The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-06
BY Associated Press.

Philadelphia, March 5.-Disorder in
many parts of the city marked the
arst day of PhiladeIphia's great sym
pathetic strike. In nearly every Sec
lion of the city cars were attacked,
men assaulted, or strike sympathizers
.lashed with the police.
The greatest trouble experienced by
he police was in independence
IQuare, in the center of the city,
where, despite the mayors orders that
no demonstration be held, twenty-five
thousand people gathered for mons
ter demonstration of Organized labor.
Many policemen were there with Or
ders to keep the crowd moving. This
was accomplished. and it was due to
the carefulness of the police that no
outbreak occurred.
75,oco QUIT WORK.
The committee OF ten which Is con-
ducting the strike estimated tonight
that seventy-five thousand workers
struck and thirty thousand more are
affected. They predicted the number
will be greatly increased by Mon
day.
City officials claim the walk-out is
not as widespread as the labor lead
ers say. Director of Public Safety
Clay said tonight that be had a re-
port to show that not more than
twenty thousand had struck. The day
developed nothing in the street car
about a thousand cars. and the only
change noticed was the. decrease in
passengers, much of which was at
tributed to people being afraid TO
ride
OUTBREAK IN HEART OF CITY.
The worst outbreak of the day oc-
Cured in the heart of the city where
the police mobilized to make an inn
preston on the crowd and there
fierce battle occurred. No previous
disturbance of the strike was compar-
ed to this in intensity. Men and wo-
inen, felled in the onslaught of the
police. lay all about the streets and
sidewalks and scores were cut and
bruised.
During the demonstration dozens
Of cars were attacked, their win
dows smashed and the crews and pas
sengers forced to avoid missiles by
lying on the floors. The police arrest
cd four in the ranks of the disturbers,
one of whom is n woman. In several
other sections of the city the police
were forced TO charge the crowds TO
disperse them.
THE SUPREME TEST.
The general sympathetic strike. the
supreme and final effort of organized
labor TO win the fight of the trolley
men for recognition of their union, is
now in full swing.
Acting on the orders of the COM
mittee of ten of the Central Labor
union. which is directing this demon
stration of the power Of union labor,
workers in many trades have ceased
work as a protest against the re-
fusal of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Company to adjust the grievances
or the striking street car men. or
treat with the officers of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street Railway
men.
The great majority of the men in
the occupations, affected by the gen
eral had already stopped work for the
day when the order went into effect
last night. In the central part of the
city the first persons to feel Nthe eff
feet of the mandate were the users
M public hacks and taxicabs. Rid
ers in these vehicles, when the
clocks struck midnight. were politely
snformed by the drivers that it would
oe necessary TO walk the remainder
ef the way. Even the non-union
"cabbies, whether from sympathy
with the car men or fear of injury,
Withdrew from the streets. The driv
frs OF the two taxicab services in the
fifty joined the ranks of the strikers
and many persons out late were un-
ST.