Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-14

part to the permanent injunction re-
Gently given the Brine Co as a protec-
ton. and to the decision of municipal
Judges that the word "scab" as applied
to non-union men was term which, if
publicly called out during the strike,
was breach of the peace. The fact
remains. however that the strike has
been marvellous exhibition of dis
cipline.
Until late yesterday, the Brine
Transportation Co., non-union, did
practically all the teaming of the city.
This was because the master team
sters in conference had decided to
await developments. Today, the situa-
ton became so acute that most of
them personally took out teams, doing
manual labor with aid of foremen and
clerks. In this way the statement gen.
orally made that more freight was
moving today than yesterday was true,
although at the most the bulk was not
great. All the railroad companies re-
ported traffic moving to their satisfac-
ton, today, yet, tonight, the freight
houses are blocked with goods which
gangs of Italians brought from many
places by the New York, New Haven
q Hartford and Boston & Albany, and
strapping young cOuntrymen gathered
in by the Boston & Maine had been I'M
able to dispose of.
The railroads had solved the through
baggage transfer problem by sending it
around the city over their own tracks,
and generally speaking the strike of the
Armstrong Transfer Cos. men did not in
convenience passengers moving from the
east or north bound to the south or west
or vice versa.
The steamship companies docks are in
a worse condition than the freight sheds
of the railroad companies on account of
the congested traffic. There is much per
iShable material stored on the WharVeS
mostly fruit, the actual condition of
which will be known, tomorrow. All thu
coaStwiSe steamers have been subjected
to more or less delay in leaving here.
All day building construction was stop
ped in the city, Cambridge and Brook
line by lack of building material. 1t is
estimated that at noon 1900 men of the
building trades stopped work and most Of
them Will not start work again for sew
eral days, because of the inability of the
teamsters to haul material at once.
The serious feature of the day was the
growing scarcity of coal. The manager
of one of the largest coal companies said
that only 100 of the 1900 coal handlers
were at work, and they only cared for 15l
tons of the usual $500 tons daily trans
ported by wagon through the city streets.
In view of the recent signed agreement
between the master coal dealers and the
coal teamsters, some of the latter became
FESTIVE on strike when told of the bad
faith shown, and - returned to the Met
ropohtan Coal Co. This action helped
many firms late in the day, for in scores
of down town buildings and hotels the
elevators had stopped running for lack
of motive power. The great Ames build
ing, tonight had only coal enough to keep
its boilers going till tomorrow noon, an
belled Hospital" Another big block was
supplied by a wagon labelled Press"
The wholesale wool. cotton and dry
goods trade was at a StandStill. Thu
American Hide and Leather Co, this
morning, went out and bought four draya
and 10 draught horses. and with its own
employees began handling its own freight.
1t is now known that both the Boston
& Maine and the steamship companies
were preparing to feed and house men
brought in to fill strikers places on their
own premises.