The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-11
Anti-B0ycOtt Meeting i'm
Cleveland.
CAPITAL AGAINST LABOR
Meeting Of the Moneyed Men Of CIeves
iand-Ten Thousand Dollar Fund 60
Ferret out the !,sen Creating Diseord
I'm the Cisy-vigorous Speeches Ne.
nouncing the ssrtke and BOY eou-The
sJrikers' Picnic-specch by the Mayor
OF Toledo.

Cleveland. Ohio. August s.-Five
hundred business men OF Cleveland held
an ants-boycott meeting this afternoon
in the chamber Of commerce rooms. A
fund of 10000 was started to ferret out
the criminals who are dynamiting cars
and creating discord in the city. In a
few minutes time not less than $500
was subscribed and the rest OF the
amount will be fully made up tomor-
row.
The meeting was largely attended and
it was a representative one in every re-
spect. Millions OF dollars were repre-
sented in the men present. Vigorous
speeches denouncing the boycott, strike
disturbances and disorder were made.
demand for a United States army
military post in Cleveland was unani-
mously made and steps were taken to
increase the police force of the city.
At the strikers picnic held at Scenic
park today, Mayor S. III. Jones, OF To-
ledo, was the guest OF honor and orator
OF the day The mayor said:
We are in an epidemic of labor
troubles, strikes, lockouts and boycotts.
affecting widely separated portions OF
our country, and as widely diversified
industrial interests disturb the land,
the condition may be fitly characterized
as one of industrial civil war. The boy
colt is cruel and unjust weapon in
many ways. / am not here with n
plan for settling the difficulty in Cleve-
land alone. / am here to propose n
remedy, not only for street railroad
strikes, but for all kinds OF difficulties
with labor in every sort OF public utill-
ty. The remedy may be found in abso-
lutte municipal ownership, operation
and control. In short, the fundamen-
tai cause of the trouble in Cleveland
today is found in the fact that a few
men are granted the right Of owner
ship in a class of property that should
never under any circumstances become
private possession but should be the
property of the whole people
Mayor Jones held a political confer
ence with strike leaders in. the Ameri-
can house this afternoon, at which he
decided to leave the Cleveland end OF
his campaign as an independent candi-
date for governor OF Ohio entirely in
the hands of the street railway strik--
ers.
a Big Consolidated street car was
wrecked at O'Clock this morning, on
the Wade Park Avenue line, near Cac-
tus drive, lonely spot adjoining Wade
park.
The car was east bound and the first
fntimation of danger was when IL sud
denly rose from the track and a deaf
'ening report was heard. Residents
within a radius of mile and a half
were awakened by the roar and sprang
from their beds TO seek the cause
The car was blown from the track
and badly demolished. The frightened
motorman was hurled from the vesti-
bule and the conductor from the plat
form. They were uninjured The one
passenger aboard also escaped unhurt.
During the afternoon Charles III.
Bond, aged is years, was arrested
charged with placing explosives on the
Consolidated tracks during the strike
last June. The police declare this ar
rest important.