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Show C. O. Pratt Battles Sin- l gle-Handed Against In-ternational In-ternational Union For ji H Reinstatement of Phil-adelphia Phil-adelphia Street Rail-way Rail-way Employees' Organ- ! ization, of Which He Is ;;H Prominent Member. i MAY HIRE HALL IF j I REFUSED HEARING. 1 1 Declares He Came to j Salt Lake to Refute i H Statement That He j H Was Afraid to Face His H Accusers; Delegates to , H Be Asked to Review 1 I Charges. H Buttling single handed against the ) "old guard" of tho Amalgamated As- x' ' sociation of Street and Electric .Railway Employ oes of America, C. O. Pratt, for mer chairman-of -the executive' board ' of tho association, will today ask tht j international convention of street car . i men in Salt Lake to reinstate as mem- ' 1 hers of tho international union o2i(i ' Philadelphia street railway employee!-. j rH Thc demand will be made before thc H committee on appeals and before the ; convention itself. The delegates will . be asked to review the charges of in- ' subordination under which C. O. Pratt , and more than 3000 members of the : H Philadelphia union were expelled from the union. i The Philadelphia question has result- ed from four years of controversy ant iH has many angles and od'-slioots. Peuu- i sylvania politics, thc Penrose machine ' and the Mulhall charges involving Penu- sylvauia labor leaders are only a few ; of the ramifications of thc problem, May Hire a Hall. Though for many years a prominent ; 'M member of the international association, . C. O. Pratt is now ineligible to attond tho meetings of the association and lms not the richt to anncar before thc ' convention in Bupport of his appeal. I However, friends who arc delegates to ; the convention will insist that he bo 'H given the privilege of the floor that he may have the opportunity to bo heard. II this privilege is denied him, Pratt will hire a hall and invite thc street 1 car men to attend a meeting at which he will make the defense for the car ! fH men expelled from the union. 1 "President "W. D. Mahon made tho ! fJ statement in Philadelphia that I was .H afraid to faco my accusers," declared Pratt yesterday. "I have now come all the way from Philadelphia to Salt Lake to face them and in view of his statement in Philadelphia I hardly Bee .H how he can now dony mo a hearing." ,H Three appeals have been filed by the suspended Philadelphia union for action by this convention. All of them are from decisions of the international ex- 1 jfl ecutivo board on the Philadelphia sit- ; 'H uatiou. These decisions, the Pratt fol- j lowers assort, wero mado by tho inter- L national officers for the purpose of jflH crushing Pratt. PKI Three Objections. The rulings to which the carmen in Philadelphia object aro first, that 0. O. Pratt is ineligible to bold office in 'M thc Philadelphia local; second, that C. , 'J O. Pratt is Ineligible to membership in j thc Philadelphia local, and third, that tho union is guilty of insubordination i '1 in voting ngainst requesting tho inter- ' national officers to represent the local union in negotiations with the Pbila- ial dclphia Rapid Transit company. The international officers hold Pratt 5ulcly responsible for the Internecine , strife among the union carmen in Phlla- .H dclphia and blame him for thc dlsrup- H lion of the union. At the present time ''H there arc three organizations among the street car men of Philadelphia. One or- : ganizatlon is known as thc "Keystoners," J who are. termed strike-breakers by the j H other street car men, with a membership J jH il IH (Continued on Pago Two.), i JH crisis in in CilW'S COM (Continued from Page Ono.) of 2000: the Independent union of the Pratt followers, with 324G members, and the remnant of the International union, which la recognized by the association as the regular Philadelphia local, with 139 members. The Pratt men contend that their union Is the suspended union and that as a suspended union they have the right to appeal to the convention and have n. representative on the floor of the convention. con-vention. The International officers end the 139 members of the recognized Philadelphia Phila-delphia local oppose tho recognition of the Pratt followers as having any standing stand-ing whatever In the International association. asso-ciation. The 139 untl-Pratt union men In Philadelphia are represented In Salt Lake by Ells A. Morgan. Felix Hcinzel. l-lugh 13. Barron Thomas Klrrane nail Harry Flynn, The 3246 Pratt men are represented only by Pratt. Pratt concedes that a majority of the convention Is against him now, but believes be-lieves that there Is a possibility of converting con-verting enough delegates to his side of the question. He said that he was flght-Ins flght-Ins mostly for a fair hearing and that after a hearing he would hope for a verdict ver-dict in his favor. Pratt has a strong minority in the convention, but most of the delegates appear to hold to the heller he-ller that the "old guard" will prove too strong for him. Among those who favor Pratt are the members of the Salt Lake delegation. Pratt organized the local union of street car men and conducted the successful street car strike In 130. He has been very popular in Salt Lake ever since that time. Trunk of Papers. From Philadelphia Pratt brought to the convention a trunk lllled with letters and documents bearing on the Philadelphia Phila-delphia situation. Among the documents are several circulars attacking Pratt and signed bv international officers. He a so has a letter from Marlln B. Pew, editor of the Cincinnati News-Post, testifying to the Integrity of Pratt und containing a scathing attack on V. D. Mahon. The letter states that Pratt has been tile Mc-tim Mc-tim of a "most ruthless, despicable ana criminal conspiracy ' because he tried to redeem Philadelphia from the Influence of the Mulhall-Feeny crowd The trouble in Philadelphia dated from soon after the Toronto convention or t lie association. An effort had been made at the Toronto convention to defeat Prau for re-election to the executive boaid, o which he had been chairman for sccrn rears. Pratt won after a hard fight : and ,4 r it- cni.i -in nffort was made to discredit Pratt's work In rgalzlns the Philadelphia local. . The feeling became be-came more and more oltter and at tlie St. Joseph convention two fc ,o Pratt was defeated for re-election to tne executive board.- p t. After the St. Joseph convention Pratt took up permanent residence at W delphla and transferred his membership to the Philadelphia local. A the local was suspended, which PMcd that a person must have en a member of the local for one year In order to M eligible to hold office and Piatt "as elected business iwuM Jua per month. TccH eluding Pratt. btjwaM tlie traction compuT fjH wages for the ma. iVaH posed a co-optratlvj 'kiMm men should receive i NaB gross earning; of ti plan was submitted to itSH of all the employee d tB respective of union iffiatS ricd by almost & tvs-il In the meantime IcterH were sent to PhllidtfM an agreement, but the; declined to serve or. urgiB which Pratt was a tusiB Baron, financial Hcreanifl delphla local, filed t ?mm Pratt's election to cbH the po'ltlon of biiia jH Baron Censured, :l Later, acconling to Prtlfl unanimous vote cusuts! iMm the protest and mc ifl file a n answer. Before tltiH opportunity to file u the International eucsmH that Pratt could ioI ftrS agent on the gTourJ lH been a member of tie taJfl the local union couMutflH mous vote, suspend U! tf-jfl the jlluatloiL IbatzyaM from the podlton ot taB liis resignation was tafB Later, the internttlculaH held that the electfoa B bcrshlp In the PhlhB legal, because Pratt nB engaged in street or (fB time of his election to aH pointed out that h "B man at Cleveland for lijrH conductor for one JW,B In work for the that his transfer !B union had been af?swM Mahon. v ... ,B Then the mmvat fimm became arouitd njitniM ofilceia ami a(t,sr .Sx the International o-koM cnduin to aSMrtilnrtwM tlatlons sliouW "JfTjB national officer! pany looking Jf,SH posed co-operati ww- one-third of the "SB endum ekc,l"- ,, M' The Intcrnauowl vfoWM Ian declarlns W resumption , of g"5fjl national ofncers f the continuance cJ fM against the .Wl.jM oetuatlon of tb HSB The result mi r 9B ai d l a victory te&igM rational eJ&W Philadelphia to the minorib nn. -m been In b t f gSB declares fWhtt rnaklns 3 B statement iitisK'B situation g'-XM convention. tacWM consumed n 'ei M pohC2dSSBl which T"c tfltfB situation. 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