The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-14
UNION MEN ARE
OUT FOR GOOD
Will Have to Surrender Cards
Before Becoming Employees
of United Railroads.
HUNDRED CARS OPERATED
STRIKERS LOSING IN SAN FRAN
CISCO.


cars. manned and guarded by $50 nom
union strike breakers. were operated to-
day from a. m. until and p m. on
six of the twenty-odd lines of the United
Railroads. There were scores of acts of
individual violence, but there was no riot
beyond the ability of the police to put
down. About 1000 passengers were car
ried during the day. Thousands of them,
women as well men. were subjected TO
intolersble insults at the hands of union
men and their sympathizers, who cursed
foully at the passing cars and the people
on them.
President Calhoun of the United Rail-
roads in a statement today to the Asso-
ciated Press, advanced beyond the posi-
tion he has thus far maintained with ref
erence to the local car mems union. He
said
No More Union Men.
81 shall not take back any striking mo-
torman or conductor unless he first sur
renders his union card and signs con-
tract to remain non-uniOn man so long
as he remains in the company's employ
ment.
He said further:
ITO run cars at night is at the present
time prohiDitiYe. l hope that the era of
violence is about over; j hope that the
passions of last week have run their
course. This much / know. that if my
non-union men are attacked and their
lives endangered. and police protection is
not snail eAeTClSe cOHStltu-
tional right and arm them. L shall not
stand by and my crews. or any of
them, beaten up.
Interview With Governor.
Governor Gillett informed newspaper
men who called on him at staff headquar-
tiers in the Gerry building today that he
will maintain these headquarters all sum-
mer. 1.-THE state" said the governor,
will not withdraw its eye from San
Francisco until this trouble is fully over
go TO Sacramento. Thursday, but it is
only d couple of hours ride. and l shall
tant General Lauck, who will remain here
in charge of staff headquarters.
The governor declared with emphasis
that the police must promptly and vigor-
ously put a stop to the wholesale abuse
that is being heaped upon passengers,
both women and men, and upon the str Ike
breakers. by crowds and individuals in
the streets. He was greatly incensed by
the many reports brought to him during
the day of vulgar and profane remarks
addressed by strike sympathizers TO peo-
pie on the cars.
Fines for Riding on Cars.
Any union man who rides on a street
car during this strike is subject to pun
ishment ranging from s25 or $50 fine to
expulsion.
Governor Gillett said he thought il
would not be wise from a peace stand
point for President Calhoun to attempt
to throw open the entire United Railroads
system at once, or to run cars at night
Just now. Mr.. Calhoun" said the gov
ernor, must be guided by his own good
sense in resuming operation of his lines.
The service should be restored gradually,
with due regard to the safety of passen-
gers as well as the lives of operatives
have doubt Mr.. Calhoun understands
this quite well as / do"
Child Hit by Brick.
many desultOry acts of violence commit
ted during the day. A brick bat thrown
at a passenger-fiiled car on the Suffer
street line. at Fifteenth avenue and Cali
fornia street, tore open the scalp of Z
year-old girl. Sophia Frank The child.
bleeding profusely, was removed to Park
emergency hospital. The surgeons say
she will recover.
A number of women living in Point I.o-
Dos refuge camp armed themselves with
missiles of various sort and bombarded
a passing car. They were doing consider
able execution when the police interfered
females laid their babies on the car
tracks and were again chased off by the
police after several cars had thus been
blockaded.
Program for Today.
At Fourth and Market streets stones
and timbers were dropped upon passing
cars from a high building in course of
construction. 1t is understood tonight that
the United Railroads will tomorrow oper-
ate eight or nine lines. Five hundred reg
ular police and 100 or more specials were
employed in guarding the streets today
through which the cars ran. Many COM
plants were received of refusal of officers
to suppress diSorderly acts directed
against the service. In many other in
stances the police acted with decision and
vigOr.
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