The record-union., 1899-06-17
Rioters Gather in Force in the Down
town Streets,
Bomharding Css With Bottles, Stones, :
and Other Missiles.
Several Hundred Factory Girls
Engage in the Riot-Police Re- I,
Endorsements Finally Drive tha |
Mob Back, but the Attempt to |
Open the South Side Line
Failed.

CLEVELAND (Ohio), June 16.--Cars
were started this morning on all the
lines operated on yeSterday-Euclid,
Wade Park, Cedar and Wilson avenue.
There was no riotlng, but at various
points distractions were found on the
tracks. These were readily removed
There are no crowds in the streets IT,
seems possible that settlement Of the
strike might be effected.
1t was denied yesterday tha. a COM
mittee of the strikers had had con-
ference with President Everett of the
company, but the report is known to be-
true. The committee was composed CT
former employees, was entirely unofficial,
and its action Is disavowed by the
union, but it was to-day admitted that
a return of the men was discussed. The
question has, it is said, narrowed down
to the disposal of the non-union men
employed by the company. The COM
pany claims that it Dis bound to retain
these men in its service. 1t is reported
this morning that the union has SO mod
flied its demand for recognition as to
allow of it's fulfillment without the sac
rifice of any right of the company.
All through the forenoon the streets
We're quiet At the noon hour, when
the big factories let out their men,
trouble was experienced all over the
city. The police had been drawn into
the outskirts Of the town, and the
rioters, seeing this, gathered in force in
the downtown streets. AT the corner
of Wood and ST. Clair streets several
hundred factory girls bombarded the
cars with bottles, stones and other mis-
sfles from the show windows.
A crowd of 2,OoO people blockaded
Superior street and a Bank street car
and stoned them at their VIII. Only
two arrests We're made. On ST Clair
street, between Bank and Water, two
cars were attacked with missiles from
surrounding buildings.
Shortly after noon two large stones
thrown from a. roof crashed down
through a Wade Park car on Perkins
avenue, narrowly missing The motor
man.
The track was blocked and a crowd
RzrgelyE composed Of women and chll-
drefl vigorously stoned a passing car.
At Vinton and Clark avenues a brick
thrown from the crowd injured a police
man, and sharp melee followed.
At Holden avenue a crowd OF 1000
people was encountered. a motor.nan
was hit with a paving stone, and volley
after volley of stones and eggs was sent
into the car.
Police reinforcements finally arrived
and drove the mob back. Two strikers,
John Murphy and ]. ]. Crax, were ar
rested.
The first attempt to open a South
Side line failed, the rioters being too
strong, and no adequate police force
being available.
President Henry A Everett of the
Cleveland Street Railway Company this
morning authorized the statement tnat
the company has made contract With
each man employed in place of strikers,
guaranteeing him position as long as
he proves competent. Under no con-
dition, says Mr.. Everett, viii this con-
tract be violated. The company will
rc-employ as many of the other men
as it can find vacancies for, but they
must take their places ON the waiting
list. The company expects to soon open
new belt line, which will give en-
ployment to some fifty additional men.
President Everett declares that strikers
returning to work must come Lack on
precisely the same terms as the men
who We're engaged to fill their places
when the strike came. The company,
he asserts, will not sacrifice the men
hired since the strike.