The age-herald., 1900-06-18
ST. LOUIS STRIKE
 WAGS YEARLY ON
Struggle Has Simmered Down
 to Boycott.
DYNAMITE USED YESTERDAY
Several Cars Were Damaged by ExpIo- sives Which Had Been Placed on Track Woman Passenger
 Roughly Handled by Mob

St. Louis, June 1.-The long drawn out Company and it's striking employees has now smmered down into a struggle be- tween company and labor along the line of a boycott. The submitting of the question of the reinstatement of the former em- ployes of the company to arbitration has been the bone of contention in the recent negotiations for settlement of the strike, but like all former contentious it has re- suited in nothing but the railway officials demanding an unconditional surrender on the part of the men.
 As result of the companys action President Gompers of the American Fed eration of Labor has declared that he will do all in his power to bring the influence of the body of organized labor in America to bear upon the local situation in an ef- fort to win the strike for the union. Mir. Gompers urges the strikers to be law abiding. The boycott to be instituted, strike leaders say, will apply not only to the St. Louis Transit Company, but to every person, every business man. every association, and, in fact any corporation or individual favoring it in any way.
 Mrs. Eva Doman was roughly handled by a mob at Marion street and Broadway today. As she alighted from a Transit car she was quickly surrounded by a crowd of girls who shouted "scab'' at her. large throng soon joined the girls. Mrs. Doman ran down several streets with the mob in hot pursuit and sought refuge in Joseph A. Benes saloon in South Broadway, but Rene pushed the woman back into the street. A woman living over the saloon succeeded in getting Mrs. Doman to her apartments but not before both had been pelted with mud and stones. Mrs. Doman was escorted home by police officer The police arrested Bene charging him with assault and battery.
 Chief of Detectives Desmond sent a dozen of his men to the neighborhood of Broadway and Marion streets today to lie in wait for other crowds that might at- tack women. An hour later two detectives were sent to the locality with a woman as decoy. As soon the women stepped off the car she was surrounded by a crowd. The detectives used their clubs, doing much damage to the heads of those in the mob. The crowd broke and ran.
 Some trouble was experienced today on the Page avenue division of the Transit Company. As a car was passing the cor ner of Page and Taylor avenues 1t ex- ploded a dynamite cartridge. Both of the front wheels were shattered, all of the windows in the broken and the motor- man was thrown violently from his posi- tion to the street. He was bruised about the body, but not seriously injured. The passengers on the car escaped injury
 few minutes later another car on the same division stopped just in time to avoid exploding large package of dyna- mite.
 Dynamite was more freely used today than any day since the strike was inau- gurated In addition to the wreck of the car on the Page avenue division, four other cars were wrecked in various parts of the city, but no one was seriously in- jured.
 A car on the Baden division had its truck shattered, the floor ripped up and the roof torn off