Exploring Columbus streetcar strike of 1910
Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company operated lines that ran through the heart of the city and extended to communities like Westerville. The protest crippled everyday life by leaving people without a critical mode of transportation.
Hundreds who stood on the picket line also witnessed extreme violence as a push for better wages reached a fever pitch.
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The year was 1910. On the streets of Downtown, Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company employees, making roughly $50 a week, gathered for a mass meeting, wanting to form a union.
'Workers were asking for a little bit more money and a little bit fewer hours,' Columbus Metropolitan Library's Special Collections Manager Aaron O'Donovan said.
Library records indicate that on July 24, 1910, a massive strike brought hundreds to the Ohio Statehouse and South High Street.
Workers wanted their 12-hour shifts reduced, and walking off the job brought streetcar service to a halt.
'This huge strike caused all sorts of violence and crowding in the streets, and they had to bring the National Guard within a few days of the strike,' O'Donovan said. 'It was quite violent.'
The library's Ohio Transportation Collection includes pictures captured during the strike. The collection includes images taken from the 1800s through the 1950s.
'Anything from dynamite in cars to throwing rocks at passengers and conductors, conductors shooting strikers,' O'Donovan said of the violence. 'We had acid attacks of conductors. We had people throwing acid in conductors' faces.'
When police couldn't control the violence, the governor called in the National Guard. More than 4,000 troops converged on Columbus that summer. The collection also shows troops and their horses camped out on the grounds of Goodale Park and the Ohio Statehouse. Troops even blocked traffic in front of Trinity Episcopal Church at East Broad and South Third streets.
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Columbus residents showed support for striking workers by refusing to use the streetcar. They also served coffee to those on the picket line and passed out handbills.
'The other thing you'll notice in the collection is a number of companies are advertising and have big wagons driving people downtown,' O'Donovan said.
He said workers wanted about $1 added to their weekly salary.
'We had all this violence and then nothing really came of it,' O'Donovan said. 'They didn't recognize the union, all these people were hurt. One person died, he got hit in the head with a rock. He got hit in the head with a rock while trying to get to work.'
The strike ended on Oct. 18, 1910.
To explore more about the strike and other events in Columbus' history, visit the library's my history page by clicking here.
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