The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-04
Employees of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Victorious in Every Point Except.
 ing the Amount of Increased Wages.
State Senator M'Nichol, Head of Repnb. lican Organization, Scented Danger to Party in Coming Primaries From Labor Leaders and Bnsied Himself With Mayor Reyburn to End Trolley Strike.
Especial from United Press.)

Philadelphia, June 4-After six days of riotfng during which scores of per sons were injured and numerous cars wrecked, the strike of the Philade1- phia Rapid Transit Conductors and Motormen was brought to a close to- day with the strikers victorious at ev- cry point, excepting that of an in- crease in wages from g to 25 cents an hour.
 Through the intervention of sena- tor James P. McNichol, Republican ferences were arranged yesterday and last night, while Strike-Leader c. O. Pratt of the National Street Mems Un- ion was racing around from mass meeting to mass meeting, Mayor Rey- burn was framing a letter to the head of the Rapid Transit Company. This letter embraced the demands of the strikers and the Rapid Transit Com pany accepted them. They are as follows:
 1.-AIl former employees shall be re- stored to their former positions
 2.-Arrangements to be made by which standard uniform adopted by the company may be purchased by employees from anyone of not less than five reputable clothiers.
 3.-Employes to form a representa- hSe body to consist of one of their number elected by majority vote from each barn which body shall in turn designate a small working com n1ittee of it's own members which shall from time to time be accorded full op- portunity to take up with the proper officers of the company any and all questions affecting the rights of em- ployes.
 4-This committee to take up at once with the management of the company, the schedules with a view of making such changes in hours and working conditions as are consistent with the proper service to the public.
 5The rate of wages beginning July 1, 1909 to be g cents an hour.
 6-TheSe conditions to continue for enc, two or three years, as may be agreed upon with said committee.
 The strikers elected delegates to a conference held to-day and it is prac- tically certain that the peace propo- sal will be agreed to and the men re- turned to work tomorrow morning. v A few more cars are running to-day but the supply is not. anything near normal. With peace in the air, the police do not look for any more ser ious rioting. M
 It was pressure from the highest po- 1itica1 sources that caused the settle ment of the strike. State Senator James McNichoI, head of the Repub- Hcan organization had notice served on him by the big labor leaders that unless the company showed desire
 
 men the combined labor vote would be cast against the organization can didates at the coming primaries This would have upset the organization slate and incidentally have precipi- tated a fight in local politics which would likely have resulted in an en- tirely new deal. McNichol then sent for Charles O. Pratt, manager of the strike and secured from him list of the points the strikers would abso- lutely insist on having granted
 A conference was then ordered for this morning thexe being present May or Reyburn, Director Clay. Senator Clarence Wolfe, General Manager Kruger of the Rapid Transit and Sen ator McNichol. President Parsons was in touch with the conference and McNiclol made it plain to him just what was wanted and he agreed to the settlement plan on behalf of the di- rectors.
 Then the matter was put directly "up to- Mayor Reyburn who issued a formal letter to President Parsons in- cluding the complete plan of settle ment which was at once replied to by the President accepting it in full. The proposition was then senteto the strik- CTS for ratification at their union meetings.
 WHY FARLEY REFUSED
 TO MIX IN STRIKE.
 Plattsburg, N. Y., June 4.-James Farley, who won national fame by be- ing the first man to perfect an effec- tive organization of strike-breakers and special police for use in crushing strikes. especially those on street railways, and whose organization has been bitterly denounced time and again by organized labor, to-day em- phatically confirmed the report that he refused to take any hand in the Phfla- delphia strike because he had investi- gated the entire affair and believed the striking car men were in the right.
 This statement of Farley created a sensation here but he insisted that he has followed that rule in the past and unless he believed a corporation was in the right he has refused to use his men to aid them.
 'I was called to Philadelphia a year ago when a similar trouble to that set tied to-day was brewing" declared Farley, "and discovered that the men were right. So when they called on me this year I told them there wasn' t anything doing. Naturally I wouA have nothing to do with aiding to break a strike where all of the justice was on the side of the men and there