Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
STRIKERS OFFER NO VIOLENCE
CAMP WINE VIEW QUIET AND
POLICE WITHDRAWN.
Rumors of Trouble Not Fulfilled and
Promise Is Given Not to
Disturb the Peace.
AIRS quiet at Camp Wine View.

"All's quiet at Camp Wine View
The foregoing message was flashed over
the police wires about midnight from the
railroad roundhouse at Ivy City, d. c.
Camp Wine View is the designation
that has been given the solitary tent OF
the striking railroad machinlsts, Whlch
has been pitched near the roundhouse
The tent is said to serve the double pur-
pose of headquarters for the strikers,
some fifty in number, as well as a station
of observation from which the men who
walked out Thursday night and Friday
morning can watch any strike breakers
that may walk into their vacated jobs IN
the roundhouse and machine shops.
A number of strike sympathiZers were
attracted to the solitary tent last night,
as it had been rumOred there would 'be
something doing before morning. There
were flying reports that parts of locomo-
tives would be removed by strike SYM
pathiZers, so the engines could not go out
upon the road, and that strikebreakers
We're to be held up by the strikers. One
rumor had it that soap was to be placed
in the water tanks of the locomotives to
prevent the firemen from getting up
steam.
Strikers Promise to Be Good.
These reports caused number of NOR
bidly curious people to assemble about
the roundhouse and the tent.
Capt John C. Daley of the ninth pre-
cinct was ION the job too. He visited
Camp Wine View last evening and gave
the striking machinists some fatherly adj
vice about committing overt acts or vio-
lating the law in any particular,
One of the men, who appeared to be a
leader of the strikers, conhdentially in
formed Capt Daley that the boys were
not hunting for trouble; that they
were just camping out for their health.
Having assured the captain of police
there would be no breach of the peace
on their part, the greater part OF the
police guard was withdrawn. Late last
night Lieut.. Falvey of the ninth stated
that but two policemen had been LETT on
duty in the vicinity of the roundhouse.
Capt Bill Tyser, chief of the terminal
station detectives, was also 'on the Job
last night again. He had a large detail
of his men with him and all were armed.
Their instructions were to prevent all
outsiders from approaching too close to
the roundhouse or the locomotives. Inc
railroad detectives formed a Gordon about
the place and remained on duty all night.
Two Pickets on Duty.
Toward midnight most of the strikers
disappeared in the gathering shadows as
the moon went down, until it was said but
two lone pickets had been left in the tent
and they were sleeping.
| During the earlier hours of the night
several strikers occasionally approached
| the roundhouse, and standing upon d
| nearby bank outside the line of police
guards and railroad detectives gazed
| into the roundhouse, the erstwhile scene
Of their mechanical activities. But they
made no attempt to enter the Gordon.
and eventually retired to the vicinity
of their tent.
Locomotives were passing to and fro
| between the roundhouse and the Union
station last night, and no attempt was
| made to modest them. The work or
oyerhauling the engines was accom-
| nIished by helpers, but it was said a
| force of non-union machinists would go
TO work this morning.
| II was also reported that several OF
the strikers had consented to return TO
| their former jobs today. The leaders
| of the men who are out, however de-
/ MED that there was any weakening Oh
! their forces,