The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-05
big PHILADELPHIA STRIKE ON
LEADERS ISSUE FINAL ORDER.
EFFECTIVE ar HIDNIGHT.
FOrty TAsu.snd Men Expected to IMsse.
GARD CSn 60 WSrk Tlais NernIHg -In.
Len Besses say IOa.oOO ssa,e emit
TrScble Expected RMS Afterss...


TrScble Expected This Afterns...
PHILADELPHIA. Saturday. March a.
The unions in sympathy with the car man
struck at midnight.
simultaneously u became known that
every National Guard regimeot in the
State Of Pennsylvania has receivsd orders
at an hours notice.
Con. Henry Clay. head oG the Phlla-
dslphia police force. denies Il. Il hap
pens. however. 70 be true.
II seems probable that sa.0OO men IN q
hundred different trades win not ah0w up
for work this morning. Tho labor lsaders
arc shouting exultantly that Ioo.Ooo men
have lined up with tho striking mcsor-
men and conductor. Tho polics can-
vssssrs make the figure les than 5000
An impartial estimate 10 'o.Ooo. . little
more or q little lsas.
Tho outlook 10 smtnous sven 90 the mos.
chssrful observers. 80 much bitterness
has developed IN the last few days that
tho people Of Philadslphia are preparing
for any kind Of troubbs.
An hours walk IN sections Of the CITY
such - Kenslngtoo where the feslins
against the p. r. r, In most intense 4
sufficient for any ono to understand what
is smouIdsring. KensinRton. where two
thirds Of the union men live. w;I, bs tho
scat OF trouble. The Streets are crowded
with strikers and their hangeTson. Thsy
spsnd part of their time in the cornsF
saloons. the other part On the stres,
corners c,Irsing the non-union car crsws
The nrst disorder for several days &C.
CURED late last night in Frankferd and
Ksnsington. The Rapid Transit Com
pany. which had run more than 90 cars
IN the daytime. kept over eoo 10 servins
up to midnight.
dozen cars were stoned. Halt
dozen peFsons were struck and injured
A man named william Drexlcr while
resisting a policeman was shot in the
stomach and probably fatally hurt.
Crowds persisted in forming On the streets
IN these sections and were broken az
With difhculty. The attitude Of ths
crowds wAs ugly and vicious.
Tbs police are preparing for riot a. the
very oaI1Dee. Ths COMMITTEES q ten II
tho Csutrnl I.Abor Union Issued call -
all union men last night TO assemble Tor
Q paaOsal1ls DEMONSTRATION at . O'Clock
ehip OBafnrAng) aftarnoan IN Indepen-
.lNwl,M. Nm1wNn, mo cnnamietes couuts
on rs .O00 mon attending the nestinG.
Henry Clay, Director Of Public Safety.
has forbidden the nesting. He said to-
ulGht that there would he 90 policemen
in Independents square this afternoon
and that thess men would have orders IN
club the heads on any men who attempted
to gather in the square. Clay zAs angry
and emphatic He said that II there had
TO DO a sho wdoWu IL might az we'll come
early.
The c. l.. u committee declined 10 70
sclnd the order for a nesting The order
stands II remains 10 be seen how many
strikers will drift 20 the neighborhOOd o.
Hall and how far the poIics
will 90 in handling them
The labor bosses spread the promise late
ast night that no union man would throw
, brick or participate IN any resistance tn
he police or the military. The promise
vas accepted for Just what u n worth.
With ~ 900 men idle and sore because they
~er- drawn into a general strike, no one
,,.ouosa- that the leaders can keep the
lsace.
n any one had confidence IA the police
'orcs the pruspecs would no; he 40 1npiaas-
INT. But nobody has NOT even the c~nn-
handlers.
The labor forces have evolved this plan
% beat the transit company into sub
Mission They have organized n boycott
hat will be directed KainSt every depart
men, store. every neiRhborhood store.
-very saloon every market in fact where
and Injuries are sold. The
,lnn was quietly formulated and secretly
pat INTO effect
Shopkeepers have been notified that "
h.y sell a pound OF butter or a wedge Of
.heese to any one in sympathy with the
p r. r. they will not get a cents worth OF
patronage from any union labor family In
he city. They have been told that II they
" their clerks ride on the cars the same
hreat wili be made good
IL IN interesting TO know that the Select
nd Common Councilmen have been
,Iufed already by the boycott threat.
he city fathers do not ride down town
m trolley cars. Painful as u may be. they
ONE in carriages or tho shaky taxicabs
hat Penntowu fondly thinks are thu real
hing Some OF them were asked about
to-day. They said that they did not
Iesire 20 anger their constituents. shop
.eepers are already complaining mourn
ully that the boycott has diverted busi-
,eus. They wonder what will happen IN
he next wssk or two.
The general strike vas called lat night
ftsr the dirsctOFS Of the rapid tr1nSit
ompany had met and turned down ths
ropoaAl for arbitration that had been
nads 70 them on Thursday night.
This proposal Wa that the company
I'd tbs unio1 make . JOINT application.
ndsr the pr0visions OF The act Of isos.
. have the courts appoint a board Of srbi-
ration. Mayor Reyburn, Who proposed
mn plan to the Councils on THURSDAY.
oasd against 10 ~hcn he met Nth the
}. n. T. directors yesterday afternoon.