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Settlement

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There is a Settlement section, but nothing but a template in the section. Someone who knows the subject or can look up the information should add the section information. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:21, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I've removed the following, having failed to find support in the cited source, Ch 6 of History of the labor movement in the United States, Vol. 5: The AFL in the Progressive Era 1910 - 1915. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Throughout the city scab drivers were forced from their trolley cars which were then overturned, smashed and burned. Crowds on Broad Street marched in protest of the mayor's openly aligning with PRT, only to be met by police freely clubbing protesters. Marchers in Kensington met with a similar fate while 10,000 protesters in Germantown fought furiously with police for hours.


In reporting the day's events, a local paper noted that the forceful response "cannot be expected to quell the indignation...these people are Americans and they are not accustomed to Russian rule."

Workers meeting police while seizing the Baldwin Locomotive Works hurled bricks, nuts, bolts and tools. Police responded with an indiscriminate hail of bullets hitting strikers and pedestrians alike. The police called in firefighters who used heavy hoses on the growing crowds.

Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 04:42, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]