The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-21
No Lives Lost But Many Are
Hurt. and Many Cars Are
Wrecked
NO HOPE HELD OUT
YET FOR SETTLEMENT
compers to Attend Meeting Of
Committee Today to Aid in
Reaching Solution-Ceneral
Strike Tuesday

~ strikers along routes where sur
lace cars were being operated tonight
Kept the police In constant battles with
frtkers and their sympathtzers.
Several cars were completely wreck
~. A score or more of rioters were
arrested Others were sent to hos
pftals or sought refuge in their homes
where broken heads. caused by police
night sticks, were mended. Police
Captain Dempsey was seriously in
ured and was sent to a hospital.
Flying sQuadrons Of policemen in aG
komobtles detailed to circulate in plain
clothes through Fifty-ninth. Forty
Decond and One Hundred and Twenty
nth Streets. where night cars were
run. routed many attacking mobs OF
Strikers
In every case they waded into the
Offenders with drawn CLUBS and WELD
I'd them freely. The police reserves
detailed to protect the various car
barns had their work cut out for them
and bat,led furiously with attacking
ErOups of strikers.
The ferocity of the strikers eclipsed
my previous attempts on their part to
check traffic. Scores of passengers
were more or less injured by flying
glass or by bricks and bottles hurled
through the car windows. Whenever
p01si1it iupttf men puI NA All SptSd
when they espied waiting crowds of
strikers and in this way escaped
fiand o-Aand encounters. In such
rases the passengers were warned TO
lie fiat on the car floors and thus
Escape The fusillsde of flying missiles
Big Mob In Action.
One of the most violent outbreaks
or ,he evening occurred at Central
Park West and Eighty-sixth Street
when. a mob OF 500 strikers held up
four surface cars and began to bonn
hard them with bricks and stones.
The passengers in terror attempt
I'd to fee the cars. but there was so
much disorder on the, outside that
they retreated back into the cars and
lay fat on the floors
Police Captain Dempsey was
block or two away and saw the start
BIZ the fight. He turned in call for
he reserves and ran 20 the cars.
Other policemen came TO his assist
hnce. The policemen charged into
khe thick of the fray and Dempsey
Deized one OF the strikers
For a moment the strikers ceased
their attack on the car and directed
kheir attention to rescuing their COM
pn duty on the cars joined thAse who
came with Dempsey. and the battle
eaeed fast and furious.
Finally a brick struck Dempsey on
he head and he fell.
Reserves arriving at The time ar
rested twelve of the strikers and sue
eesded in dispensing the mob.
Another Attack.
"A mob Of 100 strikers made a furi-
pms attack on a car crew at the Tenth
Avenue and Fifty third Street car
r,.t far -
The police reserves serious trouble un-
1oubtedly would have resulted.
All efforts to effect a reconciliation
hafwsen Theodore p. Shonts. president
b the city's principal transit system.
md organised labor today failed,
AT the invitation OF Mayor Mitchell
Mr. Shonts went to city hall where he
wac closeted half an hour with Mr.
Mitchell and Oscar Stratus, chairman
Sc the Public Service Commission. At
HE conclusion of the conference all
parties acknowledged that nothing had
Aeon accomplished
Have yon hopes of effecting peace
hotwsen the striking carmen and the
traction officials?' Mr.. Straus was
Aaked. following the conference.
G00pers to Attend.
Tho citl1ens' committee meets again
kemorrow afternoon At city hall" said
n. straus, Il sincerely hope some
kAing will come of this meeting. for
uamusl Gompers. president of the
american Federation OF Labor. will be
reesnt We can only hope some way
wflI be found to avoid the threatened
soheral sympathetic strike"
Meanwhile plans for the general
o1rlks Of organized workers in the
effy were carried forward. Labor
eAdsrs expressed the hope that the
~ strike might be averted. but the
rovAiling belief was that 1t will be
oallsd for Monday or Tuesday. Tho
trtke committee will meet for nnal
aafien Friday afternoon.
samuel Gompers. president Of the
American Federation Of Labor at the
Contiental Hotel tonight said:
I'm trying to help in bringing about
= honorable adjustment OF this aw-
ri situation In New York. I'll do
Everything I can. I hope we shall be
able to bring about an early settlement
n the differences between the street
~ men and the companies.
u shall attend the conference with
he citisen's committee tomorrow. I've
heen In consultation with the labor
nen today
i. ". O'Connor. president Of the In
Transitional Longshoremens Associa-
~. declared that there will be \
rupAthetic strike II settlement 10
~ reached tomorrow.
sYou can bet on that" he added,
Ehe longshoremen have voted to go
- and they will answer the call II
h eemes."
transit conditions were much Inn
oved. Travel In the subway and on
~ elevated lines was abnormally
10y. Surface cars covered their
x&es with more regularity and fre-
Icy than since the street car strike