Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
BUTTE. MONTANA MONDAY EVENING, II. 1893.

tent that the employment Of police in
such capacity was not right but said
that it was never intended to use the
police except to keep the peace. An OBJ
servation that large bodies of the police
had been slowed in hiding in the various
depots Of the Brooklyn RAPID Transit sys-
tenn brought about the conversations
In the memorable Brooklyn trolley
strike in January, 1895, nearly 1000 men
turned out. 1t began, like the present one,
in relatively orderly manner On the
fourth day serious trouble began and sew
eral cars were stoned. The police were
powerless to deal with the situation.
Rioting became general and the first and
second brgades of the national guard had
to be called out. This was on January 10.
The mob defed the guardsmen and was
fired upon, two men being killed. There
We're also several bayonet charges which
resulted in bloodshed. Two attempts
were made to burn the car barns on Van
derbilt avenue, but were frustrated by the
guardsmen. There was some savage
fighting in the streets before the rioters
were suppressed. The troops occupied
Some of the strikers We're taken back by
the Brooklyn Heights company. Most of.
them. however. went over to the Nassau
company, which lately was absorbed by
the Brooklyn Heights company and it is
among these men that the present trouble
is said to have originated.
About two thirds of the cars on all
lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany except the Nassau system are run
ming this morning. The cars are all po-
Iced with from one to four patrolmen
each except on the Putnam and Halsey
street line which is running as in normal
times. President Rossiter of the Rapid
Transit SAID fifty of the men who went
out yesterday reported for work this
morning. AT the strikers headquarters
the men asserted that while some cars
were running it was very irreguIarly..
They claim six recruits this morning from
among the men who remained at work.
The company officials were very con-
| fident today that they would be able to
run the full complement of cars on regu-
lar schedule time within "a hours and
claimed the strike would be over by mid
night
Chas. w. Mackenzie, chairman Of the
committee Of strikers, said today the men
We're holding their own and would surely
win out. On several lines petty annoy
ances We're given the men operating the
cars but nothing Of a serious nature took
place.
Grand Master Workman Parsons said:
Il believe the position of the strikers is
being strengthened every hour and with
the assurance of financial aid that has
been given the contest will be continued.
1t should be remembered" said Parsons,
"that the main question in dispute be-
tween the employees and the corpora ton is
. shall the ten hour work day be enforced"
1t should also be remembered this ten
hour law for surface railway employees
was made to protect our citizens from
danger of having trolley cars operat by
men who from excessive toll are untitled
for work rather than enacted specially for
the benefit of the men themselves. Aside
from the purpose of enforcing the ten hour
law the question al issue before the pub
lie is should the company be made to
respect our laws?'
Cleveland, O., July IT. The conductors
and motormen of the Big Consolida ted
street railway system, who We're on a
strike last month, went out again al Ais
this morning. Eight hundred men are
affected. They claim the company has
not lived up 10 the agreement made which
ended the former strike.