The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-04
Deputy United States Marshals Guard
ing the Property of the Van
daIia Railway Company.
INJUNCTION AT CINCINNATI
RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST THE
STRIKING MACH1NISTS.
Little Change In the AmnlGamated
Association SituatiOn-Meeting of
the Advisory Board Called.

ST LOUIS, July "a total of 1,so5 men
employed as freight handlers, drivers OF
transfer wagons and platform clerks by
the twelve railroads in East st. Louis are
out to-day as a result of the strike of
freight handlers for an advance in wages.
OF this number LBS are freight handlers.
the others being $50 drivers and 300 clerks,
who struck out of sympathy.
Deputy United States marshals have
reached there from Springfield. H.. to
guard the property of the Vandalia Rail-
road Company, which is in the hands of
receiver. Special officers from all points
along the lines OF every road are constantly
arriving. Several hundred deputy marshals
patrol the yards, but violence has not been
attempted. The strikers hold conferences
daily. Groups gsther about the ware
houses. but make no attempt to use force.
Thousands of loaded cars are idle. Many
contain vegetables and perishable goods,
and should have been sent to their destina-
tions early in the week. Not wheel is
turning in the great railroad yards except
OF the switch engines which are kept at
work making up passenger trains.
The doors of all the railroad warehouses
except those of the Chicago Alton and
the Big Four are closed.
The Illinois Central imported 12o carpen-
ters from Cairo TO build bridges. Upon
their arrival an effort was made TO induce
them to fill strikers places, but they re-
fused The same road imported two car
loads of negroes from Mounds. Ill. where
they have been loading freight. When the
men arrived and learned that a strike was
on they refused to go to work and asked
to be sent home. Chief of Police Hauss
keeps a reserve force of men constantly at
the station to answer any call that may be
sent in.
The strike threatens to extend to st.
Louis and congest traffic here. Local
transfer drivers refuse to handle freight
that will be trucked and unloaded by the
alleged unfair labor on the East Side.
Only a comparatively few wagons were
running in East ST Louis to-day, and it
was reported that many employees of the
transfer companies might go out because
of the situation in East st. Louis. Local
warehouses are already feeling the effect
of the strike on the East Side
Some agitators are now among the ranks
of the switchmen and the ether railroaders
and 1t is said it is possible that a general
railroad strike will follow. Fearing this
Mayor Fl. II. Stephens. of East st. Louis,
has taken the matter up. and he worked
all day to-day in a vain endeavor TO ef-
feet a settlement The mayor held con-
ierences with the railroad companies and
also with the leaders of the men. To-
night he said he hoped that the strike
would be settled on Friday.
The railroad employees say that they
will not under any circumstances resort to
force. and will rely wholly on moral
..t.s t1,A
they can rouse. Ii was said tonight by
a prominent railroad man that all perish
able freight had been rebiled and that
the railroad companies would have no
losses