Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-11
PHILADELPHIA STRIKE.
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for a few minutes but the ponce sooi'
had the upper hand and turned a great
part of the crowd into the side streets.
One square below the Boys High school
the remnant of the parade was practicai-
~, broken an Less than a hundred reach
ed City hall, which was apparently the
objective point of the mob
The five reporters arrested were chars-
ed with melting to riot. After d nearing
before a City hall magistrate they were
each held in 5000 bail for furtner near
ing next week. Bail was furnlsheo by
the owners of the newspapers employing
them.
The Committee of Ten of the LABOR
union. which is conducting the general
strike, has given out figures TO support
it's claim that between 125,Voo ana ioo'ooo
persons are idle. 1t announced that the
total number of men, women, boys an"
girls on strike to last night was l"95d.
The figure was said by the leaders to be
divided as follows:
Ruilding trades 10000, metal trades 20,u"o,
taytila trades 10000, garment workers TO-
nO0 miscellaneous trades 1899, unaffiiated
v,or,,ars DC 126. The latter figure included
on estimate of 600O employees of the Bald
win Locomotive Works. Some of the fig
ures arc. disputed by the city authorities
and large employers. BaldWins Locohlo-
tive Works declare that only 1000 men
quit work yesterday
Tho leaders of the strikers tonight
denounced with warmth what they de-
cIared was the brutal and tyrannous'
conduct of the police in preventing the
meeting at the ball park and breaking
up the Broad street march. In us
formal statement, the Committee of
Ten. declared that there was no war
rant for interference with the move
ments OF the thousands of orderly men
and women gathering for the meeting.
They estimated the number VINO
congregated for the meeting at $4,000
and declare that the police rode into
these crowds and inflicted injury upon
peaceable citizens without just cause.
The action of the authorities, the COM
mittee predicted would have the effect
'of "cementing the forces of the work.
ngmen not only of this city but of
the whole country"
The statement insists that the re-
sponsibility is not upon the police
alone but upon the heads of the city
government behind them and upon the
officials of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Co, who refuse to grant arbi-
tration.
Of the general situation, the COM
mittee said:
The general strike or labor in
Philadelphia has just begun. We are
hourly receiving assurances from hun
dredS and thousands of men and Wo-
men that they will throw down their
tools and join in the strike"
Asked what effect this afternoons
incident would have on the statewide
strike, c. O. Pratt. the Garments lead
er, said:
1T cannot help but advance the idea
and crystaiZe the sentiment regard
ing 1t. Are you personally in favor
Of a statewide striker he was asked
only IS q last resort was the reply"
we do not favor strikes and only cali
them only when compelled to do So"
For the first time since the strike
was declared the process of Injunction
was invoked today. Curiously enough,
the injunction was not an outgroWth
IF the present strike movement. Tt
was obtaired originally by J. Il. Keim
& Co, worsted manufacturers. during
troubles Il year ago. The formal writ
Of injunction. however, was not served
at the time, the trouble having quietly
SuDSided. Today the firm complain-
ing that its satisfied hands were be-
ing lnterfered with by pickets and
agents OF the Cloth Weavers' Union.
oplalned copies of the old Injunction
for immediate service upon all con-
cerned with the present troubles at
the firms mill
Ihe action of the union chaulfeurs WAS
taken, they said, because after consider
alton they felt they would promote tho
cause OF the striking carmen more bv
hauilnS passengers than by remaining on
strike. In communication to the Conn
ihlttee OF Ten the chauffeurs expressed
'heir continued sympathy with the car
mems cause.
several accidents occurred TODAY 70 cars
OF the Philadelphia Rapid Transit O. Tho
most serious was caused bv a collision
between Leigh avenue car with an nth
street car f, w. Tannehill. aged 4.
years. OF St Louis. motorman had his
leg and ankle crushed and an artery in
MS temple severed. Bert Frantz. the no.
hce>nan guarding the car. had his arm
broken and was injured internally Tbera
were no passengers on either car.