Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-03


Lieut.. Barmfuher. in charge of the
police, guarding the Louisiana street
carbarns was struck by piece of fly
ing wood and had to. be taken home.
Tie streets around the Louisiana
street barns We're most OF the imported
strikehreakers are held. were crowded
most of the day but the sympathizers
made no effort to attack the barns.
Late last night, however. bricks were
used to break all of the barn windows.
These were boarded by morning,
however, and the barn made a secure
fort where the strikebreakers passed
most Of the day.
Only two cars filled with policemen
and manned with strikebreakers. pull
ed out of the barns in the morning, did
the crowds prepared to offer violence.
4 rock struck the conductor in the face
aud one policeman who stood with his
drawn revolver, fired into the crowd.
injuring Johnson. The crowd fell back
but ut a curve where the trolley left
the wire. the sympathiZers packed the
tracks so closely the car could not. be
started until the police rode through
them. When the crowds continued to
worked to the barns and the attempt
ta run them given up.
Almost no men in street ear uniform
appeared in the crowds, which were COM
posed mostly of boys and young men.
William G. Beatty. president OF the
Central Labor Union, sent a eommuni-
cation to Gov. Ralston, protesting that
the crowds around the car barns did not
represent organized labor. deploring the
violence and urging that the police dis
perse the gatherings.
The authorities do not expect that any
serious disorder will result until another
effort is made to start the cars.
President Todd of the Traction Co de-
ciared that only a small number or EN-
ployes went on the strike willingly. THE
motormen and conductors are willing and
and anxious to run their cars" he said,
land have not joined the Amalgamatei
Association of Street and Electrical Rail
way Men of their own free will. They
have been dragged from their cars and
marched under threats of death 10 the
hall, where they have been forced to Join
the union, knowing we'll that if they
refused they would be roughly treated.
Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburg. who
have no interest in the affairs of In
dianapolis but are here to unionize the
men by brute force.
1.-The so-ealled demands submitted to
the company by ]. ]. Therp of Pitts
burg. vice president of the Amalgamat-
ed Association. are founded entirely on
misrepresentation and exaggeration
without any consideration of truth or
fair dealing
In an attempt to rush the Louisiana
street car barns, where the imported
strAkebreakers are quartered, Issac
Fiaischer, "a, a strikehreaker from
Philadelphia, was fatally shot in the
neck ana died on the way to the City
hospital Fleischer was shot by one of
the men in The barn, who was firing
into the crowd from second story
around the barn roped and when they
let down the ropes for an automobile
to pass, the crowd rushed through.
The strikers and their friends pushed
past the police and as they approached
the barns they We're met with volley
Of shots from the second story VIII
dows of the barns. Fleisher fell almost
ut the feet of Police Sergeant Sanders,
whom he was helping to stop the rush.
About a dozen shots were fired, but
F,ieisher was the only one hit.
The mob then started for the West
Washington street barns, but was met
at the Labor Temple by Milton l..
Clawson, an attorney prominent in
Labor circles, who pleaded with the
crowd to abstain from violence. The
trip was abandoned.
One hundred and fifty strikebreak-
ers from Cincinnati were expected to
arrive, tonight.