The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-05-21
MARKS CAR
STRIKE IN CLEVELAND
System Tied Up Early Today.
by Failure Of Wage
Agreement.
OPERATORS ARE ASSAULTED
Union Mobs Create Disturb.
ances in Various Parts
Of the City.

Cleveland, Ohio, May
street a system was tied up at .
vote Of the local union of the Arnalga-
mated Association of Street and Elec-
trio Railway employees. The strike
Is a result of the failure Of the munich.
pal traction company, lessees of the
consolidated ines OF the city, and the
employees to come to an agreement over
the matter Of wages and other alleged
grievances.
About 800 motormen and conductors
formerly employed by the Forest City
company, the original Scent fare line.
did not join In the strike. There are
also quite a large humble of men EN-
ployed on other lines. who did not quit
work. The latter are largely made up
Of men who have been broken In since
the strike first was threatened about
10 days ago.
On many lines there was no attempt
made to run the cars early today, all
though later an occasional car vas
manned and sent out from the barns.
These cars are generally greeted by
boots n yells from the throngs Of
working people, who are walking to
their places of employment.
Smash Windows.
At the corner of Superior avenue and
East One Hundred and Fifth street, a
large crowd collected. When a car
bound downtown appeared about half
the car windows We're smashed. The
police rescued the motorman and the
conductor n prevented further trou-
BILE.
A large crowd at the Lake View,
barns attacked the non-union crews
when attempts were made to send out
some cars In the melee a score of
men are reported to have been dubbed.
Chief Hohler and a number Of officers
were rushed to the scene In automo-
biles and dispersed the crowd. Hohler
was struck in the neck with a stone,
but was not seriously hurt.
Cut Off Trolley.
An attempt to run some cars on the
Payne avenue line was early frustrated
by the strike s~ympathizers. They took
away h controller lever Of the car,
trolley rope. The motorman and con-
ductor left the car standing in the
street, and later 1t was hauled back to
the barns.
At the junction of the Collinwood
& Euclid Beach lines in the eastern
suburb, the switch point was broken
off the telephone pole n thrown
across the tracks, effectually tying
up progress of the cars in that sec
ton for the time being.
A mob of strike s~ympathfzers armed
with crowbars and other tools attempted
to tear up the street railway tracks
or ST. Clair avenue this morning. The
mob dispersed, however. before much
Roadway had been made. The crew
Of a a on the st. Clair avenue line
were dragged from the car by the
same mob. The conductor was badly
beaten. The conductor and motorman
finally were rescued by the police.
The leaders of the street car mems
union claim that while negotiations
have been under way looking to the
arbitration of differences, the company
has Systematically laid off the old union
men, reducing them to the extra list
n s%upplanted them with Forest City
men, Inc had given every indication
that it was the purpose Of the
Municipal Traction company to- force
the union men out Of service and use
arbitration only as a cloak for the de-
lay.