Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1928 — Page 11

AUG. 10, 1928.

URGE STREET RAILWAY MEN TO ORGANIZE First Step to Form Union Taken Since Strike of T 926. Message of unionism was heard by Approximately 200 employes and former workmen of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company in two meetings at 312% E. Washington St., Thursday night, in the first effort to reorganize the union since the strike of 1926. Applause greeted every reference of the speakers to higher wages, shorter hours and better working

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conditions. The meeting was held without molestation following the arrest and acquittal of the president, Barnett Miller, 818 Wright St., and Frank Denham, 115 N. Liberty St., for violation of the anti-banner ordinance. The pair was arrested for distributing cards advertising the meeting. “The time is ripe in Indianapolis for us to organize,” international vice president, Robert Armstrong, St. Louis, of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car and Railway Employes. Armstrong contrasted the welcome he has received this time with his visit here during the strike of 1926, when specially appointed police officers hounded his footsteps, he said. The first meeting was held at 8 p. m. with 110 present, while the second was at 2 a. m., for the motormen and conductors who were at work on the late shift. Os the 1,100 employes of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company eligible for membership, about 100 now are enrolled, Miller said. Membership applications were

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distributed Thursday night to members and the few non-members present, as the opening gun of the employes’ efforts to reorganize, to make a stand for higher wages. Technically, the strike of 1926 has never been called off, it was pointed out, the union gradually has disintegrated, allowing individual members to return to work. Indianapolis street car men start at a wage of 40 cents an hour, five years being required to reach 45 cents. In St. Louis, 50 cents is the minimum and in two and one-half years the men get up to 67 cents an hour, it was pointed out. Addresses also were made by Frank P. Baker, attorney for theunion, and William Barrett, special organizer. Shropshire P. Smith, special municipal judge pro tem., held that Miller and Denham were guilty technically, but the law was not Intended to prohibit this type of card distributing. “Hurrah for Miller and Denham” was printed in crayon on a blackboard in large letters at the union

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