The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-17
RIOT IN ST. LOUIS.
STRIKE OF 3,3g5 STREET CAR MEN
RESULTS IN PUBLIC FIGHTS.
CAR SYSTEM is TIED UP
Police Vainly Try to Protect Non-Union
Employees Stones, sticks ard Revolvers
Figure in Row-Strilte is Reported to
Have Seriously Interfered with the
Malls.

st. Louis. Especial. )-ono OF the biggest
street railway strikes in the history OF the
country IL on In this city.
or the 5000 employees OF the st. Louis
Transit Company, the corporation control
ling all but one Of the trolley lines in the
city, II is estimated that 1926 belonging to
the Amnlgamated Association of Street Car
Employees have quit work. The employees OF
the City aud Suburban Railway Company,
the only independent line, are also on a
strike
Violence ran riot from enrly morning un-
I'll late at night and several persons were
hurt in street fights resulting from attempts
10 move cars with non-union crews.
The demands OF the strikers are substan-
TALLY as follows;
All conductors, motormen. grip men and
all men employed In the sheds must be mem
bers Of the union. Tho officers of the union,
With the officers OF the company, shall be
given power to adjust all differences that
may arise and, In the event OF their failing
to agree, shall, il mutually agreed TO, place
the case before three arbitrators Any mem
Der suspended by the union must be sus
pended by the company, without pay until
such time as the union requests his reinstate-
ment. A man elected to an office In the
union requiring his absence for not more
than year shall, upon his retirement from
such office, have his old plnce with the COM
pany.
Refusal OF the company to accede to these
demands was the immediate cause OF the
strike.
The strike was ordered at 2 A. NJ, after n
protracted meeting OF the street railway en-
ployes, and became effective throughout the
city at $50 A. NJ. Attempts were made at
once to operate cars with non-union men.
number OF cars were run out on the Park
avenue division OF the Lindell Line, which
passes the Union Station. This led to fre-
quent riots at different points on the line,
where the strikers attempted, and in some
cases succeeded, in stopping the cars.
John Kohring, sixteen-year-old boy who
was In crowd, was shot and seriously
wounded by Conductor George Mcclellan,
In charge of n car on the Park avenue divl-
sion. The boy was removed TO the City
Hospital and Conductor Mcclellan was ar
rested.
One car on each OF the lines converging
on Washington avenue was run out. -Four
cars ran downtown as far as Sixth street,
but only one went around the loop. All
were attacked by mob OF men and boys on
Washington, at Fourth and Fifth streets
who threw sticks and stones. Several win
dows were broken and the motormen and
conductors were injured by flying missiles.
A riot call was turned In at o'clock from
the corner of Broadway and Washington
street, and wagon-load OF police turned
out to keep order, but their efforts were In
vain.
At this point motorman was hit over the
head with club, piece of brickbat struck
him In the mouth, decorating his lip, and his
nose was smashed with a stone. The mo.
tormRn left his car and ran into saloon foi
protection.
Almost at the same time well-dressed
young woman who was riding In the car was
struck on the head by a sharp stone that
crashed through the window and badly
wounded her.
The strikers gathered in force at tho Dc
Hodiamont station OF the suburban line and
as fast as cars were started the striker.
boarded them and pulled the motormen ant
conductors off. AS result the cars wer,
stopped. By 10 o'clock traffic on the subur
ban line down town had been virtually sus
pended. Several arrests Of alleged rioters
We're made on this line.