Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-23
STRIKE IN RICHMOND.

The sixth day of the Richmond street
car strike was pacific, and the Passenger
and Power Company is maintaining
fve-minute schedule on both its Broad
street and Main street lines. The COM
PAW now has 240 men on the rolls.
Some of them are professional strike.
breakers, but many of them are young
men out of work who went to Richmond
from other places.
The only new feature in the strike
Yesterday was a conference in the morn
ing between the strike leaders and sew
eral ministers of Richmond. 1t was de-
cided TO address a communication to the
members of the union and to the Passen-
ger and Power Company, requesting that
a board of arbitration be appointed, and
that this board be asked to arbitrate on
the single point as to whether there was
a time limit in the award of the arbitra
tors who settled the strike 10 months
ago. A committee consisting of Rev.
NJ. Ashby Jones, Rev. w. A Cooper
and Rev. John Harmon was appointed
to draft the communication, which will
be signed at a meeting to be held at .
o'clock this afternoon at the Young
Mems Christian Association Hall.
The part the ministers are taking in
the strike is being criticised severely in
some quarters and commented on favor
ably in others.
A bottle hurled by an unseen hand
early yesterday morning struck young
lady stenographer who was riding down
town on Main street car, and made
quite bruise on her hip. At the same
point brick was thrown yesterday
morning, but missed the car The motor
man said he thought it came from a
housetop.
w. Ii. Mullen announced yesterday
morning that he would edit the daily
paper to be published, not later than this
afternoon, in the interest Of the striking
street car men. The paper will be a
four-page afternoon daily. 1t is intend
ed to make this permanent labor paper,
to be issued weekly after the strike is
settled.
An ugly incident of the strike occur
red Yesterday evening a little before Z
O clock at Eighteenth and Broad streets,
at which hour the cars stopped running.
A crowd which gathered early in the
afternoon and jeered the street car men
rs each car passed was augmented rapidly
as the factories discharged their en-
ployes. They were soon beyond the
control of the police on duty, and the
First district reserves were called out.
They were unable to control the mob,
and reinforcements were sent from the
Second district, and Chief Howard took
charge of the situation. In the mean
time the crowd threw stones and rotten
fruit at the cars. The police made a
few arrests.
Finally, Captain Shinberger, of the
First district, was struck on the hip
with a stone and painfully hurt. Each
car as il turned the corner would lose its
trolley, and this gave opportunity for an
attack upon the motorman and conduct
or, and many missiles, most of them
harmless, were thrown. At Plum and
Main streets a noisy demonstration was
made about the same hour, but no Sc
rious injury was done.
The Virginia Passenger and Power
Company had six cars running on their
street electric railway in Petersburg yes
terday, all operated by non union men.
Mr.. Augustus Wright, vice president of
the company says they will have almost
all their cars in Petersburg in full opera
fion this week