Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-11
POLICE UNABLE TO
PROTECT THE CITY
TROOPS TO BE CALLED OUT
MONDAY
Attempts to Run Caps Without Off
GERS Aid In Holding Strikers
in Check Ends Disas-
trousIy
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a pleasant one. In passing the MA
jestic hotel at Sutter and - Cough
streets women guests threw armsful of
flowers from the windows of the hos
telry into the street, They were picked
up and distributed among the unarmed
strike breakers operating the two cars.
At various points, particularly Van
Ness avenue and Sutter street, citizens
stood up in automobiles and wagons
and cheered the non-union men Justify,
clapped their hands and waved their
hats The men acknowledged these
salutes by touching their caps. Hun
dreds of women appeared at windows
and upon doorsteps and waved hand-
kerchiefs to the carmen.
On Oak street near Lyon the driver
of a loaded brewery wagon showed
signs of a purpose to blockade the
cars. He was dubbed on the arm and
put to rout.
Mutually. Chief Surgeon Coffey, AS
sistant superintendent Christianson
and SANDY McNaughton, the well
known turfman, alighted from auto
mobiles at Oak street opposite the
panhandle and boarded one of the cars.
With the exception of several news
paper men they were the first pas
sengers to ride since the commence
ment of the strike. The non-union
conductor, a Kentucky youth, collected
five fares from McNaughton and
knocked them down." He handed the
quarter to Mutually as a souvenir-the
first money taken in by the United
Railroads since the tieup of the sys-
tenn last Sunday.
Second Trip Different
There were no pleasant features to
mark the second trip, which was begun
three minutes after the first was COM
pleted. On the run back from Larkin
street Police Captain Gleason's auto
mobile broke down and a delay of
twenty minutes was occasioned.
While the cars were standing and the
chauffeur was tinkering at his car, a
man in the crowd yelled "Scab!" De-
tective Sergeant Hook spotted the man
and collared him after desperate
tussle, during which he was hemmed in
on all sides by strike sympathizers. In
the turmoil a three-year-old boy was
knocked down and severely trampled.
When Sergeant Hook searched his
prisoner he found his pockets filled
with iron bolts and pieces of gaspipe
The man was arrested.
At Devisadero and McAllister streets
three carpenters at work on a new
building hurled bricks from upper
stories. One of the missiles struck E.
j. Hooper, a real estate man. who was
acting as Capt. Gleason's chauffeur, in
the face. Several of his teeth were dis
lodged and his mouth was cut.
Another of the bricks hit officer j.
NJ. Murphy on the nose. He bled pro.
fusely. The procession of cars and
automobiles has halted for half an
hour while police raided the building.
They caught, dubbed and arrested the
three union carpenters.
At Shrader and Oak streets brick
was hurled from building in course of
erection and struck Chief Timekeeper
e. G.. Maynard on the wrist. The po>
lice searched the building, but were
unable to find the assailant. Maynard
was riding in the foremost car when
struck.
Crowds Not So Large
The crowds today which met and
pressed about the cars were neither so
large nor so demonstrative as those OF
preceding days. The significance of this
was lessened by the fact that the route
was not made known in advance.
The United railroads purposes send
ing out two or more cars tomorrow
morning and it is possible the police
will allow them to be operated as far
into the heart of the city as Market
street.
Mayor Schimtz said today:
1.-THE chances for an early settlement
of the difficulty grow steadily more
dim instead of brighter, but l am
working as best I can to bring about
some peaceful understanding, Hope
less or not 1 shall continue my effort
to end the strike and satisfy both sides
to the controversy, up to the very end.
Neither side will bulge an inch and it
does look today as if the contest would
have to be fought out upon it's strict
merits"
Aside from the street car strike the
general labor situation in this city re-
mains virtually unchanged. The strike
of the iron workers, telephone operators
and laundry employees continue, and
it is impossible to predict when they
will terminate. The committee of fifty
appointed by Mayor Schmitz. as we'll
as the joint conciliation committee
composed of prominent citizens and
representatives of the labor council,
have for their object the. general i'm
provement of industrial conditions and
they purpose making every effort to end
the strikes now in progress.
There exists a feeling of unrest
among all classes of mechanics and as
a consequence business is suffering
greatly.