THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE.
POLITICAL CORRUPTION AT EOT-
TOM OF TROUBLE
United Press Association— Copyright LONDON, Feb. 21. The “Times” Washington correspon-
-dent states that the Philadelphia- strike w is attributable to .political corruption 7 by the Republican machine, wliich in the city is a byword for dishonesty, par. tieularly in connection with tramways. Seven hundred and fifty carswere de-
st roved. The total casualties enacted amount to one •thousand. The dead and dying total. twelve, r those.: seriously jured total 91,i including 31 police.’ One car depot was dynamited, The .posting of militiaat- twenty yards intervals proved a fiasco. Women stuck tins on their bayonets, arid cut off the militiamen’s buttons as souvenirs. The gaols are overcrowded. Business is paralysed. The trials of the prisoners have begun, the sentences given ranging from two to six years.
A GENERAL STRIKE THREAT-
ENED
14" (Received .February 25, 11.30 p.m.) Jr NEW YORK, Feb., 25. J r A hundred and fifty .mounted State constabulary, accustomed to turbulent miners, overawed the Philadelphia strikers, and more ears are running, hut a .general strike is threatened.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2746, 26 February 1910, Page 5
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180THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2746, 26 February 1910, Page 5
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