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Show SAINT PAUL CARS STOPPED BY MOB St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 3. Five thousand union sympathizers ' ran through downtown streets yesterday afternoon, smashing windows of the street cars and attacking nonunion carmen who attempted to run cars. Within thirty minutes after tho first brick was thrown the mob had made Its way around tho entire loop completely paralyzing street car traffic. traf-fic. No further attempts were made to run the cars. The attack on the street cars followed a meeting nt a downtovn park during the afternoon, at which representatives of the Nonpartisan league and other speakers had urged trade unionists, it Is said, to defy the order of tho Minnesota public safety commission that union car men return to work without wearing union buttons. Much damage was dono to the street car company's property. The police wero powerless to stop the disorder. Later the homo guards wero called out and tho disturbance subsided. No one wns seriously Injured. |