The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-03
MEN TO GO OUT FRIDAY
Central Labor Delegates in Meeting
VIII Call Out 100000 at Midnight.

Philadelphia, March 2.-Resolu-
tions strongly urging arbitration
was adopted today by the United
Business Mems Association and sent
to Mayor Reyburn and the other rep
resentatives of the city on the transit
company's board of directors. They
will also be presented to City Council
tomorrow.
Union stage hands employed in the
theatres and other amusement places
today notified their employers that if
the Transit Company and its em-
ployers have not reached an agree
mem before Saturday the stage hands
would QUIT work as an expression OF
sympathy with the carmen. This
weeks shows will all be gotten away
properly but the union will not re-
port for work on Monday.
A universal strike of union work
ers and their sympathizers, 10 begin
at midnight Friday. was proclaimed by
the Central Labor Union of Philadel-
phia and vicinity, at a meeting to-
night. The strike leaders declare that
100000 men will stop work at that
hour if the Rapid Transit Company
! shall not in the meantime have con-
sented no arbitrate its differences VITA
the striking carmen Assurances have
been received, they say, from hund-
reds of unorganized wage earners
that they will join the movement.
The meeting at which the strike
order was promulgated was large and
sentiment was apparently unanimous
in favor of the general strike. Speech
es by John j. Murphy, president of
the Central Labor Union; Clarence o.
Pratt, leader of the striking carmen,
and William Mahon, president of the
international Carmens' Association
stirred the delegates to a high pitch
of enthusiasm kilograms were read
| from the Chicago and San Francisco
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| 175,O00 members respe peo5ively pledg-
ing their moral and financial support
to the cause of their Philadelphia
b,'ethern.
Resolutions were adopted condemn
ing the attitude of the Traction COM
pany, by which, it was stated, bust.
ness had been affected to such an ex-
/ tent thai. thousands of persons not
directly interested in the strike had
been thrown out of employment.
The railroad company is making
strenuous efforts to reach Yelling
ton from both sides of the mountain
range. Relief trains have been dis
patched from Everett with supplies
! lnd wreckage crew. The road s
Locked in several places by smaller
sl,1es and tn high temperature leads
10 the fear hat more may occur 10
impede the relief wclk.
The passengers known to be dead
| include Frances Starrett and Lillian
Starrett, children of Chemainus, B. c.
Among the passengers missing are
K. H. Belbert, a civil engineer of
| Seattle, n. Y, and Cuba A. Beles, Mo-
| berly, Ont; H. d. Chantrell, Vancou-
yer, b. c.; Bert Mathews, Cincinnati.
| o.; r. G. Thompson, Vancouver B. c.;
and E. w. Tapping, Ashland, Chic In
all, twenty-eight railroad employees
are missing.
To add to the difficulties, the only
telegraph wires into Scenic failed to-
night.
Rescue parties are working desper-
ately to recover the passengers from
the buried coaches.
! The day coach and the smoking cal
have not yet been found. They were
smashed fiat, it is said.
One woman was rescued from a
Pullman after twelve hours impris.
onment under the snow.
Brakeman Duncan and Conductor
Purcells and Clary, who were in one
of the cars that was smashed to spln-
ters, escaped with slight bruises. In
bare feet they worked for hours
helping the injured and saving those
caught under the wreckage.
Mrs. Starrett of Chemaimus, B. c..
and one child, were saved, but two Of
her children were killed,
All the injured are being cared fol
at Wellington and Scenic. 1t is now
thought all will recover
1t is now said that the reason the
train was not kept in the tunnel where
it would have escaped the slide was
that passengers feared they would be
blocked in and suffocated there.
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