The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-07
BOSTON ELEVATED
 CARMEN STRIKE:
 DISORDER. REIGNS

By noon the elevated had only semblance of 8 street car system run nlng. In some instances the crews ieft their cars all packed to suffoca- fslon. netWeen stops and reported to headquar ters where they were receiv- ed with cheers One car that passed headQuarters stopped behind a stall ed automobile The hoots and teers Of the strikers who lined the pave ments turned to cheering when the motorman turned to his conductor and said: "Oh, come OF George, lets join the boys.''
 TWO extra men on the car behind were escorted to the deserted car by by dozen policemen and ran it af- ter the trolley hads been dislocated three or four tims.
 At noon union officials claimed that some elevated officials conceded that at least 5000 of the 5000 motormen and conductors employed by the road were on strike, z .
 was made, Business Agent J. A. Nash of the stationary engineers local said special meeting had been called for tonight to consider a sympathetic strike. Such a strike would cripple the elevated's power plants
 After midday developments were rapid. Because the guards at the Park street terminal of the Cambridge subway deserted to the ranks of the strikers, the escalaters were stop ped and passengers lad to climb three flights of stairs to- the street. By one 1lsr a1sle't tsals l1ss slsia5 as sss1sss rsss Boston and CanibrsE ze
 At headquarters it was announced, this afternoon, that 16 local unions in Nashua, N. H., New Bedford and Fall River. Mass. had voted an assessment in those cities for .sstriKe pay. for Boston's union strikers. This means an income of $4O0 a day for strife headquarters. At 1 o'clock, the cafs on the Watertown to Beacon street, Central Square and Cambrfdge HDes were completely tied up, the emp1oyoa having gone over to the stffhse& Many cars were left standing in the streets full of passengers.
 There had been over Q arreDeB uu to one o'clock. Most of the casoe were continted in police court dutn
 Cast: se:ambfidse, June 7-rhe sfrfval of 50 etrikebreakers in East tsE<Am- bridge. carly today. to take 0df the big pre-pax1n&nt cars Af 4ae1tmere Square was atteuded by wild ecenal ton to where they were to board fheir ears, crowd of 100 charged them as the first big car started of. Tue end doors were closed but the men smashed windows and crawled inside. The trolley was torn on and the brakes applied. Then police reserves came up on the double quick Juet before the crowd broke and lied Con> ductor Otis Carpenter was thrown through a window to pile of refuse near the track He was unhurt.
 Thre men, one of them in motor mans uniform. were arrested but la ter discharged at the station for lack of evidence against them.
 The crowd gathered again an hour later at the Mt. Auburn station. They were successful in dissuading any car. crews from taking out cars. Another crowd at Harvard Square gained a score of recruits from men who were running cars. This tied the line up for nearly an hour when strikebreak- CTS and company officials ran the cars.
 In the town of Somerville, Chief of Police Charles Kendall was appealed to by Boston Elevated officials. who declared some of their loyal federa- tionists'' had been assaulted Chief Kendall stationed % reserves at the barns ff