The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-12

ming of cars under police guard, Will,
crowd of more than 1000 peopl,
looked on and jeered. At Grand ave
nue. and Main street, in getting one
car through the jam, three men were
Injured and one shot in the hand. The
injured were:
Chief of Police Hubtaka, head, shoul
der and side bruised, struck by car
John Egbert, union painter, of 500
Washington avenue, head bruised,
struck by car.
bill" Grace, ex-sheriff of Pottawato-
mie county, special policeman for car
company, knocked down, knee and
shoulder bruised. u
Tom" Davis, electrician of ia Cali
fornia street, shot through the hand
while holding the six-shooter of one
Oklahoma City, May S.-One man
was shot and four others hurt in riot
which broke out following a labor dem
onstration against the Oklahoma
Street Railway company, which had
declined to meet demands of the Car
mems union for an increase in the
wage scale Sunday, when the COM
pany's police and union men and their
sympathizers elashed in the business
of the company's inspectors.
Conductor George Martin, beaten by
the crowd, but not seriously injured.
Within two hours the crowd was dis
persed and service continued through
out the remainder of the day uninter-
rupted.
Citizens refer to the difficulty as a
strike, the street car men call it a
lockout because they say twenty-four
union men were discharged for be-
longing to the organization. For sew
eral days negotiations have been in
progress between the union and the
company over the scale, but came to
an abrupt end by the latter's declara-
tion in the negative.
Union men met at the Auditorium
Sunday morning. Speeches were made
by c. c. Zeigler. president of the State
Federation of Labor, Ben" Commons
of New Orleans, representative of the
International Street and Electric Rail
waymen's association, Mamont R.
Powell, president of the Central Trades
council, E. ]. Gildings, attorney for
the car men, and J. Luther Langston,
secretary of the State Federation of
Labor. Resolutions were adopted
against law violations and urging both
sides to submit their differences to a
board of arbitration to be selected by
the state board of arbitration, with
the decision to be final The resolu-
tions condemned the street car COM
pany for discharging union men and
endorsed the position of the union.
Following the meeting the men form
ed a parade and moved down Grand
avenue to Main street where most of
the cars turn to other sections of the
city. AS the parade neared the point
it veered into the street car tracks
with the evident intent of preventing
several cars from passing. Sheriff
Spain, who issued a statement to the
public in this mornings papers that
he would stand for no foolishness. /" /
drove with an automobile load of dep
uties to the scene and with the aid of
the police and specials cleared the
way. This was repeated several times. |
Sheriff Spain and his force moved |
to another section of the street and a |
downtown car slowly moving its way |
through the crowd was almost STOP
ped. The motorman put on extra
power which made the car shoot for
ward and knocked Chief Hubatka. ex-
Sheriff Grace and Egbert down. The
motorman deserted the car, but George
Miller, the conductor, ran forward as
5uming charge of the car, and ran a
short distance, when the strikes jump
ed in the front platform and began
him.
Special detectives of the street car
company hurried to the rescue with
1rawn six-shooters and beat back the
crowd. Miller. in the meantime, was
hustled to the police station a short
distance away to save his life, the DO
ice said, but was later released.
When armed deputies appeared and
shouts of "scab" were heard on every
land, L. L, Albritton, a company in
'pector, was set upon by the mob and
beaten over the head. He drew his
'ix-shooter which further infuriated
he men and they bore him to the pave
nent.
Tom" Davis, an electrician, was
holding the inspectors gun to prevent
is use, when the weapon was dis.
.harged against the pavement, the bull
ct passing through Davis hand. The
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