The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-14
BOYS CREATE DISTURBANCE AT
1OxCAR FIRE IN kENSiNG-
TON DISTRICT.
STRIKERS MORE QUIET
in Philadelphia and Officials Of the
Railway Company Declare That
More Fares Than Usual Were Col
lected on Cars-Break Is Expected.

Philadelphia, March 13.-Attractcd
by fire III boxcar on railway
siding III kcnsington. a crowd Of sew
cral thousand persons collected late
today. Small boys threw stones AT
some Of the police and later the win
dows Of d number Of cars were brok-
on Aside from this outbreak cars
were run without molestation ana
there were more cars In operation than
on any other Sunday since the strike
began
The police and the traction company
officials agreed In tho statement that
the situation Is improving hourly. The
rough element that the company hired
when the strike began Is being weed
ed out and q better class of men now
operate the cars.
"And we are getting the fares, too"
declared an official where two
weeks ago two hundred thousand fares
were collected In one day. yesterday
10000 fares were turned In This Is.
of course. accounted for i'm part by the
fact that we are running more cars
and people are using them more free
~"
The settlement of the strike Is still
ippcrmost In the minds of citizens In
Philadelphia. Nearly everybody con-
siders arbitration as the natural meth
cd. but the company insists there Is
nothing to arbitrate. The officials and
l.xt.. .,t.w
alton that the union will not be dealt
with and they are apparently just as
determined today as they were three
weeks ago.
"Open Shop"
Officials OF the union are just as de-
termincd that no settlement will be
accepted that does not include full re-
cognltion of the union. The company
offers to take strikers back and does
not demand that they shall drop their
union membership. but insists that the
union shall cut no figure In any peace
negotiations. In other words, the
company Is for the "open shop"
It Is not believed that any effort to
secure outside intervention or the me-
diatlon of the civic federation or Of
President Taft or of anyone else will
bear fruit. The company officials are
silent regarding yesterdays action OF
the Interstate Railways company In
crcasing to 20 cents an hour the wages
of motormen and conductors in Tren-
ton. Wilmington. Chester, Lebanon
and Norristown. The Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company now pays 2.
cents an hour with "A promise of an in
crease to 23 cents on July to men
employed more than one year
Look for Break.
The authorities look for big break
In the ranks ef the sympathetic strlk-
ers tomorrow. Many have already re-
turned to work and the police canvass
1t is said. shows thousands will do sc
tomorrow. A superintendent a
Cramps shipyard declared today that
despite the extraordinary efforts OF thu
leaders. not II single one of 5000 en-
ployes of the big plant walked out.
According to police information hun
dreds Of the sympathetic strikers a
the Baldwin locomotive works will re
turn to work tomorrow. The bricklay
ers and carpenters. 1t Is said, will re
sumo Monday or Tuesday and othe
trades will follow
Ordered Out.
In order 10 strengthen the syinpath
,etlc strike. the Central Labor union to
day directed that all milkmen. bakers
grocery clerks and other dispensers o
the necessities of life remain ava.
from work tomorrow and until NJ
grievances of the striking carmen ar
adjusted.
II was also resolved that union mem
bers withdraw their money fror
banks. Their sympathizers, Whethe
organized or not, are also asked /
do likewise The leaders of the sym
pathetic strike say that when they en-
deavored to conduct the movemen
with some regard for the convenenc
of the general public, Director of Pub
lie Safety Clay and others belittle
the effect of the strike. They say the
are now determined to draw their line
close.
The union drivers of milk and brea
wagons we're called upon to strike to
morrow by the resolution adopted to
day by the Central Labor union. Th
grocery clerks. 1000 of whom organ
lied today, will quit work tomorrow
night. Any union man working Tues
day night In any line of employment
will be expelled from the union c
which he is member.
Pressure was brought to bear on tn