The Oakes Times

MOB STONES CARMEN
Five Thousand Engage in Riot in St. Paul Streets.
Fifty Carmen Are Injured and Many Cars Disabled--Negligent Officers Warned by Governor.
St. Paul, Dec. 4.--Nearly 50 trainmen were injured in rioting involving 5,000 persons in the loop district of St. Paul growing out of the agitation for a carmen's union. Other results were the wrecking of more than a score of cars, cutting of trolley wires, complete suspension for the night at least, of street car service in that city, calling out of the St. Paul home guards and 1,500 uniformed sheriff's deputies in Minneapolis, and steps toward the mobilization of the fourth Minnesota infantry.
The same situation laid before the governor, in addition to the question already before him of state contact with appeals for federal action, the necessity of dealing with the problem of adequate policing of St. Paul for preservation of peace and maintenance of the transportation facilities.
It was immediately after the close of a widely advertised meeting in Rice park, in the heart of St. Paul, that the dense crowd charged on street cars converging chiefly at Seventh and Wabasha streets, the principal junction point of the downtown street railway loop.
The mass meeting had been addressed, not only by agitators of a carmen's union and other sympathizers, but also by leaders of the Non-partisan league. Joseph Gilbert, manager of the league, besides urging all labor to help the carmen, attacked Otto Kahn, New York banker, who spoke at the recent loyalty demonstrations in Minneapolis and St. Paul. James Manahan, counsel for the league, criticized the Public Safety commission, and openly pledged the assistance of the Nonpartisan league in the trainmen's fight.