New-York tribune., 1910-03-09

men were disappointed over the failure Of
the general strike To force the Rapid Tran
! sit Company to arbitrate. and that they
had gone back to their places of employ
ment. Union leaders denied that there
We're any defcctions.
Several meetings Of labor men were held
this afternoon c. o. Pratt, the carmen s
leader. addressed a crowd OF several hun
/ dred persons at a meeting Of the Allied
Jewish Trades. at New Academy Hall, in
South 4th street urging the men TO stand
Iast IN winning cause. He declared that
il an outdoor demonstration were permitted
it would assume proportions which would
surprise the country Later, Pratt ad-
dressed another meeting OF about three
! hundred Hebrew workers along the same
lines.
No Brewers Strike.
report from Cincinnati that the local
brewery workers might he ordered out in
the sympathetic strike was dispelled to-
night when a dispatch said that the ma
tional organization had contented itself
with voting financial and moral support =
Mayor Reyburn was much gratited by
the appearance in the newspapers to-day
as an advertisement of the following in
dorsement signed by forty-four prominent
men:
We the undersigned. citizens of Phila-
delphia, having at heart the honor and
fame Of the city as law-abiding COM
munity, do hereby approve and indorse the
efforts of Mayor Reyburn and the city
authorities to maintain order and suppress
lawlessness and the destruction of prop
erty. We hope and trust that all the power
al their command will be invoked and used
for this purpose. if neCeSSary''
The Endorsement is signed by five direc-
tors Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany as individuals. well known 1nanciers
and lawyers and men prominent in other
walks of life
Council Head Shoes Horses.
In flannel shirt and leather apron, his
hands blistered by unaccustomed toll and
his back and muscles stiff with WEAKNESS,
James Hazlet, President of Select Coun-
ell, is working in his blacksmith shop.
striving to take the place of his corps of
men who went out on strike Friday night.
Its been a long time he said to-day,
| Strengthening UP wearily a driver led
big horse out. since | have done this sort
OF work. I've got more used to the cOun-
ell chamber and politics. Added to that, l
broke my kneeCap some time ago and II
hurts considerable to rest a horse on it.
but l cannot bear to let the poor animals
90 unshod. and | know the folks can't 60
without milk and the necessaries Of life"
one interesting development in connec-
ton with the strike was the appeal by Off
cials Of the Philadelphia National League
Baseball Club 10 the strike leaders late to-
day The baseball interests asked that the
union men who have been working on the
ball park improvements be permitted to
continue and complete the work. Unless the
entire work is finished by April 15 the open
ing date of the National League season. the
baseball men represent that the club will
he badly handicapped. The labor leaders
promised to place the matter before the
erected and improvements are being made
TO the grandstand
Payment of strike benefits to the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit Company's men who
are out will be begun tomorrow, the
union announced this afternoon. The men,
it was announced, will each receive So as
an initial payment. and the weekly bene-
fit payment hereafter will be s. to each
striker as long as the strike lasts.
". B. Mahon, president of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees, announced to-day that
he had received a telegram from Samuel
Grafton OF Labor who is in Chicago, tell
ing him that all the organizers of all the
trades represented in the federation had
been ordered TO come here to organize non
union workers for the sympathetic strike.