The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-13
TO INVOKE FEDERAL AID
The Possibility OF Such a Step ia Being
Discussed. Will Hermann F.
schuettler, the New Assistant
Chief Of Police, be Able to
Con ir0l the Situation?
Oon'r0l the Situation?
(By the Associated Press }

Chicago, Nov. 12.-Constant scenes of
disorder over a district approximately
fifty square miles in extent, resulted to-
day from the inauguration of a strike by
the employees of one of the two prin-
cipal surface street railway companies in
Chicago. Along the lines wherever cars
were started, strike sympathizers made
desperate onslaughts on the crews begin
min at dawn of day and continuing as
long as cars remained on the tracks. The
tie-up was made complete.
A number of cars were wrecked, ard
that no person was killed is no fault of
the rioters. One man had his back bro
ken and the first shot of the strike was
fired at Wentworth Avenue and West
Sixty ninth street where mob of sev
eral hundred persons tried to hold up a
train.
Many persons, chiefly non-union street
car men, were injured by flying stones or
spGntered glass. Two women were among
these hurt.
Excepting a few dozen passengers who
had TO fee from the cars the 300, COO daily
patrons Of the company were forced to
/ ali sorts OF other methods in order to get
down town and back.
With faces and hands bleeding from
the attacks OF the strikers, motormen,
| gTlpmen and conductors who tried to
run trains returned to the barns and
refused to go out again unless the trains
bore platoons of police or patrol wagons
were alongside.
The poice confined their efforts to see
ing that the passage of cars from the
barns was unobstructed and that crowds
IN the streets were quickly cleared. This
was done under orders from Mayor Car
ter H. Harrison, whose announced pur-
pose was to preserve an impartial atti-
tude, taking sides neither for nor against
the strikers or the street railway COM
pany, which though known as the Chicago
City Railway, is private corporation.
the lines of which extend through the
south side Of the city. radiating from
the business center
Developments regarding the attitude
of the municipal administration hinge
largely upon a new official, Herman F.
Schuttler who, today, under appointment
from the mayor, assumed the duties OF
assistant chief OF police. Schuettler will
be in direct charge of police arrange
ments during the contest. Schuettler is
the man who tracked and arrested An
archist Louis Lingg after the Haymarket
riot and subsequently sent Adolph Luet-
CERT, the wealthy sausage man, to die In
the penhtentiary under conviction for
wife murder. Schuettler has a remark
able record for personal daring and as
tuteness.
Possibilities for Federal intervention
under certain contingencies are being dis
cussed. The situation in this respect was
outlined today by Postmaster Coyne. He
said:
'"Thus far there is no cause for alarm
as to the mail service. 1t is true trains
have been delayed, but that is not seri-
Gus enough to report to Washington. The
street car company owns the mail cars
and by contract is obliged to run them in
separate trains and deliver mail at speci-
fed points. There is no ground for OBJ
lection against the company's sending out
mail trains between passenger trains.
What else can the company do? If seri-
Gus delay occurs we will report the fact
to Washington and act on instructions
from the postal department"
Before nightfal President D. G. Hamil-
| ton, and Genera Counsel Bliss, Of the
Railway company, after endeavoring to
| operate cars in defiance of the strike OF
| its tranmen, announced after a confer.
ence with Mayor Harrison, that the at
tempt would be abandoned for the day.
The railway officials declare that thirty
per cent of their employees are loyal and
that if accorded sufficient protection by
the police department they will be at4e
to man and operate cars. A further ef-
fort to run cars, each car accompanied
by a squad of police in a patrol wagon
will, it is expected, be made tomorrow.
The strike is the outgrowth of per
sistent efforts for increased wages and
exclusion of non-union employees. Today
about 5000 men, practically the entire
force OF the company's wage earners,
were idle. The number OF men at any
timc running cars being but small frac-
tlon of the number usually at work. Tho
companys stationary firemen, who have
also presented demands upon the com
pany for increased wages and 90 whom
the tralnmeu looked for assistance, have
declined to go out