The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 728 - The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

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It's an American History podcast for each week I, Dave Anthony, read a story from American History. Thank you. That was the first six episode. and then you needed to redo it. You needed to add someone. You needed a fucking kind of Kramer type. You needed a hot Kramer.

I was looking for a more racist Kramer. I kind of know. Yeah. Whoa. To his? Oh, two, uh, yeah. Garrett Thrindle, just no idea what the topic's going to be about. I was close.

Ah. That's stage combat, baby. 1894. Indianapolis, the last of the city's mule-drawn street cars were replaced by electric street cars improving speed and efficiency. By 1904, the city built the Indianapolis Traction Terminal, the largest terminal in the world. Wow. By 1913, the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company were two major players.

The Street Railway Company was Union. What is it? The Street Railway Company? It was a union shop. The traction and terminal was not. Now we have all your names and we're turning it over to ice. Hey, hey, hey, hey, give them a shot. We don't know what they'll do yet.

It could be good. From what I've seen, they're pretty safe. Yeah. And their attention to detail is bar none. Yeah. That's why they're so comfortable showing us their mouths. I just think they were cool costumes. Yeah.

Well, in a way, They are costumes. Yes, very much. Regular guys going out. It's just a guy named Jeff. Preting to be the police. Fuck you, Jeff. You know, most things audiences yell out are wrong.

But that was okay. That's all right. Fuck you, Jeff. Those 900 non-union workers worked more hours for a lot less pay than the streetwayway company union guys. Why? So they're perfect targets to be unionized by the streetcar union. Right.

John J. Thorpe was the VP of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees, the Street Car Union. Just shorten it. So the street car union is the union one, obviously. Right. There are the... Yeah, they work for the union. What are we calling the other one? The other one, the other company is called the traction in terminal.

Thorpe is the union's chief organizer. He's very charismatic. He's very tactical. He moves from Pittsburgh in August of 1913, and he is team set up at the local labor hall, which is named Labor Hall. And they drew a steady line of disgruntled workers who were joining up. And a lot of the workers were then retaliated against, and some were fired just for organizing.

Socialism was in the air that summer. Doc. Smell that? Socialism. I think it's tire fire. A visiting speaker, Amel Seidel. Amel Seidel? Dave.

Yeah, it's our boy. That's a real person. Wow. A visiting speaker, Amel Seidel, was the first socialist mayor of a U.S. city, Milwaukee. That's where the sewer socialist believed in public ownership of services like water, power, transit, livable cities, blah, blah, blah, blah, affordable housing. What's your deal? That fucking garbage.

Why are you poo-poo in that, like the scat? We hate all that. No. And nothing works well unless it's run by fucking Amazon. By a guy. By one guy. So Mother Jones also came and she spoke. So socialism is in the air.

And the union wants higher wages, a minimum wage, time and a half overtime, no understaffed trains, and better working conditions. They were working 12-plus-hour shifts, which leads to dangerous situations, like when the guy driving falls asleep at the wheel. That can be bad. They also wanted arbitration to decide grievances, which is very crucial, because by agreeing to arbitration, the bosses then formally recognized the collective voice of the workers. Right. So arbitration also shows the union is willing to compromise, which helps with the public, get the public on their side, right? Moral high ground.

Quote, the employers were caught in a trap. They could rely on violence through the use of either private guards or police to protect their property rights, but violence had high social costs. Well, it sure does. It's a real issue. It's great because you can beat the shit out of dissenters. Yeah. But it's frowned upon.

as a society. People don't like to see you beat up. Yeah, it's people don't love to see you beat the shit out of someone. Now, if any organizations are listening to this in modern day and wondering how it shakes out, people don't love the optics of you just beating the shit out of random people for no reason. Yeah. You know, even if you played Superman for like five years or something like that. And now you're just kind of some fat guy who hurts his neck a lot. And arrested a blind man today. I was. He was just sitting there. What? Yeah. They arrested a blind man? Yeah, he's just sitting there. It was pretty cool. That's when you know you're on the side of good.

Okay, so in other industries, many employers were able to use violence and blame it on the unions, but the union's arbitration policy weakens that, right? At the same time, to agree to arbitration means recognize the union and automatically losing the major strike issue. Right. So workers try to arbitrate several times. And they reach out to Mayor Lou Schenck. That's right.

Lou Schenck. That's right. So, uh, hey, hey, hey. Well, if I told you, I didn't even know how to ride. Hey. Hey. What's my job again? I forgot.

I looked so crazy that I didn't even... You're the mayor. I'm the mayor. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's exactly right. I'm the mayor. I'm in charge of most of this stuff. Do you need anything?

No. Would you like anything? No. Half of a sandwich? I mostly just want you to leave me alone. You won't be left alone? Yes. Well, shank for nothing.

Wasn't that my last name? Shank. Shank, yeah. All right, I'd like to shank your hand. How's that? Is that better? No. You could take that money and put it in the shank.

I've been single for quite a while. Yes. Yeah, and I think it's because I'm picky. I'm not just going to settle for anybody. Yeah. What do you think about that? I don't. You single?

No, I'm married. Your wife got any single friends? Nope. Maybe she got some married friends who are unhappy? How old are you, by the way? How old am I? Yeah. What year is this?

Like 1912? So hard to tell. 25 Probably That's right You're 25 25 26 That's right

Something like that Hmm I sure would love To party with you and your wife I bet you would But that's talking about it Yeah that'd be great Nope

Yeah No Bend over I'm gonna shank you What does that even mean What does that mean? What do you mean? I don't know, but coming from the mayor, it's a threat. It's not...

Get the fuck out. You suck. Okay. You suck. Shank came from a working class household where money was tight. And as Gareth just showed you, as a teen, he developed a booming voice and a gift for patter. For only you who think this show might be scripted. So my throat infection cleared up.

How are you? Good to see you. Good, thanks. Well done, eh? Yes. Spot on. Really good. Way to go. Yes.

We're going to turn this place around. Okay. He was discovered on the streets of Indianapolis and given a job as an auctioneer. He kept crowds laughing, so they stayed longer and bought more stuff. Seahen hundred going to go one. 600 going twice, 600 to go three times, 600 go four times, 600 go five times,

I keep going. People would buy turnips or cabbages to bring him just so he would make jokes about them. You're so late, I didn't think you were going to turn up. Weird, because this is a cabbage. How old you got to be to get into a taxi? I don't know. The right cabbage.

Get the fuck out. His campaign stops were performances auctioning off a chicken or a loaf of bread before getting down to the brass tacks. Okay. So he ran several times and lost, and then he took his campaign to new levels. He took out a local,

he took out local and national newspaper ads. He took out a national ad to run. run for mayor? Yep. That's right. Sometimes you got to think out of the box. Local budgets aren't that much, so you need to spend wisely. Like taking out an ad in a national periodical

for what 600 people need to see. That's right. Like one for a fake palm reader that said palmistry, read your hand and see if it don't tell you to vote. for Lou Shank. It's terrible. Ads with images of personalized soap that said,

get up early and vote for Lou Shank. I'll speak for all of us. We expected a rhyme. He trained a dog to look happy when he was asked how his campaign was doing and looked sad when asked the same about his opponent. No, he didn't. Yeah, that's, yeah, he did.

Yeah. There's no way it would be in here. He tried to. He did. He didn't. There's no way a dog. He was like, oh, yeah. These dogs would smile.

One of my dog smiles. One of your dog, yeah, because you gave your dog's human teeth for some reason. One of Dave's dogs literally has human teeth. And looks great. None of people doing that. When grocery prices were jacked up by profiteers, Lou went to the suppliers, bought out their stock, and sold fresh produce. on the city hall steps for way less.

Look, he clearly has some money, but also, fuck yes. I mean, could you fucking imagine? If Donald Trump was out on the White House steps, who wants a pineapple? Well, imagine if someone, like, wanted to open up low-cost grocery stores. It's disgusting. How would you even get there? Communism.

On what? A free bus? How will New York get by? You're talking about? about Zoran Namdani. Yeah, whatever that guy's name is. The guy who doesn't sexually harassed women, which is not a politician thing. If you're a good

politician, you sexually harassed women. All right, we're not going to... You know, I'm a Cuomo guy. And he said very clearly a couple days ago, he learned his lesson. He won't ever be

alone in a room with a woman again. Because they're fucking liars. Like, you know, what Mike Pence did with his wife. That, but for a grown-ass man. But Pence didn't want to be alone with the women because he

thought they would pounce. Well, Pence is... He's a sexual being. Pence is... Pence is a lump of, like, sculpted fuck. Yeah. Yeah, he's like pure

fuck. Women would be in the room with Pence and have no choice but to go to 7-11 get Wonderbread and just rub themselves on it. Yes. Oh, sweet old pensive boy.

Cuomo's different, though. Yeah. He's got a big hog, though. He's hung like a Pence on January 6th. That's not hung, by the way. Huh? That's not hung. No, he was, no. They hung him. Hung by Pence on January 6. is not hung. They didn't catch him.

They didn't catch him. Like he was Scooby-doing around the Capitol. Didn't the guy take a dump on the desk? Yeah. I believe in it. Shouldn't they turn that into a statue? Yes, 100%. Yep.

You get to open up the little metal as like a turd in it. I mean, look, when Trump... You can put your own turn in there. After Trump is president in 2028 again, that will be like a thing. You'll be able to go to like, Pelosi's desk and open the Golden Duke.

What a hero that guy was. So, because Lushank sold produce for way less at City Hall, this led to co-op stores and the permanent lowering of prices. And this, is how he got the nickname the potato mayor. I got to be honest,

I really thought he was a throwaway character when he came up. He's the potato mayor. Oh, fuck. The union also reached out to Governor Samuel Ralston. Ralston, okay. Ralston grew up in a log cabin

and was so poor, he patched his shoes with cardboard. As a boy, he slipped way from his fond. chores to do extra schoolwork, once hiding in a hayloft, reading Shakespeare, until his dad found him furious that the cows hadn't been milked. He wanted to be a politician at a young age and gave political speeches to the pigs and chickens. Don't clap. Okay. He lost his first election for Secretary of State.

He was pandering to animals too much. Yeah. More seed for all of you. We're going to milk the shit out of you, people. Local papers mocked him for looking like a, quote, country preacher out of place at a political picnic. But by 1912, he won over voters. It's educated but foxy nature,

with a small but real progressive streak, had him favored by everyone from the poor farmer to the wealthy businessman because people believed he was authentic. It's interesting. It's interesting to be able to get both of those people. I think that's weird. It seems impossible now.

You've got to pick one. Yeah. Like right now, we pick the farmers. We'll upset the elites. We'll be on the side of the farmers. We will help the farmers. Okay. Yeah.

They know. Yeah. Yeah. We're doing them right. The one person who keeps clapping is puzzling me, too. I don't get it. I'm a little scared. as we all should be

that's probably a farmer on the afternoon of October 31st 1913 that's Halloween well done Hallows Eve Thorpe and a committee of workers had their demands rejected again and that was the boss's final chance

the men voted and announced the strike was on starting at 11 p.m. So it's Halloween perfect time to jam up the works because thousands of people are returning home from parties drunk and dressed up and the trains would be there to help them. Right.

A trick. At 10.59 p.m. workers walked out and marched to the labor hall where hundreds joined the union. Thousands filled the streets of downtown and so it's pretty surreal. There's empty street cars abandoned in the road. Union organizers hung from fire escapes giving rousing speeches as people drunkenly danced in costumes and police blared

searchlights from an alarm tower. Even though railroad boss Robert Todd ignored union demands and brushed it off like it was nothing, the company had bought in Pinkerton-style strike beggars from Chicago to operate the cars, beat up strikers, and keep the money rolling, baby. Yeah. Work ice. They didn't pay for the cream of the crop, though. quote, Joseph Demetros, a Greek leader of strikebreakers, recruited them in a pool room.

What? Indianapolis News, quote, every man that has even breathed that he was in favor of organization lost his job. The traction in city companies admit they hired a large number of strikebreakers whose pictures occupy places in the rogue's galleries in different cities of the country. These men, the boss admits, were hired for the purposes of sports. botting and trailing union organizers. These so-called inspectors were armed with revolvers, blackjacks, and knucks. They threatened the lives of organizers

and insulted the wife of J.J. Thorpe even once in a restaurant. What would they say to her? You, fucking milk drinker. What? What are you a beef eater, woman? Excuse me? Would you eat in peas?

Yes. You fucking peating, woman. Hey. Yeah. You're not hitting her with the insults we were talking about. Well, those mashed potatoes? Yeah, she's eating that, you idiot. God damn, woman.

Those are her sides. Woman eating mashed potato and peas. Yeah, uh-huh. She's having dinner. And a fucking steak. Yes, she's having steak with mashed potatoes and peas. Yeah. No.

Fucking got her. No, you didn't. She thinks you work here. Would you like more milk? No, don't offer more milk. Sorry, I thought. I got confused. Go get her more milk. I'm very tense.

Go get her more milk. You idiot. Would you like to see a dessert menu? Oh, for fuck sake. When the first scabs car rounded the corner... Were the Pinkertons unionized? It feels like they had a pretty good life.

It does. Was any... I mean, they must have, to some extent, had like... They got paid well, but they're like... It would be hilarious if one of them was just like, dude, we could be doing better if we all stuck... together. So we need

Pinkertons for the Pinkertons. No, they're like ice. They got off on harming people. Oh, right. Same mindset. Yeah. When the first scabs car out of the corner, the crowd exploded. Oh, no. Striker. That was our only hope.

That was a... Holy fuck. Yeah. So the boss won. Yeah, that's it. That's the end of the story. Fuck. Everybody blew up. Jesus Christ, thanks. Yeah. Who knew that it would end it that way?

I'll tell you what, this is not going to stand. Nothing I like better than a revenge story. Want some kidney beans? What? Half price. No. Come on, they're from my pocket. Where do you?

No. Want some corn? No, is it in the other pocket? Have some corn. Is it in the other pocket? Yeah. No. I'm always.

wandering co-op. Absolutely not what anybody wanted. What would you like to eat? Nothing from you? How about a watermelon slice? Oh, no. No. Why? No, where is it? Where is it?

I have it with me. Okay. Where is the watermelon? Why, right up my sleepy poo. What do you consider to be a sleavy poo? My underpants. Back of house. I don't want your ass watermelon.

Come on, guy. No. Please. No. First bites on me. Once you're hooked, you start paying. No. Yes.

No, sir. Yes, sir. No. All right. Maybe you're someone who would like something else. No, I do not want something else. Some lemons? Lemons?

Yeah. No. I can sit down and make lemonade. What does that even mean? What do you think it means? I don't want that. Do you have a glass? How does it?

Does it get around the watermelon? Would you like to buy a glass? Why are their glasses? So I can see the savings. Hi, I'm the mayor. What? We already knew that. My name escapes me.

You're loose shank. Yeah, shank. Shag's for the memories. Shanks for nothing. Did you say something? Nope. It sounded like you said something. I didn't.

Did you just say? dessert? No. Where would dessert be? In your mouth, if you're lucky. Quote, strikers and sympathizers hooted passengers and crews. Scab was shouted with cries of, We'll get you yet. Threatening fists were shaken. Men ran to surround the car, telling passengers to get off and that they worked under horrendous conditions. Wow. And workers threw bricks. one shattered the front glass and hit a scab between the eyes. Oh. Scab got a scab.

Yeah. He staggered. He went down and then he staggered to his feet and then fell face first into the broken glass. Those are my favorite falls. The get up, go back down. The cops moved in to save him. While doing so in the wagon, he ran over and killed the young black man. Wait.

what? Oh, he's down and so the car is just going Right, yeah. So they didn't stop to check on the young black man. They just took the scab to the hospital and the crowd pulled

a thug out of a street car and held them over their heads and marched him to the labor hall and forced him to sign up for the union. I'm sorry, Bill, we've got to let you go from the Pinkertons. I didn't didn't want to. Yeah, fucking union piece of shit.

I didn't even decide my real name. Along the way the union men ran into more scabs and quote, several fistfights started. The cops, remember, there's a lot of people in costumes. Yeah, right. Zombies are like, you listen to us,

motherfucker. I want you to sign up to be in the union. The cops kept trying to arrest union sympathizers, but a crowd will rush them and force them to let them go. Quote, crowds of workers and teamsters helped block the tracks. Women used their wash

buckets to soap the tracks, reducing traction. The boys taunted the scabs and threw rocks at trolley windows. The more agile climb poles and cut wires. I mean, this is how you do it. I'll be honest. I don't love the role

of the women had. Get your bucket, honey. It's time to wash, girls. No, he's cutting the cables. just to be safe, soap up the tracks. Get to work, women. We've got to get rights for people who work. A man dressed as Uncle Sam boarded scab trains

and told writers why this strike was happening and why it was good. We better listen to this guy. Oh, my God. Could you imagine if people started dressing? I'd be like, Uncle Sam and... Oh, my God. That is so fucking good.

We should also dress up like Trump. And the... And the Statue of Liberty? Statue of Liberty, Trump, and Uncle Sam. Make them just beat the shit out. Dress up as the Constitution. The crowds often would listen to Uncle Sam and then get off the train. That is so fucking America.

Yeah. Well, he's in charge. Doesn't matter where you stand. We got to listen to him. Honey, I think that's just a man in an ounce. No! My God! That's the real Uncle Sam! Honey, he's kind of like America's Santa. He'll hear you. He will fucking hear you, and if he hears you, a lightning bolt will strike us dead.

Listen to your husband. It's me. Zeus kind of. What the fuck? No, I'm Uncle Sam. But I do have powers like that. Lightning bolts. Yep. Say, what say you and I hang out for a little while? You seem pretty cool. Oh, actually, I'm a little busy. What do you mean? What?

I got a... I could come with you. I'm in the middle of a strike, so I got a stuff to do that's... Hell yeah, brother. I mean, you do make me a little uncomfortable. I got to be honest. I pledge of allegiance to the flag. Come on.

I pledge to the United States of America. And to the Republic, come on, for which it stands, come on. One nation, under God, let's get lunch. We'll split some apps. What? What was the last part? Liberty and Justice guacamole for the table. Are you ordering?

Of course I'm ordinary. No, are you ordering food? I'm ordering, yes. Cut to the cheesecake factory. If someone did get off, Uncle Sam would give really good directions on how they could get home. The demonstration ended around 2 a.m., conductors returning to their cars were given a choice. Free food and more pay if they didn't join the union or an immediate payout and fired. Well, yeah.

Yeah. there were arrests for cutting trolley cables and siding a riot, throwing stones and bricks, loitering. One guy got wasted and cussed out so many scabs that he was arrested for profanity. There's always me in every crowd. Yeah, there is, yeah. The next morning, an ex-county treasurer complained at the police station that the cops weren't protecting the scabs. Huh. He, quote, asserted that a crowd had dragged a motorman from his car and assaulted him.

and that the police stood by idle and smiled at their performance. You know what's fucked up is that when it's in that direction, I do like it. So it is a matter of just, you know, when I see it done to good people, I'm like, oh, fuck cops. And then in this version, I'm like, you know what? Maybe they're not all so bad. The next day factory women took over recruitment. convincing young men to ditch the company and join the strikers. Okay.

Ranks of strikers were being increased by the hour. Scabs weren't experienced running the cars, so they kept stalling out, allowing workers to surround them, cut the cables, and throw bricks through the windows. That's great. One scab took a curve too fast

and launched his car off the tracks, wrecking it. Awesome. They were desperate. Like speed. The thugs, the fucking scabs and the pincertons threatened Thorpe's wife

he's the head of the union with death and that they would burn her house down so that is a boo did they not live together you guys are against that they didn't live together they did live together but you know

they were like we're going to burn your house down well no he was yeah I mean both they didn't go like well but so right now I was like we're gonna bind your house down Say both. Say both of her. Well, you and the mister. It sounds like how a child views, like, when the guy leaves, then it's her house all day.

Then he comes home and it's his house again. So she had a nervous breakdown. And this is the, go ahead and read it. Mrs. Thorpe, wife of the strike leader, suffered a nervous breakdown. Dread of sluggers who have followed her husband. since he organized, the local union was given as the cause of her condition. A labor paper spread broadcast today said that blackhand threats of death and arson had been sent by mail to Mrs. Thorpe.

Mail. It's basically saying that she was hospitalized and the condition is dread of sluggers. Yeah. Yep. Did I get? That's what the brewers have. Wow. So on the third day, all the cars were at a standstill.

Thorpe called it, quote, the most successful strike in the international unions history. And they're also starting to win the hearts and minds of the press, even, which is amazing in a strike. Yeah. The Indianapolis News, quote, will the boss answer the question if they can afford to hire special trains employ strike-breaking agencies and important men? at an enormous expense, pay them $4 a day with board and room rent-free, why can they not pay their employees who would work for them for years the same amount and save all this trouble? That would be like being able to buy private planes, bail out Argentina,

and yet say that we can't afford health care or to pay the farmers anything. Yeah, I mean, I guess. Think about it. I don't really see it that way. Dude, dude, dude. How are we supposed to have a pay for our schools if we don't have men outside of them in military gear tear gassing them?

Did you ever think about that? Mr. fucking brain? Okay, counterpoint. We have sacrificed a lot of our tear gas budget to build a beautiful ballroom where we can all dance and frolic, and just be around beautiful gold sweet gold

hey what if the president was an Austin Powers bad guy the dumbest people are always attracted to gold gold they love gold there's gold on the roof and on the walls and what if the toilet is gold and he was in there and he was just like

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Something just beat up Godzilla. I think they call him Squareth. Scabs were pushed back into the barns. So the scabs are pushed back to the barns where they hold up and then they would it was surrounded. So they would indiscriminately shoot out at workers who were standing between them and the street cars.

But it turns out the scabs weren't really good at shooting either. One actually shot another one in the back and killed him. Shit. So we're going to We're going to need a new guy What happened? Who shot him? That?

Oh my God, they got him from the streets? Yes, he turned around. He was talking to me. Yeah, because he got shot in the back of his head. Yeah. And he's facing that way. Well, he's facing where they were. When he got shot.

The wound exits. When he got shot, he went, oh, and he turned and he fell. He did a half spin. a half, yeah, he was like I'm going, whoa, and then he fell now. His hat flew that direction though. That would... I picked that up and moved it because I... Why would you move

his hat, though? I thought it was too close to this part. So after he got shot, did a half spin and landed, you took his hat and threw it five feet ahead of us? I was like, wake up! And I thought, a lot of guys if they get really hurt

and they see their hat, they'll come to... Most of the spray of the brain and the skull fragments look like they're coming from our direction out to the street. There's this big gust of wind that came in. All right, so wait, wait, wait. He got shot from the street. He did a half spin,

then you threw his hat, but then also, while he was doing a half spin, the wind blew the chunks back through the wound out the other direction? Yeah. It was crazy. Like, it was just one of those, moments, it's just like you really had to be there, you know, like, but

man, I'll never forget it. I was there. I saw it all. He shot him. That guy's in a union. What? That guy's a fucking union spy. Are we gonna put up with this shit? I submit we are not.

Hey man. Hey man, what? Are you cool? Yeah, I'm a fucking scab. Are you? I'm super cool. scab guy. I feel like you shot him. He, that was wind and there was hats. There was all kinds of stuff going on.

Like it was chaos, wind and hats and bullets. And I was just back here. Your guns warm. I was. Why is your gun barrel warm? I always am rubbing it. That doesn't make it warm. Not like that. I keep the barrel warm with my hands because if it's not warm the bullet,

there's a shell right here. Okay. That's like... Something's ridding on the casing. Okay. Antifa? I don't know. What does that even mean? I don't know.

What is that even mean? I don't know. We're not even there in history yet, so I don't know. What are you talking about? I don't know. That's like 10 years away. So, keep that because it's from the future. You know what I'm saying?

That could be worth money. All right. Anyway, let's get back to scabbing. Yeah, I want to, but it's just, I don't know. Put that guy, you know, push him out or whatever. No, he deserves his respect. What are you talking about? That guy's a union guy.

Is that why you shot him? I tried to, yeah. You did shoot him. He's a union spy. You just said you shot him. I was trying. What about the wind? I didn't know if I could trust you.

What about the wind? And you threw the hat. That happened. And he did a half spin. That's all true. But then you shot him, you said. Well, because he's a union guy. So did he do that?

His last words were, Union strong! And then you shot him? After the... Yeah. After he did the half spin and his brains fell out? The wind and then the hat. I was trying to keep the brains on with the hat.

So, you know, I would thank me because the mess would be a lot worse. Think about it. This is your first murder on the job? What? Because they get easier. What are you doing with your hand? It's getting ready.

Weird. It's a fucking scab, man. Okay. We're not built like other people. We're cooler. I'm leaving. Crowds surrounded the barns all day. Local socialists did what they do best.

Lectured people. New newspapers made sure to point out what a big deal was that nobody tried to stop them. The strikers had taken over the city, but Mayor Shank had barely done anything to make the bosses. concede and enter arbitration. I certainly went in there and made them an offer that they couldn't refuse. Sweet potatoes? What does that even mean? Canaloupe.

You offer them sweet potatoes and cantaloupe? Oh, as far as the eye can see. Any protein? Not for me. I have cantaloupe. What do you mean? I are kidney beans. Kidney beans, high protein. I offered them a bunch of it

Out of the pocket Yeah And where were the sweet potatoes Well you think the sweet potatoes are Where would the sweet potatoes be I just hope your missus wasn't there I they're in my armpits I didn't think there's any more places

Potatoes huh I didn't think there were more places for it Yeah of course there are there's always room for more I expect you to bring your wife and put someone her fucking wig or some shit. You dirty sack of shit. That's my wife you're talking about. She has to stay at her house.

Why? Because I'm at work. Okay. Look, we got off on the wrong foot. I don't know. Yeah, I'd like to offer you some stuff. I don't even know what you said. I'd like to offer you some stuff. Lime.

Do you remember when you got a job as an auctioneer? As a what? auctioneer oh yeah there was me wasn't it yeah well how about this I'd like to give you three lemons did you have

four lemons a stroke do I hear five lemons you had a stroke six lemons I don't want six lemons I don't want any lemons lemons going once six lemons going twice so

I don't want the fucking lemons come on you got to That's legally bonded. I used to be an auctioneer. How about some rice? I don't know. Why? You don't know?

Well, I do. You need it. Where the fuck is it? Where's the rice? Yes. Nostrils. Jesus Christ. Well, that's not...

Both are full of it. Very much. It's like hardly any rice. Come on. What do you mean? Come on. Come on. Come on what?

Jump on my stomach. You get a prize. Get the fuck away from me. What? You're a fucking creep. I'm the one who's going to save this whole story. The mayor hadn't really done anything except let the sheriff deputize 400 businessmen. Wow, that's good.

That's actually ideal. Let that happen. Let the billionaires be the cops for a day. Well, they had gone to yell at the mayor about the cops in action. So the mayor was like, all right, well, you guys do it. I think the quote is, all right, well, you guys. with. Hey, I heard them when they looked at you, they said

bacon. So? Yeah, they was looking at the cops and they were saying bacon. Well, I got a steal on bacon, kid. Oh, you can handle six strips. You, you literally made that up just so you could say that. No, I didn't.

Yes, you did. No, I did not. You don't talk to me like that. You want some bacon? I can fry it for you. on my person. No. Yes. No. Yes. Where? Back.

I can heat my back up to that of a griddle. Then what happens to the watermelon? The what? The watermelon. We'll be snacking on it while I'm cooking, silly. Have you ever been hospitalized? You can't hospitalize a god. Okay.

Okay. The International Socialist Review quote, It scared the businessman out of their boots when they were expected to do their own fighting. Yep. On day five, the 29 cops refused to defend the scabs and resign. Oh, there we go. It's important to remember, day five. They wilt.

They called in a reserve of 10 more cops who also resigned. then they called in the final 10 reserve men who also resigned. Only two cops said yes. The rest were charged with refusing orders. Those two are not smart. Yeah. So cops then weren't like cops now, mainly because they didn't make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year

and live in other locations. Their jobs were still to defend the property of the ruling class, but they weren't upper middle class homeowners. They were working men, which led to working class solidarity. The last, two cops. We have bikes.

So many cops just resigned, others just refuse to take orders. Mayor Shank said he supported the cop mutiny, and that he would only force officers out if the governor sent in the National Guard to protect them. That's right. He said it would stop the bloodshed.

Governor Ralson went after Shank in the press. He refused to call in the guard and said the mayor could protect the cars, quote, Shank's failure to do so is disgracing our capital city in the eyes of the country. Oh, he's not protecting the street cars. Well, that's crazy.

Yeah, you've got to protect the street cars. I have protected all the street cars. I'm sorry, what? I have protected all the street cars. Okay. We need to get you back into speech therapy. I refuse. It's my charm.

I disagree. Strawberry preserves. I'm off. Super good deal Would you like some and some bread? No, no, no, no. I can toast it. I'm good. Toasted bread? No?

Please? No. Grilled cheese? No. Please? No. Guess where I make it? No. Between my legs. I'm like a human panini. So it's a taint oven. No, it's in between my thighs.

There's a little surprise. But the potato mayor got in trouble because he didn't back either side. He never came out one way or the other, so it looked like complete inaction and just letting chaos rain. He just kept telling both sides things that he'd do, then he wouldn't do it.

Imagine. It's known as a Democrat, ladies and gentlemen. When the federal government sent a mediator to meet with him and Governor Ralston, Schenk just didn't show up and just left the city. Sayanara, suckers. Fools.

He's just got like bags on his side like a donkey. Here we go. That's right. The bad press and carnage in the streets led to Mayor Shank resigning before the end of his term. I have to resign. But it's fine. He immediately got a contract to perform on vaudeville where he told packed audiences about his career and the harrowing strong. It's the fucking greatest career.

Right? Yeah. That is like, the move to the vaudeville was always the greatest. Yeah. It's really like how if you now are just a piece of shit, you'll find someone to celebrate you. Yeah. Like, but back then it was like, you were just like, yeah, I'm a real piece of shit. Come see my play, if people would.

Come see me be a piece of shit on stage. Well, I've got a lot of pies to show. Well, I'll talk about shit. shooting Jesse James in the back. Well, I got a bunch of plums to sell today, everybody. And other items. Is this your... Yeah, this is the show.

I'm Mayor Shanks. So you're just selling fruit? Prop fruit. Okay. This time I don't have any. Well, is there anything else to the show? Yeah. There's other items.

No, but like, besides... selling things. Yes. Are you going to do like... There's a love story. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

A really good love story. Who are you in love with? Apples. Okay. Myself. Your wife. Oh. My wife.

We talked about you having a director for the show. Yes. I hired a director. Who? A watermelon. Okay. So that's a...

How are the numbers for the show? show. They're not good. How bad? How low? Well, there's a pacer's game. Oh, well, that's the problem. That's entirely the problem. That's the problem right there. The show, the quality of the show is where it needs to be. Just the paces are playing. Yeah. First game of the season is... It's the first game in the season. How are they doing this year? Well, everyone's pretty excited because last year they went to the finals. Oh, they did? Oh, I didn't know that. How would I know that? I don't know how... I'm very... I'm very... Very busy. Yeah. I'm just a big, important businessman. I'm too busy to know these 20 things. They go to my office and block people on Twitter.

Protestants ministers try to intervene for a peaceful ending. They approached Thorpe, who said the company agreed to arbitration, then the strike, if the company agreed to arbitration, the strike would end immediately. Quote, the ministers said they were very impressed with Mr. Thorpe's presentation in the then they went to company boss Todd, who was not as impressed. All they would say was Todd promised to write a reply. Lawsuits were filed against the traction company, one to take over their operations, and the streetcar contract.

It was alleged they weren't doing what they agreed to do, like, quote, heat the cars with safe and convenient appliances, and of course not meeting with the union. The company lawyers said the suit was, quote, simply buncom, buncom, buncom, buncom? Bunkum? Is Bunkum a saying? I don't think you should be saying it anymore. I don't know what it is. It feels like their...

So it means like bullshit, I assume. I thought it was like a bussy. By the way, busies where I hang on my cured meat. You're gone. No, I'm not. You're on tour. No, I'm not. They canceled the show. The Pacers played a lot of games.

So now I'm back, and I'm ready to do more stuff. Todd put his response to the ministers in a full-page ad. So the ministers came to him and he's like, I'll let you know later. And he puts it in an ad. He said, all his employees were happy and loved working for him. Yep, that's right, because it's printed. Therefore, it's true. So Governor Ralston acted.

The Indianapolis Star reported, officials were, quote, instructed to make ready a special train to carry companies of national guardsmen to Indianapolis for special duty. Oh my God. Got to bring in the fucking, yeah, you've got to fucking shoot people. How else is this going to end? You're going to pay people?

You've got to fucking kill them. Oh, my God. The National Guard part is just the right of passage. Then the union began making concessions. They said they would do arbitration with just workers. so Todd wouldn't have to formally recognize the union. And Todd said there's no reason to arbitrate.

The union men were moving away from the anger and violence of the first days, and they are winning, and the strategy was to keep public support on their side. A labor leader gave a speech and, quote, warned the men against drinking and urged their wives to assist them. The wives to assist them and not drinking? Wow, I love that that's a two-person operation. I'll take my left hand, you take my right. Wow.

Fuck, man. Drinking used to be really... Yeah, serious business. On Friday... Like right now, you can't hang in there and be sober? They're like, we're in day five. We better start negotiating. The men are looking to get hammered.

We don't know what to do. On Friday, a week after it began, the National Guard arrived and set up a giant cannon in front of the Capitol building. By the way, that is like a decent threat, but it's also like, you got one game. What are you doing? It's not a fucking machine gun. Then it's got to be pointed just down that one street.

There we are. All right, everybody move away from which way the cannon's pointed. Shit, they figured it out. They know how these things work. Fuck, I don't know what to do. God damn it. But they won't know when we're going to fire it. That's right.

Well, except for the big... The lighting it, yeah, that whole thing. And yelling clear. Yeah, we have to. for safety of everybody, obvious, so we can't just fire the... Other than that, they won't know. Well, and we've got to do the jammy... We've got to do the jammy dodger inside of it.

Yeah. Okay. Thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. I feel like this was... The cannon was not a good idea. It feels like a bad idea at this point. Cool. You're that guy. Cool. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool that when we were wheeling the cannon out here,

none of this came up. And now that we're out here, you're like, Oh, it's what, who... Yeah. Let me Monday morning can in it. Yeah. I guess I'm a Monday morning. Easy for you to say now.

Yeah. Okay, cool. Good for you. Money morning. Yeah, no. Okay, cool. Yeah, good idea. Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, we should just drop a fucking atomic bomb. Literally, my job is to be a money morning cannonback. Yeah. Cannonbacker. Yeah. You're the guy who came up with the slogan, let's get our can on. I have a lot of ideas. Yeah.

And by the way, that one was really good. It deserved more. I thought cannonbacking did, too. The governor, Department of Labor rep, and the union man agreed to arbitration. Okay. They just needed a boss Todd to sign on. He agreed if Thorpe would dissolve the union.

He would agree to arbitrage. That's great. There's no arbitration if the union's gone. That is no. That's good negotiation. All right. I will meet you in the middle. Get rid of everything you want.

You know, gentlemen, I think that this could all be sued. By a little snack. The workers obviously refused. Then 300 women of the Garmin workers' union barged into the governor's office, demanding he forced arbitration, and Ralston said he couldn't. Union President Edna Davis said, quote, We are willing to take up arms to help win this strike. We just wanted you to help us stop drinking.

Look, we can't ask for your help because of how our dads didn't hug us. So you need to step in. We won't ask for the help, but we need it, okay? The National Guard being deployed was bad for many things. A headline from the Richmond Palladium and Sun Telegram, quote, Wabish players on strike duty. Five members called out with militia to Indianapolis. Team is crippled.

Quakers believe it is a ruse to loll, yellow, and white to sleep. I like the Quakers popping in at the end. We haven't heard much about them. I think that's who they're playing. Oh, okay. I didn't realize that. Playing the Quakers. Or the Wabash is playing the Quakers?

No, I wasn't actually asking you. Well, you really looked like you were. I don't need you to answer. Look, that guy's mad. He's leaving. He's like, these people won't shut up. He's going to see that country guy who's playing here, whatever his name is. That guy's sweet.

Yeah, that guy does kick ass. I really open his show it's half full and he's like fucking Pacers fuck Rolston was threatened

with assassination for sending out the guard he sent 2,000 troops he did promise that quote if he lived until the next

legislature met he would do his best to have enacted legislation compelling arbitration of all labor disputes so he's coming around

yeah if he lives but he's putting out 2,000 National Guardsmen. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, he's super cool. But on Saturday, Boss Todd suddenly agreed to the initial agreement to arbitrate, which didn't destroy the union, labor representatives credited the governor for bringing both sides to the table, and the strike was over.

The agreement was simple. Regular train service would begin in 12 hours because of arbitration, which without recognized the union would begin in five days. But it did recognize a group of employees as a bargaining union. the union thought full recognition would come after. Okay, so it's a step. It's a step. Local socialists bemoaned a missed opportunity.

The workers had so... Is that just always the role of the socialists? Kind of. Just be like, we were so fucking close. Yeah, but we got Obamacare. It's pretty good. It's not good. Quit laughing like a demon with a cockbarrow.

The workers had so thoroughly won and taken over the city that the socialists thought they should have held out for more. Yeah, always. But the... It's that you're always right. Like, if you're at that point, it's like fucking push it...

Yeah, they could have gotten more. They could have gotten more. I should say that. Look, it might seem like it's too big and lofty. Just give it a chance. It keeps shoving, and eventually, maybe you'll get everything you want. You can push it through.

I'd also use a lot of loob. Yeah, what? No. What? He fucking completely ruined it. Now I'm against it. The union's main goal was arbitration, and they got it, even

if they left a lot on the table, and the public supports them. They sure did leave a lot on the table. The public still supported them. The people got on the trains, they shook the conductor's hands, quote, the greetings were almost as warm as would be expected

between friends who had been separated for much longer than a week. Can I be honest? First two days, I'm like, that's great. If that happens more than three days, I'm like, Jesus Christ, that's fucking... Are you going to shake everybody's fucking hand on this fucking thing? I'm supposed to fucking walk to work. Jesus Christ, that's fucking crazy.

Oh, my God, it's so good to see you. You're a real hero. I'd be like, all right, we're good. Let's go. Feels like we're back on strikers saying thank you so much. Keep it moving. The scabs left, quote, they were a picture as crew

nearly every one of them carried clothing under one arm or a ham under the other. Well, well, well, well, well-y-well, well, well, well-well-well-well. So, let me get this straight.

Underarm hams. Where the fuck do you think they got that idea from? Next thing you know, they're going to have potatoes and assmelons. And they're going to be making mannini's between their knees.

Count it, bitch. For three months, arbitration went on, Ms. Ethel Downey testified the Indianapolis star quote, Woman is attractive. That's a good headline. Couldn't you... Couldn't you just put that in

the story if you had to? Does that have to be a headline? I think so. Does he even talk about the case? Miss Downey, through fail modesty, dressed presented a rather attractive appearance. She was attired

neatly in a black suit, which she said cost $20, and a wealth of light hair was covered with a black hat, trimmed with black feathers, which she said belonged to her mother. Hey, what happened?

what happened when she was up there? What did she... Do you remember what she said? No, I actually didn't take any of that down. But look how beautiful she was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like I really captured, oh, I didn't put in the part about her bosom.

No, you did. We cut it. We cut it. We had to cut it. It was crazy. What about the dairy air? Yes, we put... Two watermelons, it seemed like.

You understand? And don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. If you talk about it three times, you know he appears. Did you also turn on Candyman in the hotel room? Are we doing a bit or are you being real right now? That is so fucking crazy. Woman hot as fuck said something.

Earlier today, a big old thing about something happened and a woman. with a real bodonka donk waddled all the way up into a little box where she put her hand on a book of some kind. Holy fuck was I lost in her eyes and cleave. When I asked her how much at all cost, she said $20. When I said, hey, you seem to like numbers. What's yours? She told me to get lost. Lost I didn't, as I followed her for a little while, until she met up with a fellow who was a lot bigger than me.

When she pointed me out, I said, hey, guy, I'm just a reporter. He said, oh, let me look at your notes And then he looked down at him And realized I'd just drawn her in a bikini and me With my cock on a wheelbarrow He said, what the hell's this? I said, What do you think it is? I'll do anything just to lick her legs.

He said, get the fuck out of here. He said, today she had a huge testimony. I said, a testimony, what the hell's that? All I saw was an angel without wings. That night I got drunk alone And I woke up in a pile of mud. This morning, I had to go back to my wife. Quite average, mind you.

When she asked where I'd been all night, I said, pining. She said, for who? I said, it doesn't matter. Then she went through my notes and was a real meany about it. Is it just me or are women the worst? They should be out there washing those tracks with soapy waters, if you ask me. Anyway, I look forward to doing more court reports. reporting. I think I'm pretty good at this. Ethel testified she needed money.

Well, I can help. Her husband was a motorman. Oh, gross, husband, yuck. But had tuberculosis and couldn't. Oh, wait a minute, he's going to die. And couldn't work. He can't work. He's not your husband anymore. Let's kick him in a river. She met with the company assistant superintendent and told him of men claiming to be company

spies but were working for the union. he then hired her to become a honeypot to take Thorpe to a wine cellar at a fancy hotel, get him drunk, and put him in a compromising position so that he might get arrested. Instead, she started learning about unions and their benefits.

So this is like James Bond, basically. Oh, yes, James, come with me, down here to the honeypot. I can't tell you. I was sent here. by someone else. But now that I'm here with you, you're so perfect. Walk me through these union rights again, James.

And she told Thorpe about the plan. Men went on the stand and talked about the shit wages, how they couldn't afford clothes, living at home with their parents. One said he saved money by, quote, not eating an egg within a year. The ruling came on February 11th, 1914. The company had to sort of recognize the union.

5% wage increase and a scale increasing wages over five years, much less than they wanted. All fired workers to be rehired one Sunday off a month. Part-time workers get minimum pay, a permanent arbitration committee. It sounds like they got completely fucked. Yes. But of three conservative judges who hated unions.

Good. It's like when Biden did the thing with the... Trains. Now, wait a minute. Yeah, they got fucked. Yeah, they got fucked. Yeah. Well, they didn't even, that one's even worse, because that was like,

that was, like, Biden directly was just like, no. Yeah. Like, they never had a shot. They were like, all right, we're going to do it. He's like, no. Well, he made, he made a deal with, they made a deal with the main union, giving them less than they wanted, but that meant that all the other train, smaller ones and all the other workers got fucked.

Really cool. It's also so funny because he was like the train guy. He's like, I love trains. I'm a big train guy. I love trains. Fuck you. Die. Not me.

Okay, me too. Me too. I didn't do anything, man. After Governor Ralston pushed progressive labor legislation, particularly protections for workers, which led to a successful run for him, he positioned the government as immediately. mediator, which successfully recognized striking and collective action in general as a legitimate response to poor wages and working conditions. So maybe that's the...

That is. That's the win. The strike caused public opinion and state politics to shift away from automatic support for the bosses and toward acceptances of unions as a real and often necessary part of the industrial order. They could have just got a little bit more, though. Yeah. Why did it...

I don't know. But why as a society does it keep swinging back and forth? Because they just are greedy fucks who are relentless. And they have all, and they have, they're relentless, but they also have, they control the media and they control the politician. So yeah, that's why. Yeah, but that's changing. They don't control the media anymore.

That ship's over. That's done. Written by Josh Andzrowski, the sources, The Street Car War in Indianapolis by Bruce Rogers from the International Socialist Socialist Review. Hoosier State Chronicles, Politics of Publicity, Mayor Lou Schenk, and the Power of the Press by Brock Stafford, Car Wars by Sydney L. Herring. Indianapolis News, the Indianapolis Star, the Daily Republic, and the Tribune,

the Monsey Evening Press, Fort Wayne Daily News, Princeton Daily Clarean, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the Vincent's son, and the Evansville Courier, and Press. Let me ask you this. Why'd you start to hate me halfway through the story? You're just awful. Because all I had was the food thing. There's other stuff. Is there?

Yeah. Mike. I'm a workout fiend. What? Yeah. I can juggle. You see you're a workout fiend? I know we can show you a dead body.

Okay. Now I'm listening. You want to go underwater, fall tour? No. Can we go back to the dead body part? I bet I could get you in a hot air balloon for free. What does that even mean? I can live outside for over two weeks.

Okay. Cool. I hate dogs. Are these all supposed to be things that make... I've invented a new way to dive. I can suck my toes. We're going to cut. the theater run short.

Don't do that with your nose. Don't do that with your nose. I'm looking for a new best friend. Yeah, well, yeah. That we all know. Don't do that. Stop it. Why are you so shiny?

Because I'm covered in olive oil. Take some bread and wipe it on me. Come on. Let's get filthy. This is harassment. in the best possible way. This is like being on stage with Cuomo.

I would never be alone on stage. I only do it in a room full of people. I can't trust my cock hands. All right, go Pacers. Thank you, everybody. Appreciate it.