New-York tribune., 1910-03-07

company. w. D. Mahon. International
president of the carmen's union, made
the following statement:
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit COM
pany, in making public through President
Krrcer kilograms from associations OF
manufacturers and employers all over
the country approving the stand OF the
company against arbitration and offering
assistance in its fight against organized
Iabor, discloses the real issue i'm this con-
test The preseptation of these tele-
grams was no surprise to me. | am
Somewhat surprised. however, that the
allied interests are so willing publicly TO
show their hand.
The Rapid Transit Company, with its
allied interests. has declared a SYM
pathetic strike of capital against labor.
That is what those kilograms mean.
The Carmen's union did not go on strike
It's members were locked out as the re-
suit of we'll laid plan TO crush labor IN
this city.
1t is an industrial fight now The
workingman finds capital and corporate
interests arrayed against him, and the
first battle-ground in a great struggle
has been pitched in this city. where the
interests think they are strongest and
their opponents weakest. Those tele-
grams are call to labor. organized and
unorganiZed. to band together and fight
means the upIift of the workingman, and
therefore the uplift of humanity. De-
feat means the accomplishment OF the
first step in a widespread plan to crush
labor.
The answer to the Rapid Transit
Company's kilograms will come from or
ganized labor of the country.
Timothy Healy. National Organizer of
the Stationary Firemen's Union. has ap-
parently failed in his promise of sup
rort to the streetcar strikers. He pro-
claimed last week that AT moment 5
notice he could entirely cripple the tran
sit company by calling out every en-
ploye of the power houses. Thus far he
has made no show of carrying out his
promise Twenty~two men walked out
of the power plant at ID street and
Wyoming avenue. according to the
strikers claims. but this was the only
report Of such an occurrence. The COM
pany denied that the men had struck
there saying that they did not attempt
to operate cars over the lines it feeds be
cause of the street disorders which
threatened. The strikers declare they
will he a BILE to tie up the power plants
by tomorrow ar the latest.
It is stated that none of the leading
theatres will close as a result Of the
sympathetic strike Some of their stag
hands will quit. but arrangements have
been made to fill their places
Edna Adams, nine years old. had one
leg cur off and her skull fractured at
Kensington avenue and Tioga street
this afternoon. when she was struck by
a swiftly moving car.
In the Italian colony. in the southern
section of the city. the crowd became so
dense about 6 o'clock in the evening that
the police from the four nearby district
station houses were unable TO handle the
situation. A riot call brought four
automobiles laden with reserves from
the City Hall The policemen. by a lib
eral use of their clubs, managed to clear
the streets after a number of arrests
had been made.
Other disturbances were reported on
Lehigh avenue. between 10Th and 21st
streets, in the northern section, where
several cars were stoned. and at Sd and
Dauphin streets, in the northeast.
George Costello, fifty-two years old.
was shot in the back, but not danger
ously injured, at Doth street and Le-
high avenue during Il disturbance at that
point.