Workers of St. Louis Transit Co. voted at 2 a.m. May 8, 1900, to strike. The bosses said that they would just take the routes if the workers wouldn’t. The Workwes and all the people who felt sad for them got together on the routes leading downtown.
At 15th Street and Washington Avenue a women stood across the tracks. A large crowd at tried to hit streetcars going by with rocks and cut power lines. When a police officer arrested one person who was throwing rocks, his friends tossed the policeman into a mud puddle. There where abandoned cars all over the town because people would just get out of them when the windows were busted.
On the street that they were on a mad person fired a pistol. He hit a teenager who was just sitting there. The teenager luckily survived and the crazy man that shot him was arrested. The next day a guy named Frank Liebrecht was shot to death during a demonstration along one of the …show more content…
Louis city Sheriff John Pohlman created a group of people that were armed made up of more than 2,000 volunteers. The group members armed with shotguns and rode St. Louis Transit cars and made fun of the horse-drawn buses operated by strikers. Many restaurants refused to serve strikebreakers.
More than 8,000 members of 28 unions joined 3,300 strikers in parade on May 19, but Edwards Whitaker, St. Louis Transit president, refused to meet with the Railway Employees Union.
On June 10, a column of strikers was marching past the armed group headquarters when one of the strikers threw something at one of the armed men. The group member dropped his pistol, which Fired. The armed group fired into the parade of people, killing 4 men and wounding 14 others. The Groups leaders insisted that strikers had fired first, but no one in the Group was wounded.
Joseph W. Folk proposed a deal in July but Whitaker didn't honor it. The strike broke in September, with a toll of 14 killed. It would take 18 years and another strike for streetcar workers to win union
At 15th Street and Washington Avenue a women stood across the tracks. A large crowd at tried to hit streetcars going by with rocks and cut power lines. When a police officer arrested one person who was throwing rocks, his friends tossed the policeman into a mud puddle. There where abandoned cars all over the town because people would just get out of them when the windows were busted.
On the street that they were on a mad person fired a pistol. He hit a teenager who was just sitting there. The teenager luckily survived and the crazy man that shot him was arrested. The next day a guy named Frank Liebrecht was shot to death during a demonstration along one of the …show more content…
Louis city Sheriff John Pohlman created a group of people that were armed made up of more than 2,000 volunteers. The group members armed with shotguns and rode St. Louis Transit cars and made fun of the horse-drawn buses operated by strikers. Many restaurants refused to serve strikebreakers.
More than 8,000 members of 28 unions joined 3,300 strikers in parade on May 19, but Edwards Whitaker, St. Louis Transit president, refused to meet with the Railway Employees Union.
On June 10, a column of strikers was marching past the armed group headquarters when one of the strikers threw something at one of the armed men. The group member dropped his pistol, which Fired. The armed group fired into the parade of people, killing 4 men and wounding 14 others. The Groups leaders insisted that strikers had fired first, but no one in the Group was wounded.
Joseph W. Folk proposed a deal in July but Whitaker didn't honor it. The strike broke in September, with a toll of 14 killed. It would take 18 years and another strike for streetcar workers to win union