The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-21

st. Louis, May 20.-The Metal Trades
Council has decided to recommend to
all affiliated unions that they go out on
2 sympathetic strike whenever asked to
do so. About $500 men will be affected.
Tomorrow morning the executive com
mittees of the Building Trades Council
and of the Central Labor Union viii
meet to consider the question Of SYM
pathetic strike. The general opinion is
that the strike viii be ordered.
Cars were running on five of the
lines OF the St. Louis Transit company
today. The lines operated were Park
Laclede, Delmar, Page and Spaulding
avenues.
No attempt was made to run the
cars on schedule time. They were run
out of the barn down to one end of the
line and back again. Sometimes they
made the round trip in about three
fourths of the usual time. Sometimes
it took them nearly twice as long. The
officials Of the company paid no atten-
ton to that, however. Every car that
went out and came back unmarked
was considered the net proceeds of a
notable achievement, and it's crew re-
ceived greetings like those extended tn
an only son on his return from long
anu weary warfare.
Loaded Car Is Derailed.
Late in the evening, at the intersec-
ton of Tenth street and Washington
avenue, where a switch had been
thrown, a carload OF passengers was
thrown on . dead wire and off the
track. When the train crew started to
set things to rights they were greeted
with showers of stones and compelled
to abandon the work until a patrol
wagon loaded with police officers ap-
peared on the ground. The police quick
ly forced the crowd to dispense, making
several arrests.
H ". Steinbiss, secretary of the Ma
tional Building Trades Council, was
doing his best TO prevent a collision
with the police when he was taken into
custody he was taken to the police
station, but released in a short time, it
being admitted that his arrest was an
error. The arrested men were booked
as federal prisoners, the charge against
them being disordeFly conduct in vio-
lation of the injunction of Judge Ad-
ans.
Quiet Until Nightfall.
There was no outbreak of any kind
until after nightfaH. Two riot calls were
sent into the police department during
far from being the real thing.
The first disturbance was begun by
a balky horse at the corner of Eight
zenith and Chestnut streets, that at
tracted a crowd of 2,o00 persons. After
the horse had had its innings, the
crowd turned its. attention to the crews
of the Laclede avenue cars. They
showered the conductors and motor
men with epithets and deluged them
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police headquarters and twenty men
hurried to the spot. The crowd
moved on promptly, and riot num-
Der one was over before it actually
started
The second disturbance occurred a
few minutes later on washington ave-
nue., between Thirteenth and Fifteenth
streets. A crowd of about 1000 people
lined both sides of the streets for two
squares and began to jeer and boot
the train crews. The few policemen
on duty were utterly unable to handle
the crowd, but another riot call was
effective, and Sergeant Bowen, at the
head Of a dozen men, came quickly to
the spot, and within ten minutes he
had cleared the street and restored
quiet.
Strikers Prevent Interference.
The strikers made the assertion that
all day long they had men along the
different lines which were in operation
discOuraging every attempt at inter
ference with the cars on account of
women AID children who would wish
to ride around the city on Sunday No
direct acts Of violence were offered
during the entire day, and although
every car carried policemen, they had
nothing to do but keep their seats and
T.da,
The Transit company claims to have
a full complement of men, but this is
denied by their own employees. The
conductors on the various lines in op-
Grafton today said that the company
has just about one-half as many men
as went out