The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-05


new plan to beat the transit company
into submission. They have organ.
ized boycott that will be directed
against any department store. every
neighborhood store, any saloon, any
market, in fact where necessaries are
sold. The plan was quietly formulat.
ell and secretly put into effect. Store.
keepers have been notified that II
they sell a pound Of butter or nick.
els worth of cheese to anyone in sym.
pathy with the p. r. T., they will not
get cents worth of patronage from
any union labor family in the city.
They have been told that II they or
their clerks ride on the cars, the
same threat will be made good 1t
is interesting to know that the select
and common councilmen have been
bluffed already by the boycott threat.
Shopkeepers are already complaining
mournfully that the boycott has di-
verted trade. They wonder what will
happen In the next week or two.
The general strike was called last
night after directors of the Rapid
down the proposition of arbitration
that had been made to them on
Thursday night.
. In a statement issued by the Rapid
Transit company the following propo.
sition is made to the strikers: "Inas.
much as very many of our former EN-.
ployes have been deferred from apply.
ing for reappointment under the false
and malicious rumors constantly cir
Culated that some form of settlement
with the union was going TO take
place, the directors have extended the
time within which applications may
be made under the order of Feb. 25
until midnight of March Z, and warn
them not to be further misled by ru-
mors which would doubtless be circu-
lated but which will not be true. AZ
ter these men have again become our
employees we will confer with them
with respect to the differences which
were being considered and broken off
by the strike, with the distinct under
standing, however, that employees
shall be free to join or not to join any
organization. and may present their
ually."
Immediately after the letter had
been received from President Kruger,
President Murphy of the Central La
Dor union issued the final order to
strike. A committee of ten was Sc
lected to act as a board of strategy.
1t was careful In issuing It's call to
say that the meeting would be a
peaceful demonstration. When the
news reached the committee that the
police would not tolerate a gathering
in Independence square or any other
place, the committee stood pat.
SO sure were some of the unions
that they would not give in they went
on strike yesterday afternoon.
Three hundred painters and helpers
In the Pennsylvania railroads Powell.
ton avenue shop laid down their brush
es. Some electrical workers, plumbers
and boilermakers quit before the
strike whistle blew. The principal
unions that obeyed the strike order
at midnight were the elevator con-
structors, the theater stage employees,
plumbers local, women's amslgamat-
ed lace weavers, clothing cutters, tile
layers, brewery workers, cigarmakers,
wood, wire and metal fathers, fresco
painters, brotherhood OF carpenters
and joiners, united hatters, united
Hebrew trades, molders, the machin-
lists, the textile workers. flint glass
workers, plasterers and the electrical
workers.