Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-05
Points Revolver at Youth

DoELGQ DY EuG 3AOF6 Line HIeCIf4c4 OO.f from New York jumped from a car in Bank street and pointed & revolver at Christopher Barry, clerk in the store of Eaton 6 Wilson. Spectators screamed and other strike breakers rushed to the side of the man with the to return to the car. Evidently they ] were successful but not until the in
 cident had attracted wide attention
 Barry was standing on the side- : walk as the car approached and ad- : mits that he cried "Scab, scab at the i strike breakers who were in it. The l car came to a stop and one of the I men leaped to the street pull 1 ing revolver from his pocket as he l did so. Barry says, and other cor roborate his story, that the strike l
 breaker pointed the weapon at him and observed threateningly Now
 start something.n
 The young man was not greatly in-
 timidated, however, and according to
 his version of the affair, he continued to call the strike breaker all the un complimentary names that occurred to him. While this monologue was in
 progress, oither men from the car gathered around the New Yorker with l the gun and elbowed him back, fol- lowing which tfe car continued on it's route. One of the witnesses to the | affair was a young woman clerk em- ployed in the store of Silas Maxson, I
 and she was badly frightened by what
 she saw.
 1 Very Few PeopI@use Cars. That the troIleymen on strike have the almost unanimous sympathy of the public was evinced in no uncertain manner by the patronage bestowed on the cars that were being operated in
 New London at more or less regular 1 intedvals by the strike breakers. Some of thes vehicles did not carry
 a single passenger with the exception
 of detectives and strike breakers. I Others had from one to half a dozen
 bona fde fares. Jitneys profted in proportion.
 Strikebreakers to Live at Beach. Il Another bit of news which became
 noised about a little later did not serve
 to enhance the popularity of the troll
 ley company. When it became known
 that the Ocean Vitw hotel at Ocean
 Beach, adjoining tthe waiting station,
 has been secured by the Shore Line
 Electric Co. as quarters for the
 strikebreakers who have been sleeping in the barn on Montauk Ave. there was was a cry of protest. The hotel has not been opened this season, is situat- ed in the very heart of the beach col 1 ony and it's conversion into a lodging
 for strikebreakers is anything but well
 come to residents of that section and to those who are accustomed to go ] there for pleasure.
 Mayor Rogers was notified in refer 1 e1ce to the matter, but was of course 1 powerless to do anything regarding it
 He intimated, however, that he would , protection in that vicinity so long as ? present conditions exist
 Left Cars on Street. lt Residents of Montauk avenue pro- 7 tested vigorously when they found that
 trolley cars had been left standing ir 3 that thoroughfare throughout Friday < night It Is assumed that this actior s was necessary to find room for the s men who were sleeping in the barn The menace of the cars standing in thC s avenue during the hours of darkness a l in the event of fire was freely com. t | mented on and was declared to De il V violation of the city ordinances. : Tkhs arrival of additional strilzebreak a CTS and the rumor in reference to theil e carrying concealed weapons furnished h the principal topic for conversation
 l One prominent citizen expressed him : self vehemently to a group in Stat f street, New London. He declared tha t he was seriously contemplating malxin, t a formal complaint to the police witt v the request that a deputation of pa n troInen be designated to search ever e man among the strikebreakers for con f cealed weapons.
 e We had the police search many o . the Italians during the recent etrike. e he said. why should we be placed i
 jeopardy by a gang of men from NeS "a York about whom we know a;bsolutel :. nothing? I do not believe any com d pany has the right to import force Q 1 armed men,"
 .ei No Cars to South Coventry. n Contrary to expectations, the Shor Ie Line Electric railway did not operat
 any cars between Willimantic an Ie South Coventry Sunday. The strikin e. motormen and conductors hired an au st to truck, fitted it up with seats and df Dt a thriving business all day. The 1T charged the same rate of fare as tn IS trolley company.
 o Strikebreakers Manned the Cars.
 The Groton and Stonington brand d of the Shore Line Electric railway op
 erated cars on a. schedule of one an = = one half hours Sunday. Strikebrealzer '6 manned the cars. There was no dis .O '. turbance.
 .o About 20 strikebreakers and a hand !, lful of detectives arrived in Mystic Fri z, = day afternoon and put up at the ATys " " tic carbarn Friday night. They ar Y waiting instructions to start the trol sl ,a ley service and may have somethin sS rolling before the day is over. Sl lN 2. one has bothered them so far
 IA load of mattresses was packed o
 a team in font of one of the stores, )n Mystic Friday afternoon and was jus y about to start for the carfbarn, bT t. when the proprietor learned that tll to mattresses were for the use of th sn strixebrealxers he unloaded them an S NT-rT% r1i1frf S-4 f1 f1soe esk<a