. Electric railway journal . called Sunday, April 6, of the motor-men and conductors of the International Railway Companyof Buffalo. Employees of the Buffalo & Lake Erie Trac-tion Company and the Buffalo Southern Railway Companyjoined the International men by going out on Tuesday andWednesday. Altogether about 1850 men, most of themmotormen and conductors, quit work either as strikers orthrough fear. Violence by street mobs quickly began, and in the firstthree days of the strike 400 cars were more or less damagedby missiles. In most cases the damage consisted only ofbroken glass. Tuesday night
. Electric railway journal . called Sunday, April 6, of the motor-men and conductors of the International Railway Companyof Buffalo. Employees of the Buffalo & Lake Erie Trac-tion Company and the Buffalo Southern Railway Companyjoined the International men by going out on Tuesday andWednesday. Altogether about 1850 men, most of themmotormen and conductors, quit work either as strikers orthrough fear. Violence by street mobs quickly began, and in the firstthree days of the strike 400 cars were more or less damagedby missiles. In most cases the damage consisted only ofbroken glass. Tuesday night, on the admission of the policeauthorities that the situation had got beyond their control,2200 state troops were ordered out on a call issued byJustice Charles H. Brown of the Supreme Court of theState. The militiamen patrolled the principal streets andwere massed at all carhouses, but even with this protectionsuch effort as was made to run cars on Wednesday wasunsuccessful. In many places the track was piled high with. Buffalo Strike—Auto-Truck Fitted with Seats and Used forTemporary Bus Service loads of dirt, bricks, tree stumps and refuse of all overhead wires were frequently cut, and for a shorttime the main supply cables of the Cataract Electric Com-pany were out of service, having been cut between Niagaraand Buffalo. This company supplies electrical energy forthe operation of the traction lines in Buffalo. STRIKE PRECEDED ORGANIZATION An unusual feature of the Buffalo strike is that there wasno formal organization among the men, who in fact havenot yet received a charter or even a number as a local unionof the Amalgamated Association of Street and ElectricRailway Employees. The agitation which led to the presenttroubles was begun about six months ago by a local socialistnewspaper publisher who lately induced two Amalgamatedorganizers to come to Buffalo. The union propaganda wasstarted by resolutions adopted by the Central Federation ofLabor asking for a conf
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