Evening star., 1909-06-02
Strike Situation in Philadelphia
Free of Violence.
E'BREAKERS" REACH CITY
Transit Company Imports Many Men
From New York.
LESS THAN 700 CARS IN USE
Director of Public Safety Rescinds
Order That Kept Saloons
Closed at Night.

| PHILADELPHIA, June c-Strenuous
| efforts are being made this afternoon
| by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany to break the strike of its con-
ductors and motormen Shortly before
| . o'clock 400 strikebreakers from New
car barns. and it is said 200 of them
| will be put to work operating cars
| later in the day. The company at .
o'clock is operating more cars than at
the same hour yesterday. but the serv-
ice is badly crippled less than 700 out
of a total of $500 cars owned by the
company being on the streets at that
hour.
There has been little or no disorder.
At the entrance to the Philadelphia
navy yard crowd attacked a car in
which several yard workmen were rid
| ing, but was quickly dispersed. A po-
| liceman discharged his revolver in the
air No one was injured.
Seem Far Apart.
| In spite of the fact that peace organi-
| cation has offered it's services arbiter
| and the business men Of the city are
arbitration, the striking car men and the
| traction company seem farther apart
| than ever
Strike Director Pratt and President
h1- Jao1 af Jv,fa ior,o II
Brotherhood of Stationary F'iremep de-
clare that they can bring out the elevated
| men and the power house men whenever
| the action of the company makes such a
tactical move desirable. These men held
mass meetings from > O'Clock this MORN
ing until daylight.
The companys latest stand is that it
positively will not consider arbitration
involving recognition of the union.
A three-alarm fire occurred in the Bene-
fetal Savings Fund building at the cor
ner of 10Th and Chestnut streets at 5
O'Clock this morning. 1t burned for two
hours. From to o'clock lines of hose
streets, and in that time a sis-le car
was stalled on 18th street, and no cars
appeared on Chestnut street, although
that is main artery of traffic. The
company claims that more cars left the
barns this morning than yesterday, and
through the day the number steadily in
crea sed.
On the York road a strikebreaker lost
control of his car and d passenger stop
ped it by using the airbrakes after it had
crashed into a wagon driven by James
Brown Of the Feln Lumber Company,
killing one of the horses.
Critical Struggle Thursday.
| The strike it is expected will settle
down to a critical struggle Thursday.
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Labor Union plans to bring out his
| men in force in street parade Tor
| which, he says, he will ask no permit
Of Mayor Reyburn, as he is disgusted
with his handling of the situation.
I'VE need a new mayor" is the slo-
gan of the strikers, and it is replacing
their I'VE walk cards as hat decora-
tions.
An offer OF bribe of $1,000 to call
off the strike in Willow Grove barn is
declared by Conductor G. c. Bachman n
to have been made to him. Bachman re-
ported the matter to Pratt. who is
sued statement in which he added
that he himself knew people here who
would pay him $4,000 to get out of
town.
Pratt issued general challenge TO
all comers to debate the issues in
vOlved, under any auspices In any hall.
and leave the decision as to the justice
Thinks Strike Almost Over.
Declaring that in his opinion the strike
is about over. Henry Clay. director of
public safety, this afternoon rescinded the
order that has kept the saloons closed
from I pm. to am. each night since the
strike began The directors action fol-
lowed the declaration of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit officials that they would
soon be able to restore normal service,
and was made in the face Of the evident
intention of the strike leaders to call out
the men at the power houses in order to
paralze the entire trolley system
However, confident the transit chiefs
may feel that they have the situation
we'll in hand. they are still importing
| strikebreakers, 100 of whom arrived from
New York this afternoon.
They detrained at Frankford and were
taken to the car barns in closed cars un-
der heavy police escort. They were hoot-
them by strike sympathizers along the
route.
Report of Smallpox Denied.
4 report circulated around the Add
street and Lancaster avenue car barn
| that two cases of smallpox had developed
| last night among the men brought here
| to take the place of the striking men is
denied by the board of health.
The three hundred strikebreakers
brought here from New York last night
are being uniformed and assigned to cars
today at the barns. AS fast as the men
are equipped at the Lancaster avenue
barn they are sent to the other barns
under police escort.
TIE-UP IN PITTSFIELD.