The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-13
DISORDER IN
 LOUISVILLE Car Service is Again
 Abandoned. SIX MEN ARE INJURED Many Strike Breakers Are Brought
 Into City. Their Efforts to Operate Lines, How ever. Met with Bnt Little sac- eess--PeopIe of city Greatly
 Inconvenienced.

Louisville, Ky, March i2.-The con tinuation of the disorders of yesterday; the suspension of service at o'clock this afternoon after an intermittent and ineffectuaI service and the first move towards intervention by the coni- merciaI interests of the city were the features of the third day of the strike of the union employees of the Louisville Railway Company.
 During the day half dozen persons, all policemen or employees of the conn pany were hurt, none of them danger ously, however. by stones and flying glass as the result of attacks on cars by strike sympathizers. A few moro cars were run today than yesterday and they made more trips, but the pat ronage amounted to nothing. All ser- vice was abandoned for the day at o'clock this afternoon.
 Committees representing the Com- mercial Club, Board of Trade and the Merchants and Manufacturers' Associ- ation called on Mayor Earth late this afternoon to lay before him reports of an inefKiclency and inadequate force furnished by the police department for protection of cars and passengers and suppression of disorder.
 Mayor Earth gave emphatic assu- rance that the men available for duty had done all possible but he further pledged himself to see that the police protection would be lip to all require- ments from now on. The committees voted him the thanks of their respec- tive organizations and sent sub-com- mittees to confer with President Mic nerary of the railway company. The result of these conferences were strict ly guarded and all concerned refused to say what tfanspired.
 If was reported. however, on good authority that the commercial bodies urged Mir. Minerary to consent to an arbitration of the strike Issues bnt that no definite decision was arrived at and further negotiations are looked for tomorrow.
 paliee Force Inadequate.
 Conditions today denoted some fm- br5Hemenf fu the work of tke police department but even with oiiicers on every car sent out there were not enough men to queli the disorders that continued at intervals from the time the first car started out until the com pany this afternoon abandoned their efforts and called all cars into the barns.
 Cars were stoned and their windows broken, switches plugged, wagons placed on tracks and in one instance 8 barricade six feet high was erected across the tracks at Eighteenth and Chestnut Streets. The suburban ser- vice which was discontinued at . o'clock Monday afternoon, has not been resumed and the company announced tonight that no attempt would be made at present to operate cars on these branches of the city service The railway company during the morning returned to the postoffice pouches of mail which they were unable to de- liver at the sub-stations because nc men could be found who would take the cars to the desired points. In one instance the United States mall sign was torn from a car. Judge Walter Evans instructed the Federal grand jury with respect to considering cases of this kind if they are brought to their attention. During the afternoon May or Earth issued a proclamation to the people calling upon them to refrain from congregating on the street cor ners or taking any part in the disor- ders which have continued since Mon- day morning.
 Todays events seem to have demon strated that the street railway com pany has not the men to run its cars even if they are given police protec- tion, although over a hundred strike breakers arrived today from Chicago and Cincinnati. The strikers claim to have V on over a fourth of these. Over 400 more men are reported to be on their way from Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis.