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Show Cll m MAY FOLLOW SHE SOLDIERS MAY BE CALLED OUT TO PREVENT RIOTING IN NEW YORK CITY. Labor Leaders Given Formal Warning by Mayor That He Intends to Use the City's Resources to Enforce Order. New York. Labor leaders were given formal warning by Mayor Mitch-el, Mitch-el, Thursday night, that he would employ em-ploy the "full civil and military powers" pow-ers" conferred upon him by law to prevent disorders if ' the threatened general strike of trade unionists is called to aid the street car employees who quit their places September 6. The mayor's communication was addressed ad-dressed to Hugh Frayne, chairman of the conference committee of labor leaders, after a final effort to arrange a peaceful settlement had failed and following the declaration that a general gen-eral strike was inevitable. The mayor made it plain that for the union officials, offi-cials, "to call these strikes will be to assume fuil responsibility for all that may follow." The communication, which was concurred con-curred in by Oscar Strauss, chairman of the public service commission, reviewed re-viewed at length the causes which led to the present crisis. It stated that the nterborough Rapid Transit company, which operates the subway and elevated elevat-ed lines, violated a verbal agreement with the labor leaders by refusing to arbitrate issues arising subsequent to the making of the agreement. It stated, on the other hand, that the employees of the New York Railway company and the other surface lines affected by the strike, "were guilty of a breach" of contracts they had made with their employers, which ended in a tie-up on the surface roads in July. The conference was attended by Mayor Mitchel, a citizens' committee find the labor leaders. It ended in a deadlock. The mayor later declared there was "no solution in sight," while members of the citizens' committee described the situation as "hopeless," idding that "it would appear that both aides would have to fight it out." Ernest Bohm, secretary of the Central Cen-tral Federated union, later asserted that plans were completed for a sympathetic sym-pathetic Btrike of 700,000 workers in jther trades. |