Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-18
THE ST. LOUIS STRIKE,
Transit Company Getting Enough
Men To Operate its Lines.

A ST. Louis, Mo, dispatch this after
noon says General Manager Baum.
hon Of the 81. Louis Transit company
says he has 1900 men at his command
many Of them old employees
with this number" said he. Il would
be able 10 operate every line belonging
10 the Transit company In the city, pro-
yiding the police would give us the
proper protection"
Mr. Baumhod further said that It was
his intention 10 open several new lines
each day until the entire system Of the
Transit company was In operation. New
men to take the places Of the striking
employees are coming In every day from
other cities, where they have been pro-
cured by agents OF the Transit COM
pany. Every day some of those who
have come from other cities Join the
strikers ranks.
Fifty non-union men who were
brought here from Omaha by the Tran
sit company 10 run cars IN place Of the
striking employees have been persuaded
10 stop work. Their fares have been
paid, and they were sent home today
Twenty-f0ur emergency policemen
have gent their designations 10 Chief Of
Police Campbell A few gave as their
reason for resgnlng that they did not
care 10 protect 'scab' labor, but the
majority state that they are tired Of
police work.
Cars are operating on about Is Of the
p Transit Company's lines. but the
number is inadequate 20 carry more
than a small proportion OF the travel
ing public. The fact that cars are
stoned and delayed az unexpected
points deters many from riding on
them.
For the first time since the street
railway strike began, the city was last
night patrolled regularly by officers.
President Mahon OF the international
association Of Amalgamated Street
Railway Employees announced at noon
that Il labor organizations In 81. Louis
had expressed a willingness 20 Join a
strike Of sympathy In aid Of the street
car men. The meeting that viii decide
whether or not 10 call the general sym.
pathetic strike viii De held tonight Ar
rangements are being made for a pa
rade Of union labor Sunday when st
is expected 10 have more than $4,000
men In line
Another conference with the company
Is desired by the union Chairman Ed
wards Of the grievance committee,
stated this afternoon that the union
would present again It's proposition Of
Thursday, which proposition was re-
jucted by President Whitaker The
company "a today running 1914 cars.
PatrOlman Barton was shot In the
head today by an unknown person while
riding on q Jefferson avenue car, He
will not die.
Disturbances are reported at a num-
Der Of points along the lines OF the 81.
Louis Transit Company Jos. Richards,
mOtorman who came here from Cleye-
land. was shot and probably fatally
wounded az the corner OF L9clede and
Grand avenue. John Ficks. an employe
Of the Transit company was shot at
Prairie and Easton avenues
At o'clock "a crowd gathered at the
corner Of Fourth and Morgan streets
and upset a wagon containing coffee
and a lunch for the non-uniou men
running cars Of the Easton avenue line.
The crowd then turned the wagon up
side down and drew II across the
tracks and repeated the operation as
often as II was removed. There were
no police in sight