The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14

STRIKERS WEAKENING
Many Who Walked Out in sympathy
Have Returned or Will dc so
During the
Day.

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tracted by a fire in box car filed
with hay on railway siding in Ken.
sington late Sunday, crowd of sey-
eral thousand persons almost precipi-
tated riot. Boys threw stones at
the police, and later windows of a /
number of street cars were broken be-
fore the reserves got the crowd under
control.
Aside from this outbreak, the day
was quiet, Cars were run without
molestation and there were more cars
in operation tAan on any Sunday since
the strike began. The police and
company officials agree in the state
ment that the situation is improving
hourly.
The rough element which the COM
pany was compelled to hire when the
strike was suddenly sprung is being
weeded out and better class of men
now operate the cars.
And we are getting the fares, too,
declared an official Where two
weeks ago 100000 fares were collected
in one day, yesterday 100000 fares
were turned in This is, of course, ac-
counted for in part by the fact that
we are running more cars and people
are using them more freely
The question of the settlement of
the strike is still the uppermost
thought in the minds Of the citizens of
Philadelphia Nearly everybody CON
siders arbitration as the natural meth.
cd, but how to arbitrate is the ques
ton when the company insists there
is nothing to arbitrate.
The company offers to take strikers
back and does not demand that they
5 all drop their union membership.
but they insist that the union shall
cut no figure in any peace negotia-
tions. In other words, they are for
the open shop" plan. 1t is not be-
lieved that Intervention or mediation
of the Civic federation, President Taft,
Governor Stuart or anyone else Will
bear fruit.
The company officials are silent re-
garding the action Of the Interstate
Railways company in increase to twen-
ty-three cents an hour the wages OF
notormen and conductors in Trenton,
Reading Wilmington Chester, Leban-
on and Morristown The Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company at present
pays twenty-five cents an hour, with
a promise of an increase to twenty
three cents on July to men employed
more than one year.
rY71. Jno1y f,tr a hio hrP9L
in the ranks of the sympathetic strik
ers today. Many have already re
turned to work, and the police can
vass. 1t is said. shows that thousand
will do SO today.
A superintendent at Cramps shiT
yard declared that despite the extraol
dinary efforts of the leaders of th
sympathetic strike, not a single one c
the 5000 employees Of the big plan
walked out.
mot even a boy quit said this O
fetal They had the yard surrounde
by pickets and men were visited a
their homes and places of social gatl
cring, but we did not lose one"
According to police information
hundreds of the sympathetic stril
ers at the Baldwin locomotive work
will return to work the bricklayer
and carpenters, it is said, will resum
Monday or Tuesday and other trade
will follow this example
The order OF the central labor unio
to millzmen, wagondrivers, icemen an
others VINO deliver the necessities
life in this city, to quit work unit
the demands OF the street car striker
is granted, was not generally obeye
today and there WAS no general hun
ger strike. The city was quiet toda.
Many union men are obeying tn
strike leaders orders to take the
money from the banks because th
bank officials would not assist thel
in breaking the strike.
The House of Lords.