Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-03-11
$4,000 BUSINESS
MEN SEEKING TO
END PHILA. STRIKE.
Demand TO Be Made for EARLY
Adjustment of Trolley
Struggle.
HOPE FOR SOLUTION BY
APPEAL TO BANKERS
Transit Company, Big Borrower,
Expected to Heed Re-
quest of Banks.

PHILADELPHIA, March 1I--An-
other effort 10 find some method by
which the struggle between the Phile-
delphia Rapid Transit Company and
the Amalganaated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees can
be ended will be made today by ths
United Business Mems Association.
This body represents thirty-two busi-
ness organizations, with 1900 menu
bers. A convention composed OF dele
gates from these trade bodies, relig1oua
and fraternal societies, as well az com
mercial and other organizations. win
meet late this afternoon to discuss tf1e
subject. The arrangements for the
meeting are in the hands of commit
tee of seven. 1t is expected strong
and representative committee will be
appointed TO take steps to bring the
two warning sides together. The meet
ing will take the ground that the gem
eral public has some rights In the pres
ent situation, and a powerful demand
quickly.
The committee Of ten which has the
general strike in charge is bending all
its efforts towards securing recruits
from the big industrial plants Men
whose occupation is to supply the
necessities of life are not being inter
feTed with, and even those engaged IA
assisting TO provide amusement for the
citizens and visitors are at their posts.
According to John J. Murphy. presi-
dent of the Central Labor Union, and
member of the committee Of ten. no
efforts will be made to have the bakers
| leave their posts, and even the union
bartenders and walters will remain at
work.
BaIdwin's Mems victory.
The big labor movement has resulted
lin the granting of certain concessions
| to workrnen in at least two Of the big
industrial plants of the city. At $hs'
Baldwin Locomotive Works, where the
sympathy strikers succeeded In bring
ing out 2,211 men, according to the COM
pany's statements, the men have been
granted a half holiday on Saturday.
General superintendent 8. M vau-
clair said today:
"a great many of the men who went
on. a little sympathy strike have al
ready come back We prefer to give
them all the time they want to cool of.
We are depending on their good sense
and Judgment to act in the right way
GAS to reports that 5000 men have
left their work that estimate is tre-
mendously exaggerated. l have before
me reports of the different shops. They
show a total of 2.2u men out, and q
great many of these were workmen we
sent home because under present con-
ditions we have no work for them"
At Cramps shipyard it was reported
that all of the thousands of workmen
were at work. This big plant has been
an open shop for years. The Cramps
management said they expected no de-
sertions Cramps men win be paid of
this afternoon. The works are picketed
by union sympathizers who hope to per-
suade a number of the workmen to
quit after they get their pay.
victory for steel workers.
The spirit of unrest has also brought
a concession to several hundred ma
chinists at the Midvale Steel Works.
ii Is said. Several thousand men are
employed at that plant, and the COM
pany has much government work on
hand in the way of ar1nor and ordinances
contracts. The machinists employed at
the Midvale plant held a meeting We'd
nesday night. and most Of them be-
came members of a newly Organizes
union and agreed to join the general
strike movement when the word was
given by the leaders.
This word is expected by the men To-
night or tomorrow. The company, ac-
, cording to one of the machinists.
learned of the move and granted the
machinists time and half-time for extra
work If the machinfsts go on strike
the move viii affect much OF the other
parts of the plant.
The strike situation so far as the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company n
concerned remains about the same.
} The company continues TO slowly In
crease the number of cars In opera
ton with the assistance of men re-
cruited In other cities. There were six
collisions of trolley cars yesterday, in
: which five persons were more or less
seriously injured.
: Among the plans which it is said will
be presented at the peace meeting will
; be an appeal to the big banks and
! bankers of the city. TO bring about .
settlement of the strike.
} It will be suggested that the bankers
| alone have the power to force a speedy
: adjustment The executive COMMITTEES
believes that If the bankers consent
3 to act the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
/ Company win have no other alternative
: than to agree to a program OF concilia-
tion, as the company is a large borrowez
. of money and would naturally heed the
I demands of the financial interests
: w. D. Mahon. national president 81
( the Garments Union. returned here TO-
) day from Newcastle, Pa. where he at.
} tended the annual convention OF the
| Pennsylvania branch of the American
Federation of Labor. Mahon said tn
State Federation viii. within . xo~
r days, issue an appeal to all labor Or.
! ganizations in the State to support tn
: Philadelphia strike.