The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-12
Central Labor Union De-
bates on Calling 0zt All
Boston Workers.
MOB LAW STILL RULES
Mayor Remains Firm in Re-
fusal to Recognize Or
ganized Police.
DEATH LIST Is NOW EIGHT
Gov. Coolidge in Charge OF
City-Machine Guns Guard
Police Headquarters.
DEATH LIST Is NOW EIGHT
By a s,ar Correspondent Of Tnr Sun.

ized labor will quit ) work in sym.
pathy with the striking Boston police
force will be known within a week.
The Central Labor Union appointed
tonight a. committee. of seventeen.
whose duty it is to oscollect vote Of
those local unions which have not yet
decided whether they favor or do not
favor a sympathetic strike.
The locals will hold special meet
ings tomorrow night and Sunday.
The vote will be taken and returned
to the committee Of seventeen. An
other meeting of the Central Labor
Union will be held, and the delegates
will then vote as their locals have
voted-either for or against a gen
eral strike.
A majority vote is all that will be
necessary to precipitate the walkout.
The telephone operators union will
meet tomorrow night 1t and the
car mems union are the largest in
New England. But to call a general
strike it will be necessary that a ma
iOrity Of the locals favor it.
These delegates representing locals
which have not yet taken a strike vote
were unable to wore at the c. L. L.
meeting tonight. 1t is believed that
Samuel Gompers will ceme to Boston
within a fewydays and advise against
the general strike.
From virtually everyrMayor and
Governor in the onion Mayor Peters
and Gov. Coolidge have received tel
, egrams. They beg the local authori-
ties to stand fast; to stick by their
determination not to recognize an af-
filiation Of the police with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor
If the Central Labor Uniop decides
that organized workmen of Boston
will quit work until the State Of Mas
sachusetts and the city Of Boston de-
eide to accept a police union, heaven
help Boston!
Far Reaching Effects.
That will mean that one by one or
simultaneously, dependent upon the
temper of the delegates, the telephone,
the transportation, the electrical, the
building trades and the newspaper
unions will quit work. That will
mean that a local terror. twholly un-
precedented in the history of this
country, win possess Boston. 1t will
mean that the Boston Fire"Depart-
ment may quit work and that the
mobs of hoodlums and thieves that
have made shambles of the streets
and small business houses of this city
since the police quit vii get free
hand to pillage. burnXkrob and desc
crate.
The firemen have decided that they
| may walk out in the case of a gen
| eral strike. Thus the city will be
left free to burn. The electrical work.
ers have already signified their desire
to quit in sympathy with the police.
That means that the streets will re-
main dark at night.
The telephone operators say they
are ready to obey the dictum OF the
| Central Labor Union, and that means
that Boston will becope collection
! of villages each wholly isolated and
! each an easy prey for marauding
mobs. The telephone company, fear
| ing the worst, raised the pay of its
operators to-day. The increase was
small, but It was decided that some
thing had to he done.
Night fell upon Boston without Sc
rious rioting Here and there in
South Boston, in the South and West
| ends and down around Scollay
Square, mobs marched through the
streets singing Where Do We Go
From Here?," Hail, Hail. the Gangs
All Here" and "F'iremGn, Save My
Child" Now and then a small furore
arose and the State Guardsmen pre-
pared to use their bayonets.
&c Crowds Await Decision.
But unlike last night and Tuesday
night, dusk brought forth no great
clashes between the militia and the
mob. Obviously the crowds awaited
the decision Of the Central Labor
: Union
When State Guardsmen broke up a
slcc game IN ~" Ismai"a Pla in. district
thls evening Henry Grosi"9O vas shot
and killed.
4 second clash between the mob and
the soldiers In Jamaica Plain tonight
resulted in the fatal shoo<ipg Of Carson
McWiiliams, is, of 81 Boylston street
and the woundlns OF Arthur English
1G. and John ]. Powers, %, both OF
Jamaica Plain. McWillaHs cannot live
until daylight McWillfamss death
ma de the eighth as a result of1the mob