The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-02-22
Two Boys Shot by Police Att
er Youths Had Stoned
Gar
ARREST Of STRIKE LEADER
HAS InCEMSEO PUBLIC MIND
Held on 5000 Bail for Inciting to
Riot Conspiracy and Disorderly
Conduct-All Philadelphia Oreanis.
ed Labor Ordered to Strike.

Philadelphia, Feb. 22.-Incensed at
the action of the police in arrestine
Strike Leader Pratt Of the carman's
union last night, the central labor
union of Philadelphia today declared
a sympathetic strike of all organized
labor In the city affiliated with the
central body. The central labor union
claims membership of 100000 and
whether the strike order will be
obeyed cannot yet be told.
This being Washington's birthday
practically all organized labor is idle
and many things can happen before
tomorrow. Some of the unions are
against sympathetic strikes, others
are opposed to breaking the trade
agreements, but notwithstanding these
conditions, the radical labor leaders
say the order will be generally
obeyed. The central labor union ID
composed of 300 delegates said to rep
resent 100 unions in all kinds of
trades. The labor leaders ere hold
ing "a conference today to determine
when the strike order shall 90 into
effect.
Washington's birthday found the
citizens facing most critical situa-
ton. With the public mind inflamed,
with people taking sides in the great
conflict between the strikers and the
street car company and with tho po-
lice grimly determined to put down
the lawlessness, it was regarded az
remarkable If clash more serious
than those of either Sunday or yes
terday did not occur between the un-
ruly element and the constituted au-
thorities.
The first trouble of the day was re-
ported at 8 o'clock from Kensington
in the northeastern part of the city,
the great mill district Of Philadelphia,
where two boys were shot. A crowd
of youths lay in wait for car and as
| it passed, they hurled shower of
stones. Two policemen who were in
a conveyance as patrollers of the
trolley car, then opened fire on the
boys with revolvers and when the
lads fled it was found that two of the
! youngsters had been wounded. Both
! were rushed to the hospital. An ex-
animation showed that one boy had
been shot in the chest. The other
was only slightly injured.
| The Incarceration of c. o. Pratt.
who is national organizer of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway employees, and has
been the leader of the strikers, did
not help the situation, but on the con-
trary brought about the ugliest kind
Of feeling between the strike sympa-
thizers and the police authorities.
Pratt was taken into custody last
night on a charge Of "inciting to
riot" Detectives have been on his
trail since the strike began last Sat-
urday, but did not "get anything on
him." as they term it. until yester-
day afternoon when the riot occurred
in front of the hall in which he was
addressing the strikers. Detectives
in the crowd Immediately reported to
Director Clay of the department of
public safety, with the result that a
warrant was sworn out for Pratt's ar
rest. He was given a hearing today
and held in $4,000 bail charged with
melting riot, conspiracy and disorder
ly conduct. Bail will be furnished.
| General Strike
President Murphy Of the Central
Labor union called general strike
of organized labor in Philadelphia in
sympathy with the striking street rail-
way employees. 1t is claimed that be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 men will re-
| tn tho Nol1