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Show I; PHILAOELPHiA M Day Is One of Comparative Quiet With Only Single Serious Seri-ous Riot. CONFLICTING CLAIMS AS , TO NUMBER ON STRIKE Police Say Less Than 20,000; Labor ' Leaders Declare More Than 100,000. PJIILADKLPlirA. March 7. If tlio computation of t ho Philadelphia polico department is correct and the officii) la i declare it to be based on a careful and complete canvass of the city less than 20.000. workmen have responded 1 to the call for a general strike. I Tonight Director of Public Safety 1 Henry Clay issued the first detailed , statement purporting to show the extent, ex-tent, to which tlio sympathetic strike in support of the striking conductors and motormen of the Philadelphia Jfapid Transit company has affected the industrial life of the city. It came at the close of the first lull working day under the general strike order, which became effectivo Friday at midnight. Police Say All Quiot. The day was the quietest since the calling of the general strike. Tonight there was absolute quiet up to a late hour, according to police reports, and I every indication that the night would pass without, scricus outbreaks. Mayor Ecyburn late today said that the sympathetic strike was over so far as the city administration was concerned, con-cerned, adding that the aftermath could safelv be loft to the police to handle. Word that the order for federal troops had boon canceled indicated that the authorities believed the worst of the trouble was over. The transit conditions, to every appearance, ap-pearance, showed continued improvement improve-ment today and tonight. There was less necessity for the presence .of the police on the cars and even timid people peo-ple arc beginning to show a disposi-1 disposi-1 tion to ride. The police made a careful canvass today of the city's industries to ascertain ascer-tain the number of men on strike. The returns tabulated by Director Clay showed thnt 1S,-107 persons had responded re-sponded to the general strike call. The police did not attempt to explain the discrepancy between these figures and those of labor leaders, who say 100.000 or 150.000 men arc on strike. The labor leaders acoffed at the police po-lice figures. According to the police, establishments establish-ments affected by the sympathetic strike employ 51,954 hands. There are 121,539 employes in other establishments establish-ments not affected by the strike, and i this gives, by the police figures, a total of 170,193 employes, of which only 1S,-107 1S,-107 arc out. Many have quit work, it is declared, not from sympathy for the car men, but because they have been forced by the action of certain branches of their trades. I For instance, it is said, at a carpot mill 300 dyers quit work, and this com-( com-( lielled the closing of the plant and the enforced idleness of 2S0O other em-j em-j ployes. The commandant of the Philadelphia , navy yard today issued an order forbidding for-bidding leave of absence to men on any 1 vessels at tho yard during the strike troubles. Big Mass Meeting. Four thousand men and women attended at-tended a mass mooting of the strikers in the Labor Lyceum. The city administration was bitterly denounced for its .attitude, and the speakers were especially vehement in criticising the employment of nepjro policemen. One of them declared: "Our rulers have put a club into the black man 's hand with which to club out the white man's brains, Luella M, Twining, a woman organizer organ-izer of -the Western Federation of Miners, was one of tho speakers. Her praise of Eugene V. Dobs and the Socialistic So-cialistic movement aroused enthusiasm. John M. Wall, an official of tho Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts Central Lnbor union, assured the Philadelphia strikers that they would receive financial support from Ins state. Resolutions calling upon every man, woman and child in Philadelphia Phila-delphia to quit work were adopted with cheers. As the crowds were leaving the hall there was a grave outbreak of disorder. dis-order. Several cars were stoned in front of the place. The police charged the crowd, which was so dense that it dispersed slowly. Tho bluecoats swung their clubs, felling fell-ing several persons to the ground, three of whom wero so seriously beaten that thev were taken to a hospital. When the policemen fired their revolvers re-volvers several times in the air, tho people scattered in all directions. Six arrests were made. , Tho hoard of directors of tho United Business Men's association appointed a , committee of seven to call a conference confer-ence of tho banking, commercial and trade bodies, business associations and Teligious and fraternal organizations to I bring about a settlement of the strike. |