Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11
100000 WORKERS
Join THE GAR MEN
LABoR'S HOST THROWS DOWN
GAUNTLET TO CAPITAL AT
PHILADELPHIA.
SEVERE R|OT|NG BREAKS OUT
Police Shoot Down Innocent 6ystand-
ers When Crowds Gather After
Calling Of General
Strike.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Labor's hosts, an
army of 100000 workmen, at mid
night March threw down the
gauntlet to capita in declaring the
most tremendous sympathetic strike
in the nations history. No sooner
had the conflict started than rioting
and bloodshed commenced. Unless
some unforeseen agency of peace in
tervenes the disturbance which start
ed with the strike of the employees of
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. is
likely to become a reign Of anarchy.
Policemen's bullets are already
speeding into the bodies of sympa-
thizers of the strike movement and
innocent bystanders. In less than
an hour after the strike began two
men fell under the officers fire. Both
are believed to be fatally injured.
The committee Of ten, the directing
body of the strikers, did not sleep
during the night. They were busy re-
ceiving reports of recruits to the
movement whic, continued to pour in
until the ETY. hours in the
morning. William Drexler, aged AZ,
was shot and probably fatally in
jured by policeman who shot at a
crowd that had congregated on Frank
ford avenue in the northeast section
of the city.
Several cars had been stoned by the
crowd along this street and the po-
lice guarding them fired a volley in
the air. One of the bullets struck
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attacked cars in the down town and
northwestern sections of the city.
While assisting a young woman
across Howard street, at the inter
section of Hancock street, in the
northwestern section, Robert Model,
10, was shot in the back by policemen
who were endeavoring to dispense a
| crowd that had been stoning trolley
cars. His condition is serious
Scarcely had the news of mo peace
possible" reached the Kensington dis
trict from which the state constabu
larry has been withdrawn than there
was a pitched battle. A squad of &C
policemen charged the mob which
numbered about 5000 mill workers.
First the shots were fired over the
heads of the mob, but when this did
not scare off the rioters, volley was
fired directly at the crowd in the
street. 1t was here that Drexler, one
| of the mill workers, was fatally shot
through the abdomen.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
as was predicted, absolutely refused
to accept the arbitration scheme of
fered by the strikers-to take ad
vantage of an old law which said that
each side to a difference should ap
point three mediators and then three
common pleas judges should join the
six, instead the company offered this
plan-that three men formerly EN-
ployed on the cars should be selected
by the strikers from their unioI
ranks; three men now employed OF
the cars and who have stuck to the
company should be named by thu
company, and that then these sil
should name three more to complete
a board of nine. This plan did no
all negotiations were called off ant
the general sympathetic strike wa
declared on.
The Rapid Transit Co. stated tina
every effort will be made to maintain
trolley service. Cars will be dis
patched from all barns, they state. a
as near regular intervals as possible
and will be increased as police pro
lection given is needed.