The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-18
POLICEMEN QUIT.
New Men Sworn in by the st.
Louis Chief
For Service in Connection With
the Strike
GIVE IT'D THEIR STARS
3IVE UP THEIR STARS.
Men Imported From Other Cities
Will Not Work.
Many of Them Join Ranks of the
Strikers.

st. Louis May 1S.-General Manager
Baumhoff of the St. Louis Transit COM
pany says he has 1900 men at his COM
mand, many of them old employees.
with this number of men," said he, Il
would be able to operate every line be-
longing to the Transit company in the
city, providing the police would give
US the proper protection. For the very
limited protection that we are receiving,
have more men than I can use, and
there are any number of applications on
file.''
Mr.. Baunlhoff further says that it
was his intention to open several new
lines each day until the entire system
of the Transit company was in opera
ton. Rioting had accompanied the open
ing of each line, he says, but it had been
his experience that these demonstra-
tiOnS ended with the first day, proVtd-
ing the police acted faithfully in their
sworn duty to protect property. New
men to take the places of the striking
street car employees are coming in every
day from other cities, where they have
been procured by agents of the Transit
company. Seventy-five men are expect
ed tomorrow from New Orleans ana
others are being sent from Omaha.
Twenty-Five from that point came in to-
day. Not all those who came here from
other cities stay with the Transit com
pany, every day noting the detection of
a number of the nOn-union men who
OF the newly appointed emergency po-
lice twenty-four have sent their stars
and designations to Chief OF Police
Campbell. In a few instances the men
gave as their reasons for resigning that
they did not care to protect ''scab"
labor, but the majority state that they
are tired of police work
Cars are operating on about fifteen of
the twenty-five Transit company lines,
but the number is inadequate to carry
more than a small proportion of the
travelling public, which depends almost
wholly on the temporary means of trans
portation that have sprung up. The fact
that cars are stoned and delayed at un-
expected points deteTs many from riding
on them. For the first time since the
street railway strike began, the city was
last night patroled regularly by officers
All were in citizens clothes and while
they We're not assigned to particular
beats, men in pairs We're given certain
territory to patrol. The city was divided
into districts and a certain number of
men assigned to each district.
President Mahon. of the National AS
| 'sociation of Amalgamated Street Rail-
| way employees announced that IA labor
| organizations in st. Louis, had up tC
that time expressed a Willingness to
| join a strike of sympathy in aid of the
| street car men. The meeting that viii
| decide whether or not to call the gen
| eral sympathy strike will be held to-
| night Executive officers of the differ
| ent labor organizations, it is stated viii
go as instructed delegates. In case q
strike is ordered it will probably take
| place tomorrow
Arrangements are made for a parade
of union labor Sunday. when it is ex-
pected to have more than $4,000 men il
line. The miners unions at Bellevillt
and Carbondale, ILL., have sent in a re
quest for permission to participate il
the parade. Fifty non-union men wht
were brought here from Omaha by the
Transit company to run cars in place
of the striking employees. have been per
suaded to stop work. Their fares hav,
been paid and they were sent home to
day