The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-01

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sywpathesis w&Iksut a. UuiOa SacA
PuuADKI.PuHA, Feb. - - senator Jamsn
McNichol and Recorder william Ware.
who are In Florida. were Ashed BY
telegraph t0-aiGht 20 come home and aAVe
Philsdslphia from the danger Of general
strike.
the last twenty -four hours and McNichol
and Ware are depsndsd upon 10 bring
about arbitration where tho clergyman
Of the city failed
The impression grove hourly thai. fhs
Central Labor Union vas not hlufang
when it ordered . general sympathetic
strike Merchants and manufacturers.
who laughed a few days ago AZ the posai-
bility Of extsnSed trouble. have become
scared. business has been crampsd
badly by the car strike and the possibIli-
ties that hinge upon q general walkout
have made business men thoroughly
uncomfortable.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
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position Of being about 10 lose a strike
that IL has won. situation brought about
by its declaration 10 the clergynen Of
the city that IL would not arbitrats any
thing.
Previously the sympathies II a pubic
that had never learned 20 love the P. n. 7.
were with tho company. because IL wa
generally believed that the company
had been fair With il men and that 10
was within it, rights In declining 20
permit Clarence O. Pratt and the Anal b
Gamatsd Union Of Street Railway Enc
ployees 90 dictate 20 IL. For q week
public opinion backed up the Transit
directora. People turned Q cold shoulder
toward Pratt and the noisy striksrs.
The mems position wan made even more
untsnAbls because OF Widespread dis
order. Little by little. car by car. the
company rsinstitute6 service until 10
vras within 50 per osnt. Of the normal
But the strike seemed likely 20 drag oue
For weeks. bcoause PFnss "a fighter and
maintains extraordinary asoendnncy over
hAs followers. Citissns got tired Of dodg-
ing brickbaas and walking Ave miles from
homo 20 business.
ma utEfksrs were wiling 20 arbitraAe.
and h b nAOwn positively that they would
hnvo mGrosG 90 the deciaion Of board %
mrbisrmfion even u ths board had elim,i-
naAad ths question % sxclAlatvs reooGnl-
tion % ehuir ,mion. Acting IN responso
~ a nsmnBnh dmunan6.. ne -alaxGpum4n
ohered means .of adtazaamene- Th@ oom-
pany through its directors turned down
nnediatory offers. Then. a. had besn
threatened, q general ot IKE was planned
and called.
Pratt and Murphy had enough innusncs
with the leaders OF 10000 union work
men % ewing them IN behind the carmen.
Az things stand now Il 10 10 r. 1 that
those men will lsave their picks In the
air on next Saturday morning unless the
tranmit company decides 20 leave the
points OF differences between itself and in
men TO arbitration.
During the day half a dozen move
ments were started 60 compel the p. r. T.
to arbitrate. Nobody wants a general
strike. not even the union men who are
preparing to walk out. but the town n
thoroughly convinced that q general
strike q exactly what IL Is facing in casa
the p r. T. refuses 10 arbitrate.
Investigation Of the situation to-day
developed that employers Of all kinds
brewers. heads Of weaving factories. tho
Cramps. men who employ machinists.
steamhtters. carpenters. tailors. milx
wagon drivers. electrical workers and q
hundred other kinds Of worlOmen--havs
asked their men what they really in
tended to do II the p. R. T. refused 10
arbitrate. In almost every case they
have been informed that their employees
would abide by the decision Of their
unions.
When this became well nigh certain
the big hanks took a hand in the game.
There are many large industrial concerns
in Philadelphia that have large contracts
on hand. They are carrying those con-
tracts on money borrowed from the
banks. The hanks are keenly Interested
in preventing a general strike. Thsy
put the solution Of the problem up TO ons
Of the most powerful institutions In thia z
city-the Market Street Merchants Asso-
ciation. Outside OF the Republican ma
chine there u no single body Of msn
who can accomplish more when they ese
about 20 do Il than the Market street
merchants
The merchants. beaded by Ellis Clinical
ana nMhuuci ~. AAAs ~ N08osAt9E AAA3
agreed tentatively to two plans ot action.
one Of which or both may be brought for
ward The first plan waA to call McHioho1
and Ware. who settled the strike last June
when IL threatened to become extremely
UNPLEASANT. Tho second was 20 make
direct Representations 90 the p. r. T. that
something would drop II the company
continued to hold out.
II senator McNichol and Recorder Ware
respond to the call they are expected % do
several things. They will at the direo-
tson OF the merchants OF Market street.
put resolution through . complaisans
Council. mildly worded but loAdsd with
dynamite. request from the City Fathers
that the company and the strikers Cos
togsther and arbitFats- Also there are
individual members of the board OF direo-
tors Of the Rapid Transit Company who
viii not turn their ears away when
McNichol and Ware begin 10 talk
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