The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-11
STREET CAR STRIKE,
Manager Jolly Expresses His
Views on Organization.
NO OBJECTION TO LABOR UNIONS.
Good Men Who Have Committed No
Overt Act Can Return to tho Conn
pany's EmpIoy-TraRc Picking Up
Gradually-No Serious Trouble on
tho Limo Ycstcrday-Vlews OF the
Situation.


Affairs were comparatively tranquil
along the street car line yesterday.
Nothing startling occurred, there being
only the minor incidents Of track OBJ.
struction and an apple throwing OK
plot to mai the general pe~acefulpess OF
the day,
The cars seemed to be somewhat bet
ter patronized than on previous days,
the people generally having come to the
conclusion that the rioting and general
lawlessnessthat prevailed abouta month
ago have stopped permanently, Gen
eral Manager jolly says il they were
stiA further assured that the brick
throwing feature OF the strike was at an
end, the patronage would at once ,re-
sumo its old.time proportions. This
opinion seems justified when u compar-
ison is made otthe travel on the Island
and South Side runs. On the former,
when no disturbances or brick throwing
| have occurred, the cars are very we'll
patronized, much better than in the
southern part OF the city and in Ben
wood, where the sentiment is over
whelmingly in favor OF the strike and
strikers.
1t is learned on good authority that
the opinion is being quietly expressed
by a good many labor men throughout
the city that there is no hope now for q
successful outcome OF the strike 80 far
as the street car workers union is Con-
cerncd. These people also express the
opinion that the strike was originally
started without sufficient grounds, but
that at this time it has narrowed down
to aQuestion OF unionism or no union
ism on the street railway, the opinion
being general that Mr.. jolly is O bitter
enemy OF organized labor, and that in
the event OF the strike being declared oil
the union would also go.
Mr.. Jolly has all along denied that he
is against organized labor when it keeps
within bounds. An lNTELLlGENcER man
asked him last night as to his position.
"As l have always said" replied the
general manager, II feel no enmity
againat labor organizations, and my
position in this contest is not rs their
enemy. In fact my position was forced
upon ME when our former employees
quit and inaugurated the strike early in
January. Some OF tho men now in the
company's employ are union men, and
their connection with organized labor
does not enter into the matter at ALL"
"In case the strike is declared off
would you object to your men continu'
ing their connection with the union?"
mo, l would not have any objection
to such a condition. OF course o num-
Der OF the old men, who have been act
i've in the destruction oil property
can never como back into III employ,
and neither will we sacrifice the men
who have come to our aid in running
cars since the strike commenced. There
arc numbers OF good men among the
strikers who can come into our employ
again, while we have positions to FILL
Mr.. Jolly hazarded the assertion that
in two OF three weeks the old time traf'
fc OF the line would be with them again,
and said by that time additional cars
would have been put on tho line, so
that a car would pass any point every
fifteen minutes.
Last night about 8 o'clock electric car
"Pansy" on its way up town was pass
ing the Wheeling pottery on the South
| Side, whom two big railroad torpedoes
were run over, which exploded, but did
no damage.
In the afternoon some boys, it is sup.
posed, rolled two immense stones on
the tracks above the Twenty.ninth
| street crossing, which delayed cars some
time while they were removed. In the
meantime a crowd Of boys guyed and
hooted at the men.
Down at Forty-third street in the
afternoon some one threw a rotten apple
through the window Of "Pansy." No.
body hurt.