The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-10
Unorganized Labor Added
Many sympathizers to the
Philadelphia Strike
CLASH NAY CONE OVER BIG LABOR
Meeting AT BASEBALL PARK
Police Claim the Meeting will Be I'm.
lawful and That They Have the
Power 10 Suppress It-StrIkers De.
ny the Right to Do So.

Philadelphia, March 10-Encouraged
by the success which has met their ef-
forts at breaking into the ranks of
unorganized labor and persuading sew
eral thousand workers in this city to
Join the genera. strike movement, the
union labor leaders continued the
campaign today to swell the army of
sympathizing strikers. Baldwin's To-
comotive works where 1000 men quit
yesterday, and which was considered
almost impregnable against the at
tacks Of unionism, was again the OBJ
ject of much attention, the labor lead
ers hoping to add to the ranks Of the
idle men before the close Of the day.
The success in penetrating the Bald
wins work is likely to lead to moves
against other large industrial plants
that are considere :. "open shop"
places.
The Central Labor union commit
tee Of ten which is condusting the
general strike. has given out figures
to support the assertion that between
l25.0O0 and 10000 persons are idle.
The exact total number Of men, wo-
men, boys and girls on strike up to
last night as figured by the committee
was 1851.
Aided by the recruits obtained from
many cities, the Transit company to-
day operated more cars, than on any
day. since the strike was declared. The
. few attacks made on the new crews
were not serious during the early
hours and were confined to the outly-
ing sections of the city.
Trouble came today when the po-
lice and labor leaders clashed over
the proposed demonstration Of the
strike sympathizers on the grounds
OF the Philadelphia National league
baseball club. To the decision Of the
director of public safety that the pro-
posed Getting would not be allowed
to take place and that the gathering
was in conflict with the proclamation
issued by the mayor forbiddtng all
gatherings on the streets, the strik-
3rs' attorney replied that the police
bower could not abolish the constitu-
tional rights of the citizens to peace
fully assemble for a lawful purpose.
The baseball club is charging the
seating capacity of the park and the
ck~
general strike began. The manage
ment asked the union leaders to per-
nit the contractor to continue mis-
work. and permission was granted on
the condition that the club would let
the strike rs use the grounds for the
mass meeting today. This was quick
ly agreed to, but when the city au-
thorities heard of it they declared the
meeting would not be permitted.
State Wide Strike.
New Castle, Pa, March 10.-The
committee of nine appointed yester-
tay to devise means for carrying in
to effect the resolution calling for q
general state, and possibly, country
wide labor strike, in the event that
arbitration fails in the labor situation
at Philadelphia, reported to the state
convention of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor in session here
today. President Greenwalt Of the
state organization was employed by
the committee with the right to call
upon the president, United States
Senators Penrose and Oliver and Gov
ernor Stuart to use their best efforts
TO compel an arbitration of the Phfla-
delphia carmen strike questions with
in ten days. The committee further
stated that they had issued the re-
quest to all the state local union Or
ganizations to call special sessions to
vote on the question of state wide
strike within fifteen days and report
the results by wire to President
Greenwalt. Upon the result of such q
vote, a general state wide strike will
depend, according to the committee.
The convention unanimously adopted
the committees report.
A march on the city hall by sev-
eral thousand strikers and their SYM
pathizers, for the time being. por-
tended serious trouble. but was zrok-
en- up by the prompt action OF the po-
lice before the crowd got anywhere
near the great municipal building.
Starting at the Philadelphia National
lelalgue baseball grounds. two and a
half miles north of the city hall,
where the mass meeting of the strik-
ers was to have been held, but was
prohibited by the police, the crowd
moved down Broad street and met the
line of policemen cae mile from the
center OF the city and partly broken
up. Half mile further down anoth-
er line of policemen completed what
the first line had started to do. Dur
Sng tho march. many men In the