Evening star., 1937-08-05


BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 5.-Trucks
began to move normally throughout
Philadelphia today.
The flare-up last night a few hours
after the city-Wide strike had been
announced as ended except in the case
of companies under contract to haul
goods for the Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Co., subsided and everywhere busi-
ness houses were replenishing their
supplies
Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who pro-
claimed state of emergency" yes
terday, said the proclamation would
remain in effect until he was reason
ably certain all danger OF further vio-
ience was passed.
Police conveys escorted A. g. P. con-
tract hauling trucks today, giving
them safe passage through the city.
Seven large delivery vans of the con-
tracing companies were trailed across
the Delaware River Bridge to Cam
den, N. j., where their drivers asked
police for escorts. They were told that
escorts could not be furnished because
1t was feared such action might lead
TO trucking strike in Camden. The
police, however, agreed to patrol the
routes Of the trucks.
Police Crush Flare-up.
This was the only incident in the
rush toward normalcy since the police
last night were compelled to crush
the fiare-up that followed the end of
the city-wide strike, called in support
OF the strike against the A. g. P.
hauling companies.
SlXty-tWo men were arrested in the
disorder during the night. Eleven
were discharged by Mayor Wilson,
who sat as a magistrate in city hall.
The others were held in $4,000 bail
each for further hearing on charges
ranging from riot and inciting to riot
to disorderly conduct and suspicion.
They were sent to the county prison
in default of bail.
Most of the trouble last night was
in the wholesale district where some
men refused to recognize that the
strike was ended and continued to
mo!est truck drivers.
A strike Of warehouse employees also
called in support of the strike against
the A. d P. haulers, was terminated
today by the Warehousemens Union.
The strike. which kept off the streets
5000 drivers and approximately one
third Of the city's trucks, was ended
yesterday afternoon except for COM
panles under contract to haul mer-
chandise for the Great Atlantic e.
Pacific Tea Co.
Ofncers OF the union agreed to call
on the strike if the haulers would dis
continue the use of guards on their
trucks.
Agree 10 Police Conveys.
The union agreed the trucks could
be conveyed by policemen instead.
The strike ended five hours after
the Mayor declared a state of emer-
gency.
He ordered all available policemen
on duty and enlisted others from civil
service lists.
Police reported truck drivers had
been beaten, taxicabs set afire. al
though no strike of cab drivers had
been called. and operators of Rapid
Transit System trolley cars ordered off
the streets
The state of emergency was con-
tlnued last night and today to cope
with continued disorders as rowing
groups of men refused to heed the
orders of union chiefs.
Traffic Tied Up.
Several trucks were stopped and
traffic was snarled in the wholesale
produce districts where drivers worked
through the night to move perishable
foodstuffs which had piled up in mar
kets along the Delaware River water
front.
A crowd of 400 men blocked the
street near the Teamsters' Union head
quarters.
Joseph E. Grace, president, and
Raymond Kelly, an official of the
union, where shouted down as they
told the crowd the object of the strike
the discharge of the truck guards
had been accomplished
Police in 100 patrol cars dispersed
the crowd and made arrests.