The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-20
81 EEL PLANT
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No Violence Shown BY
Strikers.
COMPANY SUFFERS BIG LOSS
Belieyed Cost Of Strike Reaches
10000 ! Day.
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COMPANY SUFFERS BIG Loss

flttHDuf&s July lbs-Wituout tno
slightest display Of violence OF any
sort on the part Of the striking sm-
ployes. the plant Of the Pressed Steel
Car Company partially resumed oper-
atoms today. Five hundred msn land
ed at the companys wharf from the
steamer Steel Queen. the car companys
material boat. quietly entered tho
shope and took up their tools In Va.
rious departments without outward
manifestation that . labor disturbances
Of any kind had interrupted the op-
The men who were put to work ~
reported to be the American woykmen
Of the car company who walked out
with the foreign strikers. but refused
to stay on strike az the foreigners had
little excuse for refusing TO work
The company ofaciais stated today
that before the week ends they hoped
to have the plants In full operation.
while no exact figures can be OBJ
tanned. showing the loss that is being
caused by the strike ct the Pressed
Steel Car Works, at McKee's Rocks, .
general inquiry develops that tire.
mendous amount Of money has gone
out OF circulation since the great works
were tied up.
Nearly 5000 men are idle. Grant
ing that each man made 81 day. some
ideasof the loss to merchants IL gained
The plant has capacity Of about
100 cars day. These cars sell from
an average price Of $1,000 each. The
figures show that the company 10 en-
during q tremendous loss while no
product IL being turned out.
The losses In Inconvenience spreads
all over the country Railroads. in
&C. -
the strike has been ended and must
make shift TO handle the freight Street
car companies who want rolling stock
must get along without II until the
workmen are ready to resume their
| Jobs. The company must continue to
pay at least $1,000 day until the
works can be operated without the
presence OF deputy sherfns.
All figured. the loss caused ~ the
strike will cost at least $50, 600 o day.
| ATTORNEY Wflliam McNair TODAY filed
before Judge Ford IN TIE eommon
tpieas court the strikers answer TO the
nafitien 81 the R,shlte Safety Aeeeoie-
tian prayin9 tor an ifsJunSs Eon q re-
STRATA both fhs company and the strfk-
ers from acts likely to lncits violence.
The strikers answer admits practical--
petitioners save that II contends no
Injunction IL necessary 70 restrain the
worlxingmen from treapassing upon or
destroying the property OF the oonpa-
ny.
The answer contsnds, however. that
the workingmen have, the right to
prevent by all peaceful means the err.
ployment Of new men at the ccmpA,
MES shops. is @
The answer prays for an early ad-
Quotation of the natter TO the end that
the men may return 70 work immsds
lately.
Fully four thousand strikers gather
ed on Indian Mound today at q nass
meeting. The workinemen were ad.
dressed In English. German. Polieh.
Russian. Crotian and Lithuanian.
| Judges Ford and Brown OF the court
OF common pleas have set tomorrow
at D. m. as the time for the hearing
on the application of the public de-
Tense association for double injunc-
| ton restraining both strikers and
employers from acts calculated to ag-
Rravate or prolong tho strike. and on
the decision rendered at that time will
depend the future Of the conflict.
It is said In labor circles that II the
court declines to pass on the dispute.
the men now holding the strikers In
check will nr,d II impossible longer to
exert this influence and that riot and
bloodshed will again prevail.
The employers make no secret OF
the fact that hey will dispute the
courts Jurisdiction and oppose the
issuance of any Injunction preventing
them from permanently discharRine
the frst six hundred men who walk
ed out OF their shops and caused the
strike.