The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-02
Employees at Anderson, Ind,
Struck This Morning in Sym
pathy With Their Brothers
In MunCie.
REAL CAUSE OF Rl0TlNG.
DECLARED BY STRIKERS THAT
ELECTRIC OFFICIALS WOULD
CRUSH NEW UNION UNDER CON-
TRoL OF UNITED FEDERATION.

TROl OF UNITED FEDERATION.
Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. -Four
companies OF National guard are ready
TO leave for Muncie on A moments no.
tice from the governor. At Muncie
today the city cars are running. man.
ned by six strike breakers to each car.
The police and sheriff believe they can
control the situation. Street railway
employees at Anderson went on strike
this morning and their places are be-
ing filled by strike breakers who have
been imported in anticipation of trou-
BILE
Though there were no deaths. many
people were injured. The most seri-
ously injured are:
John C. Cline, furniture dealer, shot
in leg.
Morris Maley. aged 20, shot in right
groin, seemingly with blank cartridge.
VIM. Finan, chest grazed with bullet.
Raymond Grouse, newsboy. struck In
head with stone from car; badly in
Iured.
John Mosby shot in left arm.
Harry Switzer, struck in the head
with bowlder.
The Muncie Lodge of the AmaIgam-
1ted association of Railway employees
voted unanimously yesterday to refuse
20 work until the company recognized
he demands OF the National Fedora
ION OF Labor organizations, and the
ears on the Muncie city lines were
abandoned
Housed in the Barns.
In anticipation of the move the COM
pany had strikebreakers from Louis
vile and Chicago housed in the car
barns and the city lines We're put in
operation with from three to six men
on a car. Each man was armed with
q revolver and club to protect himself.
AS it was holiday. there were soon
crowds downtown, and the small boys
who daily associate with union glass
workers took the lead at hooting the
men as they passed the downtown cor
ners. Before noon paper badges were
distributed to everyone. Inscribed Il
walk The badge wearers soon be-
gan to parade the streets and the small
boys grew more bold and occasionally
threw missiles at the cars.
The crust that for 10 years has held
down tragedy in Muncie union labor
circles, when occasion required 1t. be-
gan to crack at noontime, and after
dinner more violence was offered the
strikebreakers, until at 3 o'clock a
blockade was effected at Walnut and
Howard streets. Following that. 800
strike sympathiZers marched up WAL
nut and Main streets to Mulberry
where it encountered two cars in front
of the Presbyterian church.
Some one jumped on n West Side car
and struck at the conductor, who
pulled his revolver and fired a shot.
He started to shoot again when Police
man Curtis knocked down the gun.
The crowd then took the man from
the officer and everybody took a poke
at him. The man WIS Joseph n. VII.
liams. of Chicago. and he Was badly
injured.
Wrecked the Car.
The motorman and assistants escap-
ed from the car. and the crowd then
began to break the car 10 pieces.
Small boys did the work while men
looked on. Williams was placed in
Jail and the crowd, satisfied, was CON-
pIetely in the hands of the police. but
Superintendent Baldwin, of the Union
Traction company, seemed enraged.
! While the crowd stood looking at
the car, with a single officer protect
ing 1t, except for breaking windows, q
car resembling an army fort on wheels
and with a loud, coarse whistle. came
pell nell up the street, filled with arm
: ed strike breakers. IL had been made
for the occasion out Of a box car. men
} standing in the door sides and ends
with Winchester rifles and stacks OF
/ powders inside.
: The rope had been cut on the trolley
, pole so that the disabled car could not
de oueratad. Regardless uf this xh4