Evening journal., 1910-03-09
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in closing down their plants until next
Monday thus throwing $4,000 hosiery
workers out OF employment because
several hundred union workers had
gone out and the threat of dozens Of
big employers who hire union laborers
TO declare the ''open shop in all
branches of their trade, the city au-
thorities declare have much to do with
breaking up the general strike and
forcing the sympathetic strikers to re-
turn 70 work.
In scores of plants where the unions
are recognized, there exist contracts
between the union men and the en-
ployers which provide that there shall
be no strike until arbitration has been
resorted TO. The men who obeyed the
call TO the general strike violated this
contract agreement, the manufactur-
ers declare In retaliation, the manu-
facturers are threatening 70 declare
the open shop" unless their employees
return TO work Many unions declare
they see the logic Of the manufac-
turers' stand and IL cannot be denied
that many Of the men are going back
to work.
Inc AtllOHE Vi lilt soidAt n NAtA dAlRAi
of Labor at New Castle. today were
being watched with great interest
from Philadelphia. 1t was the belief
expressed i'm many quarters here that
tho Federation would pass resolutions
OF sympathy for the Philadelphia
strikers but few believed it would go
TO the point Of issuing call for a
state wide strike.
The officials Of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company declare to-day they ran
1876 cars yesterday and collected nearly
900 900 fares, the largest day since the In
auguration Of the strike. These figures
are denied by c. o. Pratt the national or
ganizer OF the car men, In charge of the
strike, who declares only 635 cars We're
run. This, even strikers concede is big
advance. Cars We're run yesterday for the
first time to the League Island Navy
Yard. at the request Of the navy yard Of
hcials.
Brewery Employees at Work.
The 1000 brewery workers in Philadel-
phla arc stll at work and in a formal
statement declare they will not go out un-
less they are requested TO do so by the
Amalgamated Association Of Street and
Electric Railway Employees and by the
executive committee Of the American
Federation OF Labor. Even then, they de-
clare they cannot go out until ordered tc
do so by their own international executive
board.
General Manager Vauclain OF the Bald.
win Locomotive Works. denies there has
been a big strike at Ills plant, declaring
only i25 men are out and that they have
The police are making a rigid investi.
gatlon Of the action Of the strike breaking
street car men in taking two cars from
the Frankford barns Iast night and run
ming them along Frankford avenue, firing
their revolvers with almost insane aban,
don into the crowds on the streets, wound
ing three men and one girl The girl anC
two OF the men were slightly wounded II
the legs, one Of the men being shot IN tn,
shoulder. on the return trip. the carr
J we're stoned the entire length OF tn,
street and tho police say three OF tn
strike breakers were badly hurt. 1t i
probable several arrests will be made to
day, the police declaring there was nj
, disturbance In Frankford or IScnsingtoi
and that the strike breakers act wa
wanton.
No other disorder was reported durin
the evening as attributable to tho strike
Nearly 1900 OF the 100 employees OF tn
Standard Roller Bearing Company VIII
joined in the general strike to-day notne
. the management that at a meeting the
, had decided to report for work Monda
l morning.
Labor leaders still maintain that 1000 Z
the i2,OO0 employees OF the great Baldwi
u Locomotive Company struck to-day. a
least 100 men, whom labor leaders sai
p We're Baldwin employees met to-day at IN
, Labor Lyceum, Sixth and Broad streets
The officials OF the company stnl den
the strike leaders claims declaring onl
400 men have gone out.
In a statement today the Philadel
phia Rapid Transit Company decla1
4 ed they are running 100 cars an
that cars will be added at the rate
fifty a day. or as fast as they ca
o be repaired until natural condition
a prevail by the end Of the week.
e Building operations along Walnu
e and Chestnut streets stopped by n
Il strike last Friday were resumed tC
+ day. Many big factories. which +,
n ported earlier in the week that man
a of their men had quit, declared toda
4 that the men were returning.