The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-11
Big Demonstration Planned Al
 Philadelphia Ba||PaIk Is Knocked Out
DISTURBANCES ARE FEW
 IND NONE ARE SERIOUS
Five Newspaper Reporters Who Had Been Following Pratt in Automo- niles Are Arrested on Charge of
 1ncitiBg People to Riot

Philadelphia, Pa. March 10.-1f William Pam, from his lofty perch on the top of the city hall tower had turned slightly 'o the left and glanced up North Broad B ssst this afternoon, he could have ob- tsned birds eye view of disorder that would have disturbed his peace-ioving soul.
 Featurcess except for thing, the sixth day of the general strike in sym pathy with the striking car men of the / Philadelphia Rapid Transit company, wit -essed sn attempt to make the center of | the city the scene of a big demonstra- ticn in aid of the strikers cause.
 The police blocked the move-by exer- else of ''high-handed methods and "bru- tai unwarranted force,' the strike lead CTS claim in statements issued tonight; in prosecution of. lawful, justifable means and with no more force than was neces- sary to check in it's incipiency what might have resulted in a serious disturb aDce of the peace, the authorities assert March on the city halll' is Q slogan which had been heard before in disturb ances here. Suspecting that the crowd of 1o,0oe or more persons who had been prevented IrOin HoiulHS dH opeii-dir Hiect- ing in the National League Baseball park would take up the indicated line of march today, the authorities took efficient meas ures 10 prevent the invasion of the city's central districts by what, it was feared, might prove q turbulent mob.
 Police Clubs Active
 Lines of police with active clubs, par tially checked the marchers on their way down Broad street. more than two miles from the objective point. mile further down they broke up the parade altogether. Half dozen persons were injured in the onslaught and score of arrests were made. Crowds of unwonted proportions thronged the spaces about the city hall until well toward nghtfa.l, but there was no organized demonstra- tion.
 Tonight at meetings of working men in various parts of the city. and in state n,ents given out, the strike leaders used the incidents of the afternoon as argu- ments to convince men who are still sticking to their jobs that the time had come for all the workmen of the mu- niciI ality to stand together for what are claimed to be their rights.
 There are a few scattered points where C1sturDanceS or a minor cndracter Dfohe out today. Flying rocks broke car win dows in a number of instances, but more cars were operated today than on any day since the strike began-114o, the com pany reported.
 Spread of the strike to statewide ex- tent Is still considered a possibility. Meanwhile the business men of the city are to make new attempt to bring about q settlement
 The strikers gained today through ac- sessions from the Baldwin Locomotive Works upward of 500 men. On the other hand, various manufacturers reported the return to work of many of their hands who had gone out. An obvious defection from the strikers ranks was that of 100 or more taxicab chauffeurs. Scores of cabs were actively in service today and tonight.
 Crowd Is Turbulent
 The crowd which gathered at the base ball grounds this afternoon and later marched down town was restrained with difficulty. The passengers were driven from a car at Fifteenth and Norris streets mile from the city hall the marchers were opposed by line of po- licemen stretched across Ridge avenue. Matters looked serious for few min utes but the police soon had the upper hand and turned a great part of the crowd into the side streets.
 One square below the Boys High school the remnant of the crowd that got past Ridge avenue encountered second line of, police. There was no ceremony in breaking up the crowd and those that did not turn into side streets were clubbed. The parade here was practically broken LID and less than hundred reached city hall, which was apparently the objective point of the mob
 Five newspaper reporters who have been travelling with Pratt since the strike be- foL and arrested They were detained in room at the city hall.
 The five newspaper reporters arrested were charged with melting to riot Iney were each held in 5000 bail for a fur ther hearing next week. Bail was fur nished by the owners of the newspapers employing them.
 Crowd Quieter at Night
 In the business section tonight the good temper Of the crowds was favorably com mented upon "The general run of the sympathetic strikers said one prominent business man, have no grievances of their own and are evidently not disposed to push things to extremes. There is an absence of the rancorous spirit that might well find manifestation if the men in the sympathetic walk-out were personally az greved at the treatment accorded them by their employers.''
 The leaders of the strikers tonight de- pounced the statement that they mad been brutal and tyrannous in their opposition to the meeting of the strikers and in the Broad street march. In it's formal state ment the committee of 10 representing the general strikers declared there was no warrant for interference with the move- nlnts of thousands of orderly men and women gathered for the park meeting by the police. They estimated the number who gathered for the meeting at 60 1000 and declared that the police rode into these crowds and inflicted injury upon peaceable citizens without just cause.
 The action of the authorities. the com } uittee predicted, would have the effect of osmenting the forces of the workinEmen.
 
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