. Electric railway journal . It was a glorious fight. Techni-cally it is not over, even yet. ^ihfstrike order of Amalgamated stillstands against the Kansas City Rail-ways. But within forty-eight hoursof the big walkout of its workersthe company had forty-five of its nor-mal service of 650 cars back in op-eration again. It stuck fast andwith the help of more than a thou-sand national guardsmen of Mis-souri, 500 United States marshalsand some 700 policemen—to saynothing of conservative citizens—-kept those forty-five cars going, andday by day added to their numberuntil the service had been broug
. Electric railway journal . It was a glorious fight. Techni-cally it is not over, even yet. ^ihfstrike order of Amalgamated stillstands against the Kansas City Rail-ways. But within forty-eight hoursof the big walkout of its workersthe company had forty-five of its nor-mal service of 650 cars back in op-eration again. It stuck fast andwith the help of more than a thou-sand national guardsmen of Mis-souri, 500 United States marshalsand some 700 policemen—to saynothing of conservative citizens—-kept those forty-five cars going, andday by day added to their numberuntil the service had been broughtback to normal. Today as manypeople are riding in its cars as in thesame days of 1918. And while thegross business is still 10 percent below that of 1917, thepatronage is increasing dailyand in large volume. Yet do not let this laststatement beguile you intounderrating the seriousphases of a strike that lastedactively from December,. - -^«; 1«---BM MWKtMKBM^ \ ■i M jS^^^^Kk 1 -^1 fe Jh ■ ^^ 7^ ^ mi ^w office, with a boss plasterer as its talk-ing chairman. He did not talk muchthere. He had hardly begun his enun-ciation of principles before ColonelKealy asked him if he was a street-car man. The walking delegatestammered. Kealy made it clearthat he would be glad at any timeto meet with the president of theStreet Railwaymens Union or anyother employee of the company, butdid not see where he had any streetrailway matters to discuss with menrepresenting other trades in KansasCity. Are you a street railway man?he repeated. No, stammered the union agent,but— No buts here, said Phil Kealy,his finger swinging in a great arcand beginning to point, with menac-ing definiteness. The elevator is These three illustrations show, respectively,at top, another view of the New UnionTerminal; at left. Twelfth and WalnutStreets during a rush hour, and at right,a view of Main Street looking north fromTwelfth Street, Kansas City,
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