Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-24
Fixed Bayonets Menace Riot
GUS Strikers at Gould
Coupler Works Today.
NEW YORK VILLAGE
is AN ARMED CAMP
Buffalo Carmen Quit Posts When
Troops Board Cars, and Second
Big Strike Is Threatened.

DEEPEN. y. y March 24.-Day brea
found pepew an armed camp. The
18th Regiment of militia, ordered out
at the request of Sheriff Frederick G
Becker, whose force of deputies was
unable TO handle the rioting strikers
at the Gould coupler works yesterday.
O'Clock am. the plant was under
military protection.
The question of placing the whole
town under martial law was discussed
by the National Guard officers at a
conference later in the day.
The special train on the Lackawanna
railroad. which was held up and
wrecked yesterday, came through from,
Buffalo TO the plant today under mill
tary protection. A detail from the
nth Regiment guarded the transit road
crossing, the scene of yesterdays riot
ing. in which one man was killed and
several injured. There was no sign
of trouble there today.
Soldiers Use Bayonets.
Groups of the strikers and their SYM
pdthizers gathered near the main en-
trance of the coupler works when the
train arrived The crowd dispersed
when ordered to leave by the officer
in charge, but quickly reassembled at
another entrance. There Company D,
under Lieut.. Oberfield, had to use their
bayonets freely before the mob would
scatter. One man was wounded. He
was taken away by his companions.
The departure of the LIST Battalion of
the 18th Regiment from Buffalo was de-
aged half an hour because of the re-
iusal of the motormen. acting under or
ders from their union officials. to move
the street cars after the soldiers went on
board 1t had been arranged to carry
the guardsmen from the armory to the
i-ackawanna station on the street cars
and thence by special train to Depew.
! Carmen Quit Posts.
: The motormen brought the cars to the
switch in front of the armory, but when
the first soldier stepped on board all left
their posts. Maj. Kemp ordered the men
TO leave their controllers on the controller
boxes, and all but one of them did so.
sWhen he refused to give it up he was
promptly knocked down with the butt
end of a rifle. The cars were then man
med by supervisors of the International
Street Railway Company and one or two
soldier electricians.
> The street car men who deserted their
posts were suspended. Union officials
later demanded their reinstatement to-
aday and rumors of threatened street
railway strike were current.
T. The ist and 70 Battalions of the 74th
Regiment are guarding the coupler plant,
while the ID Battalion is held in reserve
a the Buffalo armory. The 65th Regi-
ment has also been ordered to assemble,
5but will not be brought to Depew unless
the situation grows more serious.
Car Strike Threatened.
, BUFFALO, y. Y. March 24.-The re-
fusaI of International Railway Company
employees to move street cars carrying
rational guardsmen created a sharp issue
today between the company and the
Amalsamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees. President E.
6. Connette Of the International con-
hrmed the action of the supervisors in
suspending the motormen and conductors
comprising the crew of the six cars. When
this word was carried TO the headquarters
OF the street car men call was at once
issued for a meeting of the grievance
committee and il was announced by
President C. +. Conroy of the local union
that a formal demand would be made for
the reinstatement of the men.
Contrary to Agreement.
When these ears were turned over 10
The National Guard our men were no
longer required to run them" said Presi-
dent Couroy. Their suspension is con-
trary to our agreement with the Interna-
tioual, and we shall demand their rein
statement and back up that demand with
all the resources of our association. The
men were outraSeously treated, one of
them being knocked down by soldier
because he would not give up his con-
t-oller.''