Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-05-18
RIOT IN ST. LOUIS.
STRIKE OF 1895 STREET CAR MEN
RESULTS IN PUBLIC FIGHTS.
CAR SYSTEM is TIED UP.
Police vainly Try to Protect Non-Union
Employes-Stones, Sticks and Revolvers
Figure In Row-Strike is Reported to
Have Seriously Intcrfered With the
Mails.

st. Louis, Especial -One of the biggest
street railway strikes in the history Of the
country is on in this city.
Ofthe 5000 employees OF the st. Louis
Transit Company the corporation control
ling all but one of the trolley lines In the
city, 1t is estimated that 1926 belonging to
the Amalgamated Association OF Street Car
Employees have quit work. The employees oil
the City aud Suburban Railway Company,
the only Independent line, are also on a
strike.
Violence ran riot from early morning I'M
til late at night and several persons were
hurt in street fights resulting from attempts
to move cars with non-unon crews.
The demands OF the strikers are subsian-
TALLY as follows
All conductors. mo.ormeD, grip zen 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 eve mt of their failing
to agree, shall, il mu ually agreed to, lace
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 reinst,.te-
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 cd place 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 A. NJ, after a
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-unon men.
I number OF cars were run out on the PAX
avenue division of the L ndel Line, which
passes the Union Station. This led to fire.
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 a crowd. was shot and seriously
wounded by Conductor George Mcclellan,
in charge of car on the Park avenue divl-
sion. The boy was removed 10 the City
Hospital and Conductor Mcclellan was ar
rested.
OHc ChI Ou thCu VI Lue liucb
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 a wagon-load of police turned
out to keep order, but their efforts were in
vain.
At this point motorman was bit 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-
torman left his car and ran into saloon for
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 the De
Hodiamont station of the suburban line and
as fast as cars were started the strikers
boarded them and pulled the motormen and
conductors off. As a result the cars were
stopped. By 10 O'Clock traffic on the subur-
ban line down town had been virtually sus-
pended. Several arrests of alleged rioters
were made on this line