Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-09
By Alleged Sirikebresk-
ers at Philadelphia.
Reta|iate for Stone Thrown by
Firing al The Crowd.
Strikers Still Claim l25,00O...
Authorities Say Much Less.

Philadelphia. March Six persons,
including young girl, We're wounded
tonight by bullets fired by party Of
alleged strikebrealSers. who rode wild
~ up and down Frankfort avenue III
a trolley car and shot into the crowds
that lined the sidewalks.
After one OF the most uneVrntful
DAYS since tie beginning of the trike.
the stoning of cars was renewed to-
night along Frankford avenue, the
principal thoroughfare in the mill dis
triCt in the northeast.
A stone thrown by one of the crowd
injured a strikebreaking motorman.
Infatuated at this, a crowd OF about
Is of his comrades. took out q car all
of the windows of which they broke
with their clubs. AS the car loaded
with armed strikebreakers, sped down
Frankfort avenue bullets We're rained
at the jeering crowd
Policeman Bragg, who was standing
on tie sidewalk received d bullet in
his helmet about an inch above ms
head. Helen Nav, IA years old. was
struck in the leg by bullet. John
Maloney. Is years old and Michael
Osborn "a, were also shot in the legs
ard Frank Bromily, %, received
bullet in his foot These wounded were
removed to the Frankford hospital.
Two other injured We're taken to their
homes
After reaching Allegheny avenue the
car was switched to the northbound
track by its crew and the dash back
to the barn began. SO swiftly was II
driven that before the crowd realized
that it was coming back it had sped
past them and into the barn again.
The shooting of inoffensive bystand
ers worked the crowd to a high pitch
of excitement and as other cars came
down the street the mob wrecked them,
in several instances leaving only the
trucks on the rails. About a dozen
arrests were made. There were q few
minor outbreaks in the downtown dis
trict late tonight. Both the police and
the labor leaders busted themselves
all day preparing statistics to support
their widely divergent claims of the
strength of the sympathetic strike.
The labor leaders. after receiving
reports from the secretaries of many
local unions. reiterated their claim Of
125,000 on strike and say that many
additional recruits will leave work to-
morrow, when a detailed list of the
number affected in each branch of in
dustry will be made public.
Director of Public Safety CLAW on
the other hand stated tonight that a
re-canvass of the city's industrial es-
adjustments made today. shows that
While 1900 workers walked out today.
$500 strikers returned to work.
Leading manufacturers of hosiery
met today and decided to shut down
thelr plants, employing 10000 workers.
until Monday. The employers stated
that the hundred "Boarders" who are
IN the sympathetic strike made this
step necessary
Inc report from Cincinnati that the To-
cal brewery workers might be ordered out
IN the sympathetic strike ha>. apparently
been discounted by the local brewing in
terests. The Philadelphia Brewers Asso
citation, including the leading en,nlovjno
brewers, issued statement signed bv
PRESIDENT Augustus B. Woebken in which
confidence was expressed that the work.
men would stick to their Jobs. p,
one interesting development in connec-
ton with the strike was the appeal by
officials of the Philadelphia National
League Baseball Club to strike leaders
late today. The baseball interests asked
that the union men who have been worx-
ing on the ball park improvements be
permitted to continue and complete the
work. Unless the entire work is finished
by April Is, the date of opening of the