The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-24
.ABANDONS strike
FOR BALLOT 4. | BOXES.
State Federation OF Labor Re
fuses TO Gall stateFyV N "a
Valk-O
g5l
LAB \ Or PARTY IS PR RoPos osED
Sympathetic Strikers Return ID
Work, Leaving Carmen Alone
in Struggle.

Wilkcsbarre, Pa, March 23.-After
being in session nearly. alladay the
executive council OF the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor came to the con-
clusion that it would beSsinopportune
TO cali Statewide strike to aid the
striking street car men In Philadel-
sphia.
This decision was reported unani-5
n,ously. and 1t is said to have been
hastened by the action Of the textile
workers of Philadelphia. who went out
on a sympathetic strike and last night
voted to return to work.
Instead of appealing to the trade.
unionists of the stately quit work,
the council fell in With rhe movement
started in Philadelphia Tuesday night
to form a labor party in the State.
President Greenwalt was very posi-
Tive In his statement that the only
way. the working classes in sPhiladel-
phia. and throughout the State could
get justice was through the ballot
box. The council decidedfto give the.
movement every encourn cement.
y}.1l InnuEurntc Party.
The council will meet at call of
President Greenwalt shortly, when
plans will be formulated to get the
new party In working order.
| lS The executive council, after giving
out the following statement, adorned.
1.-THE general strike proposition was
|tgiven careful consideration ana the
lconclusion reached that such drastic
remedy should not be applied unless
as a last resort. and sinasmuch as there
| lis still hope for settlement Of tho
! strike in Philadelphia, all plans rela-
tive to a general industrial strike arc
| |eheldiSi in allowance. =;
notwithstanding this decision, 1t
zisthe purpose etN of the Pennsylvania
4 Federation of Labor to callta general
! Statewide strickland it calls on every
(3cltlzen Ito drop his usual OCCUPATION
EneXt election day and strike at the
i ballot box for clean politics and hon-
i est government"
i The executive committee also took
favorable action on the movement
4 started in Philadelphia to organize q
alabor&p party. and it was announced that
@fronl now. on II would he. the ain, of
I the executive ofti ticers of the State Fed
|seratlon toll push the movement in every
part OF the State.
Question ar Endurance.
Philadelphia. Pa. March 2s.--With
th1esdecislollso Q the State labor organt.
cations not TO declare a sympathetic
strike. and gtheFreturne to work of many
OF the synlpatheticS strikers In this
city. the situationsih settled down
to aAquestton a of endurance between
tho striking carmen and the Phlladel-
Iphiag Rapid Transit Company.
Officials of the compan nv claim 1,3n0
Icars nre In operation, The secretary
OF the street Garments union, however,
claimed to-nlght s that the greateSt
number OF cars operated IN a single
day since the beginning Of the strike
was q Geo, He claims that there are
only 700 memhers of tho keystone
Eunion, the members OF which remained
with the Import ed 5stri ilte breakers. the
|EcompanyS still Srea eautres n 0klnore men,
|sbThe committee OF ten OF the Central
Labor u ynion, which has been directing
1.-the general stri he, sin,its statement ~
lsnight stated that n nj Us assured that
ithss orupany cannot hold out IS much ~
longer, sA A.ts SsFS 4iF S