Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
ASSOCIATED Pressl


ment is eorrect-and the officials
declare it is-and based on careful
canvass of the city, fewer than 10000
workers have responded to the call for
a general strike.
Tonight Director of Public Safety
Henry Clay issued the first detailed
statement purporting to show the eX-
tent to which the sympathetic strike
in support of the striking street car
men has affected the industrial life of
the city. 1t came at the close of the
first full working day under the gem
eral strike order, which became ef-
fective on Friday at midnight.
The day was the quietest since the
calling of the general strike. Tonight
there was absolute quiet up to late
night would pass without serious out
breaks.
Mayor Reyburn said late today that
the sympathetic strike was over so
far as the city administration was
concerned and that the aftermath
could safely be left to the police to
handle. Word that the order for fed
eral troops had been Cancelled indi-
Gated that the authorities believed the
worst of the trouble was over.
The transit conditions, to every ap-
pearance, showed continued improve
ment today and tonight. There was
less necessity for the presence of the
police on the cars and even timid citi-
zens are beginning to show dispose
ton to ride.
The police made a careful canvass of
the city's industries to ascertain the
number of men on strike. The re-
turns tabulated by Director Clay
showed that Is, 407 persons had respond
ed to the general strike CALL
Difference in Strike Figures
The police did not attempt to ex-
plain the discrepancy between these
figures and those of labor leaders, who
say 100000 or 125,000 men are on strike.
The labor leaders scoffed at the police
figures.
According to the police, establish
ments affected by the sympathetic
strike employ 54,954 hands. There are
121, ,29S employees in other establishments
not affected by the strike, and this
gives, by the police figures, total of
176, ,193 employees, of which only lS,4OI
are out.
Many have quit work, it is declared,
not from sympathy with the striking
car men, but because they have been
forced out by the action OIL certain
branches of their trades.
The commandant of the Philadel-
phia navy yard .oday issued an order
forbidding leave of absence to men on
anv vessels at the yard during the
strike troubles.
Secretary Neil Bonner of the Retail
LIQUOR Dealers association announced
the association had requested its MEM
hers as we'll as other cafe proprietors,
to close their bars should disorder oc-
cur in the vicinity and Keep them
closed until the trouble subsidies. a
Willingness on the part of the proprie-
tors to comply with The request was
indicated
one of the incidents of the day was
a. parade of a small band of men
which was broken up by the police
without lust cause, the men claim. AS
the marchers passed a hosiery mill
they attempted to persuade the factory
employees to join the sympathetlc
strike. Their effort was UNSUCCESSFUL
and the police claim the marchers be-
came disorderly. Clubs were used
freely and two arrests were made.
Sympathetic Strike Condemned
The master builders met late today
at the builders exchange, adopted res
olutions eondemning the sympathetic
strike and discussed action against
some of the bodies of men who Joined
the general strike movement. IL IS
asserted that agreements made by the
employers with more than one of the
unions in the building trades have
been broken deliberately. The resolu-
ton calls on labor leaders to reconsider
their action at once.
Four thousand men and women at
tended a mass-meeting of the strikers
in the Labor Lyceum. The city adj
was bitterly denounced
for it's attitude and the speakers We're
especially vehement in criticising the
of negro policemen.
One of them declared "our rulers
have put a club into the black mans
hand with which to club out the white
mans brains"
Luella M. Twining, woman organ
izer of the Western Federation OF MIN
ers. was one of the speakers. Her
praise of Eugene V. Debs and the So
cialist movement aroused enthusiasm.
John M. WALL an official of the Mas
sachusetts Central Labor union, as
sured the Philadelphia strikers they
would receive financial support from
his state.
Resolutions calling on every man,
woman and child in Philadelphia to
quit work were adopted with cheers.
AS the crowds were leaving the hail
there was grave outbreak of disorder.
Several cars were stoned in front OF
the place The police charged the
crowd, which was so dense that it
dispersed slowly. The bluecoats swung
their clubs. telling many persons to the
ground, many of whom were so seri-
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