Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-16
MUSTWALK
Little Progress Made in Opening
the Chicago South Side
Street Car Lines.
ONLY ONE LINE Is OPERATING
And That Under Police Protection
MObs Are Held in Check
Strike of the En-
gineers,

Chicago, Nov. 16.-Twenty cars
with non-union trainmen started at
intervals of five minutes from the
Wentworth avenue barn this morning.
Most of them made the trip to the
business center without difficulty.
The others were less fortunate. Sew
eral attempts at a blockade We're
made and the police department was
busy. The same police protection
was given the street car company as
on previous days of the strike.
Many Walked Yesterday.
Chicago, Nov. 16.-Sunday crowds
on the south side had to walk to the
places where they usually spend their
holiday, and many of those who make
the first day of the week a day of
outing stayed at home for once. The
Wentworth avenue line was operated
under police protection with cOmpara-
lively little trouble. There were
crowds at different points along the
line, and wherever the mob saw man
it thought was u non-union man he
was attacked and in some cases bad
ly beaten. The company was in trouble
with its power houses, where the en-
gineers had struck, the company al
Ieges, in direct reputation of a con-
tract but fOrty-eight hours old.
Where the Strikers Hope Lies.
The strike managers are building
great hopes of success upon the trouble
which they believe the company will
| have in replacing its engineers. They
that II will no iunnnSSihIa tO DrO-
cure licensed engineers in Chicago to
replace those who have gone out. Gen
eral Manager Mccullough in viewing
this aspect of the case talks as he
has talked of all other difficulties that
| have confronted the company. ~Wewill
get engineers and we Will run the
plants" he said. I'VE look for no
trouble in getting all the men we need.
The only difficulty is the inability of
the city to afford police protection for
all the cars we can put out" All the
| power houses of the company are
closed with one exception.
Raid on the City Hall Failure.
The attempt to bring pressure to
bear upon the city hall was noisy but
| not productive. y great crowd of Strik-
ers, representatives of the Chicago
| Eederat ton of Labor, and members of
municipal ownership leagues, with a
| few hundred men afflicted with an ag-
gravated attack of curiosity, poured
into the city hall, jammed the cOrri-
dors and attempted to break into a
room where the city council committee
on local transportation was holding a
NEE ting. The crowd was repulsed from
hA
down to the mayors office to demand
the use of the council chamber for the
purpose OF holding a meeting. The
| mayor was not in, nor was any other
city official of wide authority, and the
crowd slowly melted away.
Mob Was Awed on Saturday.
Saturday the mob was awed into
comparative quiet. the warning went
out that abuse of the police OF car men
would be treated with SeveritS; that
people must move on and not collect
in crowds; that teamsters who took Il
hand in the strike by blocking the car
tracks would be summarily dealt with,
and the result was that after the po-
lice had demonstrated that the warn
ing was not a mere bluff the strike
| almost assumed the peaceful aspect
which had been promised
1t took some little time to make this
demonstration, but the sudden grab
bing of a few teamsters from their
seats, hustling them into the patrol
wagons and taking them to the lock-
up, while their teams were left stand
ing at the curb for their owners to
hunt up convinced the teamsters. Some
passengers were carried on the cars
that were kept running.