The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
STRIKE QUICKLY ENDED
HAVANA STREET-CAR MEN GAINED
NOTHING By WALKING OUT.
Substitutes for Their Places Found at
Once-LudIow Explains His Posi-
ton Relative to Disorders.

HAVANA, Oct. 1.-The street-car con-
ductors and drivers vent on strike. but
Mayor Lacoste found substitutes imme-
diately. The companies are reducing the
number OF working hours and the strikers
can return if they desire. The companies
need additional hands, and the substitutes
will be kept on. The boatmen and fisher
men have called a meeting for tomorrow.
after which they will confer with the boat
owners. 1t is thought that a settlement can
be arranged. A strike would mean no fish
for Havana. -
The son of General Sanguily and the
three other young Cubans, who were re-
Gently arrested and locked up for removing
the Spanish flag from the premises of the
Commercial Fipe Brigade and from the
Spanish Clerks Club, will be released on
bail. The fire brigade people were indis-
posed to press the charge, and their wit
nesses declared then that they could not
identify the accused In the case of the
club the evidence was complete, but II Is
probable that nothing more will be done In
the matter. as the authorities prefer TO
treat the affair as a mere expression Of
boyish exuberance.
All the weekly papers congratulate the
MlllldTy 1OteF0OT, 1tntTd LuulOW, upOu
the effect of his proclamation regarding the
recent strike. The Independentists and An
nexationists declare that in no other way
could the city have been spared a terrible
disaster. General Ludlow says he never
contemplated such a thing as martial law
In connection with the strike. never asked
for additional troops from General Lees
command, and never did anything toward
bringing to the city his own troops. On the
contrary he felt from the first, he asserts,
that the Havana police were fully able to
cope with the situation. which, though I'M
questionably serious, only required firm
dealing. He cannot understand why Civil
Governor Rivera should have supposed there
was any intention on his part 10 supersede
the civil authorities, as his only desire VAS
to augment, though Ii was certainly a
quested not to issue permits for public
meetings. DESTROYS of conveying his thanks
following communication to-day to the
mayor Of Havana, Perfecto Lacoste:
"SirI desire to convey TO you my sincere
congratulations upon the success of your
efforts and those of the municipal police in
controlling and thwarting a suicidal attempt
to foment a general strike among the labor
which, had 1t been allowed to gain head
way. would have brought serious disaster
upon the community. The disappearance of
~ eAN
matter and to the discretion and vigilance
which the police, under the able direction
Of Chief Cardenas, discharged their duties.
My own participation was the formulation
of certain basic principles Of administration
which II seemed expedient to make known,
both as indicating that the responsible
American authorities would fully sustain
the action of the local authorities, and as
conveying to a class of workmen, unskllled
In public affairs and In danger of being
mfsled by reckless and anarchistic infu-
ences. the true principles of liberty and OF
modern liberal government, the foundation
of which is respect for law and order. There
was no thought, as there was no necessity,
to use other forces than those Of the civil
Administration, which proved fully equal &c
the demand of the occasion.
My congratulations would not be com.
plete unless they were extended to the work
ingmen. whose forbearance and acceptance
OF the requirements of public security and
Welfare were worthy of all praise and
furnish good reason to hope and to expect
tnat nothing will be done to imperil public
saIety or impair the welfare of the city,