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Strikes and Riots Roil St Louis Transit Battle
St Louis labor leaders vote for a general strike after a night of talks over a streetcar sympathy strike. Rioting erupts as police fail to quell mob attacks on transit workers and property including car crews and streetcars. A policeman is wounded. several non union workers are beaten. fires and dynamite cause disruptions across key streets.
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St. Louis
House of Delegates
St. Louis Transit Company
Street Railroad Company
Harry EB. Barton
Grand and
Laclede Avenues
Laclede Avenue
Richardson
Cleveland
McNamee
St. Luke's Hospital
Morgan
Guy Fickes
Fickes
John Kenna
Gratoit Street
Robert Nelson
Jacob Hollingsworth
Fourteenth Street
Kenna
Nelson
Hollingsworth
Morgan Street
Jefferson Avenue