbance A squad
o. pcIice promptly dispersed them
before Any trouble or interference
WAS made. The cars after dark
were very poorly patronized, the would-be
passengers having been menaced by the
former actions of the strikers, and also fear
ing they would meet with bodily injury,
In consequence the Pleasant Valley line
nut o., every available car, and its business
has increased three-fold.
Serious Trouble Looked For.
Notwithstanding the lull in the situation
Yesterday, opiaions are open and broad in
regard to the ultimate result. People are
very outspoken and many are positive that
there Will be serious trouble ere the rupture
is healed. The Woods Run district is the
most rebellious point. The class of people
living there are all more or less in SYM
pathv with she idle men.
Miss Hattie Howells was arrested by
Officer Mcclure last evening for disorderly
conduct on Preble avenue, as she was CON-
ing from church. Joseph Smith, an intoxi
Gated man, was arrested by the officer, and
she protested against it. calling the officer
names. She left a forfeit for hearing.
The strike on the street railway was the
subject of two pulpit discourses in Allie
ghenv last night. AT the Nixon Street
Baptist Church, Rev. J. S. Hutsons talk on
The Present Street Railway Strike and
low to Settle It" was magnet which at
tracted many of the strikers and their
svmpathizers. The text was: 'sThou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself" His open
ing thought was in reference to the labor
trouble Said he:
@'This is not the first nor will it be the last
strike unless both employer and employe
live bv the principles laid down in the
foregoing text The capitalist is neighbor
To the laboring man and vice versa. Their
interests are mutual The former needs or
wants to increase his capital and the latter
needs bread The Sabbath was made for
man and he has divine and
legal right to devote one-seventh
OF his time to the elevation of moral, mental,
spiritual and physical welfare, and no man
or corporation of men has right to deprive
him of what by an inherent right belongs to
him. This is being done continually by the
capitalists.
Human Labor Should Be Lighter.
''No speech is strong enough to condemn
that spirit of greed which would multiply
the hours of toll and reduce the wages of
laboring men. Surely there is neither
Justice or the right principle in such
helhouA- 1nIS y al age OF electTlclIS auu
invention, and If ever there was a time
when the human burden of labor should be
made lighter, that time is right now.
He who would endeavor to increase the
burden Of this age, not only seeks to antag
onize, but to turn backward the wheels of
progress, and the wheels of Christian civil
ization. Would that some capitalists could
learn the value of men and women through
whose labor ana skill they increase their
revenue. Until the EMPLOYERS do this the
cry Of the oppressed will not cease
Love thy neighbor' This plain and |
simple principle IS the solution of the
labor problem. The love of money is the |
DOT Of all evil 1t is not exactly the love |
money, but the unhallowed lust or greed |
acquire it, and until this is dis |
placed by the divine lcve the troubles will !
not cease. This is one remedy. Let men |
love each other as men, not as machines to |
work 10 their interests, or mere tools to be |
laid aside when they become rusty, dull and |
worn out
Rev. Hutson concluded his talk by advis- |
ing the strikers to be calm and not destroy |
property or apply approbrieus epithets, |
such as ''Scab, etc, to the new men, argu- |
ing that that was not the way to settle the |
strike. But, " added he, 'good, wise and /
sensible arbitration is not TO be ignored"
Rev. s w. McCorkle, at the First Con- |
gregatiOnal Church, took for his subject |
''Nealth's Opportunity in Our Present |
ike. " A number of strikers were pres
Rev. Mr.. McCOrkle has made per-
al inquiry into both sides of the strike. |
ough not wishing TO antagonize anyone, /
is inclined to champion the cause of the |
kers He said: