The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-08-10
BREAK EVERY WINDOW IN The
BUILDING, DEsF;TE POLICE
INTERFERENCE.
COURT STOPS THE STRIKE
imported Men Are Forced to Leave
City, Other NoH-Unionists Take Re.
fuge in Jail From Mob
Fury.

Des Moines, Iowa. - Sympathizers
with striking employees of the Des
Moines City Railway company, several
thousand strong, bOmbaTded the office
building of the company at Sixth and
Mulberg streets. in which is located the
Office of General Manager J. r. Harri-
gan, and shattered every window in
Harrigan's Office. Then the crowd be-
gan to beat out every window in the
building. Despite all efforts Of the
police, the fusilIade did not cease until
the windows were broken and the build
ing badly damaged.
Leaders of the rioters, unmindful of
a court mandamus ordering the strike
to be ended, made inflammatory
speeches before the attack on the build
ing began. An attempt to enter the
Offices was blocked by the police until
the arrival of the reserve squads. The
leaders said they wanted to get" Har-
rigan if he was in the office, if not, they
would take his desk and furniture and
smash it up. Twelve arrests were
made.
After a day, marked with many riots,
wild hunts for strik~ebrtakers, assaults
and broken heads, striking employees
won a partial victory when Judge Law
renee De Graft issued a mandatory writ
of injunction is district court ordering
the city railway and its employees to re-
sumo the service as before the strike
within a reasonable time.
Reinstatement Ordered.
1t was also ordered by the writ that
Conductor Hiatt over whose discharge
for the alleged theft Of two scent fares
the entire trouble originated, be rein
stated pending arbitration. Papers to
carry out the provisions of the writ
were sent out Immediately to serve
them on President Leonard of the strict
car mems union, and Vice President
and General Manager J. r. Harrigan OF
the city railway.
At midnight, however, International
Organizer, Fred Fay of the carmen's
union announced that the strike of the.
Des Moines City railway employees was
ended, so far as the union was con-
cerned. He said the union would obey
mandate issued by Judge De Graft.
and that the men would be notified to-
to work as fast as they could
be reached.
Strike-Breakers Beaten,
The striking street car men required
Just one day in which to rid Des Moines
or the 500 odd strikebreakers who had
been brought into the city TO man he
cars from Chicago, Omaha and Cleve-
and. The Iowa hotel, in which the i'm.
ported men were housed, was surround
ed by a great mob of union sympathiz.
which demanded that the strike
breakers be turned over to it, and for
.hree hours kept the police busy. Tho
)thcers tried time and again TO get
through the crowds, but as often were
orced to retreat and take refuge in
he hosiery.
The climax of the rioting came when
mob of thousands of Infatuated men
md women stormed a Great Western
rain upon which 40 thoroughly cowed
itrikebreakers had been placed by the
police, headed for home. Brickbats.
stones and missiles of every kind were
brown through the windows at the
frightened strikebreakers. who climbed
lnder the seats to escape the fusillade
every window in the car was broken
The full service on all lines was
'estored Sunday evening and all is
Iuiet again in the city.