The Washington herald., 1910-03-11

Philadelphia, March Io.-The
police fought and whipped 10000
strikers and sympathizers in the
heart of the city this afternoon.
Broad street, from the National
League Park to the City Hall. was
a battle-ground for two hours.
The thoroughfare was choked
with men and women who strug-
gled to break down the police bar
ricades and surround the City Hall.
They were leaderless, and advanced
in the widest disorder.
Hundreds were pounded to the
street stones, trampled by men and
horses. kicked and cuffed and
whirled headlong to side streets. It
is impossible TO say how many were
hurt. The police troubled to make
few arrests. but after the mob was
broken there were to be seen scores
of men, and now and then a woman,
whose heads had been cut open by
savage blows Of club; whose faces
were bloody, or who were nursing
an arm paralyzed by the smashing
impact Of the policeman's mace.
Broad street was a curious spec
tacle after the battle. For squares
the asphalt was Uttered with hats
mems hats and women's-that had
been swept away in the driving
rushes of the policemen. A truck
load Of damaged millinery might
have been gathered up. There were
shoes that had been removed by the
owners and thrown at the police,
and many of them were women's.
aIANEUVER FOR DEMONSTRATION.
The clash of intention between the
union labor forces and Henry Clay. the
director of public safety, was widely
known. The board of strategy Of the
Central Labor Union, the association
called the committee Of ten. issued a
call for a mass meeting in the National
League Park. Mr.. Clay, acting under
orders from the mayor, forbade the meet
ing emphatically. and notified the lawyer
who acted for the unions that the meet
ing would be contrary to law aud against
the public peace.
But the unions had obtained permis-
sion from President Fogel. Of the base
ball club, TO use the park Mr.. Clay.
realizing that an encounter was certain.
ordered John Taylor superintendent Of
police, to take as many men as he con
sIdered necessary, and prevent the strikers
from assembling In the baseball park or
anywhere else.
Long before noon the streets converg-
ing on the National League Ban Park
were full 10 the sidewalks with thousands
who were drifting toward the meeting.
Gates barred and Guarded.
The vanguard Of the unions reached
the ball park about noon. They found
every gate to the park closed and barred
and policemen lined up stih1y at all Of
these entrances. Delegation after dele
CATION arrived. At 1880 p. m. there were
more than 5000 men and women swirl
ing around the park, keeping close to the
high fence.
Then Pratt and Murphy, with members
OF the committee Of ten. arrived in an
automobile and demanded admittanee to
the park. There was a bluster of words
between the union chiefs and the len
tenant on duty at the main entrance TO
the park. The police were firm in re-
fusing them admittance. Finally Pratt
and his party left and headed down
Broad street. Somebody started the cry
that the union chiefs were LEADING a
udfCl 70 A4lt t4tS nan. Ihere WAS q
yell raised. "On TO the city han"' Then
the stampede started.
For a distance OF two miles, from the
baseball grounds to Spring Garden street
Capt Taylor had posted at short infer
vals more than 1000 policemen. whfe
troops OF police cavalry trotted up and
down the sides of Broad street in re-
serve
A short distance from the ban park
a squad Of negro policemen blocked the
street. They were ordered to tear into
the crowd and they did it wiekedly. At
the same moment a troop OF mounted
men rode into the crowd from the side
cutting OF a thousand or more Of the
marchers from the main body. It was
the beginning OF the strategy Taylor had
planned to divide the mob into sections
and then hammer each section into the
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