The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-23
Many More Injured When
Attempt Made to Resume
Street Car Service.
GENERAL STRIKE OF ALL LABOR
UNIONS IN THE CITY HAS BEEN
CALLED-UNLESS THE POLICE
SHOW MORE ABILITY TO
HANDLE RIOTERS THE ENTIRE
NATIONAL GUARD OF PENN
SYlVANlA WILL BE CALLED
OUT.
BY Associated press.

FnlIauelpnla, Feb. 22.-Thfee boys
were shot, probably fatally, and sew
eral less severely injured in riots
which followed attempts to resume
street car service today. Market
street, the principal thoroughfare.
was the scene of most of the riots.
Cars were stoned, policemen assault
ed. by-standers wounded and hundreds
of arrests made. Tonight all cars
We're stopped and the city is left
without Service.
The authorities have decided to call
out the entire force of the state ma
tional guard tomorrow unless the po-
lice show better ability to handle the
rioters.
A general strike of all labor union
men in the city has been called by
President Murphy, and it is believed
by him to be inevitable, but all labor
unions must pass on it, A delegation
of labor leaders left for Washington
to call on Senator Penrose to help
settle the dispute.
The state fencibles, an Independent
military organization, was put on
guard today and were roughly handled
by the rioters, who paid no attention
to bayonets but snatched the guns
from the soldiers hands. Mayor Rey.
burn says the guardsmen acted like
they were on picnic, letting girls
wear, their caps and carry their rifles
Fifteen policemen quartered in q
barn on Bridge avenue had a narrow
escape from death tonight when a
corner of the building was blown
away with dynamite placed beneath
it. About a block away Strike Lead
er Pratt was about to address a mass
meeting of the strikers.
TROUBLE STARTED EARLY.
The first trouble of the day was
reported at o'clock from Kensington.
in the northeastern part of tn city,
the great mill district of Philadelphia,
where two boys were shot. A crowd
of youths lay in wait for car and
as 1t passed they hurled a shower OF
stones. Two policemen who wer
in the conveyance opened fire on the
boys with revolvers and two of the
youngsters were wounded. Both
were rushed to a hospital One boy
had been shot in the chest and the
other was only slightly injured
THE STRIKERS STIRRED.
The Incarceration of C.. o. Pratt,
who is the national organizer of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Employees, and has been
the leader of the strikers. did not
help the situation, but on the con-
trary brought about the ugliest kind
of feeling between the strike sympa-
thizers and the police authorities.
Pratt was taken into custody last
night on a charge of "inciting to riot"
Detectives have been on his trail
since the strike began last Saturday,
but didn't ''get anything on him." as
they term it, until yesterday after
w q rin in, of
hall in which he was addressing the
strikers. Detectives in the crowd i'm
mediately reported to Director Clay,
of the department of public safety,
e with the result that a warrant was
sworn out for Pratt's arrest.
The prisoner was not given a hear
ing, but was Immediately placed in a
cell and an all-night effort by his
friends to seoure his release was un-
successful. There is every evi.
dence that the police deliberately
lodged us, in order to keep Pratt lock-
ed up during the night, right or
wrong" said one of his associates.
Friends of the prisoner were unable
to obtain a copy of the charge, but
John j. Murphy. president of the Cen
trail Labor Union, went before a police
magistrate and swore to the contents
Oh the warrant upon Whlcn Bratt was
arrested and on this affidavit obtained
a release order for Pratt under $500
bail. City hall officials, however. re-
fused to recognize the mandate. They
took the ground that it was based on
2. copy of the charge" and that there
was nothing to do but wait for Pratts
hearing today.
Mr.. Murphy said today: Il have
1ust learned of some abominable
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