Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-08-09

STRIKE RIOTS ON THE STREETS.
Traffic Was Suspended When the
Union Men Walked Out.

Iraffc Was Suspended When the
Union Men Walked Out.
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 5.-Riot-
ing in downtown streets marked tho
beginning of tho strike Of nearly 500
employees of the Des Moines civ
Railway to-day. Five men were hurt
IN the fighting. Traffic has been
suspended on every line in the city
since 12.15 this morning, when the
union men walked out.
Strike breakers were at the yari-
GUS barns of the company at s o'clocle
this morning to take out cars, but
union sympathizers were on guard.
The latter appeared to be ready for
trouble and the company manage
ment appeared slow in resuminp. tha
interrupted traffic.
An attempt to run cars from tha
Second street barn failed when near
ly 800 union sympathizers threaten
ed to attack the strikebreakers The
latter retreated to places of safety
whlle the crowd jeered Two stril<e-
breakers were Jailed, charged with
carving concealed weapons.
me third riot call Of the day was
turned In when union sympathizers
attacked the Twenty-fourth street
Darn and wrecked car. Bricks were
IL. a
employee, was knocked senseless.
Strike in Brooklyn.
New York, Aug. 5-Motormen and
conductors on three trolley lines in
Brooklyn, operated by the Coney Is
land and Brooklyn Street Railway
Company, struck to-day. Police are
guarding the power houses.
a car on the Smith street line was
attacked soon after it left the barn.
Ihe conductor was struck on the
head by brick and dragged from
his platform. Three policemen rid
ing on the front platform finally res
cued him. The car was stoned and
the passengers fed. The conductor
was taken to a hospital.
Another car sent, out without pas
seheers half hour earlier was held
up and thrown off the track after fha
strikers and their sympathizero had
driven away the crew. Just fhen q
second came along and crushed into
the car that was stalled. The crowd
stoned both cars, and policesreseryes (
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yst ,,, dfse q t6psS
Des M6ines, Iowa, lAuig. s. e go
promptly at s o'clock this afternoon
street traffic was resumed in tDes
MONIES, and the forty-hour Strike.
which began at l o'clock yesterday
morning, when the employees walk
ed out, was terminated.
For the first time in the history of
the country the order Of court put
an end to what gave every indication
or becoming long and bitter strug-
gle between organized labor and can
ital.
The mandate issued by Judge Law
renee de Graft; Of the district court
last night. was obeyed promptly by
the Des Moines City Railway Com
pany and the carmen's union, and
while there is ample prospect of a
fight later in tho courts, one thing ia
certain, an injunction has restored.
temporarily at least, nearly 500 con-
ductors and motormen to their orig
inal positions.
The scenes attending the resump-
tlon OF traffic rivaled those Of Fri
day night, when the men turned cars
In for what many of them thought
would be their last time. The streets
IN the vicinity of the central waiting
room at Sixth and Mulberry streets
were thronged for nearly three hours
before the time set for the first car
to pass. When extras announced
that the first car had left the Twenty
fourth street barn, enthusiasm began
TO show itself, and when car No. 1888,
or the University line, passed the
station the crowd rendered the crew
rousing ovation.
1t was not long before the first
cars on every line had reached the
station, and each of the crews, as
'hcy came up, were greeted with
cheers. BY o'clock traffic had al
most reached its normal condition.
That new method OF handling
labor difficulties had been discover
ed, was the statement Of n. r.. Guern-
sey. attorney for the street car COM
pany, tonight.
Fred Fay, of Ypsilanti, Mich, in
ternational board member of the
Amalgamated Association OF Street
and Electric Railway Employees Of
America, who conducted the brief
strike, said that the Intervention of
the court was acceptable because it
gave to the union exactly what it had
asked. This was the reinstatement
OF Cond"ctor B. A. Hyatt, whose re-
cent discharge without an investiga-
uoh led to the trouble and the or
ucI lhaI arbltration must decide
whether or not he is to remain with
the company.
The suit in equity, which terminat-
ed the strike, was brought bv Tho
city of Des Moines upon the order of
the city council late last night. A
nearing as to whether the Injunction
Shall be made permanent probably
Will be had tomorrow.
Hunts Owner of $1,000 Roll.
Utica, N. Y, Aug. 4.-George B.
Wheeler, grocer, living at Middle