The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-11-20
Big CHICAGO STREET
CAR STRIKE IS ON
Employees of the Chicago City
Railway Quit to Enforce
Wage Demands.
CONSIDERABLE DISORDER
Physician Said to Have Refused to A.
tend a Motorman Who Was In
jured Because He Was Not
a Union Member.

lGfl q ''S
jured Because He Was Not
a Union Member.
Chicago, Nov. 14-Constant scenes
of disorder Yer a district approx
mately fifty square miles in extent re-
suited yesterday from the 1nauSufa-
ton of a strike by the employees OF one
of the we principal surface street raj
way companies in Chicago. All alohS
the lines, wherever cars were Slaileu'
strike sympathizers made desperate
onSlaughts on the crews, beginning at
dawn of day and continuing as long as
cars remained on the tracks. Inc tis-
| up was made complete.
A number of cars We're wrecked, ana
that no person was killed is no 1ault OK
the rioters. One man had his BACK
broken, and the first shot of the strike
was fired at Wentworth avenue ana
West SiXty-ninth street, where a moi
of several hundred persons trleu ~
hold up a train.
Many persons, chiefly %non-union street
car men, were injured by flying stones
or splintered glass. Two women were
among those hurt.
Excepting a few dozen passengers who
had to flee from the cars, the 800, 600 daily
patrons OF the company were forced 10
all sorts of other methods in order 10
get down town and back.
With faces and hands bleeding from
the attacks of the strikers motormen,
gripmen and conductors who tried to run
trains returned to the barns and refused
to go out again unless the trains bore
p~latoons of police OF patrol wagons were
alongside.
Chicago, Nov, Nov. 14.-At 4 o'clock
Thursday all the union employees OF the
Nh; 1,~ o Tit1y IO,i1r-or nnyonnnV G1lf
work and say they Will remain idle
until the company consents to arbitrate
the issue that brought on the strike.
Few cars without passengers started
out early today, manned with nom
union crews, but they had not pro-
ceeded far before they We're attacked
by crowds and ~blockaded by trucks
and delivery wagons, the trainmen
maltreated and car windows broken
by stones.
Cars carrying mail were not mo-
lQested. Mayor Harrison has isSued a
proclamation warning citizens to keep
off the streets along the line or the
city railway and all police reserves are
held in readiness for emergencies, with
general orders to remain IN reserve
and take no part in the strike unless
ordered, and then only to protect
property. Over 200 police We're sent to
the various ear barns today.
At Forty-seventh street a cable car
was derailed by a horseshoe being
wedged in the slot. The gripman was
injured by the shock and remove to
a drug store. A physician called to
attend him is SAT- to have inquired ii
he had a union button. On receiving
a negative reply he said:
Take him t. the barns; they will
attend to him there" and refused to
examine the gripman's injuries.
, 1t soon became apparent that deter
mined efforts were being made by the
company to break the strike at it's in
!, ception. Passenger cars quickly fol-
lowed those carrying mail, but were al
most invariably empty. Patrons ap-
, parently preferred to walk or to make
long detours to the steam and elevated
:, lines rather than risk injury. Thu
first car IN the Wentworth avenue lint
3 carried a few women The striker
: say the women were put there by tn
company to test the attitude of the un
ion towards passengers. The cars wer
promptly blockaded by teamsters a
Van Buren, street.
The strike was ordered at an earl,
morning mass meeting with only fou
d dissenting votes, and is to enforce
demand for a 25 per cent. increase an
recognition Of the union. Three thou
e sand employees are involved and %
e miles Of surface %trackage.
i Fear Call for Troops.
y The union officials, fearing interior
ence with the operation of the ma
e service would result in calling troop
from Fort Sheridan to protect the car.
u instructed the motormen on mail cal
l. to report for duty as usual. 1t is sal
that when they reported to the barns tt
bosses insisted they must take off the
= union buttons if they intended to worl
- Many refused to do'this.
- Vehicles of all kinds were presse2 I'M
- .&l ,.N,.n# wall no r.0ri.n m
steam and elevated systems are bad
congested. The first train on the Co
tage Grove avenue line succeeded
It making a round trip. but it is said tt
IN crew deserted wnen the barns we;
a reached. The worst disorder Of Il
early hours was at Clark and Van Blu
en- streets, where two Wentworth ave-
~ ue cars, followed by mail cars, we
u b~lockaded; on the rear passenger CT
IN a mar believed to be BOSS" Farrell,
strike breaker, rode beside the motto
~ man flourishing a revolver. Brio
u thrown from the crowd struck the ar
'et holding the weapon, but did not di
. able it.
Ask for Protection.
One by one the stalled cars bro
10 through the blockades, and upon gi
~ ing assurance that they would run t
'ar cars back to the barns the crews we
- allowed to proceed. Nearly every c
returned with it's windows shatter
and plentifully Uttered with missiles
every description. The police in ma
instances were on the platforms of t
cars and frequently found it necessa
to draw their clubs and drive t
crowds back.
d. G. Hamilton, president of the c
! Railway company, called at the mi
or,s office with a request that the pol
inc escort the cars. Thu mayor gave ass,
om ance that the police would protect Ii,
ell and property out referred to Chief
rte Police O'Neill the requests that
IN police ride on the cars. 1t is und
ro- stood arrangements We're made for
inc corts in patro Wagons.
The fremen employed by the CO
pary in the various powerhouses
SO. cided to remain at work. They decla
themselves convinced that McCullol
,rts had not rejected arbitration, and ii
the expected to secure advantageous ter
she from the company.
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