The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-12
DISORDER IN z LOUISVILLE Strikers Keep Cars From
 Running. MUCH INCONVENIENCE CAUSED Police Gave But Lukewarm Protec- ton to Non-Unionists. Crowd Apparently in sympathy wltA Conductors and Motormen Who z Have ouit Company Jeer and
 stone Successors.
 
MUCH INCONVENIENCE CAUSED

Louisville, Ky, March II .--yioience resulting in injuries more or less se- we're to nearly a dozen persons. the feeble and spasmodic operation of less than 100 cars for few hours under inadequate and lukewarm police pro- tection and the development of an apparently general pro-union feeling on the part of the general public marked the second day of the strike of the union employees of the Lcuis~ vilie Railway Company.
 Few If any of the cars operated were patronized and a number weros stoned. As a general thing. however, the crowds that thronged the streets near the car barns won their point of driving the crews off the cars by merely surging forward and ordering the men away.
 Despite the apparent inadeauacy of the police protection the officials cf the street railway company tonighH declared they had not asked for addt~ tlonal officers. either police or deputy sheriffs and denied a report that they intended calling on Sheriff Bell to fur~ nish full protection which course would Ncessitate the use of militia. Mayor Earth stated that he had not been asked to swear in extra policemen and that his course in regard to this matt ter would be guided solely by the de- yelopments of tomorrow.
 Superintendent Funke, of the street railway company, denied that any pro- fessionaI strike breakers had been sent for, and stated that all extra mon hired so far were residents of Louisville and vicinity. He said that 22s men re- ported for work today. Nevertheless, 1t was learned tonight that about 100 men to take the places of the strikers have arrived In the city from towns In Kentucky and Indiana, and also a num- Der from Cincinnati
 Mir. Funke declared that the first batch of cars sent out tomorrow morn ing would carry two policemen aboard each one. and that if the crowds could be kept moving the service would be extended during the day.
 Was Strikers, Day.
 Today was distinctly the strikers day. as the dlsicultiea of the street rali- way company increased after the frat hour the service was attempted At o'clock this afternoon, attempts to maintain service within the city limits were abandoned and three hours later the suburban lines were also given up, but the fnterurban service over Into Tn~ diana was not interfered with. Tn ad- dition to the great inconvenience to people living in the broad spread city. there are tonight about 3.e00 suburbarla ites spending the night in Louisville. owing to the abandonment of service on their lines. Clashes between the strfk-' CTS and their sympathizers, and the police and strike breakers were nu- merous during the day and several peo- pie were injured. The most seriously hurt are:
 Motorman Pierson. cut on head byl rock: C.. Buckhold. clerk in general offices of the railway company struck by brick while acting as motorman; A. Carter. pushed off top of car while clerk in the treasurer's office Of the company, struck by stone; Breen. Greer, a conductor. assaulted with aI black jack.
 charge of insubordination against. some of the policemen was made byy Police Captain Jacobs during the day. Captain Jacobs. who with a detail ofl fifty officers. was stationed at tho car barns, called Chief Guenther to the. scene during the morning with the re- port that his men could not or would not make arrests of men as directed and that the captain himself nnada most of the arrests effected at that point Chief Guenther took charge of. the situation there and remained inl charge for several hours.
 Later in the day the scenes of turbu- Ience were brought nearer the city and during the afternoon the down town streets were congested with crowds of strikers and their sympathizers who hooted and jeered the few cars which were run spasmodically. Only half dozen or so cars ran during the late afternoon and these were guarded by two policemen on each platform and several Inside.