Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-09
THE RICHMOND STRIKE.

stage-annoying to the men VINO nave
taken the places Of the strikers, because
they continue to be abused and assaulted
with small missiles, and at times are
liable to be beaten if the offenders think
thew can escape the law; annoying to
citizens. because these troubles make
riding in obscure places disagreeable, II
not unsafe. Many people are kept
AWAY from Richmond on account oil these
disorders.
There is indignation among citizens at
the conduct of the police. When car
man is assaulted, and draws his weapon
to defend himself, the police are quick
to arrest him for creating disturbance,
and as rule put the nippers on him to
take him to the stationhouse, thus max
ing his arrest as drastic as possible. A
mortorman who alleges that he was
attacked with stones, on Tuesday, near
Thirty second and Broad streets, fired
his pistol into the air. A citizen near
by reported the incident, and the police
stopped car on Broad street, put the
nippers on the mortorman and conductor
and took them TO the station-house. The
car with passengers on board was left
standing alone in the street, greatly
to the indignation of the passengers.
The men arrested were the wrong
ones, and the man who did the shooting
has not been caught The sympathy of
many of the police Is stronger than their
sense of duty, and causes their actions
to take this form of animus against the
new men. This well-recognized con-
dition makes the withdrawal of the
military doubtful.
A. p. Hines, schoolteacher, of Isle OF
Wight county, who is employed during
the summer vacation by the Passenger
and Power Company, was beaten late
Tuesday afternoon by gang of toughs
at rwenty-frst and Main streets. Hines
face is badly cut and bruised, but yes
terday morning he declared that he
would stick to his job.
c. H. Clayton, one Of the striking
motormen, applied yesterday to SUI
perintendent Buchanan for his old posi-
ton. Clayton says the promised pay
ments from the national union have not
been forthcoming; that only those men
whose families are in dire distress are
helped. He was placed on the payroll
and will take his regular run.
There are a dozen men in the same
situation as Clayton, and who have large
families to support, and are anxious to
return to work. In the event OF Other
strikers applying the company will give
choice to those who have the best re-
cords. Eight more Baltimore men were
given employment yesterday morning
and four Richmond applicants were ex-
amined.
The charges against Sheriff Simon
Soloman, of Henrico county, preferred
by the Passenger and Power Company,
will be heard next Tuesday. The sheriff
has retained as his counsel Messrs. Hill,
Carter and H. M. Smith, jr.
A shot which was apparently fired from
the bushes in the rear of the Jewish Gem
etery, at the south end of the Fifth street
viaduct, whistled between the motorman
of car and Mrs. Samuel Marshall, a
passenger, Tuesday afternoon. The car
stopped as 1t reached the end Of the vi
aduct to take on some passengers who
came up the hill from the locomotive
works, when Mr.. Won Kramer, who at
tends the bridge, said he heard the report
of pistol in the bushes near the wall of
the Jewish Cemetery and heard Mrs.
Marshall scream. Mrs. Marshall was
sitting Oh the second seat, and the mo-
torman was about foot from her. Both
heard the bullet as it whistled past them.
1t is thought that the shot from am
bush was intended for the motorman.
As stated in the Gazette, a conference
was held by General Anderson and Ad-
iutant General Male with Governor
Montague, in which it was decided to re-
lieve a considerable portion of the troops
on duty in the next As hours. Com
pany b, the Norfolk Guard, Captain Sal
omonsky, was withdrawn, aud left for
home yesterday afternoon.
Several arrests for alleged malicious
libel and the preparation Of papers for
$40, 900 suit for boycotting, were among
the features Of the strike situation.
William II, Mullen and Sidney Gates,
editors Of the Opinion, published as the
organ of the strikers, and William
Ferris had warrants sworn out against
them for malicious libel for printing in
the Opinion a charge that Supt. Buch-
anan, of the Passenger and Power
Company, was passing under an as
sumed name, and that his real name
was Martin.
Counsel for the Sitterding- Carneal-
Davis Company is preparing papers to
bring suit against the Bricklayers'
Union for $40, 900 dam ages. This is
one of the notwithstanding developments
of the strike, following as it does the
vigorous charge on this subject made
to the grand jury on Monday by Judge
Witt. 1t recalls the famous Baughman
boycott in the heyday of the Knights of
Labor. Several men were then con-
victed of boycotting and the Supreme
Court enforced the penalties imposed.
The present litigation grows out of the
refusal of the members of the union to
use the materials of the concern in their
work, thereby forcing contractors to
discontinue their purchases from the
company. The specific charge is that
the Bricklayers' Union has placed
boycott on the materials sold by the
company.
Concerning the military feature, posi-
tive statement is made of the plans for
the withdrawal of troops, which has, in