The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-21
THE CLEVELAND STRIKE.
Sympathizers Continue Riotous
Acts Against the Company,
BUT SETTLEMENT Is IN SIGHT.

The Committee OF the city Council
working to Bring the Discordant
Elements Together, and Profess to
Believe That They WIN BE Successful
Cleveland. June 21-While the pros
pcct for a settlement Of the strike OF
the street railway men are brighter
this morning than they have been at
any time since the trouble began, there
was more serious rioting yesterday
than at any previous time. The dis
turbances began early in the morning,
continued throughout the day, and last
night a big mob surrounded the South
Side barns of the Big Consolidated
company, determined 10 get non-union
men who are housed there. While the
sympathizers Of the strikers were hurl-
ing bricks and stones at non-union
mUtormen and conductors a special
committee of city council was trying
to get the representatives Of the strik-
ers and the officers Of the company to-
gether, and it succeeded TO the extent
of inducing the strikers TO submit q
proposition in writing and getting the
consent of President Everett. of the
Big Consolidated, to submit the same
to the board of directors today. The
strikers proposition abandons the de-
mand for the recognition Of the
union, but asks that all the old
men be taken back save those who may
be convicted in court OF destroying
property. The members of the council
committee believe a settlement is In
sight
There were two incipient riots late
yesterday afternoon. At the corner Of
Central and Wilson avenues a crowd
of 1000 persons obstruCted the pas
sage of two crosstown cars Bricks
and stones were thrown and the win
dows of the cars broken. One Of the
non-union motormen, who gave his
name as Charles Jones, of Grand
Rapids. Mich. was hit with brick and
so badly injured that it was necessary
to send him to a hospital Later Il
car on the South Side line was at
tackled near the suburb of Brighton.
The motorman and conductor were
chased into the woods by mob, and
they had not returned when il came
time to stop running the cars. No
arrests were made in either case.
The people of the South Side nursed
their wrath all day. They made no at
tempt to interfere with the running of
cars on the Clark avenue line so long
as there was police protection, but in
the evening there was a. determined
effort to get at the non-union men who
were taken to the Holmdeu avenue
barns to operate the cars from that
end of the line. Soon after dark a
mob of 5000 people assembled. There
were about 20 policemen at the barns,
but they we're powerless to handle the
mob. Fences were torn down and the
crowd broke into the barns. In the
meantime the non-union men had es-
capped to the attic and the rioters con-
tented themselves with smashing a few
of the cars. By that time several
wagon loads of police had arrived and
the mob was dispersed. At another
place on the South Side switches were
torn up and the track blockaded.
Four hundred employees of the Cleve-
land Foundry company struck late yes
terday afternoon because the company
refused to discharge a man who had
ridden on a Big Consolidated car. The
man was a foreman. When it became
known that he had ridden on a car
the molders went to the officers of the
company and demanded his discharge
The officers refused to comply with the
demand, and all the men walked out
of the works.