Evening journal., 1910-03-07
LABOR'S HOST QUIET ON
THIRD DAY OF BIG STRIKE

asked for the government soldiers and
do not intend 10 do so.
Few big plants have closed down
owing to the strike though many o.
them admit they are running With
crippled forces. All the plants are be-
ing "picketed" and a house-to-house
canvass is being made to induce work
ers to strike.
Most of the big carpet and textile
mills in Kensington and the big lace
plants are so seriously affected that
they are able to make little headway.
These two trades, which include hosi-
cry, rug. cotton and woolen goods
plants, among Philadelphia's largest
industries. are the hardest hit by the
general strike. Cramps shipyards,
Baldwins's locomotive. Brilrs car
works and the Midvale steel works are
unaffected, employing few union men.
The Standard Roller Bearing Company,
employing 1000 men. is idle.
To Call Out Firemen.
Timothy Healy. president of the Sta
tionary Firemen. declares he will get
out the firemen in the power plants to-
day and cut off the Juice" so that cars
cannot run. Street car officials laugh
ed at the threat, declaring there was
not a union man in one of the power
houses.
Theatre workers. numbering 500, who
had voted TO go on general strike, have
been ordered back TO work, being noti-
fed by the Boston headquarters that
the national organization would not
support them.
Strike leaders to-day declared 16500
Hebrew workers would join the strike
to-day and that $500 German workers
would go out.
A meeting Of the United Business
Mems Association. one of the strong
est bodies in the Quaker City. has been
called for o'clock to devise means
to try to end the strike. The as
ISOLATION represents 10000 business
men.
Mayor Reyburn's son has been sworn
in as a special policeman and is doing
I duty with the other specials.
There will be a monster mass meet
| ing Of the strikers this evening IN
Labor Lyceum Hail. c. o. Pratt. Johr
Murphy. president of the Central Labor
Union and Peter Driscoll. president OF
the carmen. will speak.
Chief Mclaughlin of the City Elec.
triacl Bureau, declared to-day that Il
the employees of the street car power
v houses quit their jobs he will run th'
plants with city employees, under orders
from Mayor Reyburn, so that the ser
vice cannot be crippled at all.
w. d. Mahon. president Of the In
| ternational Association Of Street Car
men. to-day refused to estimate th'
number of men who had Joined in tn
general strike. He declared Samue
iGompers approved the manner in whic
the strike is being conducted and ad
vises me strikers to remain out unit
their grievances are settled.
MAY Arrest Committee
Alarmed by the report that the polio
authorities have planned to arrest all tn
members OF the Committee Of Ten in ao
dition to the national and local labo
leaders assisting in the strike, the labo
LEADERS at a meeting held to-day at moor
appointed a secret provisional committe
to conduct the strike in case all I'll
present directors should be taken into Gus
tody
The identity Of the members Of this CON
mittee has been kept secret and will
closely guarded from the public and tn
police. 1t is planned. in case there shoul
be wholesale arrests. that the second con
mittee can continue the strike withol
disorganlzation.