The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
BREAKERS
 FORC|BLY MOVED Camp Is Broken Up and Men
 Shipped Away SUDDEN CHANGE OF FRONT The Authorities of Philadelphia Take Action Against Street Railway
 Company In Favor of the
 Discharged Employees.
SUDDEN CHANGE OF FRONT


 PhfIadeIphia, December 2S.-tSpe- cial.)-The ca np of 75O strike breakers installed in Willow Grove park by Jim Farley to crush the strike on the Phli- adelphia Rapid Transit companys lines. was suddenly and mysteriously broken up tonight, under orders of Farley himself and amid scenes of riot and bludgeoning. So all the men so far hustled out of the camp are piled aboard special trains rushing them to- ward New York, where Farley has or dered them turned loose
 Farley broke his camp of strike breakers to the air and accompani- ment of such brutal violence as has seldom been known, even in Pennsyl- vania. The men, recruited from the slums of half hundred cities, many of them with police records and as many more wanted by the police, preferred flight rather than return to the me- tropoHs. But at o'clock special train from Reading, armed with Far ley's picked men. drew into the famous summer resort that had been converted by the railroad into the strike breake ers' camp. Farley's agents singled out 15 of the campers, paid them off with $27 each and then ordered tn em to Brooklyn. They refused to go. At first they pleaded, declaring that re- turning to New York meant persecu- tion for some of them, and offered no hope to the others who had pinned to make their way south for tile winter at the end of the Philadelphia strike.
 But the agents of Farley brought out blackjacks and the men were literally clubbed aboard the waiting train. Those who resisted were badly beaten. The rest tumbled in, terror stricken when threatened with the revolvers of Farley's men.
 When the train had been loaded it started at once for New Yfrk. Two hours later a second section pulled into the park and a second batch was taken aboard. By II o'clock tonight only 150 of the original 750 strike breakers re- mained in camp and last special was on the way to cart hem to New York.
 Meanwhile. in the city, the authorities have finally taken action against the railroad company. Heretofore the may or, his rapid transit board and all the rest. of the administration have sided against the strikers. Tonight. how ever, such tremedous political influence was brought to bear by United Senator Penrose who is on the eve of reap pointment, and other state leaders sim ilarly menaced through their an tagonism to the unions, that Mayor John E. Reyburn issued manifesto to the Rapid Transit board. He instructed the board to reinstate all union men who have been dismissed by the Rapid Transit company because of their af- flliations with the unions.
 Heretofore, the Rapid Transit board. of which the mayor is head, had stead lastly denied that any union men had been thrown out because of their af- filiation. Today labor leaders carried their case before the goverSor of the state. President Mahon of the Amal- gamated Street Railway employees. made written demand upon the gov ernor for arbitration. Tomorrow Pres ident Gompers of the American Feder- ation of Labor will arrive in Phila- delphia to back up the labor leaders already here.