Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-28
RfOTING in HAVANA
LABOR TROUBLES RESULT in DEATH
OF TWO AND 81 INJURED.
No Bread or Meat on Sale - Carmen Did
Not Quit and They Were Assaulted by
the Other Laborers, ,,the Strike Having
Become .0eneral-Order Has Been Re-
stored by Police.

Havana, Nov. 26.-As result of
conflicts of serious nature today be-
tween the police and men on strike
here, two strikers are dead and SO
| other persons are wounded. Five of
the wounded, one lieutenant of po-
lice whose throat was cut by striker,
have very severe injuries. Eight other
policemen are wounded. The police
have the rioters we'll under control to.
night, and every precaution is being
taken to prevent a further outbreak of
disorder, and all the police and rural
guards in the suburbs have been sum-
moned to concentrate in Havana.
The strike, which at first concerned
only the cigar workers, became general
this morning by the calling out of all
trades in sympathy with the cigar
makers. All the tradespeopls closed
their doors this morning, clerks, cooks
and every class of workmen having
obeyed the command of the union, ex.
cept the motormen. and conductors of
the electric cars, who refused to Join
in the general strike.
Trouble began early by the holding
up OF the electric cars by the strikers,
whose wrath naturally was directed
against the street railway employees.
Several cars were held up and stoned
in the outskirts of the city, and the
passengers were compelled to walk into
Havana, among these being the British
and German ministers. Several cars
were wrecked and some motornen and
conductors were injured during the
rioting. The carmen, however, con-
tinued running their cars until IL
O'Clock, when Superintendent Green
wood ordered a suspension of traffic.
The employees were willing to remain
at work, but the officers of the COM
pany, in order to protect the property
OF the company, deemed it wise to sus-
pend the service. -.
Mr.. Greenwood asked for protection
from the civil government, but the
were unable to protect the
public vehicles. The mayor of Havana
and the secretary of government, Deigo
Tamayo, had during the past week
openly sympathized with the strikers
and had given orders to the police not
to use force in dispensing crowds, and
under these conditions the police were
unable to cope with the strikers.
The situation was approaching
critical point at noon, serious disorders
having taken place in front of the pal
ace itself, when President Palma sent
word to the mayor that unless the city
could preserve order and
protect the railroad company the state
would interfere. The mayor then took
drastic measures and issued an edict
prohibiting crowds from gathering in
the streets, and authorizing the chief of
police to kill, if such action should be
necessary, to preserve order.
A similar show of force early in the
undoubtedly would have pre-
vented trouble, but now, the strikers
had become emEoldened ID frequent
clashes between them and the police :
in all parts of the city.
No bread or meat were on sale today,
and a continuance of the strike will
cause much suffering to the poor. The
police fear that trouble may occur in
the city tonight and a detachment of
rural guards is expected to reach Ha-
vana at 2:30 tomorrow morning. -,
Senior Tamayo has resigned the office
of secretary of the government, but
President Palma will not accept his
until the strike has been
settled. The public blames Tamayo
for his active participation in the
strike, and say he and the mayor are
for today's riots, as he had
openly expressed sympathy with the
strikers. At political meeting at
which Senior Tamayo was the chairman,
he indorsed the action of the strikers.