Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1909 — PITTSBURG STRIKE SETTLED [ARTICLE]

PITTSBURG STRIKE SETTLED

Some Violence Before Peace Is Proclaimed In Mayor's Office. Pittsburg, June 29.—A settlement was affected at a hastily called conference of union men and car company officials in Mayor Magee’s office. Cars were put In operation at 3 o’clock this morning. Before peac« was proclaimed there was some violence. At two car barns shots were exchanged between strike sympathizers and the police. So far as known no body was hurt. A crowd around the Herron Hill cat barns placed obstructions on the tracks in the shape of piles of lumber when It was rumored that cars would be taken from the barns by non-union crews. The police dispersed the hooting and. hissing mob and removed the timbers from the tracks. An agreement allowing discharged men proper hearings before superintendents and the assurance of the cat company that the secretary will shorten "swing runs” 50 per cent was drawq, up and signed.