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lice were dispatched to the Hunting
Park Station of the Broad street
subway on report of bad dis
turbance" there.
Policemen reported the station
was "all quiet" when they arrived,
but said they we're told that strikers
had been attempting to dissuade
residents from boarding the occa-
sional trains.
Thousands Walk to Work.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands
OF Philadelphians again hj.ch-hiked,
walked or used makeshift transpo-
tation provided by employers to get
to their jobs.
The Army gave no immediate in
dication of what action it would take
If complete service was not restored
A mass meeting of many of the
PICS 5000 employees voted last
night to continue the walkout on the
ground that the racial issue had not
been settled by Government seizure.
Until we get written guarantee
that there will be no further hiring
of colored operators and no further
instruction of the colored operators
now in training, we will stay out" a
leader declared.
Army Issues Statement.
This assertion from James Nc
Menamin, chairman of the recently
formed General Emergency Com
mittee" of the PIC workers, brought
the following statement from the
Army's Sd Service Command, which
took over operation of the system
after President Roosevelt ordered its
seizure last night:
The Army's position is clear. We
expect every employe of the Phila-
delphia Transportation Co. to full
fill his patriotic duties and report
for work at his regular starting time
today"
In Washington, James P. McGran-
cry, assistant. to Attorney General
Biddle, said that when President
Roosevelt authorized seizure of the
lines "he placed the entire authority
Of the United States Government
behind his words"
His order will be carried out.
The cars will rum" Mr.. McGranery
added THE Government will move
swiftly to enforce the law without
hesitation"
Penalties Cited.
He referred, he said, to the War
Disputes Act, which provides a
maximum penalty of 5000 and a
years imprisonment for causing a
strike in a Government-operated
industry.
Earlier Gen. Hayes announced
that the Army would operate the
transit lines on the basis of the con-
ditions that were there before the
strike" and that "all the employees
will continue in the capacity they
held at that time"
He did not refer specifically to the
eight Negroes whose upgrading from
maintenance workers to motorman
trainees precipitated the walkout.
Mr.. McMenamin, however, at first
interpreted his remarks to mean
that the upgrading was Cancelled,
and told some 1900 cheering work.
ers, I'VE have won. There are no
Negro operators"
Boy Is Injured.
In the latest racial clash a boy
identified as Franklin Howard, IS,
colored, was struck in the chest by
a bullet fred from an automobile
which, police SAID, contained two
white men. Reports Of second
shooting spread after a policeman
who had arrested Negro for a
minor violation fired shot into
the air to disperse a crowd that
milled around him.
Howard was the 18th person
thospitalized In disorders growing out
Of. the work stoppage, which has
cut deeply into war production, de-
prived 100000 persons Of their
normal daily transportation and
cost millions of dollars In lost busi-
ness and wages.
Gen. Hayes, who personally served
notice on PFC officials that the
Government now was In the dis
lpatchers chair, said he was count
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