The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-07
A Girl Is Fatally Wounded and Two Others
Injured During the Disturbance.
DARKNESS BRINGS ON VIOLENCE IN PHILADELPHIA
Police Are Kept Constant Duty and Reserve Forces Are
Sleeping and Eating at Headquarters BE in Readiness
TO Answer Riot Calls at Any Momcnt---Situ
ton is Extremely Serious.

little holiday and they win b. found
at work tomorrow morning He in
stanccd the bricklnyers. who. he says,
today voted To- 20 back
Among the large employers Of labor
not affected hy the strike are the
Baldwin locomotive works. ii 900
men: Midvale steel work. 5000. ]. q.
Iirill Car company. $500. j. u. Stetson
Hat Manufacturing company. 1000.
Disston's saw works $500. Atlantic
Refining company 5000. Dobson's
carpet mills. 200 Other large en-.
Y ploynrs of labor unaffected are the
EEL Telephone company. the Phlla-
delphia Electric company. Cramps
shipyard. the Wilbur Chocolate com
pany Folwe'l brothers & co. and the
san oucrt SILK Manufacturing COM
I pany. Among the concerns whose men
walked out are the Iiarwick a Magce
Textile company. IL o00 the American
Lace company. 500: J. Blood 4 Co
hosiery, $50. Doran Brother. textile.
80
Well Pleased.
4 Assistant Superintendent of Police
oLeary who has been practically in
charge Of the police since the strike
began. was pleased today at the sit,,n-
tioi. This has been the quietest day
since the strike began" he declared.
! The sympathetic strike was the best
thing that could have happened from
police point of view. The ayeraae
working man who at first assisted
the striking car men. hesitated when
the strike reached his own home. Tho
Philadelphia working man is n law
abiding citizen. In nearly every case
he either owns his little home or has
an equity in 1t. When II comes to such
a man. striking out OF sympathy for n
lot of unskillcd laborers he hesitatcd
] ana The result IN the fizZle of yestcr-
! day
The firm stand taken by Mayor
Hepburn In npholding the police has
mad much to do with keeping down
+ the lawlessness. Orders have been
! obeSed implicitly and with alacrIty We
nave maintained throughout the city
- flying snnndrons' or emcrgoncy
stations with 80 or mofo policemen
al each and sufficient automobiles to
+ carry them to the scene of DISORDER I'm
any part of the city or its $50 miles
+ or trolley tTckage I'm less than five
minutes. Thus before n disturbance
/ mas time 10 grow To the proportions
+ of a riot we have the men on the scene
+ 10 break 1t up.
THE rapid action of the district
attorneys office and the courts and
E the severe sentence imposed upon
rioters aided materially in tho prescr
yatiol of order"
War Footing.
The police heads have been on duty
day and night since the strike began.
10 days ago. all of them eating and
sleeping In the city hall In addition
hundreds of cots have been placed in
/ the big building for the use OF police
men kept for riot calls and all these
have been fod from nearby restaurants.
The eitS hall has been practically on
/ Il war footing since the car mems
strike started IL was stated by n city
official thar the strike Is adding $50, 900
a day 10 the expense OF running the
city. representative Of the transit
company said that up 10 yesterday,
the beginning Of the third week OF
the strike. the total cost To the COM
pany had been between s750,0OD and
100000. Asked how long the COM
pany could stand the expense. he said:
That is less than Sl.0O0,0no The
company Is ready and willing 10 spend
several millions, II necessary, 70 win
out in this fight It Is a huge price
20 pay, but we have 10 pay il To re-
i tain the privilege of running the COM
pany and managing the property for
the stockholders and the public"
Regarding the letters and kilograms
commencing It's stand received from
employers Of labor in all portions OF
the country, made public by the Rapid
Transit company. W. d Mahon. inter-
national president of the ear mons
union made this statement;
Real Issue.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit
company in making public, through
President Kruger, kilograms from as
soclations of manufacturers and em-
ployers all over the country approving
the stand of the capital against arbi-
tration and offering assistance in its
fight against organized labor. disclose
the real issue in this contest The
presentation Of these kilograms was
no surprise 10 me. | am somewhat
surprised however that the allied in
terests are SO willing publicly 10 show
their hand. The Rapid Transit COM
pany with its allied interests has de-
clared a sympathetic strike of capital
against labor This is what these tole-
grams mean. The ear mems union did
not go on strike. Its members were
locked out as the result of we'll laid
plan 10 crush labor in this city.
Great Struggle.
THE working man finds capital and
corporate interests arrayed against