Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-13

soon dispersed for the time being and
before it had been plentifully plastered
with rotten eggs and seveYal windows
broken with stones.
Cars were stopped by crowds on Dur
ham avenue and on Prospect street,
but repeated charges made by the police
soon cleared the tracks and the cars
were enabled to make the round trip.
These scenes have been repeated all
DAY long since early morning.
Many persons have been injured by
clubs, flying bricks and stones.
Mayor Farley tonight issued an or
der to the Chief of Police to the effect
that all violence on the part of the
strikers and their sympathizers must
be prevented at all hazards.
Large numbers of special policemen
have been sworn in and tonight every
prominent corner on the big CONSOLE
dated lines is guarded by large num-
Der of policemen. The streets are
crowded and it is feared that serious
trouble will occur before the night is
ended
At nine o'clock tonight it is reported
down town that an immense crowd had
stopped a car on the Wade Park line
on Durham avenue, and that the non
union crew were being roughly hand
led. Three patrol wagons filled with
policemen were Immediately dispatched
to the scene on the run. but at this
hour nothing has been heard of what
has taken place.
A meeting was held this afternoon at
which representatives of every labor
union in the city were present The
business agents, it is said, pledged the
moral and financial support of the I'M
ions to the strikers.
A resolution was introduced binding
everyone in the city to boycott every
man, woman and child who rides on a
big consolidated car. This resolution
will have to be submitted to the var
ious unions but it was unanimously
endorsed by the representatives of the
unions.
If the resolution is carried into eff
feet the result will be that every bust
ness man who rides on a big CONSOLE
dated car will be boycotted.
The strikers discouraged violence,
but they did most effective work in in
ducing the non-union men to quit, and
in that they were assisted by several
women, relatives of the strikers. who
boarded the cars and pleaded with the
new men to leave their posts. One Of
these women was provided with money,
and when argument failed, she induced
t''o non-union men to quit by paying
them.
.uany of the cars were left on the
lines deserted and were afterward pick
Il ~ to1-a +n
the terminals. The company says it
has sufficient men to operate its cars
tomorrow, but this is denied by the
strikers. The strikers say they feel
greatly encouraged and they will be
better prepared than ever TO resist the
running of cars when the attempt is
Resumed tomorrow morning.
About o'clock this evening ten cars
were blockaded on Durham avenue half
way between the center of the city and
the car barns. Men returning from
work piled boulders on the rails and
after several unsuccessful attempts to
clear the track the non-union men left
the cars. Later in the evening a mob
assembled and broke The windows of
the cars with stones. A striker who
was present made speech to the
crowd, telling them it wsS injuring the
cause of the men by such actions and
begging it to desist from violence
Three patrol wagon loads of police were
sent to the scene and the mob was dis
persed. Later lot of boys built big
bon fire on the tracks near the block
AIDED cars.
AKRON, Ohio, June 12.-Unless the
strike in Cleveland ic ended inSida IF
forty-eight hours it IS believed that the
Akron, Bedford and Cleveland and the
Akron street railway employees will be
called out on sympathetic strike.
These two roads are owned and oper-
ated by the people in control of the Big
Consolidated at Cleveland