The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-11
TO TRY new PLAN
United Business Mems AssOcia-
tiOn Of Philadelphia
Will Make an Effort to End
Street Car Strike.
RIGHTS OF PUBLIC
Will Be Made the Basis of Their
Proceedings.
Employers Make Concessions to
Keep Men at Work.

Philadelphia, Pa. March 11.-An-
other effort to find some method by
which the struggle between the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit company and
the Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees can be
ended will be made today bx the
United Business Mems association.
This body represents 32 business or
ganizations, with 1900 members. A
convention composed of delegates from
the trade bodies. religious and fra
ternal societies. as we'll as commercial
and other organizations, will meet this
afternoon to discuss the subject. The
arrangements for the meeting are in
the hands of a committee of seven. 1t
is expected a strong and representa-
tive committee will be appointed to
take steps to bring the two warning
sides together.
The meetings will take the ground
that the general public has some rights
in the public situation and a powerful
demand will be- made to end the strug-
gle quickly. The committee of 10,
which has the general strike in charge,
is bending all its efforts towards Sc
curing recruits from the big industrial
plants. Men whose occupation is to
supply the necessities of life are not
being interfered with and even those
engaged in assisting to provide amuse-
ment for the citizens and visitors are
at their posts. According to John J.
Murphy, president of the Central La
bor union and a member of the COM
mittee of / 0. no efforts will be made
to have the bakers leave their posts
and even the union bartenders and
walters will remain at work.
Brings Concessions.
The big labor movement has re-
suited in the granting of certain con-
cessions to workmen in at least two
of the big Industrial plants Of the city
At Baldwin's Locomotive works, where
the sympathy strikers succeeded in
bringing out 2,211 men, according to
the company's statements, the men
have been granted a half holiday on
Saturday. In making this announce
ment, s. Vauclain, general superin-
tendent of the plant, said:
"a delegation of men called on me
and asked certain concessions. I
granted them half holiday Saturdays.
believe they are entitled to It. Part
part of it we will. The half holiday
will stand whether they strike or not
and it will stand for all time If I can
get it started right.
zone of the men cried out to one
of the company yesterday that they
were sorry. but that thev could not
stand the strain. He said they would
come back on Monday. If the state
of things prevails they will stay out
longer. OF that 1 feel assured. We
do not like to see them go out. but
if they are keyed to it and feel they
want to go we will not stop them"
Given Time and a Half.
The spirit of unrest has also brought
a concession to several hundred ma
chinistS at the MidVale Steel works it
is said. Several thousand men are en-
ployed at that plant and the company
has much government work on hand
in the way of armor and ordnance
contracts. The machinists employed
at the Midvale plant held a meeting
Wednesday and most of them became
members of a newly organized union
and agreed to join the general strike
movement when the word was given
by the leaders. The word is expected
by the men tonight or tomorrow. The
company, according to one of the ma