The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-06
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$5,000,000 a day. Big plants which
have been forced to close down on the
eve of making spring deliveries will
lose immense contracts, which in
some cases, they declare, can never
be regained There is suffering, too,
among families of the strikers. Strike
benefits do not begin for two weeks.
When they do begin, it will require
100000 week to pay them. Women
as well as men are going out.
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, prominent
society leader, sent a letter tonight to
the committee not to call out the
shirt-waist makers. These girls have
recently been victorious ii their own
strike, but it took all their savings
and they cannot afford to strike, she
said. Action will be taken later on her
request.
The building trades and the textile
plants in Kensington are hardest hit.
Cramps great ship yards in Port Rich
mond; Baldwin's locomotive works, In
the central section of the city; Brilps
car works in West Philadelphia; the
Midvale steel works, in Nicetown, and
some of the greatest industrial plants
in the country are unaffected.
They employ few union men and re-
port that their forces are all at work,
running full time.
Building operations, it is admitted.
are practically suspended i'll every sef-
ton of the city, while the big text ie
mills in Kensington have but a HANDFUL
Of men at work.
A mob of 5000 mcn and Joys at
tackled three cars in Frankford to-
night. The mob partly wrecked the
cars and then attacked the non-union
crew who were roughly handled. w.
]. Walters conductor, Chas. Dill.
| motorman, and r. l.. Brown, a mo-
torman, from Boston were so serious
4 " beaten by the rioters that they
were taken to the Episcopal hospital
Supt. of Police Taylor, with 1875
mounted policemen, dashed through
| the mob scattering the rioters i'll eve.
ry direction, beating down many with
/ clubs A wagon load of prisoners was
taken to the city hah.
The committee of ten" in charge
! of the general strike, which has this
j city in it's grasp tonight, issued the
following formal statement and pro-
posal for board arbitration which
would have power to sett,e the pres
emf disorder THE situation at the
close of the first day of the general
strike is mighty gratifying. While
we are unable to get the reports OF
more than 800 unio S in the city. we
have received reports from something
! like $50 organizations which show
| that more than 125,000 men and
/ women are out
For tomorrow we have called upon
the different organizations to hold
meetings in their respective headquar
ters where they will be addressed by
! diffrent speakers. Up to the present
! time this committee has refraine6
settlement leaving that to the unior
/ interesed. but we feel that the time
/ has now arrived when We should
offer proposition and therefore sub
nit the following: ".That the Phila
delphia RAPID Transit company rein
state all employees now on strike te
their positions, and that the company
i then appoint one arbitrator and We
appoint one arbitrator, these two tt
be disinterested parties. Then le
4 the two arbitrators thus selected
1 choose third person and both par
i ties to the disputes submit all auci
tions to this board of arbitration,
decision of the majority of same tt
be binding and final.
All Quiet Thi Morning.
&. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March Or
All one o'clock this Sunday morning