The Washington herald., 1917-03-14
STRIKE SIDELIGHTS

Henry c. Day. So. alleged strikebreaker
from Reddington, Va. was last night ar
rested by. Headquarters Detectives Bauer
and Nermillion charged with being
drunk. 1t is said by the police that Day
stated he was going to bust that strike
right away.
Mrs. Louise Breeden. % years old, 9l6
Fifteenth street northwest, while at
tempting to board a car OF the Washing
ton Railway and Electric company at
Fifteenth and II streets northwest yes
terday morning was thrown to the street.
She was removed to her home in semi
conscious condition.
You can buy car tickets % for 50 cents.
That is the rate established by the strik-
| breaking conductors, the motto of whom
is don't work the register overtime
perfectly good conductors hat Is for
sale for 10 cents. lie lost 1t at Ninth and
streets northwest while bending over
the rear guard rails and expressing his
resentment against Washington liquor
in fluid form.
President H. NJ McIarin. of the Fed
eral Employees Union. was offered a real
conductors uniform for y cents. He de-
Clined the offer
A stone crashed through the front vesti-
oule OF car at Fifth and streets last
night and it made the motorman who
had his thumb in the vicinity of his nose
quickly apply the same hand to the con-
troler.
Strikers claim that the new men are
ignoring the semaphore signals at Ninth
and r streets and the police are not
bringing them to count for this infrac-
ton of the traffic laws
With the strikcbreakcrs the union
Dickcts who have been observing opera
tions say that everything Is fare"
At Fifth and F streets northwest eN-
cltemcnt and agitation prevailed yester-
day. There were more than 200 strikers
on duty from early in the morning and
they expressed their opinion of the
"breakers" in language not according to
HOyle.
Cars are not stopping at North Capitol
and Quincy streets in front of No L
Engine House. nor at the crossing at
North Capitol street and Florida avenue.
according to union pckets.
The striking carmen have been offered
the use of a theatcr in the northeast
a
benefit Saturday. The program, part
from pictures. will be supplied by the en-
plOYcS themselves.
At Fifteenth and East Capitol streets
two new mOtormen showed yesterday how
not to run cars. They spanked each
other with a resounding crash. but the
only damage was difference OF opinion
as to who was to blame
An auto skid chain. dropped in the
channel of the md-raiI. will tie up
the line for some time. The "P' street
car operators know this and while they
have discouraged the practice they watch
ed with some amusement, certain loyal
employees trying to adjust the differences
caused by these troubles
NJ. f.. Cook. builder and contractor, and
other residents Of Benninss, voiced a pro-
test last night against the suspension OF
night traffic by the Washington Railway
and Electric Company. They declared
they were being put to additional ex-
pense by hiring other conveyance and
that the public should have some redress
because the company is public utilities
corporation.
A couple Of neatly dressed. well-groom-
ed strikers have stationed themselves at
Union Station to do education work"
among passengers coming in from trains.
telling them not to board cars manned
by strikebreakers. In nine cases out of