Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-14

Cleveland. o. ,June'11. At four clock
Saturday morning the motormen and
conductors of the Cleveland Electric
railway, known locally as the Big Con-
solidated, declared a strike, tying up
the entire system, including the Euclid,
Wade Park, Cedar, Central, Scoville,
Wilson, Broadway, Jennings and Brook
lyn lines. Word was sent at once to
committees at each barn not to let the
day cars start out. President BRYAN
announced that no more conferences
would be held by the company
unless the officers seek out and treat
with the union. Men on the way
here to take the places of strikers have
been headed off, the men say. The
Big Consolidated employees want, first,
the recognition by the company of
their union, which is a part of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees of America; sec
ondly, they want board of arbitration
20 pass upon alleged violations of the
.ompany's rules when man is charged
with violating these rules, and the
lnion's officers and the company's
management to agree upon the disposi.
lismissals for causes not clearly appar.
mt to them stopped. The men charge
that there has been numerous dis.
charges for trifiing reasons. The men
want, thirdly, an abatement of ''swing'
:uns. In swing run man gets pay
:or only the hours he works, but the
working hours are scattered all through
the day and night. The real fight is
over the recognition of the union.
Two cars were started out by the
| company and made the round trip
When the first one started the strikers
| made hostile demonstration, but the
president of the street car mems union
| urged them to refrain from violence
and the strikers obeyed him. The Sec
ond car was loaded with deputies and
was hooted, but when it was entering
the barn some one threw a stone and
struck Jacob KratZ a new man, on the
head. He was reported in serious
condition.
Threatened Strike of Coal Miners.
Pittsburgh, Pa, June IA strike
OF 25, 900 coal miners in the central dis
trict of Pennsylvania is threatened
Within the last ten days secret meet
ings have been held at Robertsdale
and Clear6eld at which the national
and district officers of the United Mine
Workers association were authorized
to prepare the machine miners of the
whole district for a strike to be
declared as soon as those officials
thought the time ripe. A letter
from national organizer received here
declares that this will be within
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of the mines in the central region,
which includes the counties of Cambria.
Clearheld, Jefferson, Armstrong, Hunt
ingdon, Bedford, Somerset, Center and
Clarion, would seriously hamper the
great ship coaling depots of the eastern
seaboard, for that is where most of the
product goes.
The Marion Strike Growing Serious.
Marion, Ind, June 1.-THE carpen-
ters' strike, which has been on for over
four weeks and which resulted in
sympathetic strike of the brick masons
and plasterers, has now spread to
the painters, decorators and paper
hangers, who held a meeting and
decided to join the strike next
Wednesday. The business men are
very much alarmed, as the unions are
so thoroughly organized, and if call
is made by the Trades council the
clerks, printers and all union employees
will join the sympathetic strike and
completely demoralize business. j. c.
Cattermaull, member of the national
executive committee of the Carpenters
union, arrived in Marion and will as
sist in the work of prosecuting the
strike.