Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-24
IJO|N IN THE CAR STRIKE.
St. Louis Labor Unions Declare
for General Move.
ARE TO QUIT IN SYMPATHY,
Serious Shootings In tho Mississippi
Valley Metropolis Wires Cut, Police.
man shot--Shooting OF Two Non-Unlon
Men and Three Others.

st. Louis, Mo-, May Clone hun
dred leaders of ST. Louis labor unions
at l o'clock this morning have voted
resolutions for general strike. The
action was taken after an all-night
conference in response to the appeal
or the street car mems union for a
sympathetic strike to force the st.
Louis Transit company to terms. The
resolutions recommend the central
controlling bodies of the trades unions
to call the strike. so the action Is not
final. However, as the leaders who
voted the resolutions are for the most
part the members OF the controlling
bodies the declaring of the strike Is
considered only matter of form,
which will be disposed of shortly after
daylight. The house OF delegates
passed bill for the forfeiture of all
the st. Louis Transit company's street
railway franchises, on the ground that
the cars had not been operated ac-
cording to the law for four consecutive
days. The measure passed the lower
house by vote of l6 to and was
greeted with loud cheers by the big
crowd of strike sympathizers In the
galleries. When the measure was re-
ferred to the council that body inn
mediately adjourned for week.
All peace negotiations between the
strikers and the transit company are
off and the city is torn by rioting and
disorder. Another attempt was made
yesterday by the business men to bring
about an adjustment but the street.
railroad company said It would be a.
waste of time unless the men had some
new proposition to submit. The men
said they were willing to hear new
proposals from the company, but had
nothing further to concede.
Policeman Harry Il. Barton was shot
while guarding a car. He was shot
by a rifle In which smokeless ammu-
milton was employed. The bullet
glanced from his skull and caused only
a flesh wound. A crowd Of about 500
men gathered at Grand and Laclede
avenues about noon and stopped three
cars on the Laclede avenue line. Mo-
torman Richardson, from Cleveland,
was shot In the back of the head and
pulled Off his car. After that he was
beaten badly. A riot call was turned
in and Capt. McNamee and n detail
OF police arrived. Richardson was then
taken to st. Luke's hospital. He Is
In n serious condition. Before the mob
was dispersed 1t had succeeded In pull
ing sixteen motormen and conductors
from their cars. Two of the non-un-
ion men were badly beaten. The police
seemed powerless to do more than yell
at the mob to keep back. A second
riot call was turned in from Twenty
first and Morgan streets shortly after
noon. When car No. 1165 had passed
this point It was attacked by a mob of
rioters. During the trouble which fol-
lowed Conductor Guy Fickes was shot
In the thigh. When the police arrived
the mob dispersed. During the ex-
element sixty girls appeared at the
windows of the American laundry and
kept shouting "scab" and singing at
the tops of their voices. Both Fickes
and Richardson were imported non
union men.
Strikers or their sympathlzers cut
out long sections OF trolley wire, piled
up barbados on the tracks and de-
stroyed the Transit company's prop
erty wherever opportunity offered.
John Kenna, a saloonkeeper in Ora
toit street, was probably fatally
wounded, and Robert Nelson, colored,
and Policeman Jacob Hollingsworth
were slightly wounded at night in
riot ut the south end of the Fourteenth
street bridge. Kenna was shot four
times by the officers, and Nelson was
struck in the left ear by a stray bull
let fred. Kenna shot the officer In the
hand. Kenna had attempted to shoot
the motorman on street car, when
Hollingsworth, who was on the rear
platform, jumped off and tried to ar
rest the intoxicated saloonkeeper. The
shooting followed. On Morgan street
near Jefferson avenue huge bonfres
were built at night, which had to be
cleared away by the train crews. Once
over the fire the dynamite cartridges
exploded under the wheels, but with no
other effect than to cause the passen-
gers to abandon the cars. A squad OF
police with drawn sabers kept the
crowd moving, but they only disap-
peared to mobilize again with their
bonfires and explosives.
Arbitration IL to Rule.
New York, May 1.-two hundred
thousand workingmen and $75,O0O.OOo
in capital are bound in harmony by an
agreement reached by the arbitration
commissions OF the National Metal
Trades association and the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists. which
have been in session for days In the
Murray Hill hotel In this city. II the
employers are the directors they can
not lock out their employees. The work
must be done and the wages paid, no
matter which side has a grievance. If
the national arbitrators fail. which is
considered out Of the question. then
strike or lockout may be declared.