The San Francisco call., 1910-03-10

from rage OHe
wonders for their cause Today they
announced that tomorrow afternoon a
giant mass meeting would be held in
the Philadelphia baseball park.
WILL FORBID MEETING
Director of Public Safety Henry
clay promptly announced that the
gathering would not be permitted.
The mayors proclamation directs
that no meetings be held during the
strike on the highways or on property
adjacent to the highways. The procla-
nation will be enforced said Clay.
on the labor side the day was active
and the leaders declared tonight that
they were more than satisfied with the
result of their work. In addition to
several hundred men who quit work
at the Baldwin locomotive works,
bringing the number of men on strike
there up to 1000, the committee of 10
announced that there had been many
other accessons to the ranks of the
sympathetic strikers.
1t was reported that the bakers in
the big shops of the city proposed to
walk out tonight. The employers de-
clared their men had not been affected
by the arguments of the strikers and
would remain at work.
REQUEST OF HORSE SHOERS
The striking horse shoers wrote to
the Society for the Prevention of Cru
city of Animals, demanding that all
horses not properly shod be kept off
the streets. The reply of the asso
citation has not yet been received.
The unsettled minds of thousands of
the city's workers is indicated by the
many reports of men quitting work
and of men who had walked out, re-
turning to work.
The in and out flow was so extended
and f1uctuating as to tax the ability of
the computators to keep track of it,
One plant that had a definite story to
tell was the great Cramps ship yards.
Officials OF the Cramps reported that
60 rivet boys who walked out yester
day all returned to work today. The
management declared that these were
the only employees to strike and that
no further trouble was expected. The
committee of ten has granted per-
mission for the men working on the
improvements at the National league
park to go back to work.
THE BALDWIN PLANT
Regarding the walkout at the Bald
win plant General Manager Johnson
said that while more than 1000 went
out today. more than 1900 men were
still working.
I'VE have more than four months
contracts on hand, and in no case will
the work be shut down." said John
son. He said that the general strike
movement would gradually spend itself
Call for Great Strike
NEWCASTLE, Pa, March 9.-The
ninth annual convention of the state
federation of labor in session here to-
day unanimously passed resolution
asking that in the event of an arbitra-
tion of the Philadelphia strike question
failing the American federation of
labor call a nation wide strike of or
ganized and unorganized workmen.
ADDRESS BY MAHON
The resolution adopted was presented
by w. d. Mahon, president of the ANAL
gamated association of street and cleo
trio railway employees, who, with 10
members of that organization arrived
early today from Philadelphia and
asked that he be allowed to address the
convention. In stirring address
Mahon asked for the motion to adopt
the resolution. The motion was forth
coming promptly and adopted with a
unanimous rising vote, the delegates
cheering.
In the course of his remarks Mahon
alleged that the Philadelphia rapid
transit company had so far acted
against organized labor with view of
throttling every organized trade in the
city.
FEAR THEY WE'RE HASTy
Following the second meeting today
of the Pennsylvania federation of labor
at which resolutions were adopted ask
ing the American federation of labor to
call a nation wide strike, conservative
delegates tonight express the fear that
their action was too precipitate. Some
charge that the convention was stam-
peded by w. ID. Mahon, president of the
amalgamated association of street and
electric railway employees.
President h. E. Greenwalt of the
federation appointed committee of
. to confer with the Philadelphia COM
mittee of 10 as to when the strike
shall be inaugurated in other cities.
The committee Of 8 held a meeting
tonight and formulated a report which
will be presented to the convention to-
morrow.