The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-09
STRIKERS TIE UP
STREET CAR LINES
3,400 Men Walk Out in
st. Louis.
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NIIMER0IIC CARC CT0MEn
NJ NERVOUS CARS STONED
In Some Cases the Crews Were Drag.
ged Off Them.
STR KERS SAY THEY HAD NO PART IN THIS
The Company, Finding Cars Could Not be Rur
Ordered Them Back to Sheds. Citizens
Meet to End Strike. Strikers De-
mands. Man Shot.
mands. Man Shot.
(By the Associated Press

st. Louis, Mo-, May SIN accordance
with the decision reached by the st. Louis
Transit Companys employees early To-
morning a general strike was inauguratet
on the entire system at daybreak today
No cars were in operation, save a few or
the Park Avenue division. The first
car on this division left the sheds at {
O'Clock. The crews were allowed to rur
the cars unmolested until 12;45 O'Clock
when car No. of the Park Avenue dvi-
sion was badly wrecked on Webster Ave
nue. between Sixth and Seventh streets by
volley of stones thrown by crowd OF
men and boys.
The suburban line, many of the employees
of which had been on strike for several
days, was also tied up after the early
morning hours. Cars were run as far
east as Thirteenth street, but when eff
forts were made to bring them down town,
crowds of strikers and sympathizers in
terfered with their crews and in several
cases dragged them off the cars,
From time to time during the afternoon
and night attempts were made to operate
the cars, but in nearly every case result
ed in attacks on the crews by crowds
along the streets, practically stopping
traffic.
Outrages by crowds storming the cars
were frequent. Conductor Sellers had an
eye knocked out; Joe Kohring was shot
by Conductor Mcclellan, and Motorman
Carnth was struck in the face with a
brick. Eleven arrests are reported in
connection with the strike, including Me-
Clellan for shooting, and Nicholas Doyle
a union line motorman. for rioting. A
police riot call was turned in early in the
day.
The company when it found that the
cars could not be operated, ordered then
back to the sheds.
Numerous cars were stoned and the
men operating them attacked by crowds
along the streets. The strikers declare
that they have had no active part in these
hostile demonstrations.
Vehicles of all sorts were pressed into
service today by the citizens of the city
in getting to and from business.
Chairman Lee of the National Executive
Board, the man who is conducting this
strike, said today that the union was
satisfied with the results of the strike
'We struck to tie up the system, SAID
A joint meeting of the Executive Com
pany has precipitated this crisis by its re-
fusal to treat with us. We are ready al
any time to do our part toward settling
the differences between us and the com
pany."
Mr.. Lee said he did not know what the
strikers will do if the company employs
new men. The union claims that about
3,400 men are out and that they represent
90 per cent. of the company's employees.
A joint meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Business Mems League and
the Board of Directors of the Merchants
Exchange was called at the request OF
members Of both organizations as soor
as the gravity of the strike situation was
realized
The justice of the demands on either
side was not discussed, but the gravity
of the crisis as affecting business and law
and order was considered. Preliminary
steps were taken with view to bringing
matters to a termination and considera-
BILE power was given to the chairman OF
the meeting, and to the president of the
two controlling bodies represented. II
was decided to meet daily if necessary
until the difficulty shall be adjusted, and
the Joint meeting adjourned until tomor-
row.
Tonight as a suburban car was crossing
y Taylor Avenue big crowd gathered
Some one in it pulled the trolley from
the wire and this action so enraged a
passenger, at present unknown, that he
drew a revolver and fired three shots into
the crowd. Hurd Guilbert bar keeper
an onlooker, received one of the bullets
in the arm and another in the lung. His
wounds were pronounced fatal.
The important features of the strikers
demands are:
That all conductors, motormen, grip
men and all men employed in the sheds
shall be compelled to be members of the
union.
That the officers of the union with the
officers of the company, shall have full
power to adjust all differences that may
arise.
That any member suspended by the
union shall be suspended by the company
without pay, until the union requests his
reinstatement.
That any 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 place with