Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-02-25
Surface Cars Successfully 0p-
Grated Through Turbulent
Districts With Only Small
Riots, Quickly Suppressed,
CLERGYMEN PROPOSE
TO ARBITRATE TROUBLE
Proposition Acceptable to the
Union Leaders, Traction Off
ciaIs Refer Matter to Board
of Directors for Answer



Philadelphia, Feb Surface ears
were operated on the principal streets
iof Philadelphia until midnight for the
first time since the beginning OF the
present strike against the Rapid Tran
sit company Guarded by members OF
the state police, the ears continued to
run even through the turbulent mill
districts OF konsington and Frank
ford
Although the company reported
that eighty-four cars had been stoned
today, no disturbance was permitted
to reach serious proportions. All out
breaks We're quickly quelled by the
police ana not a riot call was sent in.
According to company figures 744
ears were in operation and sixty-siN
continued 60 run until midnight In
creased service Is promised By the
company. which announces that 400
new men, many formerly IN the em-
play OF the company, were hired today
land viii take ears out tomorrow.
Officials OF The company refused
to comment on the request from the
committee of churchmen that the
grievances Of the strikers be submitted
to "a board OF arbitration The re-
quest will be referred 70 directors Of
the company
This proposal for arbitration. made
by representatives OF twenty-six re-
ligious denominations including the
leading clcrgymen In the city has
been approved by the strikers who
suggest however. that one Of the sey-
en- members on the proposed board Of
arbitration be representative OF or
ganized labor
only one-third as many arrests We're
made 10y the police today as Yesterday
when seventy y-eight persons We're talk
en into custody. Among those arrest
ed was the son Of Il constable in the
office of the committing magistrate.
He confessed he was a member of a
band OF youths who manufactured a
quantity Of explosives and then drew
lois to see who should place them on
the tracks. lie drew the fateful straw
aud was arrested when placing the eN-
plosives on the tracks.
A now ana dangerous method Of
showing their antipathy to the com
panN was adopted by crowds of boys
in the uptown district late this after
noon when soap was used on the rails.
For fifteen minutes bricks and stones
and other missiles were thrown into
one car breaking windows and throw
ing the passengers into a panic,
A detail of police gave chase to the
rioters who fled. soon afterward the
same crowd soaped down grade md
the next car Slid down the slippery
rails hut came To a halt before crash I
ing into the preceding car. The mob
WAS driven away.
Plans for the proposed sympathetic /
strike have been deferred for the pres
ent The striking car men at their
meeting today requested that the
general strike be held in allegiance As
a result the Central Labor union and
the Allied building Trades council de-
tjdcd tonight 10 postpone further ac-
ton until Sunday.
Plans for crippling the service of
the company by strike OF the power
house employees We're discussed at q +
meeting Of the Stationary Engineers
ANA lriremcn's union tonight These
men were In executive session until
after midnight
Reports that the power houses of
the company would be attacked re-
suited in the detailing 0f the State
Fencibles to guard these structures.
Orders that they were not to fire hav-
ing been withdrawn, these young sol
diers sav dhev will redeem themselves
from their recent inelorious fiasco.
The company posted a notice in
each Of its nineteen barns today that
M employees who have remnined loyal
to the company and who may become
by reason of injuries re-
'eiyCd in the strike disorders Will be 4
cared for the rest OF their lives
AT the cOnlpany's offices there WAS
4 long line uf unemployed men seek
ing posittons rs conductors and motor
mon The company Is advertising for
? 600 men.
II is offering % cents an hour with
guaranty of an early increase. Tho
company states that it prefers Phila- I
lelphians seeking permanent employ
nent and does not desire 10 engage
men who VIII work only during the
strike. Many IN the long lines OF men
vcrc engaged
Many boy rioters. arrested in the
ast few days were taken into the
uNcnile court today They were. for
he most part, penitent lot ana the
majority of them paid dearly FOR the
an they thought they were having
y attacking the cars All promised
weight with the court and fines vary d
Il the bows viii STAY thirty days in q
he house OF detention and others 5
NTH the strike is over.
There has be no Interference with I
he transportation OF the mails over 4
hc lines of the transit company SO T.
ar as reported there have been only Il
vo instances Of the blocking of cars D
arrSing mails between sub-stations In T
he city a
j. Whitaker Thompson, United d
tatcs district attorney received in &
tructions from Washington today TO ia