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Trolley Ropes Are Cut and Crowd Pursues Line
man Into Store—Police Ride Horses on Side-|
walks to Disperse Noisy Bands. |
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showed plainly that they did not
grasp the serious import of what they
saw.
“Be a Man,” the Cry.
; SBomething of their system was
shown by slogans the men used in
‘efforts to get employees loyal to the
company to join them.
' *“Be a man!’ they would say.
“Come on out.”
Many called the men on the cars
“by thelr first names. The men on tho‘
cars who did not respond kept silent
mouths and Immoblle faces. From
‘the crowds vile epithets were hissed
at the strikebreakers. ‘
Downtown the cars appeared to be
running remarkably well. Except
‘where they were blocked by crowds
they were never left standing long.
‘When men left them there were al
‘ways others to take their places.
Most of the men left their cars
Arkwright Can’t Find King;
Blames Mayo for Disorder
President Arkwright made an at
tempt for two or three hours to reach
Andy King, chairman of the Police
Commission, to appeal for adequate
zgeo protection, without which, he
lared, it would be impossible to
operate onoufl\ carg to be of real
service to the public. He said Mr,
King had assure him that he would
be at the police statlon up to §
o'clock. All attempts to reach Mr.
King there, at home or his office,
however, falled.
About 10 o'clock Mr. Arkwright
went to Whitehall and Alabama
Wtreets to appeal to Chief Mayo In
‘person. He declared that Chief Mayo
sald It was impossible for him to do
better.
“I appealed to the Chief to keep
erowds from collecting and at least
to keep them on the sidewalks, away
from the cars,” asserted Mr. Ark
wright. “Right under his eyes and
the eyes of his men our employees
were pulled from their cars. One of
Our men reports a street cgr man
beaten up In front of the Childs Ho
tel, on Bouth Broad street, and sent
to the Grady Hospital, all while two
policemen stood by and did nothing.
“It is time we were getting a police
force that can protect private prop
erty and safeguard the interests of
the people who must travel on the
cars. Unless this protection is fur
nished we can run only a minimum
of cars and the inconvenience will be
serious.”
The car officlals declared that they
could k”Y up the fight Indefinitely,
but that the service would depend on
the police. They gave no hint that
they would yleld. They reasserted
that their employees are satisfled and
have made no complaint, and that
outsiders, who have no interest In
the situation, are the sole cause of
the trouble. .
- Mr. Arkwright pointed out that 800
of Jhls men have signed a statement
voluntarily saying they are satisfied
~and only want an opportunity to work
in peace. W. M. Pollard, the union
organizer, made a statement con
_cerning this in which he contends
that the men signed under pressure
and that 85 per cent of them later
=‘nlt thelr jobs and joined the union.
strike organizers claim to have
l&ofl 90 per cent of the total of
e to 1,400 street car men in the
union, while the company claims that
only a handful to date have been
Jured away.
~ “The few dissatisfled street car
-men and their friends are snatching
_our employees off the cars, stripping
them of badges, watches and chalns
and the llke,” was the statement of a
.wasgny official.
’ e hired strikebreakers of the
’ e-tmy are holding up our men and
bea them,” was the statement in
reply of Organizer Pollard.
- _At the union headquarters it was
_claimed that the Decatur, Hapeville,
Strike Trouble Is Result of
- Discharge of Three Linemen
Conflicting statements of the trolley
eompany officials and the strike lead
ers left the cause of all the trouble
somewhat a puzzle,
It started some weeks ago when
linemen were dlscharged. A
of a large number of linemen
lowed, was announced as settled
‘and then broke out anew when the
Georgia Rallway and Power Company
retained In its employ the men who
had taken the places of the strikers
~ Presiient Arkwright's explanation
Strike Is Begun Prompitly
At Crest of Traffic Rush
i It had been predicted by Andy R.
rwmn of the Police Com
that the strike would be
"called between 4 and 6 o'clock. This
Anformation reached him through .
hfi.. Glenn, luporlnfter;‘dont of the (n;.Io
Jey department of the company, who
‘had received a “tip” from some op
‘erative. The day watch of the police.
“force was ordered to remain on duty. |
. Exactly at 6 o'clock The Sunday
. American's telephone rang. z
i “This s Hardy Teat” sald the
»wolce. “The strike began at 8 o'clock.”
¥ Leas than a minute afterward a
‘telephone message from a reporter
‘on the street announced that two
fi‘n had been stopped at Broad and
,Alabama streets. Men from the head
;\#‘l‘un of the strikers, No. Bsl-2
“West Alabama street, had approached
»the operatives with a message and the
‘operators had left their posts and
_walked away.
Mfi.dmrofl cuu_n:tood there torl
minutes. & passengers,
frightened by the yelling of men cm'
sthe sidewanlks, Jest in fright. But!
y had the cars been emptied bn-l
reserve men, stationed on the
reet by the trolley I':nuan\',
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when they first came through town!
after the strike order went into ef
fect, but these continued to gain re
eruits until the cars stopped.
Before 12 o'clock the cars were all
In the big barns, The strikers and
their sympathizers moved from their'
various posts to the barns, just off
Edgewood avenue, and continued |
their appals to the loyal men to take
up the fight.
At midnight the men started on a
march through the center of the clty|
to the Labor Temple for the meeting
Of course many went by varlousl
ways, but the maln body certzinly
did not appear so impressive as to
numbers.
They left the city quiet and peace
ful. But police officials said that
they feared the worst troubles when
attempts were made to start the caul
this morning.
Chief Mayo sald he would have
many extra men at the barns. |
College Park, River, Stone Mountain
and Marietta lines either had been
effectively tled up or would be soon.
“We have got a :ood start and we
are going to win the fight to organ
ize t’lo street car workers into a un
fon,” was the assertion of Pollard a
short time before he left for the La
bor Temple at No. 86 Central avenue
for a midnight meeting of the labor
hosts.
The real test of strength between |
the company and the organizers s
expected Sunday morning, when the
workers start on the day's trips from
the various car barns. It was prob
lematical, however, to what extent
the activities would be carried on
throughout Bunday. On Monday the
repetition of the scenes of last night
may be expected, with a good deal
more violence.
At the company's reserve head
quarters, at No. 21-2 Walton street,
the street car men gathered in force
around 11 o'clock to await further
orders, The cars of most of them
(exclusive of those which had been
£topped) had been run back into the
barns. Many of the men had not
had supper and they were given meal
tickets good at the Transportation
Club,
The officlals sald only one of thelr
men asked to be relleved of dutles,
and he was H. V. Chappelear, of No.
67 Krog street, a conductor, who as
serted ‘m was expecting a stork at
his home. Chappelear usually works
on the Buckhead llne, but has bheen
transferred for a time to the Stewart
avenue line. ‘
A late estimate by the company
placed the number of men quitting
work at 65, which the offlCllqll sald
was the number of men whose places
had been filled on regular runs.
The question came up as to
whether striking conductors making
the early runs were tumln, in to the
company fares collected. It was said
at company headquarters, and also
at the union meeting place, that such
moneys would be turned in all rl{ht.
probably Sunday. The men own their
uniforms,
Citizens and company officlals dis
cussed freely during the night the
advisability of calling out the fire
department and turning the hose on
the crowds to disperse them, but
flotmu could be started along that
ne.
Assistant Chief Jett drew a crowd
around him at Peachtree and Wal
ton streets about 10 o'clock by run
ning a would-be speaker off the
street. This member of the crowd
had moeounted a barrel and was pre
pared to make any kind of a speech
his hearers might wish to hear. Chlef
Jett got behind the strike sympa
thizer, who got behind his barrel and
rolled it Into the Gunter-Watkins
drug store, where the cigar stand was
almost upset before the irate pro
prietor could coax the curious crowd
out through the other door.
of the present trouble is that W. M.
‘Poluul. of Springfield, 111, an agent
of the Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, fomented the trouble with
‘the linemen and, fizzling in this at
tempt, started work (o get the car
\mon to strike.
Pollard's side is that the carmen
are striking because the power com
pany refuses to recognize their union,
organized only recently by him, and
has discharged motormen and con
ductors who have joined lit.
climbed to the platform and took
charge, running the cars on thelr
routes.
Service Interrupted at Start. ?
For the first fAifteen minutes of the
sirike the service was badly impaired.
From seven to ten cars were halted
near Broad and Alabama streets as
’tbo organizers drew the motormen
and conductors away from their work.
It was evident that the hour had been
set, for the men left the platforms at
once, without apparent surprise. At
the end of several suburban lines
cars were abandoned promptly at ¢
o'clock, w.thout message from head
quarters. These were standing sev
eral hours later, as no reserve men
were on hand to take charge ol‘tlsl
The strikebreakers evidently
been placed on the uptown streets,
where trouble was expected to cen
ter,
- Fifteen minutes after the hour the
cars wers moving through Puchtml
and Whitehall and al!l the principal
streets as though nothing had oe
curred, except that they were sur
rounded by a shouting mob, which
hooted and jeered the strikebreakers,
‘Come off that car'” velled & dozen
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‘Just a Show,
‘M S f
fMiayor d>ays ot
§ §
‘Street Crowd
'() bl it {
$ AYOR WOODWARD, on a
¢ M vantage point at Five I
{ Points where he could view !
’ the biggest and livest part of the |
. downtown crowd last night, seem
,od to thoroughly enjoy the spec- 3
| tacle. {
'3 “It’s just a big show, that's all,” ;
: said the Mayor. “Forty-nine out of ’
! 50 of these peopls have gathered ¢
here just to satisfy their curiosity. ;
¢ Yl don’t think there is going to !
{ be any violence or serious disor- 5
; der. | feel that the police are fully |
{ able to handle the situation. !
$ “l have no objection to the car- 2
{ men joining a union. 1 am inter
{ ested in keeping order and protec
f ting the lives and property of the E
; people of this town.” )
§ Mayor Woodward kept up a run- §
| ning fire conversation with fir-t§
) one person and then another un-
S til he got tired and left for home. g
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men and boys, running on the pave
ment beside the cars. “Get out, you
scab!”
New Men Show Nerve.
Motormen and conductors, many of
the latter hardly more than 20, ex
hibited remarkable courage, They
took the places of the strikers and
moved the cars on in the face of the
angry crowd. In hardly an instance
did one make a reply to an Insultl
hurled at him from the street. They
kept their mouths closed and their
eyes open and attended strictly to
business.
Before 7 o'clock the corner of
Whitehall and Alabama streets, close
to The Sunday American office, was
a solid mass of men. The crowd
stretched a block down each streetl
and across the viaduct. At Flveg
Points, where the trouble had been
expected to center, the crowd was lit
tle greater than on the usual Satur
’dly night, and but few operatives left
their cars at this point.
- Most of the thousands who watched
the course of affairs appeared to ba
merely curious, but there were scores,
many of them halfgrown boys, who
ran after every passing car, yelled in
‘sults at the motormen and cheered
‘the operatives who abandoned their
posts. Most of the strikers disap
peared lin the crowd as soon as they
left their cars, presumably to take off
‘their uniforms before mixing in the
crowd. Bo far as the strikers them
‘selves were concerned, they appeared
to confine their efforts to urging other
men to quit. Reporters watching the
missionary work did not see a hand
lald upon a motorman or conductor,
even when they refused to quit.
Jitneys Do Big Business.
For the first hour the crowd on the
streets appeared reluctant to risk -.I
trip home on the cars, and women
especially were warned by thelrl
friends, who feared a stone hurled
through a car window might kill or
injure a passenger. But as the cars
continued to run the fear wore away
and passengers fllled most of the
seats. In the meantime jitneys were
brimming over with home-going citi
zens and hundreds of private cars
were loaded down with guests in
vited to ride.
There were hundreds of men whol
walked home, however, for many of
the sympathizers with the strikers re
fused to ride in a “scab” car. They
stood on the curb. for hours, yelling
to acquaintances in the cars to get
off and walk.
At 8 o'clock, two hours after the
strike was declared, there had been
no violence reported to the police sta
tion, but a part of the crowd was
growing visibly uglier and more
threatening. The number of persons
on the street had increased rather
than diminished. Every few minutes
a yell from the corner unnounced‘
that another operative or two had!
abandoned their posts, !
~ The police force had a dlfllcultl
problem on its hands. It must keep
traffic moving, prevent violenoe and
yet not interfere with the right of
free-born citizens to stand on the.
sidewalk and yell. The veteran traffic
officer, at his semaphore in the cen
ter of the Alabama-Whitehall corner,
stood like a rock with the waves
breaking around him, turning his sig
nal and stopping and starting cars
without regard to the unusual ecir
cumstances. He had less trouble from
automobiles than on an ordinary eve
ning, for most motorists chose a less
densely packed street for their pas
sage throu&the eity. |
Mayo ds Mounted Police. |
’ Chief Mayo led a squad of mounted
policemen to the scene earid in the
evening, and for several hours they
rode back and forth, trying to keep
the crowd on the sidewalks and off
the car tracks. But a circus-day
crowd was an easy problem beside
this one. No arrests were made ear
‘ly in the evening, as there was no
pronounced act of disorder.
Mayor Woodward, who had warned
Organizer Pollard earlier in the day
that he would tolerate no disorder or
‘vlolonce. was an sarly arrival at the
center of the strike #cene. He had
little to say, excent to give an occa
siona! direction to Chief Mayo or one
of his subordinates.
~ “Instruct your men to arrest any
’por-on drunk or drinking or acting in
a disorderly way.,” he instructed Ser
‘geant Bullard. “I think most of the
crowd is composed of curiosity-seek
ers ltke me.” The Mayor brarded a
trolley for his home, paying no at
tention to the jeers from the crowd.
He told the policemen he could be
reached by telephone if this proved
NECesSATY,
A bystander who judged the tem
per of the throng from Its noise
would have believed the crowd In
sympathy with the strikers, but a few
questions would have convinced him
otherwise. The strikers' friends were
yelling while the others looked on In
silence and avolded trouble,
Handbills Distributed.
Early in the evening the strikers
and organizers, the latter including
a number of the electric linemen who
struck several weeks ago, began
handing out printed ecirculars filled
with abuse of the “scab”™
In the suburbs the effect of the
strike was felt more acutely than
uptown. The American's correspond
ent at East Point telephoned at §
o'clock that Miteen cars had been
abandoned in the street there and no
Attempt had been made to move them.
Shortly after 7 o'clock the Decatur
correspondent aaid no car hud reached
that town for 40 minutes, though a
five-minute service was scheduled
On the South Decatur and East Lake
lines the wervice had not been inter
rupted,
The reason for the fallure to start
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1916.
N the temporary quarters of the
I Georgia Railway and Power
Company at No. 2 1-2 Peach
tree street, formerly the offices of
Charles P. Glover Real Estate
Agency, with a window frontage
overlooking Peachtree, the re
serve force of several hundred
men of the company were closely
packed. These men reposed on
benches, in chairs, on railings
and even on the floor. They
willingly responded as a helper
stood at the door. and called
“Squad B--all out, this way,” or
“L.et me have two volunteers from
Squad A"
In the front of the place were
Preston 8 Arkwright, president
of the company: W. H. Glenn,
vice president and operating man
ager; George W. Brine, vice pres
ident and general manager, and
other officials. Two employees
sat at tables listening at phones
and receiving reports on the
progress of placing the men. The
conductors and motormen were
usually sent forth in squads of six
to ten, and had no sooner hit the
street than they were surround
ed by their tormentors. A strike
organizer stood just outside the
door, a determined glint in his
eye.
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“Back to Pickens County with
you,” vyelled a smooth-shaven
vouth at the Atlanta National
Bank Building eorner to a wool
hat boy. “You may make moon
thine, but yow can’t run a car in
this old town!”
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The company appeared to have
a world of extra workers, for no
sooner di.l pickets get men off the
cars than a new crew would
spring from the shadows and run
the car ahead.
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Strike sympathizers in steady
lines filed into the O, R. C. Hall
on West Alabama street, each us
ually bringing in an arm-lock a
man who had started out on a
run. The street car men had no
sooner hit the hall - than they
stripped off the company’s metal
badges from their caps and gave
their names to a union ofMcial
sitting at a table. It was explain
ed by W. M. Pollard, organizer,
that these men were already
members of the union, but had
gone out on runs and quit in or
der to demoralize the service.
Pollard said that 80 per cent of
the street car men had been or
ganized and that a complete tia
up was a question of only a short
time.
“It is entirely up to the com
pany whether this condition con
tinues,” he sald. “We are going
the limit within lawful means to
win”
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Hardy Teat, who represents the
striking electrical workers, stood
at the entrance to the hall and
encouraged the strikers. “Go out
and get 'em, boys" he shouted
after each man who went forth
to bring somebody else in.
A worker rushed up and shook
hands with Teat. “How are you.
Jonas?"' inquired Teat.
“Fine, Kaiser,” returned Jones.
“You know what I mean!”
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Detective T. D. Shaw was a
caller at the union headquarters.
“l want to congratulata you”
sald Shaw to a friend among the
car men who had joined the un
fon. Deputy Marsha! Freeman,
of the Federal Building force,
was another caller,
.
Quite a demostration was start
&d at the Elkin Drug Company’s
corner, Five Points, when Mount
the cars abandoned in the ‘farther
suburbs apparently was that the re
serve force employed by the company
had not been able to reach these cars
and resume their operation.
By 8:30 o'clock the crowd uptown
was thinning, as it tired of watching
the cars go by. Service through the
city was apparently but little affected
Wrong Man Is Arrested as
Pistol Toter on Mobbed Car
One of the most exciting incidents
of the strike occurred about 7:30
o'clock at Five Points when strikers
boarded a car bound for the bam
and were resisted by J. O. Hardin, an
electrical engineer for the trolley
company.
The car was full of people and a
dangerous struggle seemed imminent.
Someone flashed a plstol.
“He's got a pistol!” shouted one of
the strikers.
“I've got no pistol!” Hardin replied.
Sergeant Holcombe and Detective
Powers, of the city police, pushed
their way into the car and arrested
Hardin. Bystanders declared that
they had the wrong man, but the po
licemen took him on out.
The strikers who had climbed on
the car and started the trouble es
caped.
The crowd pressed around the no
licemen and their man so closely that
Sergeant Holcombe took his man on
A run as sooh ag he found an open-
Ing. They went down Fdgewood ave
nue and then down Prvor street to
Decatur street, a great crowd follow-
Ing.
Hardin was not detained at the po
lice atation, He had no pistol. After
a discussion of hig case there he was
given a copy of charges and allowed
to go his way.
Four Are Arrested on
Interference Charge
Four arrests were made near the
Grady Monument when an attempt
was made to pull a trolley from the
wire,
F. B. Jones, of No. 19 North War
ren street, a ririking motorman, ls
#a!d by the polica to have tampered
with a trolley line. When officers
grabbed him a jeering crowd surged
about. It took the efforts of a dozen
officers to prevent trouble.
W. E. Ray, a plumber, of No. 56
Eberhardt street; J F. Tinsley, a car
penter, of No. 96 Orange street, and
Gordon Glascoe, 17, a clerk of No. 507
Frasier street, were arrested for al
leged interference with the police.
Strike Pickets Are
Assistant Police Chiaf Jett safled
into the crowd at the corner of
Whiteha!l and Alabamna streets about
§ o'clock, and arrested two of the
.«tfu. sympathizers, who were caus
Sidelights on the Strike
ed Policeman Pate’s horse, “Jack,”
became impatient and side-setp
ped into the crowd. The officer
was jeered, and when his horse
shied again one of the crowd
jerked at the horse’s bridle, while
another jabbed him in the ribs
with his first.
Policeman Charles L. Camp,
afoot, charged at the man.
“Don’t you hit that horse!” he
ordered. “You hit him again and
I'll clean up with you!”
“Jack” became quiet alongside
his mate, ‘“Preacher,” ridden by
Policeman Mashburn, and the
wave of excitement swept to an
other section of the street.
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Jeers greeted the men on Ponce
DeLeon car No. 409 as it passed
Five Points. “Get off, you scab,”
was shouted at the motorman,
but the door in front kept the
crowd from pulling or persuading
the motorman off.
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A boy in knee breeches yelled
at an old negro man passenger on
Ponce Del.eon Car No. 349, “Get
off, old nigger,” shouted the boy.
“You'll get killed if you don't.”
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A small boy ducked just in time
to get out of the way of Police
Sergeant Howell’s horse as he
charged around the front of car
No. 132 of the Boulevard-Angier
avenue line,
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Police Chief Maye stationed
himself early in the night at the
southwest corner of Whitehall
and Alabama streets, but in spite
of his actlvities he was unable
to prevent the agitators from
baording the cars. Several offi
cers, mounted like the chief, stood
abreast watching the scene, appa
rently powerless. They had or
ders to arrest nobody that was
not gullty of violence.
Soon the more restless spirits
in the crowd rushed across the
Whitehall street viaduct and held
up several cars, after which
they swept down to Five Points
and congregated mostly in the
triangle there. For half an hour
the mo» gathered strength, until
the police broke up the triangle
and sent the crowds scattering to
the sidewalks. Chief Mayo was
assisted in this work by Assistant
Chief Jett and others, most of
whom were mounted. .
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The system which the strikers’
frierds empleoyed generally was
to hop on the front of a car and
get a safe place between the mo
torman and the closed gate on the
other side of the car. The picket
would ride several blocks, pour
ing persuasive words into the ears
of the motorman. The same was
true on the rear with the con
ductors.
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Farly in the night the leaders
in the crowd were in very good
humor, but at 8:30, when the po
lice appeared to have the situa
tion fairly under control at Five
Points, they became more impa
tient.
“We ought to drop some bricks
out of the tops of these build
ings,” suggested one, “I guess
that would wake 'em up!”
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The North Decatur line cars be
gan to get irregular and passen
gers said pickets were Interfering
outside te city and even as far
as Decatur. These cars soon fell
back to a 20-minute schedule. A
passenger at Five Points reported
the East Point cars stopped, and
sald he had walked about two
miles.
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A crowd cheered the owner of
an automoblile, No. 9,114, at
at that time.
Passengers coming in from the
suburbs reported groups of men be
side the tracks who yelled at the mo
tormen. This caused the expectation
that later in the night wires might
be cut, tracks torn up or barricaded
and other damage done the property
of the company,
ing disorder by an apparent effort to
force a carman who was loyal to the
company to take off his badge. The
arrest caused even more excitement,
and the streets became almost com
pletely blocked by the crowd.
After a ride down to the police sta
tion in the auto patrol, the two men
arrested gave their identiteis as W. N.
Tramble, 23, of East Point, and J. W,
Miller, 22, of No. 132 Dill avenue.
Bonds for their release were flxed
at SSO each.
City Councilmen
Address Strikers
Striking crews and their friends
met at Labor Temple, on Trinity
avenue, soon after midnight, and un
til 2 o'clock heard addresses by sev
eral persons. They are to meet
again at noon today for the appoint
ment of committees to do work
among the non-strikers.
Councilmen W. H. Johnson, of the
Fifth Ward, and George Freeman, of
the Third, addressed the men. Each
assured them of their sympathy. Each
advised the carmen to be patient
and to refrain from any disorder
whatever,
Harvey Teat, representing the
Brotherhood of Rallroad Firemen and
Enginemen; R. E. Gann, president of
the Atlanta Federation of Trades, and
J. L. Sweatt, representing the elec
trical wotkers, spoke.
Pollard declared that 80 per cent
of the company's crews have walked
out, and that 90 per cent of them wilil
be out before Sunday night.
Strike Agitator
H. W, Stein, 50 years old, of No.
65 Mills street, said by the police to
have been agitating strest car strik
ers and sympathizers at Five Points,
was arrested lust night by Patrol.
men Lassiter and Cossett. A charge
of disorderly conduct was placed
against him,
AIR MAIL LINE PLANNED.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Two ‘‘double”
Zeppelins, unarmed and each with a
carrying ccrtchy of sixty tons, have
been built In Germany to carry mall
between Berlin and the United States,
according to statements here by Morris
Epstein, agent of the German-Amehi
can Allhloo, who has Just returned
from Europs,
the Elkin corner as he vainly tried
to get his car started southward.
Too much air was in the cylinder
and his motor skipped. Finally
the power returned, and he pulled
out, and one of the crowd gave
the back of the car a sound
whack with a hickory walking
stick.
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As the Grady Hospital ambu
lance dashed through Five Points
a loud cheer went up. The am
bulance had come from out Ma
rietta street, and was headed to
ward the hospital.
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Piedmont avenue car. No. 264
passed through Five Points on
Edgewood avenue manned by a
motormarn with a sweeping walrus
mustache and wearing dark ci
villan clothes and a black slouch
hat. He got a chorus of jeers,
but was going most too fast to
hear epithets hurled after him.
) - .
Picketing started at Whitehall
and Alabama streets, where oc
casionally a few whispered words
from a strike sympathizer was
sufficient to cause a motorman or
conductor to leave his post-and
join the crowd. In several in
stances, however, the company’s
men were yanked from the plat
forms and lost in the surging
crowds.
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Th> Whitehall-West End cars
(Peachtree-Brookwood and Pied
mont Park going north), man
aged to run pretty well, but were
not always on schedule.
At Gordon and Peeples streets
in West End the cars were halt
ed by a great sand pile which had
been dumped on the tracks. This
sand is being used by the city for
street improvements. :
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Colonel J, Jefferson Thomas, ’sl,
declared that the strike would
not affect him, as “Dixie Will Go,”
his aged but efficient steed, has
recovered from a mild attack of
croup. %
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Parties in automobiles swarmed
down through the congested part
of the city and got caught in the
Jjam.
They almost scraped the
crowds with their fenders, but
honked their horns a little more
respectfully than on ordinary oc
casions. A number of theater
frolics were seriously interfered
with,
Al G. Field started something at
Edgewood avenue and North Pryor
street about 8 o’clock, this some
thing being in the nature of mu
sic from his peerless minstrel
band. He had hoisted his red
banner, and when a wing of the
restless army swept down Edge
wood avenwe from Five Points he
tried to corral them for his At
lanta Theater performance.
“Aw, go on, Al!” shouted a
newsboy from under a dirty cap.
“You ain’t got no show tonight!”
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Men Pulled Off Cars and Forced to Remove
Badges—Trolley Ropes Cut in View of
Police—Hoots and Jeers for ‘Loyal’ Men.
The cutting of trolley ropes reached
the downtown section at 10:30 o’clock,
when the crowd which congregated
at Forsyth and Alabama streets slash
ed two and made an attempt at a
third. Chief Mayo directed activities
here, and as the second rope was cut
spotted a man in a carman’s uniform,
‘who was placed under arrest.
The police took the man to Mariet
ta and ¥orsyth streets for the patrol
wagon, and the ecrowd followed,
threatening to rescue the prisoner.
'The officers held them back at the
iClty Hall until the wagon arrived.
One man, who cut a trolley rope at
Alabama and Forsyth streets, escaped
under the viaduct, with a mounted
policeman at his heels. Several trol
leys were jerked off here.
Violence was near early in the night
when three strikebreaking electrical
workers were chased for three blocks
by a large part of the crowds. The
men ran down Alabama street to
South Forsyth and to Mitchell, where'
they ran into a cigar store. The pro
prietor ran them out into the hands‘
of the crowd, and they were being
roughly handled when the mounted
policemen rode into the crowd. The}
police had to bring the strikebreakers
back to their Marietta street rooming
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A large pack of sympathizers and
strikers jostled three regular men
from Alabama street through Peach
tree to the company’s starter’'s office,
at Walton and Peachtree streets.
Here the officers were forced to ride
upon the sidewalk to protect the men
until they could reach the office. Their
caps were smashed and they were
shaken up quite a bit.
The crowd was tolled away from
the starter’'s office by an acecident
around the corner on Broad street,
which distracted their attention.
James J. Blalock, a telegraph opera
tor, living at No. 125 Metropolitan
avenue, fell and broke his leg.
The strikers early in the evening
devoted their activities to pleading
with tha men. Many of them heed
ed and deserted their posts at the in
tersection of Whitehall and Alabama
streets, where the crowd was largest
at the time. Others refused to join in
the movement, and on return trips
yvellz of “Secab!” greeted them.
By R o’clock strikers and sympa
thizers wera hopping cars along Ala
bhama street hetween Whitehall and
Broad and calling to the men to
sirike. At one time J. M. Means, traf
fic superintendent, boarded the rear
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Automobile Tire & Service Co.
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Dobbs Tire Repair Co.
226 Peachtree Street
Auto Oil & Gasoline Co.
71 N. Forsyth Street
Southern Dorris Co.
53 Cowurtland Street
Sanders & Brown
100 Spring Street
of an eastbound car and warned thel
crowds that they must not attempt to
take the men off. |
Reports that some of the men had
been removed bodily came to the
company’s office. This was prinei
pally in the outlying districts where
there was little police protection, but
it was also reported that at the be
ginning of the walk-out some were
removed at Broad and Alabama.
lce Water on Crowd.
The notable good humor of the
crowds about Alabama and Whitehall
street was dampened a bit early in
‘the evening when somebody in 'the
Connally Building threw a lot of fce
water upon them. The people in the
streets threw out threatening re
marks to their drenchers and the po
lice rushed into the building to pre
vent trouble. .
The strikers as a rule tore their
number plates from their caps as they
stepped to the streets. Some of them
who failed to do so. said their num
bers had been snatched by a company
man and this threatened trouble for
a while,
Although there were crowds at
every downtown corner yelling “Secab”
and *“Take {t (the company number)
off,” they did not remain long at any
one place, except in the first excite
ment at Whitehall and Alabama
streets. The masses split up about 8
o’clock and the strikers, their sympa.
thizers and the large bodies of the
curious ran about through the streets
and from corner to corner. The ex
citement failed to center about Five
Points, as had been expected.
Mayor Weodward was on the job
and had a personal view of the situ
ation. He visited many of the crowd
ed corners and conferred with Chief
Mayo and others of his men.
The absence of liquer in the crowds
was most noticeable. Few drunk men
were seen on the streets, and liquor
seemed to play no part whatever in
the demonstrations among the thou
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