Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-10
Call for Meeting Goes Out.

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Call for Meeting Goes Out.
The base ball management. realizing
that the city authorities were in
earnest in the declaration that the
open-air mass meeting would not be
permitted today, decided not TO give
the strikers the use of the grounds,
unless permitted by the police depart
ment The call for a mass meeting
had gone out. however.
Trouble however. may come today
IL the police and labor leaders clash
over the proposed demonstration.
The director of public safetys De,
not be allowed to take place was based
On the declaration that ii was In con-
fict with the proclamation issued by
the mayor forbidding all gatherings on
piled that the police power could not
abolish the constitutional right OF Gnu
Gems to peaceably assemble Tor a law
full purpose
The base ball club is eniarging the
seating capacity of the park work
on the improvements vas stopped when
the general strike was inaugurated;
The MANAGEMENT asked the union lead
ers 10 permit the contractor 10 coIi,iiiu us
his work Permission was granted on
condition that the CLUB would let the
strikers use the grounds for a mass
meeting today. This was quickly agreed
to- !.
When the city authorities heard of ii
they declared the meeting would not be
permitted to go on. Counsel ior the
strikers insists that the ball park is the
same as hall, its grounds are IN
closed. and the authorities have no right
to stop the meeting.
Proselyting Non-Union Men.
ENCOURAGED by the success which met
their efforts yesterday in breaking into
the ranks of unorganized labor and per-
suading several thousand workers In this
class TO Join in the general strike move
ment, union labor leaders continued their
campaiRn TODAY to swell the army of
sympathiZing strikers.
The strike leaders declared today that
500 additional men have quit the BALDWIN
locomotive works. This, suSual, is as
puted by the superintendent of the works.
who said that only 100 failed TO report
for work today.
The success in penetrating the BALI
win works is likely to lead to cam.
paign against other large industrial
plants which are considered open
shop" places.
There was a break in the ranks Of
the union taxicab chauffeurs who went
out in sympathy. The three taxicab
companies reported today that rs out
of a total OF about 275 taxicab drivers
have returned to work. The companies
are making no attempts to fill the
places of the striking chauffeurs.
1851 Men Out, Say Strikers.
The committee of ten OF the Central
Labor Union which is conducting the
general strike has given out figures to
support its claim that between $4,000
and 10000 persons are idle. 1t is an
nounced that the total number Of men.
women, boys and girls on strike up to
last night was 1851.
The committee gave out the following
approximate figures:
Building trades. 10000: metal trades.
10000. textile trades. 10000; garment
workers. mems wear. 10000; garment
workers. women's wear, 5000.
Miscellaneous trades: Asbestos work.
ers. los: cloth hat and cap workers.
210. cigarmakers. $500: shirt waist and
laundry workers. 1000; piano movers.
ers, S4l: paviors and hammers. ASS; sus.
pender makers, I'll; electrical workers,
365: walters. 40: upholsterers. 1872:
street hackmen. 10: chauffeurs. $50:
According to the labor committee the
following unafnliated workers are on
strike: Lawn mower makers. 800;
glaziers, ITS; American Hoe and Shovel
Company, ILL., NatiOnai Cuuefy COM
pany. s.; butchers. 800: sheet metal
workers. $50; worsted weavors. loo:
stone masons. $50: laborers. $50; wood
carvers. 125: Masland Carpet Mills 400:
Germania Carpet Mills. 800: Rolling
Spring Works. 200; wallace Wilson Ho.
siery Company, 800: Baldwin Locomotive
Works, 1000: Dement, Miles 4 Co, 600:
Harrington Machine Company. Is: New
ton Machine Shop. a20; lace curtain oper-
ators. 600: Cramps shipyardA heater
boys. 150
some Of the above figures are disputed
by the city authorities and large em-
ployors. Baidwin's Locomotive Works de-
clare that only one-third the number OF
men the union claims are on strike quit
work yesterday.