The Farmer And Mechanic

THE CARS ATTACKED BY A FURIOUS MOB

A Battle on Church and Main Streets.

NON UNION MEN BEATEN

A Number of Strike Sympathizers Behind the Bars

THE ARBITRATION COMMITTEE REPORT

They Stipulate That Employes Shall be Bonded That 85 Per Cent. Shall be Taken Back, That 24 Non Union Men be Retained.

(By the Associated Press.)

Norfolk, Va., March 8.-After perhaps the most violent demonstration of the strike sympathizers since the strike began, lasting for three hours, at the corner of Main and Church streets, in which a mob of one or two thousand men bombarded cars, beat non union employes, and in a hundred other ways showed their vehemence against the Norfolk Railway and Light Company, the committee of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, having in charge the arbitration of the strike made their report shortly after midnight tonight having been in session for fifty-six hours.

During the time before the settlement by the committee was reached, several people were hurt by the missiles thrown through car windows by the mob, non union motormen and conductors were beaten and badly used, window and electric lights in the cars that were run after dark were demolished and several men now rest behind the bars in the police station, having been arrested by the police and other officers.

Corporal Walke Truxton, a grandson of Commodore Truxton, fought a hand to hand conflict with a strike sympathizer on the rear platform of a car in the view of a thousand people, and held his man, whose name was Lee Curtis. It was necessary to bring a revolver into play to do it.

At midnight the strike was settled, so far as the Arbitration Committee is concerned. Their report stipulates that the employes shall be bonded as prescribed, that 85 per cent of the old employes shall be taken back, and that 24 of the non union workmen shall be retained, whether they become members of the union or not.

A meeting of the strikers will be held today (Sunday) at which the whole matter will be laid before them. The militia will remain until a decision is given.

It is impossible to ascertain up to an early hour this morning how the strikers as a body regard the report of the arbitration committee, but Mr. Hugh Gordon Miller, counsel for the strikers, expressed it as his opinion that they will abide by the decision and return to work.

The Afternoon Report.

Norfolk, Va., March 8.-The street car strike is yet unsettled. Shortly after one o'clock this afternoon it was announced that the strikers had closed their case before the arbitration committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Nothing beyond this was given out. The depredations of strike sympathizers put Norfolk in darkness again last night, and non union wiremen under heavy military guard were busy the greater part of the forenoon repairing the damage.