New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-03
CALL BIG STRIKE
60 OUT 1T MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY NIGHT,
Philadelphia Unions VII Tie
Up City if arbitration Is
Not Granted.

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pathizers. to begin at midnight Friday
was proclaimed by the Central Labor
! Union of Philadelphia and vicinity. at a
meeting tonight.
! The strike leaders declare that one
hundred thousand men Will stop work
at that hour if the Rapid Transit Com
pany does not in tho mean time consent
to arbitratc it's differences with the
striking carmen. Assurances have been
received. they say, from hundreds of I'M
organized wage earners that they will
join the movement
The meeting at which the strike order
was promulgated was large and senti-
ment was apparently unanimous in favor
of the general strike. Speeches by John
J. Murphy. president of the Central La
Dor Union: Clarence O. Pratt, leader of
the striking carmen, and William Mahon,
president OF the International Carmen S
Association, stirred the delegates to d
high pitch of enthusiasm. Telesrams
were read from the Chicago and San
Francisco federations of labor. with
go 600 and 10000 members respective
ly, pledging their moral and financial
support to the cause of their Philadel-
phia brethren.
Resolutions were adopted condemnins
the attitude Of the traction company, by
which, it was stated, business had been
affected to such an extent that thousands
of persons not directly interested in the
strike had been thrown out of employ
ment. Councils were called upon to an
sist that Mayor Reyburn use his pre-
negative as chief executive Of the city
and Immediately serve notice the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
that it must submit to arbitration, as
the public, whom he represents, de-
mands. and that he return the police to
their regular posts of duty and to cease
using them to man the trolley cars.
In a proclamation addressed to the
trade unions of Philadelphia and their
sympathizers the grievances of the car
cited in detail.
In the ranks of organized labor" the
document proceeded, IAN injury to one is
the concern of ALL and, therefore. all
unio-- labor is directly affected by the
attitude of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Company toward its union employees.
The capitalists and the small group
of self-seeking politicians in control OF
the said company are part of a larger
group of capitalists and trust owners
who hope to crush all organized labor
by attacking and defeating it, one group
at a time.
''Thenfore it is hereby proclaimed
that the time for action has arrived. All
union workers and their sympathizers,
for the assistance of the union street.
car employees and for the ultimate pro-
lection of all union employees and the
working class, will cease work on Fri
day March 4. 1910, at Il o'clock mid
night whether or not that is their reg
ular stopping time. and remain on strike
until further notice from their duly
accredited representatives"
Leading business men from all Sec
tions of the city adopted resolutions to-
day calling upon the Rapid Transit
Company to submit to arbitration.
Copies of the resolutions will be pre-
sCnted at meeting of the Councils to-
morrow, when the councilmen Will be
called upon to demand that the company
bring the strike to an end.
Mayor Reyburn to-day said he would
maintain the position of refusing to be
d party TO any arbitration proceedings
even if it caused him to break with the
Republican organization. When he was
visited by a committee from the United
Business Mems Associa ton, composed of
leading business men from every section
Of the city, he said that potent political
leaders had already urged him to change
his attitude and urge arbitration, but
that he was going to maintain his stand
that his only duty was to maintain
peace and order.
Several associations OF employers,
whose Workmen are threatening to go
on the sympathetic strike. held meetings
to-day to discuss the situa ton. The
Master Builders Exchange. at its meet
city administration for its stand in MAIN
tanning order. and further resolved to
declare lockout if the members of the
building trades unions strike.
Director OF Public Safety Clay an
nounced to-day that he had been col
Iecting statistics as to the number of
men who would go Oh strike Saturday.
According to the reports received by the
police in q canvass made at the directors
orders, Workmen will ignore the strike
order