Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-17
EXTENDING GENERAL STRIKE
Pennsylvania Federation Calls fol
Vote on General Suspension.
CONFERENCE AvA1Ls NOTHING
There Is Little Change in Situation
Company Says More Cars Are
Running and CITY 10
Quiet.

PHILADELPHIA, March 16-Despairing
Of making further progress toward a set
Element OF the street Garments strike
through conferences with George H. Earle
one Of the city's representatives or the
board OF directors Of the Transit ompany
the committee Of ten today renewed its
efforts to make a general strike more ef
~fective..
Carrying out the action taken by the
State Federation Of Labor at its conven-
ton at Newcastle last week, State Presi-
dent E. L. Greepawalt has sent out a car
for a vote on a statewide strike.
The transit ~company's representatives
say. they are constantly increasing the
number Of cars in operation and that many
Of the old men would have returned to
work today had It not been for the reports
that a settlement was in sight.
There has been no. disorder for several
days and more cars are running today
than at any time since the strike began.
The company has announced. that men
with good records can still return, and,
although they will be permitted to retain
union memberships, they will not be al
lowed to wear the big buttons which
marked the union men before the strike.
President Mahon has returned to his
home IN Detroit, but is expected to return
to this city on Friday.
Woman Killed ny Car.
The company maintains it's service is
growing better daily. More cars were
operated yesterday than any day since the
strike began. There we're a number OF &C
cidents, however, In one Of which an I'M
Identified woman was struck by a car and
instantly killed.
Officials Of the Transit company ex-
pressed their displeasure at Director Earle
for placing President Kruger In a position
OF treating with the striking motormen and
conductors. A. representative Of the com
pany declaTedi
"If there was any chance-and there
really appeared to be a good one yester-
day-of clearing up this situation and end
ing this strike by tomorrow night, it has
been totally killed by the action OF George
H. Earle and Edward Lowber Stokes"
William H. shelmerdine. a member of the
Rapid Transit directorate said:
"Mr. Earle has placed the board in a
very embarrassing position, Mr.. Kruger
attended the conference under a misap-
prehension. Had he understood the reason
for the call to Mr.. Earle's office and had
he known whom he was to meet there, he
would not have gone"
Pittsbure for Sympathetic Movement.
PITTSBURG, March 15.-According TO IN
official poll OF the votes cast by the mem
bers Of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees, en-
ployed on the surface lines OF the COM
pany in this city made today on the sup
port for the striking carmen In Philadel-
phia the vote favored a sympathetic move
ment.
Gotham Council ASSai1s QuRkers.
NEW YORK, March l5.-Philadelphia's
city administration was assRiled In a reso-
luton offered in the Board OF Aldermen
today and referred to the COMMITTEES on
laws and legislation. The resolution recites
in part:
There exists in the city of Philadelphia
a condition which amounts TO the oppres-
( sion OF citizens by city officials who APP
pear to be supporting a great corporation
in a fight against the working masses;
therefore, be 1t
Resolved. That the Board Of Aldermen
Of the city OF New York hereby expresses
lis disapproVal OF conditions existing in
philadelphia and deplores the situation in
which the citizens and daily toilers of that
city find themselves.