The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-28
NO CARS RUN
TN PITTSBURG
One Act of Violence
Recorded.
NEGROES ROUGHLY HANDLED
HAD Applied for Positions on the
Cars.
Church services I'm Many Instances
Were Dispensed with--wId
Rumors Of the Coming of
sfrikebreakers.

Pittsburg, Pa, June 27.-Greater
Pittsburg walked today amidst thun-
dershowers and q torrid sun. Since 8
O'Clock this morning, only one street
car, carrying the United States mail.
has moved in the city or suburbs. Per-
sons living In outer Allegheny County
used the hastily provided shuttle trains
OF the Pennsylvaia Railroad and the
Baltimore and Ohio. On these trains
the travel was extraordinarily light. so
much so, that at noon the railways
took on the flve-minute schedules and
substituted hourly service.
At union headquarters, the strikers
congregated early. The men unitedly
declared for a long strike.
At the Offices OF the Pittsburg Rail-
ways Company the executive officers
consulted all day. planning their cam
paign to break the strike.
The entire day was marked with but
one clash between union men and
would-be strike breakers. Two me-
groes applied to the superintendent at
the Homewood car barns for situa-
tions and were set upon by alleged
union sympathizers and chased from
the district. The police were notified,
but no arrests were made.
At many of the churches today, morn
ing and afternoon services were dis
pensed with. Rev. DR.. A. Fisher Of
the wylie Avenue Baptist Church. az
aristocratic congregation in the Her
ron Hill district. made reference TO
the strike situation at MS morning wor-
ship, however, In the following words:
Subject Of Sermon.
'gf these men, both union and Of
ficiaIs. had loved each other as Christ
taught, this strike which now engulfs
this city would never have occurred. !
believe these poor striking motormen
and conductors are only asking what
these wealthy street railway operators
could have granted without straining
a point. I pray God that no violence
may attend this labor struggle, such
as married Pittaburg by a trail of
blood during those unforgettable days
OF the Homestead strikes"
wild runors OF strike breakers ar
irving and being hidden in water front
houses, poured into police station dur
ing the day. Investigation OF the
rnnnors proved them TO be without
foundation. However. AZ IL known that
the Pittsburg Railways company has
been negotiating with professional
strike breakers who will undoubtedly
bring imported men here to run the
street cars.
An agent for a strike breaking con-
Germ was heard from in LaTrobe. a
short distance from here today. 1t was
saii he had contracted for 200 foreign
ers to come to Pittsburg to man the
cars during the trouble.
The Homestead mills are seriously
crippled by the strike. Just enough
men to keep the furnaces from cooling
and to operate the various departments
reported for work today. Arrange
ments have been made by the mail Of
ficials to house the men in barracks
during the strike.
The present strike marks the first
trouble between the car company ana
the union men in nineteen years. In
1890 men employed on the old Fifth
Avenue Gable line left their cars Tor
an hour, but the differences between
ly patched up.
The Pittsburg Railways Company is
said to be owned by the United Securi-
ties Company of San Francisco. Calik.
the same company which controls the
United Railroads Company of that city,
and whose president Is Patrick Cal
houn. The Pittsburg Railway Com
pany operates under a charter granted
to the Philadelphia Company OF
Philadelphia, Pa.
communication was sent late to-
night by ]. d. Gallery. president of the
Pittsburg Railways Company to Sheriff
A. C. Gumbert. of Allegheny county. in
which notice was given of the strike
and adding:
I'VE notify you that we will expect
you to take all legal means to protect
our property and that we Will require
the county to compensate US for any
that may be destroyed"