The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-06
WILL COMPEL CAR
/ SERVICE PRESUMED
DISTRICT JUDGE DeGRAFF ISSUED
MANDATONY INJUNCTION
WRIT AT DES MONIES.
men READY TO RETURN
International Organizer OF Union
Announces Strike Is Ended As
Far As Employes Are
Concerned.

Lawrence DeGran issued q manda-
tory writ Of injunction In the dis
trict court tonight ordering the
city railways and its employees TO re-
sumo the same service rs before the
strike within reasonable time.
This will probably mean that SER
vice will be restored as usual on
Sunday morning although there Is
some question as to whether the Or
der will be obeyed-
1t is also ordered by the writ
that Conductor Hiatt will be tenn
porarily re-instated pending arbi-
tration Papers to carry out the pro
vision of the writ were issued at once
and officers were Immediately out
to serve them
A mob attacked the offices Of
Manage Harrigan tonight and broke
every window in the building.
At midnight International Organic
zer Fay of the carmen's union an
nounced 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 the mandate issued by Judge
Degraff tonight and that the men
would be notified to return to work
as fast as they could be reached.
Tonight it was announced that
every strike breaker brought to- this
city from Chicago or Omaha either
had given up his Job and gone home
or was in jail to protect himself
fromss iolance tosigift and would de-
part from the city tomorrow
Riot, which at times threatened
to prove serious enough to lead to
the calling out of the federal or
state troops and a wild hunt for strik
breakers, assaults and broken heads
marked the day of intense excitement
Of the strife.
The traffic in the city was paraliz-
ed, not single ear having been
moved the men walked out at 1915
o'clock this morning
A single attempt to get car in
action this morning was so quickly
frustrated by union sympathizers
that no further attempt was made.
Myor Hanna says every saloon IN
the city is closed.
The police were almost unit In
sympathy with the element which led
the demonstration against strike
breakers.
The mobs sought out the boarding
houses of the imported men ant
were with difficulty prevented fren
starting pitched battles with theil
enemies.
A mob, the worst OF the day, sur
rounded the Iowa Hotel during tn,
afternoon and demanded that tn,
strike breakers under guard there b.
turned over to IL. 1t was necessar,
TO call out fire department hos,
cart and put 1t into action to dis
perse the crowd.
Even then they were dispersed on
ly temporarily and it was not until
O'Clock when international Organize
Frank Fay appeared on the seen,
and appealed to the friends OF tn,
conductors and motormen to dess
and disperse, that they did so.
| The strike breakers at the low,
who came In last night from Omaht
were sent to the Second street barr
this morning to man the company,
cars. They found the crowd outsid,
entirely too ferocious and refused t
take chances
Lewis christensen, the strike
breakers leader, put up the money
required to take them to their homes
1t was when squad OF police at.
tempted to escort the strike breakers
to the train that mob made the at.
tempt to reap vengence on them
The officers tried to get through the
cars but were finally forced to take
refuge 10 the Iowa Hotel, The crowd
was twice dispersed by water and
then 1t retaliated with bricks aud
brick bats and two were hurt