The San Francisco call., 1910-03-11
POLICE CHARGE
STRIKERS BIG
OPEN MEETING
Great Demonstration of Union
Men in Philadelphia Is
Broken Up
Sympathetic WaIkOut Draws
500 More Men From
Baldwin Works

Ddl0NlI WUIkS
PHILADELPHIA. March Io.-PoIice
with clubs today blocked the plan of
tile striking carmen to make the CEN
ter OF the city the scene of a big dem
onstration.
The police used high handed meth
ods" and brutal, unwarranted force"
The strike leaders claim in statements
issued tonight With no more force
Than was necessary TO check in its in
cipiency what might have been Sc
rious disturbance of the peace" the
authorities assert.
March on the city hall" is a slogan
at has been heard before in disturb
.lnces here. Suspecting that the crowd
Of 10000 or more who had been pre-
vented from holding an open air meet
ing in the National league ball park
would take up the indicated line of
march today, the authorities took
measures to prevent the invasion of
tie city's central districts by what ii
was feared might prove a turbulent
mob.
POLICE CHECK MARCHERS
Lines Of police. with active clubs.
partially checked the marchers on their
way down Broad street more than two
miles from the objective point. mile
farther down they broke up the parade
altogether. Half a dozen persons were
injured in the onslaught and a sue
cessjon Of arrests We're made.
Crowds of unwonted proportions
thrOneed the spaces about the city hall
until nightfall. but there was no or
gauized demonstration.
Tonight at meetings of workingmen
in various parts OF the city and in
statements by the strike leaders Incl
dents Of the afternoon were used
arguments TO convince men who are
still sticking TO their jobs that the
time had come for all workingmen to
stand together.
CARS ARE STONED
There were few scattered points
where disturbances of minor character
broke out today.
Flying stones broke windows in a
number OF cars. More cars were oper-
ated than on any other day since the
strike began-1.140 the company re-
ported-or 80 in excess of yesterdays
high necord.
AT Broad street and Columbia ave-
nue. a car was assaulted with bricks
and other missiles. The policeman on
the car drew his revolver and mo-
ment later was struck with a brick
lie was sent to a hospital
Five newspaper reporters who came
down Broad street in an automobile at
the head OF the crowd were placed un-
der arrest They have been travelling
with Pratt since the strike. and the
assistant chief OF police took away
rie-r credentials and detained them in
room in the city hall pending dis
position Of their cases.
spread Of the general strike over the
whole state is still considered a dis
Il =
nessmen of the city viii make A new
attempt 10 bring about a setter~ut
The strikers gained today through
accessions from The Baldwin locSuiot.,
works OF upward OF 500 men. on the
other hand. various manufacturers re-
ported the return 10 work of many
hands who had gone out. An obvious
detection from the strikers ranks was
that ~ 100 taXicab chauffeurs. Scores
of ca3s we're actively in service today
and tonight.
GROIN iss GOOD TEMPERED
in rte business section tonight the
good temper OF the crowds was favor
ably commented upon. THE general
run OF tne sympathetic strikers" said
businessman, have no grievances of
their own and are evidently not dis
posed 10 push things to extremes"
The committee of ten estimates the
number who gathered for the meeting
at the ball park at $4,000 and declares
that the police rode into these crowds
and inflicted injury upon peaceable
citizens without cause.
OF the general situation the COM
mittee in q formal statement said:
The general strike of labor in
Philadelphia has just begun. We are
receiving hourly assurances from hun
dreds and thousands of men and
women that they will throw down their
tools and join in the strike"
For the first time since the strike
was declared the process of injunction
was invoked tonight Curiously enough.
the Injunction was not an outgrowth
of the present strike.
1t was obtained originally by J. r.
Keim g. Co, worsted manufacturers
during the labor troubles a year ago
The formal writ of Injunction. how
ever. was not served at the time, the
trouble having subsided. Today the
firm. complaining that its satisfied
lands were being interfered with by
pickets and agents of the cloth weay-
ers union, obtained copies of the old
injunction for immediate service upon
all concerned with the present troubles
at its mill.
The stock Of the Philadelphia rapid
transit company which was selling at
IS on February 2s, the day the strike
Of its carmen began, broke nearly 81
4 share today. Inc STOCK is par $50
with that amount paid in and today's
price is the lowest in years.
Miners on Strike
GREENSBURG. Pa. March l0.-Three
thousand miners in eight mines of the
Irwin fields Of Westmoreland county
struck today. and the union leaders say
that 900 will be out by tomorrow
The strike followed the organizing of
the miners in this section, which has
heretofore been nonunion, and is for
recognition of the union.
Upon request of local miners or
eanizers Of the united mine workers of
America came to the Irwin fields and
organized the men, who now refuse to
work with nonunion men. The dis
charge Of IS men, officials of the new
local precipitated the walkout.
At the keystone coal company's mines
at Carbon today John Strasser, nom
union miner, was shot in a quarrel be-
tween union and nonunion men.
Arbitration Is Urged