The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
STRIKE DISORDERS
ARE UNABATED
Louisville Street Car Service
Abandoned Early in Day
SEVERAL POLICEMEN HUB
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Commercial Interests of the CR en-
plain to Mayor of lnetficienc,
Force for Protection of
Passengers.
SEVERAL POLICEMEN HU87

Louisville, Ky, March 12.-The con-
tinuation of the disorders of yesterday;
the suspension of service at o clock
this afternoon after an intermittent and
Intellectual service, and the first move
toward Intervention by commercial inter-
ests in this city were the feature of the
day Of the strike of the union employees
of the Louisville Railway company. Dur
ing the day half a dozen persons, all
policemen or employees of the company,
were hurt, none of them dangerously
however, by stones and flying glass, as
the result of attacks on cars by strike
synpathizers.
A few more cars We're run today than
yesterday and they made more trips, but
the patronage amounted to nothing. All
service was abandoned for the day at 8
o'clock this afternoon.
Call on Mayor.
Committees representing the CONNER
cial club. Board of Trade and the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
called on Mayor Barth late this afternoon
to lay before him reports of inefficiency
and inadequate force furnished by the
police department for protection of cars
and passengers and suppression of dis
order Mayor Barth gave emphatic as
surance that the mon available for duty
had done all possible, but he further
pledged himself to see that the police
protection would be up TO all require
ments from now on.
The committees voted him the thanks
of .her respective organization and sent
sub-committees to confer with President
Minerary of the company. The result of
these conferences were strictly guarded,
and all concerned refused to say what
transpipred. 1t was reported. however.
on good authority that the commercial
bodies urged Mr.. Minerary to consent to
an arbitration of the strike issues, but
that no definite decision was arrived at,
and further negotiations are looked for
tomorrow.
Conditions today denoted some i'm
provement In the work of the police de-
partment, but even with officers on every
car sent out there were not enough men
to quel the disorders that continued at
intervals from the time the first car
started out until the company this after
noon 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, a barricade six feet high
was erected across the tracks at
Eighteenth and Chestnut streets.
Stop Cars.
The suburban service, which was dis
continued at 3 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 companys service.
| The railroad company during the MORN
| ing returned to the postoffice pouches Of
mail which they were unable to deliver
| at the substations because no men could
| be found who would take the cars to the
| desired points. In one instance the
| United States mail sign was torn from a
car.
Judge Walter Evans instructed the
federal grand Jury with respect to the
| consideration of cases of this kind II they
are brought to their attention.
During the afternoon Mayor Barth is
sued q proclamation to the people call
| ing on them to refrain from congregatng
| on the street corners or taking any part
| in the disorders which have continued
since Monday morning.
Today's events seem to have demon
! strated that the railway company has
| not been able to secure enough men to
run its cars, even II they are given po-
| lice protection, although an additional
| 100 strkebreakers arrived today from
| Chicago and Cincinnati. The strikers
claim to have won over fourth of these.
Another 100 men are reported TO be on
| their way from Chicago, Cincinnati and
| st. Louis.