Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-28
Two Negro Strikebreakers Are Chased
Out by Crowd.
IS sYMPATHIzER
Tells Aristocratic Congregation Union
Demands Are Just.
NoNUN1oN MEN ARE COMING
Northumberland story that Strike
Breaking Firm is to Fetch AEgre-
cation 40 Operate CRrs--NO
Trouble Yet.

PITTsBURG, Pa. June H-Greater
Pittsburg walked today, amidst interndt-
tent thunder showers and a torrid sun.
Since O'Clock this morning only one
street car Gt carried the United states
maiD has moved in the city and suburbs.
Persons living in outer Allegheny county
used the hastily provided shuttle trains Of
the Pennsylvania railroad and the Balti-
more & Ohio. On these trains travel was
extraordinarily light, so much so that at
noon the railways took off the flve-minute
schedules and substituted hourly service
Downtown Pittsburg was deserted for
the entire day except at the headquarters
of the AmaIgamated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees and the
offices of the Pittsburg Railways company.
At union headquarters the strikers congre-
gated early. The men unitedly declared
for a long and hard-fought strike.
At the offices of the Pittsburg Railways
company the executive officers consulted
all day, planning their campaign to break
the strike. The day was marked with but
one clash between union men and would-be
strike breakers.
Negroes Driven Out.
Two negroes applied to the superintend-
ent 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.
Conveyances were early placed at a
premium by wagon and cab owners. The
taxcabs of the city did a large business,
and were allowed to break speed limits in
their efforts to handle the interresident
district traffic.
At many of the churches today morning
and afternoon services were dispensed
with.
Preacher Approves Strike.
Rev. DR.. A. Fisher of the Wylie Avenue
Baptist church, an aristocratic congrega-
ton in the Heron Hin district. made ref
erence to the strike at his morning wor-
ship, however. in the following words:
IF these men, both union men and Of
ficials had loved each other as Christ
taught this strike, which now engulfs this
city, would never have occurred. be-
lieve these poor striking motormen and
conductors are only asking what these
wealthy street railway operators could have
granted without strainng a point. 1 pray
God that no violence may attend this labor
struggle, as marked PittsburE by a trail
of blood during those unforgettable days
of the Homestead strikes"
Wild rumors of strikebreakers arriving
and being hidden in waterfront houses
poured into the police station during the
day. Investigation of the rumors proved
them to be without foundation. However,
1t is known that the Pittsburg Railways
company has been negotiating with profess
sional strikebreakers, who will undoubtedly
bring imported men here to run the street
cars,
Strike Breakers Coming.
An agent for a strikebreakng concern
was heard from in Latrobe, a short dis
tance from here today. II is said he had
contracted for 200 foreigners to come to
Pittsburg to man cars during the trouble
In this connection 1t is known that for the
last three or four weeks the Pittsburg Rail
ways company has anticipated a general
strike of it's employees. Extra crews have
been broken in on all lines throughout the
city and environs. On the Heron Hill line
where seven cars ran hourly under the
ordinary schedules during the last week
fourteen have been In operation in charge
of the extra crews. In other parts OF the
city the same situation prevailed
Mills Are Crippled.
The Homestead Steel mills are seriously
crippled by the strike Just enough mer
to keep the furnaces from cooling and tC
operate the various departments reported
for work today. Arrangements have beer
made by the mill officials to house the
men in barracks during the strike
The Pittsburg Railways company is sait
to be owned by the United Securities com
pany Of San Francisco, the same company
which controls the United Railways com
pany of that city, and whose president Il
Patrick Calhoun. The Pittsburg Railway
company operates under a charter granted
to the Philadelphia Railways company o.
Philadelphia.