The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-04-02
ARE ON A STRIKE.
STREET CAR MEN IN SEATTLE
WALK OUT.
Union Demanded Recall of Men Who
Went to Tacoma to Fill Strikers
Places, Also Recognition of Local
Union, but Demands Were Ig-
nOred.

Seattle, March 26.-At 1925 this
morning the members of the Street
Railway Employees union of Seattle
voted to not take cars out this morn
ing. This was but another way of de-
claring tie-up of the street car sys-
tenn of Seattle, so far as the union
men were concerned.
The members of the executive COM
mittee, which served notice upon the
company that unless certain demands
were complied with by midnight the
men would go out, waited until the
midnight hour for reply. None
came. Twenty-Five minutes later the
strike was on. Five minutes after
that deputy United States marshal
pushed his way into the crowded hall
a41 served a restraining order issued
by Judge Hanford upon the leaders
of the movement. The order was Sc
cured by the Tacoma Railway and
Power company, and applies to the
situation in that city.
ecutive committee, of which he is a
member, said:
I'VE want the public to know that
we are for law and order. No attempt
will be made to stop the United States
mail cars from running. If it is neces-
sary, we will furnish men to run these
cars. There will be no violence If we
can prevent it. We will have a num-
Der of committees, made up of two
and three men, stationed at the vari-
Gus points, to prevent any disorder
or any interference with the property
of the Seattle Electric company"
The members Of the executive COM
mittee called upon Mayor Humes yes
terday afternoon and told him that
the tie-up would be conducted in
peaceable manner. They asked as a
favor that no officers be placed upon
the cars until some overt act is COM
mitted.
At 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning
an executive committee, composed of
George Bean, ]. w. Webster, Charles
r. Zipser. G. P. Percival and A. Dun
can, waited upon Superintendent
Kempster, with demand that the un-
ion be recognized.
you demand, do your" queried Mr..
Kempster, looking up from the paper
upon which was written the declara-
ton Of the union. The superintend-
ent laid especial stress upon the word
demand" and the members of the
committee smiled knowingly as they
nodded assent.
THAT being the case" continued
the superintendent, your demands will
be passed on up to General Manager
Grant for action"
''We cannot stand to see the COM
pany use Seattle men to break strike
in Tacoma" said G. P. Percival yes
terday. IF they succeed in this they
would turn right around and use Ia
coma men to break up a strike in Sc
attic should one occur. They would
thus be able to whipsaw us into line.
using one town against the other. The
action Of the company in taking
twenty-six men from Seattle to help
run the cars in Tacoma, and the fact
that many more were solicited to go
under promise Of good pay, made it
ize at this time for our own protec-
ton"
The Tacoma Railway & Power COM
pany last evening procured restrain
ing order from Judge Hanford in the
United States circuit court against the
attic alleged to be combining with
them, prohibiting them generally from
interfering with the railway line and
other property of the company, intimi-
dating or coercing it's employees, ap-
plying opprobrious epithets to them.
jeering at them, and from conspiring
to boycott the company its patrons or
employees, or injuring the business of
the company by boycott, intimidation,
violence or other unlawful means.
Among the defendants enjoined are
the Western Central Labor Union of
dent. secretary and executive board of
the newly organized Street Railway
Employees Union of Seattle, as well as
a number of former employees of the
Seattle Electric Company. who are al
legged to be conspiring to aid the
strike. The Tacoma Trades Council
is also included.
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