The Washington herald., 1910-03-22
CAR MEN REFUSE
TO ACCEPT TERMS
Workers Repudiate Agree
ment Made by MahOn.
PENROSE ANGERED BY ACTION
Senator Returns 20 Washington and
IRtimatiOn Leader of Union May
Strike Fast CrumbIing and Big
Employees say Men Are All Back.

Philadelphia. March e1--The striking
carmen have repudiated the agreement be
tween the transit company and their own
international president, William d. Ma
hon.
After Senator Penrose had forced the
Rapid Transit Company 70 grant 50 per
cent more than the strikers had demand
ed: after Mahon. in the name OF the strik-
ers, had eagerly accepted the terms. and
had shaken hands on the bargain with
the Senator Vice President Wolf. of the
company, and others in the fight; after
the announcement by the Senator and
Mahon that the strike was over, the car
union. pressed on by Pratt, humiIiated
their principal official, and deliberate
ly offended the man, Penrose. who had
obtained for them far more than they had
asked
Penr3se, angered. has returned to Wash
iEgton; Mahon, insulted by his own fol-
lowers. is on the point OF withdrawing
the support OF the International Carmen's S
Union.
Men Back at Work.
The sympathetic strike is melting like
snow under a spring sun. Thousands Of
union men who had been out in sympathy
with the carmen went back to their jobs
to-day, disgusted with the order. z. E.
Greenawalt has gone to wnkesbarre to
consult with the council Of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor as to whether a State
strike shall be called. He does not want
State strike. He is disappointed at the
stand of the local union.
The whole thing is in a muddle. and
the only result that seems at all clear
is that the local carmen Will have TO
fight it out alone. without the assistance
of any of the bodies which have hither-
to supported them. There is tonight no
indication of further conferences.
Want Union Recognized.
The carmen say they repudiated the
Penrose- Mahon agreement because they
did not want the strike to be settled by
politicians and because there was no ex-
elusive recognition of their union in the
peace treaty.
A more general movement to return to
work began to-day than has been OBJ
served on any day previous. More than
1000 textile workers in Kensington,
where the sympathetic strike was
strongest. applied for reinstatements.
A call has been sent out for all textile
workers on strike-perhaps 15.00O men
to send representatives to a labor meet
ing at Lyceum Hall.
The next strongest body, the men of
the building trades. are meeting tonight
to consider whether to break the SYM
pathetic strike.
Some of the biggest of the manufac-
turers reported to-day that their strik-
ing employees have returned to work al
most TO a man. That was the news from
Cramps, Baldwins', and the Standard
Roller Bearing Company. At the loco
motive works 1,5O0 men have gone back
to their jobs The Standard took back
/, 600
At a conference held between Senator
MeNichol and c. 0. Pratt, the latter
submitted a new proposition for the set
tlement of the strike. It was that the
men go back to work on the basis of the
agreement entered into last June, and
that the cases of the discharge of the
men that precipitated the strike be sub
mitted to arbitration, and they be paid
50 per day pending disposition of their
cases.
McNichol, who acted with Penrose last
night. refused to place the proposition be-
fore the company.