The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-08
PHILADELPHIA WAR
WITH LABOR GOES ON
Day Is One of Comparative Quiet
With Only Single Seri-
Gus Riot. !
CONFLICTING CLAIMS AS
TO NUMBER ON STRIKE
Police Say Less Than 10000;
Labor Leaders Declare
More Than 100000.

PHILADELPHIA. March III thC
computation OF the Philadelphia pollc'
department is correct-and the official:
and complete canvass of the city-les!
than 10000 workmen have respon"e,
to the call for q general strike,
Tonight Director of Public Safety
Henry Clay issued the first detailed
statement purporting to show. the eX
tent to which the sympathetic strike
in support of the striking conductors
and motormen of the PhIladelphia
Rapid Transit company has affected the
industrial life of the city.
1t came at the close of the first full
working day under the general strike
order, which became effective Friday
at midnight.
Police Say All Quiet.
The day was the auietest since the
calling of the general strike. Tonight
there was absolute quiet up to late
hour, according to police reports, and
every indication that the night would
pass without serious outbreaks.
Mayor Rcyburn late today said that
the sympathetic strike was over so far
as the city administration was con
cerned, adding that the aftermath could
safely be left 20 the police to handle.
Word that the order for federal troops
had been Cancelled indicated that the
authorities believed the worst of the
trouble was over.
The transit conditions, TO every ap-
pearance. showed continued improve
ment today and tonight. There was
less necessity for the presence of the
police on the cars and even timjd peo-
pie are beginning TO show DISPOSE
tion to ride.
The police made a careful canvass
today Of the city's industries to ascer-
tain the number of men on strike, The
returns tabulated by Director Clay
showed that lS,i07 persons had re-
spondcd to the general strike call.
The police did not attempt to explain
the, discrepancy between, these figures
and those of labor leaders. who say
100000 or 10000 men are on strike.
The labor leaders scoffed at the po-
lice figures.
According to the police. establish
ments affected by the sympathetic
strike employ 54,954 hands. There are
121 $50 employees in other establish.
ments not affected by the strike, and
this gives, by the police figures, total
of l76,l93 employees, of which only 49,
407 are out.
Many have quit work. it is declared,
not from sympathy for the car men,
but because they have been forced by
the action of certain branches of their
trades.
For instance, it is said. at carpet
mill 300 dyers quit work, and this COM
PEELED the closing of the plant and the
enforced idleness of $500 other en-
ployes.
The commandant of the Philadelphia
navy yard today issued an order for
bidding leave of absence 20 men on any
vessels at the yard during the strike
troubles.
Big Mass Meeting.
-Four thousand men and women at
tended a mass meeting OF the strikers
in the Labor Lyccum.
The city administration was bitterly
denounced for its attitude. and the
speakers were especially vehement IN
criticising the employment of negro
policemen
One of them declared: "Our rulers
have put a club into the black man IS
hand with which to club out the white
man s brains -
Luella NJ, Twining, woman organ
izer Of the Western Federation of
Miners, was one of the speakers. Her
praise OF Eugene V. Debs and the So
clallstic movement aroused enthusiasm
John NJ, Wall, an official of the Mas
sachusetts Central Labor union. assured
would receive financial support from
hls state. Resolutions calling upon
every man. woman and child in Phila.
delphia to quit work were adopted with
cheers.
AS the crowds were leaving the hall
there was grave outbreak of dis
order. Several cars were stoned in
front of the place The police charged
the crowd, which was so dense that it
dispersed slowly.
The bluecoats swung their clubs. fell
ing several persons to the ground, three
of whom were so seriously beaten that
they were taken to a hospital,
When the policemen fired their re-
volvers several times in the air, the
people scattered in all directions. Six
arrests were made.
The board of directors of the United
Business Men g association appointed
committee of seven to call a confer
ence of the banking, commercial and
trade bodies, business associations and
religious and fraternal organizations TO
bring about a settlement of the strike.
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