Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1903 — CHICAGO STREET CARS RUN PROTECTED BY 1,000 POLICEMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO STREET CARS RUN PROTECTED BY 1,000 POLICEMEN

In spite of considerable rioting the Chicago City Railway Friday successfully operated cars on the \Ventworth avenue line. Following this victory for the company the street ear strikers and their sympathizers changed their tactics and prepared to demand the withdrawal of police protection for the pon-union employes of the traction company. Although the company was able to run fifteen cars on the Wentworth avenue

line in the course of the day, it required the efforts of 1,000 policemen to enable it to do so. These policemen were able to preserve a fair degree of order, although the mobs which had assaulted the non-union trainmen and demolished the cars of the company on the previous day were out again in force along the streets over which the cars were operated. The disposition of the police was such, however, as to prevent the demonstrations of the mobs from becoming seripus. While the operation of the Wentworth avenue cars was a victory for the company, the Street railway officials found themselves confronted with new difficulties during the day. Firemen employed in its power houses broke their agreements and quit work and engineers and other employes announced their intention of doing likewise if non-union men were put in the firemen’s places. The strike of the firemen resulted in the stopping of the cnhles on the Cottage Grovo avenue and State street lines. These cables have been kept running all the time since the beginning of the strike to prevent their being cut by ■trike sympathizers. General Manager McCulloch was not dismayed by the action of the,firemen in breaking their agreement. He announced that this new strike would not change his plans. “The police hare the management *of our lines,” he said. "They hare chosen to run the cars on the Wentworth avenue line alone. We have the ■hen to run cars on the other lines and will do so if the police can agree to protect them.” » Preparatlqna. were made to take care of a large force of non-nnion employes. Cots and beds were placed in the various power houses and car barns and arrangements mad<r for feeding non-union men In these strongholds. The work of hiring men to tske the plsce of the strikers progressed rapidly. A vanguard of ten non-nnion men -from other cities reached Chicago during the day. They were lioused In the car barnso . Other preparations for running a large number of trains and breaking the strike ware mode, __ .

POLICE PROTECT MOTORMEN.