The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-06
Court Orders Des Moines
Strike to Come to End

department Of public safety, calling
his attention to the rioting and quot
ing sections of the code which make
1t Roe's duty to either suppress the
riots, call upon the sheriff Of the |
county. and with his aid suppress the
riots, or induce the sheriff upon his
failure to cope with the situation to
call upon the governor for state troops
to preserve order. Harrigan says he
will run the cars as soon as order is
restored and makes no overtures for
a settlement and recognizes none
made to him by citizens today.
Strike Is Ended.
DES MONIES, Aug. 5.-The Des
Moines city street car strike, with
500 men out, followed by riots lasting
all day, came to an abrupt end late to-
night when District Judge Degrafr
issued mandatory writ of injunction
at the request of the city Of Des
Moines, directing General Manager
j. R. Harrigan, of the company to at
once re-instate Conductor Hiatt whose
discharge started the strike, and also
ordering the street car mems union
who struck, to return to work. The
strikers are each ordered by the court
to return to work at once and oper-
ate the car lines as though no strike
had been ordered and are also d.
rected to revoke the strike order and
continue at work until further order
Of the court.
Deputy sheriffs are busy tonight
hunting up thu officials of the COM
pany and of the union, serving the no
tees 1t is expected a special meet
ing of the union will be called at mid
night, the courts order obeyed and
the strike order be recalled and the
cars running by tomorrow morning.
Buriesque Violence.
DES MONIES, Aug. 5.-While mobs
have rioted through the streets and
professional strike-breakers, the ter
ror Of half dozen eastern cities have
hid in hotels and only felt safe after
forty Of them were locked up IN
the county Jail with twenty officers
! on the outside to prevent attempts
of mob Of 1000 from forcing an en-,
trance to the building tonight it
must be said that everything which
has happened today has been good
natured and every act has been &C
,o,,,non;ad with a smile
| Women and children have mingled
with the mobs freely There has
1 been little profanity and no drunken
4 ness and the utmost respect for the
/ women, who have treated the scenes
as they might a circus parade or vau
devils show. In some psychological
manner the friends of the strikers
succeeded in throwing terrible scare
into the hearts Of the strike-breakers
early in the day and have increased
/ the impression with every hour. Tn
4 able to get anything to eat all day
refused admission even when undel
police protection to hotels and restau
rants. the strike breakers got theil
4 first meal in the county Jail tonight
! while the mob yelled outside.
And with it all the boys and mer
i in the mobs have considered 1T al
IS, good ioke-an earnest joke to bt
sure, and they are rather proud 0
] their reputation with the strike-break
ers of being bloodthirsty murderers
when in their own hearts they knew
1 better. During all the rioting, which
was not real rioting at all in tn
i oninion OF the mobs, the striking car
4 men have kept away, stayed at thei
4 headquarters and remained exemplar.
i citizens
The city interviewed upon the groun'
4 that 1t should be a party to the ac
tion in that it's streets are being use'
{ nv the defendant company, that tn
defendant street car strikers are cit
{ zens of the city and that all citizen
are yitally interested in the running
of the cars. operated upon the publ
: streets, and that continuance Q
:, the tie-up is injurious to business am
the resulting riots endangering lif
and property.
4 A mob of 5000 was busy throwin
rocks through the windows of Genel
al Manager Harrigan's office In tn
center of the business district whe
! extra editions of newspapers appeal
ed. announcing that Judge Degraff ha
ordered the strike ended. The unio
: men held conference and announce
they would gladly obey the order Q
: the court, although President Uricl
of the state federation of labor sal
! it was the first time to his knowledg
that a court injunction had ever bee
issued in favor of the laboring mer
The carmen feel that they will secur
the arbitration they struck for in tn
coming court hearing.
Attorney Guernsey, for the ca
company said Such a. court prt
). ceeding is foolish, absurd and
, Joke, '9but Judge Degraff says he wi
see that the order is promptly ODE.
ed or take the usual action throug
J, the sheriff's office.
At q.3O tonight the forty strik,