New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20

MAIL CARS MUST NOT BE INTERPRETED
WITH-POLICE TO USE sHoTGUNs

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st. Louis. May 1s-On complaint of Postmaster
Baumhoff and other employees of the Postofffce De-
partment. United States District Attorney Roseier
to-day appeared before Judge Elmer Adams, of the
United States District Court and asked for an
injunction restraining the strikers from interfering
with the operation of mail the tracks of
the St Louis Transit Company.
President MahOn, of the International Amalga-
mated Association of Street Railway Employees. the
chairman, Mackissick. of the Executive Committee
of Local Street Railway Employees Union: the ma
tional organizer Harry Bryant, of the Street Rail-
way Employees Union and forty-seven others are
named in the petition for the injunction. Judge
Adams asked for additional affidavits of postal
employees, as to the alleged interference with the
When the United States Circuit Court called
to order this afternoon Judge Adams announced
that the injunction prayed for by the United States
District Attorney against the strike leaders and
others. who are interfering with the running of
mail cars in St. Louis. would be issued. said
There will be injunction order issued but the
extent of the order will be determined later in the
afternoon. At $50 p. m Judge Adams issued the
injunction prayed for. 1t sweeping in scope.
and granted all that had been asked for in the
motion of United States District ATTORNEY RoseIer
The injunction is temporary. and will stand until
the motion for a permanent injunction is argued
May %.
The strike situation to-day without material
change to the number of in operat ton. So
far as could be learned the St Louis Transit Com
pany had i'm operation fourteen of the twenty
two lines composing its system about hundred
and fifty cars. There eight hundred cars in
operation before the strike began. On the part of
the railway officials il that
of proper protection of their lines for
this condition while the strikers maintain tha the
company has not enough men with which oper-
more
In the last few days the interference. bv mohs
has become general, and the casualties reported
so many that, it was stated to-day. the authori-
ties will the police officers guarding the cars
with shotguns loaded with buckshot. They will
be Instructed. II is alleged fire into the mobs
which attempt TO interfere with the running of
cars or with the crews In the discharge of their
duty.
So far. nearly seventy employees of the Transit
company, mostly motOrmen. have been under the
surgeons care since the strike began Most of the
trifing. cuts and bruises from fists or
rocks predominatng, but there are some serious
ones in the number. In many of the sheds and
established. and there are patients in almost all
of them.
The action Of the Trades and Labor Union last
night in adopting a resolution recommending that
la Dor unionists quit work call from the Elk
ecutfve Committee of that body has put different
aspect affairs. and complicated matters 1t re-
ferent unions will order sympathetic strike. Each
union settle the matter for itself by three
fourths vote
These are the typographical and pressmen's or
ganfzations c. P. Connolly, president OF the local
Typographical union. of the strongest in the
city while discussing the possibility of sympa-
thetic strike. said to-day:
while organized labor of St Louis viii aid the
strikers in every legitimate way-by contributions
nd nv hoycOtting-there will be general strike. :"
pants the parade this afternoon. the management
of the 81. Louis Transit Company decided not TO
II is inttmated that this order may be extended
Sunday aso