Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-11
FIRST GENERAL STRIKE
CALLED IN THIS C0UN-
TRY ENDS IN FAILURE
Continued IRON rage one:l

~,.1 tcontlnued From rsge one.l
ton and might not return until the
general strike officially ends.
| Chief interest tonight centered in
the question as to how many unions,
| if any, would heed the request of the
general strike committee to refrain
| from working until noon tomorrow
when the strike will come to an of
fetal end and what effect the finish
of the sympathetic strike. after a tur-
bulent course of five days, would have
upon the strike of the $4,000 metal
! trade workers in whose Behalf it was
called.
That street car service would con-
tinue and restaurants remain open as
at present, appeared certain and these
features seemed most important to
the general public. a number of un-
ions were planning to meet tonight to
determine whether to heed the advice
of the general strike committee and
walk out again until tomorrow noon.
Mayor Ole Hanson. who from the
first predicted an early end of the
general walk-out, made the following
statement upon learning Of the order
to end the strike IN demonstration
of labor's solidarity:
The calling off OF the general
strike will not replace union labor
in the high position It held IN Seattle.
Without reason, without cause. our
city lay PROSTATE. Union labor must
clean house Seattle may forgive but
it cannot forget
The mayor also declared that he
favored the passage of law, if, it
should be found constitutional, forcing
! employees of essential industries to
swear allegiance to the United States
government in preference to amy
union and to make it Illegal for them
| to quit their positions or strike unless
there were others to replace them.
Virtually the general strike was
over this morning US nearly every la
Dor union Of importance to industry
or business was at work and the men
remained at work until the end of the
| day. Seventeen hundred transfers
and truck drivers, nearly the entire
street ear comDany's force, milk
wagon drivers, BARRIERS, automobile
drivers and garbage drivers We're back
at their tasks. Schools opened; two
shipping terminals resumed work with
non-union and union men and other
terminals were preparing to start
business during the day or Tuesday
HlOEHiHS WtlIl non ull.Oll HlcH ulllGSS
the regular forces returned, Police
guards watched the docks where non
union crews worked today.
Tuesday, according to the strikers
calendar, will register the sixth day
of the general strike which has in
volved approximately $4,000 men. and
having passed off thus far without
single instance of disorGer. Hundreds
of police officers, however, It was an
nounced, will be kept continually on
duty in the citys bushes district until
all danger of trouble is past. Federal
troops as well have not relaxed their
guard over federal properties.
City and police officials believed
large contributing cause to the lack
of disorders was what they termed
a luke warm attitude on the part of a
majority fthe union men toward the
strike. Dissatisfaction among the UNI
ions themselves as to conduct. of the
strike was freely expressed by union
leaders today. The newsboys union,
which returned to work Saturday, to-
day charged that the official labor
organ, the Union Record, was the first
to violate union regulations by using
non-union boys to sell its papers.
Employees included in the Seattle
amusement federation, including NOV
ing picture operators, musicians, stage
hands and other stage crafts, late to-
day voted to resume work Mt o'clock
tonight, resisting attempts made to
have them postpone action until noon
Tuesda:'. AS a result the clty's thea
ters were in full operation tonight.