Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06
|CAR STRIKE IS Off HINGES ON COTTON
Head of Employees UnonI Early Adjournment Unless
0beys Courts Mandate. Senate Passes Bill
STRIKEBREAKERS HAD QUIT Mr.. GARNER SANGUlNE
Driven Out the City Ro Congress Sessions VIII End
Street Car Employees. by Next Saturday.
TRAFFIC QUICKLY PARALYZED WOOL MEASURE WAYS
Police PROBABLY VIII Be Launched Thurs
Men day-rafts Probable Veto No
Bar 70 adjournment
Head of Employees Union
0beys Courts Mandate.
STRIKEBREAKERS HAD QUIT
Driven Out Of the City by Rioting
Street Car Employees.
TRAFFIC QUICKLY PARALYZED
Police in Sympathy With Union
Men and Mobs Dispersed With
Water by Firemen.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, August Sat
midnight International Organizer Fred
Fay of the Garments Union announced
that the strike of the Des Moines city
railway employees was ended, so far as
the union was concerned. He said the
union would obey the mandate issued
by Judge De Graf tonight, and that the
men would be notified to return TO work
as fast as they could he reached Judge
Lawrence De Giraffe issued a mandatory
writ Of injunction in the district court at
$40 O'Clock tonight, ordering the city
railway and its employees to resume with
in a reasonable time the same service as
before the strike.
1t IS ordered by the writ that Conductor
Hiatt shall be temporarily reinstated
pending arbitration. Papers to carry out
the provisions of the writ were issued at
once. and officers were Immediately sent
out to serve them on President Leonard
OF the Street Garments Union and Vice
President and General Manager J. r.
Harrigan of the City railway.
Officers We're rushed out in an automo-
bile to search for Mr.. Harrigan. but il is
| reported he has left the city to avoid
service.
Car service is to be resumed tomorrow
according to the plans of the executive
committee of the carmen: that is, if the
company will permit it to be resumed.
There is doubt tonight as to the atti-
ture of the company. n. I. Guernsey,
general counsel for the company. init
mated that the courts order will be op-
uyba offers Monday
He denied the right of the court to COM
pei the company to take the men back.
The issuance of extra newspapers an
nouncing that the union considered the
strike ended VIGOROUSLY for it members
had the effect of dispensing the mob.
Mob Attacks Offices.
At 1920 o'clock tonight mob number
ing several thousand persons made a rush
on the offices Of General Manager ]. r.
Harrigan in. the City railway station,
9th and Mulberry streets.
An attempt to enter the offices was
blocked by the police until the arrival of
the reserve squads, but the mob retail
ated by breaking nearly every window in
the building.
The leaders said they wanted to get
they would take his desk and furniture
and smash 1t up. Twelve arrests were
made.
A development Of the night was the
failure to locate Harrigan. 1t is per-
sistently rumored that he has left town,
though this cannot be verified. 1t also
is said that Christensen. the Chicago
strikebreaker. has left town.
Strikebreakers Driven Out.
The strikers required just one day in
which to rid the city of their ancient
enemy, the strikebreakers. Tonight it
was announced that every strikebreaker
brought to this city from Chicago or
Omaha either had given up his job and
gone home or was in jail to protect him.
self from violence tonight. and would
depart by the first train tomorrow morn
ing. Riots at. times which threatened
to prove serious and lead to the calling
out of federal and state troops, wild
hunt for strikebreakers, assaults and
broken heads marked day of intense
excitement attendant upon the strike.
Street car traffic in the city was stopped
completely, not single car having been
moved since the men walked out al 10
o'clock this morning. The strike leaders
predicted tonight that they would win.
The company made no statement.
The tie-up of the railway system was
accomplished with ease. A single at
tempt to get a car into operation this
morning was SO quickly frustrated by
tempt was made.
All Saloons Ordered Closed.
In anticipation of further riots tonight
Mayor James R. Hanna this afternoon
ordered every saloon in the city closed.
They will remain closed during the strike,
according to the order, whether 1t con-
tinues for one week, one month or longer.
The police today were almost a unit in
sympathy with the demonstration against
the strikebreakers. By o'clock prac-
ticalIy all Of the strikebreakers had
either left town or were in Jail for safe
keeping until tomorrow when they will
be allowed to depart.
In the absence of cars manned by the
strikebreakers upon which to vent their
feelings, the mobs sought out the board
ing houses Of the imported men.
The entire reserve section of the police
was brought into action, but in several
instances 1t was powerless to queil the
mob- A mob, the worst or the day. sur
rounded the Iowa Hotel during the after
noon and demanded that the strike
breakers under guard there. be turned
over to it.
Dispersed With Water.
The fire department was called upon
and temporarily dispersed the mob with
heavy streams OF water. But the mob
soon reformed, and 1t was not until
o'clock, when International Organizer
Fred Fay Of Ypsilanti, Mich. appeared
on the scene and appealed to the friends
of the conductors and motormen to desist
and dispense, that they did so.
The strfkebreakers in the Iowa Hotel,
who came in last night from Omaha,
were sent to the Cd street car barn
this morning. They found the crowd out
side entirely too vicious and refused to
run out any cars. In the meantime the
crowd of ieering union sympathizerS
grew larger and the strikebreakers
suddenly found themselves cooped up in
the barn, without food and little pros
pect Of getting out.
The men grew hungry as the day wore
on, and finally demanded that they be
sent back to Omaha. Louis j. Christian
sen, the strikebreakers' leader was called
and put up the money required to take
them to their homes.
Missiles Fly Fast.
1t was when a squad OF police at
tempted to escort the strikebreakers to
the train that the mob made the attempt
to wreak its vengeance on them. The
officers tried to get through the crowds,