The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1916, Page 2

war cimar encnpt tor Ore men LABON ORGANIZER eneomnos om che ewok 1 WHO SAYS 00 PER CENT WILL QUIT TO-NIGH oo by telephone and repest Police Meedaverters verified by Obiet te 8] i i! tf i the « and the river clear of din | if he bad to send twenty police oul on each eons through the sireets tld Headquarters would ene thet he hed a! the re-entorcements he needed. | ‘He at once put bis instructions imto : 2 The situation was complicated by eomplsints from Lesington Avenue verified by the reports of police guards, that men on the | and on the sidewalks bed them reveivers end threat- them with death. Feserve force stationed at the Pistyeeventh Street Bletion and Getectives were hurried out to Avenue. A call to the Bast) —— it Bireet reserver was an~ red by the information that they Just left to dinperse a threaten= crowd at the Fiftieth Mtreet ran of the Bixth Avenue line Officers of the New York Nailways Wemanded that two uniformed icemen be placed on every car reassure both motorman and policemen be placed on every fF to reassure both motorman and juctor, The officiale aald their ir men Wanted to work but were In every instance the reply waa Joade that not enough policemen were available to keep down the timidity of the motormen and conductors, but enough were kept in reserve all lines to protect the life and b Of employees in case an attack too strong for the single with decayed fruits A scattering of police all through the diminished the nut- oMolal demands for more policemen on the cars. The effect of the unanimous port of the union cause in the din in which the needie trades and others have been acute for montha was such that few carmen felt like sticking to their jobs after one trip even though no threats of individual violence had been made axainat them. Policemen who had been on the cara with men who said they were afraid to stay on the cars were called to confront them with statements thore had been no danger to them on jceman detailed to each car. the trip, but without avail, Com- POLICEMEN OUT ON STRIKE | missioner Woods, in view of a batch of such reports, announced that he must reluctantly charte his plan for allowing a new de- tachment of policemen to go into the military training camp at Fort Wadsworth to be regarded as a grave emergency reserve force, and the camp was ordered disbanded at 3 o'clock this afternoon. ‘The outing of the TraMfo Squad at ‘Witsel’a Grove to-morrow was in- definitely postponed, also, Strike pickets who boarded Sixth Avenue care to hand circulars to the carmen of the Sixth Avenue line re- ported to the police with indignation that several motormen and conductors had showed them little heaps of half bricks in the corners of their plat- forms. Tho police were unable to verify that such supplies of primitive munitions were being carried on the @uty along the lines of the street fallways to-day on strike duty ex- elusively. ‘Twenty-five hundred more were af their stations, held In read- Sness to be sent in automobiles to any point where they were needed. Aa @aborate syetem of reliefs was ar- -fanged by which every man should Rave as much rest as could possibly, be allowed. Commissioner Woods, between hurried trips to tnvestigate reports from the traction company of “riots” ich he said he invariably found rated, and often unfounded, sited the stations to make sure (hat captains were doing all they Gould for the comfort of the men. Around 11 o'clock three complaints me to Headquarters simulta..cously hich caused much activity. from way to the Kast River on Fou! feenth Street cars were blocked by (Be sheer numbers of mon, women children who took to the streets fo joor at the crews, The usual de- mand for two policemen to a cas wae at once made by the company. Tw: of five men each from the ifth Street and the Kast Twenty ond Street Stations cleared the t in balf an hour, @LOTS WEDGED AT BROADWAY ' CROSSING. At Broadway and Fifty-third Street were stopped by the driving of ry steal wedges into the trolley @ots, causing danger of a sprious ac- it. A plateon of police an@ many ves were hurried to the apot ’ quickly, cleared away the Idlers Who were yelling at the crows and net @ guard to catch the mischief makera _Another troublesome disorder was fe the narrow tenement streets Of the east side, especially Eseox “MY LITTLE GIRLS ARE STRONG Ano HEALTHY Mother Gives Credit to Father —-deha’s Medicine THROWN ON BAST SIDE TRACK. A gathering of strikers and sympa- thivers blocked a northbound Second Avenue car at Ninety-socond Street at 40 o'clock by throwing boxes and barrels on the track. Stones were thrown against the sides of the car and boys beat on it with sticks, The passengers pilel out in @ hurry amid «reat jeering. Policeman Lobn arrested Cornelius O'Keefe, a striking motorman, charg- ing him with feloniously throwing stonen at a vehi containing pi sengers, Joseph White struck Po- Neeman McDonald in the face when arrested on the same charge, The crowd pressed in and threatened the two policemen until they arrested Alexander Yablaki of No, 304 East Ninety-second Street, charging him with inciting to riot, and hurried all three to the East Eighty-eighth Street station, On alarms from Supt. Keegan, In- spector Morris sent platoons to Lex- ington Avenue and Ninety-sixth Street and Madison Avenue and Ninety-seventh Street in a hurry to find no more work to do than a gen- oral dispersal of street shouters, Inspector Myers of the Traffic Squad, in order to keep down these “noise riots” arranged a system of automobile and motorcycle patrols, under the command of the capt, t ‘the traMc squads, which should auto- matically bring a shifting of police into threatening crowds almost as soon as there was a tendency toward congestion in any quarter. The Police Department this morn- ing ordered that policémen be placed on the cara of the Second Avenue Une, following violence which took place at Eighty-eighth Street and Second Avenue, A small mob of strikers attacked the motorman of one of the cars, struck him and forced the return of his car to the barn. Immediately the police were notified and uniformed men were directed to take post on each of the care. A large crowd gathered at Madison Avenue and One Hundred and Third Street and began threatening the crews of passing cars. The police were nent to disperse the gathering. Heavy police lines were @bout the Williamsburg Plaza by Police Captain Shaw to keep ordor there, Some 60,000 persons board the Madison Avenue, Eighth Street end Fourteenth Street care at that placed | THE SVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916. _—_ |Company Claims Two-Third | of Mepgular Force Have Ke mained on Duty 200 VOTED POR STRIKE Denial of Strikers’ Charge That Cars Are Being Run by Switchmen and Others. The Quel County troiley ears. were running smoothly and in 4 numbers to-day ‘The traMe was handied without diMeulty, and to thore familiar with the faces of the Conductors and motormen it seamed ae if the regular crews were running the cars. Two hundred out of the win mundred car men employed by the Queena GAM to strike on the lines running to Steinway, Flushing, Cotlere Whitestoue, Kimbhurst County system vot . Antort o are running 107 out of our 168 said Supt. Samuel H. Berena at noon, “and the only lines not run- fing full time are small connections. Through trafic in all on time.” But the etrikers alleged that the cars were run by switchmen, car- house men and others. Officials said this was untrue, that the employees were sticking to their jobs, All the men on the platforms were in regular uniform. President William J. Wood of the car company stated to-day that the men who joined the union and voted to etrike are nearly all new hands who were taken on last epring to handle summer trafic. Daniel J. Maley, President of the local union, insists that the car men are unani- mously in favor of a strike, and that track repairers, electric linemen, painters and machinists will go with them. Last night's meeting of the Queens local of the Amalgamated Association began at midnight in Morriese’s Hall, Long Island City, and lasted until nearly 3 A. M. John H. Reardon of the executive board of the Amalga- mated Association, William Collins of the American Federation of Labor, General Organiser Peter J. Rooney and Stuart Morrison, who sald he rep- resented Mayor Mitchel, all advised against violence, The police report that 61 out of 18) care of the Queens County Ra!lway left the Jackson Avenue barns this morning. There were a fow cises of disorder, but none of a serious nature, ‘The police watchers at the Jackson Avenue barns of the Queens County Railway system reported that at 2 P. M. the number of cars running had been cut down to sixty-eight, This was @ falling off of thirteen cars since 10 A. M. The demands submitted by the men Included union recognition, aa tn- crease in wages of motormen and conductors to 30 cents an bour for first year men and to 33 cents an hour for men who have been !n the service of the company one year or more, After the demands were sent to the Mayor last Wednesday tho company Posted a now wage schedule raising firet year motormen and conductors from 24 to 26 cents an hour and giv- ing a maximum pay for men in ite wervice for ten years or more of 39 cents an hour. —<—— ees point to cross the Willamsburg Bridge in the rush hours, No strikers appeared, STRIKE - BREAKERS ATTACKED NEAR CAR BARNS: There were flurries of excitement about the Madison Avenue Darna at ghty-sixth Street before midnight and automobiles patroling the line loaded with strikebreakers were at- tacked, But the men took charge of abandoned cars and ran them back to the barns. Five hundred pickets went from the meeting to the car barns at Eighty. sixth Btreet und Madison Avenue early to-day, As they reached the barn @ Madison Ay vu vy ae coms ing out, One of tue mien pushed @ straw hat through the glass protect- ing the motorman, A telephone message to Vice Prea- ident Hedley, relayed by him to Police Headquarters, said @ riot was in progress at the barn, Police Com. missioner Woods and several depu- ties went to the scene in automobiles, They were told by the captain on duty that no riot had taken plece The Commissioner took a number of statements and made a short tour, after which he said: am satisfied, after looking into the firet complaint, that the men are hot personally or collectively reepon- sible for the incident. It appears to has The churge that riot exlated ts not founded on fact,” th-bound Amsterdam Aven halted at Sixty-fifth Str ay by & crowd which threw d stones at the motorman, abandoned the car. The lice heard the motorman, hose pames was not reported, bi Te ceived a wrist, been purely accidental, a GENERAL STRIKE RUMORS GROW WITH ARRIVAL WHERE TO PARK AUTOR 1 TRACTION STRIKE TIBS UP ALL CAR LINES renponse (© humerous oe (ete from automebiie owners ae © where they con perk (he care ae of © rection teu In- 1 Myers, ot the direction of omintone Woods bem set le the following epecre for Sane purposes in the Anancial dintriet ork) im the shipping district, vith Bereet, te e Moore wires and Coention Mp, for went wide, the “The Form, the North Biver front from Pourtecnth to Twenty third Btreet; alse Pitty -eevenih Street, from Mehih to Twelfth Avenue, On the cast side a num- ber of atreets and squares will be available, FEWER CARS ARE IN OPERATION IN CITY AS STRUGGLE GROMS BIER (Continued from Firat Page.) Hettery | | 04 tour of the Columtus Avenue and Hrondway, three of the Seventh and one of the Amaterdam Avenue lines Passed north on that thoroughfare, A committee of five, representing employees of the Staten Island ht and Power Company, which Tuna the trolley care in Richmond, visited General Organiser Fitsgerald at etrike headquarters this afternoon to way that the road had agreed to Meet the committee as members of the union, E Mr. Fitageralad immediately sent State President Holland of the Am- erican Federation of Labor back to Staten Island with the committee to Confer with the officials of the com- pany. POWER HOUSE MEN MAY GO OUT MONDAY. James P. Holland, President of the New York State Federation of La- bor, eald to an Evening World re- Porter that he did not believe the engineers and firemen could be held @t their posts until Monday. “The ywanted to atrike last night,” he added, “but we are not yet ready for this move. When they do go on atrike every line in this city will be Most seriously affected, even the subway, There are about 1,000 men Fepresented in these brancies of em- ployment. “The B. R. T. men are now all ready to go out. A committee rep- Fesenting them called on me last night and stated that the employees would formulate their demands at once an@ present them either to-day or Monday. They will give the B. R. T. officials only one day in which to make answer, “It's all poppycock, this talk of Mr. Shonts about the loyalty of his men, Wouldn't the men be foolish to tell the bosses right to their faces that they wero dissatisfied and about to fo out? “Now, so far as the wages of the engineers, firemen and water tenders are concerned, the latter receive from the railway companies 26 cents less an hour than the ordinary firemen in other plants, The firemen receive 60 cents per day less than other fremen and have to work seven days a week without vacations, In other plants they work only siz days,” NO TIME TO INTERVENE NOW, SAYS MAYOR. Mayor Mitchell this afternoon said: “Iam confident the police commis- sioner’s plans to preserve order will prove sufficient. “The employees of the companies have a constitutional right to organ- ize, but those who wish to take thetr places have a@ right to protection againat violence, #o far as it is possi- ble to give it to them. One thing I want to make clear is that the police will not be used to take sides. They Will not deal with the question at issue in any way. “If the situation continues bad for @ny length of time tt will be my duty to do everything in my power to bring about peace, I have already made two ineffectual attempts, but to-day does not seem the opportune time to make another effort toward bringing the two sides together.” ‘While it is the general impression among city oMcials that both sides to the controversy are “bluffing” to a considerable expsent, the opinion is that there will be a general strike on all Mines of transportation in the city early next week, CAR CREWS THREATENED BY STRIKERS, HE SAYS, Mr, Hedley, who spent the night at the Fiftioth Street and Seventh Ave- nue barn, charged that strikers and thelr emissaries were boarding the care of the company and threatening the crews, the result being that many of the men who wished to remain loyal were quitting work, “An alarming number of motormen and conductors are turning in their cars at the various barn: id Hed- ley, “because in the last hour or #0 great numbers of intimidators have been sent out by the strike leaders to frighten the men. These intimidators Cannot get et the motorman very featily wine to the premence of © ot ph wu harm oF perhaps death Whe © to bie pom “The conductors become tery Ot these thresta, and the fire + they Get tel! the motorman Wien orewe Chas (hremtened et beck bo (he barns many of them refuee eenin, As ® result of these ta We Are HOW FURRINE but £1 per cont of our care” Mr, Mediey said moet of the intim dation was Leing used above Piftieth Mireet, principally in the vicinity of the barn at Bighty-siath Mtrert and Madison Avenue He announced that the company wa | having them arrested SUBWAY AND “L” DEMANDS an PFORMULATE The demands which will be mate [Upon the wubw elevated rail ay Management were fori to ‘The Interborough will have un 1 8 o'elock Wednesday to make an- (ever, and thin or the ing that night at Lyceum Hall At & secret meeting to-day of 500 | Guards and ticket agents at a hall at One Mundred and Twenty-first treet and Third Avenue the demands, which are far more sweeping than thone Presented in behalf of the “green car’ UNION ORGANIZER AND HEAD COUNSEL OF STRELT CAR STRIKERS. PPPoE ee Eero TC eeerr ey | 134 C6606 ese eersesesceseseee ‘employ: were agreed upon. They Include even the ed and subway porters, General Organizer Fitagerald made public the demands at strike head- quarters in the Hotel Continental, Hroadway and Forty-nrat Street, this afternoon. They are as follows Conductors to be paid 2% cents an hour for the first year, with 30 cents thereafter, Guarda, 25 cents, with an increase to 27 cents after the first year. Motormen, 37 cents, increased to 43 cents the second year, Special oMcers, 25 cents to 28 cents, Swithchmen, 30 cents to 33 cents. Towermen, 85 cents to 38 cents, with one day off with pay per month. Porters, 21 cents per hour. Starters, 28 centa to 30 cents the second year, with two days off with pay per month. Train clerks, 28 cents to 30 cents, with three deys off with pay per month, Agents, %4 cents to 28 cents, with one day off with pay per month. Gatemen, 23 cents to 25 cents, with one day off with pay per month. Members of the union said early to-day they did not expect the sub- way and elevated motormen to join the strike unless they did so volun- tarily. So far, the motormen have not responded to the calls of the union for enrollment. 90 PER CENT. OUT AT 6 O'CLOCK 18 CLAIM. General Organizer Fitzgerald aroused 2,000 strikers assembled in Lyceum Hall, Eighty-sixth Street and Third Avenue, to great enthusi- asm when he announced: “I have positive assurances that by 6 o'clock to-night 90 per cent. of the men atill operating the cars of the New York Railways Company will be ith us, Many of this number would have been with us now, but they wanted to wait until 6 o'clock in or- der to get in a full week.” Fitegerald called the men to the platform and divided them in squads for work about the various barns, the cheering breaking out afresh every time some veteran motorman or con- ductor stepped on to tho stage. The union leader cautioned them against the use of rough tactics in trying to persuade their former co-workers to Join them, and advocated the use of reasonable, common sense arguments. Robert Bruere and Robert Valen- tine, who said they were Mayor Mit- chel's advisory committee, were pres- ent, and at the end of the meeting the strikers complained to them that in some instances the police were sid- ing with the company. Mr. Bruere said the attention of Commissioner Woods would be called to the com- plaint. Employees of the Second Avenue Une quit their cars on reaching the barn at Second Avenue and Ninety- sixth Street and announced their in- tention of joining the strikers. Save for the Lexington Avenue line. | which seems to have been hit harder | than any of the other green car }ines, the company maintained practically a normal service through Harlem. Cara ran on the Eighth Avenue and Mad! eon Avenue lines frequently cnough to care for trafic. TWO-THIRDS OF MEN OUT, 18 UNION CLAIM. In a statement issued at noon President Mahon of the Amalga- mated Association clatmed that two- thirds of the 4,000 employees of the Now York Railwi Company had quit work and that the remainder would join the ranks of the strikers in the course of a few hours. He ex- Pressed himeelf as entirely satisfied with the showing made by the union and said that if the company had been wilting to pay its men one-half of the $5 a day it is now paying strikebreakers the strike could have been averted. “Mr. Hedley said he had 4,000 strikebreakers,” suid Mahon, “That | Probably explains why some of the cars are moving, but, take it trom me, this condition cannot last long, because the men who are running the care are not skilled men, and for the | and aro reporting great progress. They will not be called out in any event until next week, but I understand that further reason that the regular em- Dloyees remaining at work will be with us very shortly. “This is no new experience to me. On other occasions I have seen cars running after a strike has been called. One more word and I'm through. If Mr. Hedley and Mr. Shonts had been willing to give their employees one-half the wage they are now paying to strikebreakers, they would not now be facing auch a con- dition. “I know for a fact that these strike- breakers are being paid $5 a day, with board and lodging guaranteed. I am greatly encouraged by the demonstra- tion we have made. As to the men on the subway and elevated lines, our organizers are working among them many of them quit work to-da: Mabon will go to Detroit to-night, to be gone the better part of a week. General Organizer Fitzgerald will be in supreme command of the union end of the strike in hisabsence. STRIKERS DECIDE TO ADOPT NEW TACTICS, Declaring that the Ne York Ratl- ways Company has been able to keep @ large number of its cars running only through the loyalty of its day men—men who have been given day runs because of their length of ser- vice—President Mahon and the Gen- eral Strike Board at a meeting in the union headquarters this after- noon decided upon a line of action to weaken the company at this point, Beginning at 5 o'clock committees of strikers will visit the homes of the latter and endeavor to persuade their wives and families to have them quit work. ‘This plan was adopted because of the inability of the union men to reach the loyal métormen and con- a the company ni detectives to have all “missionaries” pointed out and arrested, 1 fen ae GIRL’S BODY IS FOUND. Mystertously Dt red in Cance! Last We 7 (Bpecial to The Brening World.) WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mase, Aug. 5.—The drowned body of Miss Evelyn E, Packard of No. 142 Belmont Street, Brockton, who mysteriously disappeared Wednesday after he left the American Canoe Club on the Nunckatesset River in @ canoe, was foand this morning. The eyes of the dead girl were slightly discolored and there was a trace of blood about the mouth, but these might have been caused by the | @ Date ene OF GOMPERS STRKEONB.RT. | | CALLED UNLIKELY BY ROAD’ CHEF But Company Is Ready for Emergency~-Poor Pay Charge Denied. APPECT ——=— Men Send Protests Against “Swing Runs” and Ask Straight 10-Hour Day. TWENTY-FOUR LINES OF GREEN CAR SYSTEM IN PRESENT TIB-UP, These are the ¢ | | ' WOULD 10,000 Although oMelals of the BOR. 1 | profess scepticiom of a strike upon! ARREST MAN ONCE RICH, their Hines, President Thmothy %1 sony c, Hall, thirty-five, lv Williams said to-day that the com room at No pany had made all provisions to meet any trouble that may come, leep- ing and cooking paraphernalia, he aald, had been collected at the varl- ous barns and depots and could be brought into service for the men at ® moment's not Mr. Williams received to-day @ Humber of letters from his men pro testing against what are known “awing runs.” on these runs work from 4 o'clock in the morning until 10 oF 11 o'clock in the forenoon, then have a rest period until 4 o'clock tee Pullmar 1 y kt BRIDGEHAMPTON Raymond Kovins, Chairman of the Pree in the afternoon, when they resume sl Convention, Whe toe work until § o'clock, The men com- 2 eee oe eg plained that this broke up thelr day wt tile Hughes and said that they preferred a con- forenoon In New York shops tinuous ten-hour day. On the other hand, Mr. Williams explained, many of those who have been a long time in the company’s service, prefer the broken day, as it gives them a rest from ten hours of standing in their cars, In order that some means of ad- justment might be reached, William Siebert, superintendent of the surface lines of the company, and J. J. Demp- sey, superintendent of the elevated and subway branches, went to the various barns and depots to-day for talks with the men. According to officials of the com- Pany there are 6,10¢ motormen and conductors on the surface lines of the B. R. T., 1,800 inspectors, despatchers and the like and 2,100 motormen, con- ductors and guurds on the elevated |}, and subway lines. ; Mr, Siebert said that he had heard nothing of efforts on the part of or- bt ganizers from New York to enroll|} 4 B. R. T. men in the union, but had|an received definite assurance from a number of employees that they did not want to strike, He called attention to the published Government WASHIN( the Governn Insurance Sept. 2, 1917, bill pa Senate whieh already hi The bureay, nt inarine in has paid wv th uu of ded tod nt wis al when the 10 prohibitive 32,000,000 in Two Bodles of ‘1 Found—Seven M CLEVELAND, Aug. 6.—Bodies of workmen buried in the explosion in Waterworks tunnel b Monday, night were The bodies had ty ihe 5 and 7. (Schilling), second; Jac 2 3- ve d Pan Maiden’ also ran. 50 Atlantic lists of wages, which showed the B. R. T. to be the “worst pay” of many systems. — q “The list is ly misleading,” Round Cit he sald. “The B, RT. is far from ne \ being poor pay. If a man goes to work for us in the morning and, for some reason or other—some condition of the weather, for instance™is laid off in the afternoon, he receives pay for a full ten-hour day. Also the B. R. T. paya men during lay-overa, and this fe not the case on those roads which are set down as paying their men from 85 to 40 cents an hour.” —_——_ PHILADELPHIA, TOO, MAY BE TIED UP BY STRIKE XS, Aug. 13, 27; Bopt, ESDAYS. Nig. 16 aud APECIAw TRALS Ex. Penner Stations +. Reber RNY Tekets good only on Special Teals ta bach direction. PENNSYLVANIA R. R. 1 ‘ gue W. L. DOUCLAS jove. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 5.—Of- ficials of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran- sit Company to-day were given thirty hours in which to grant higher pay and recognition of the union or as- sume responsibility for a strike on all line Should Thomas B. Mitten, President of the company, to whom the message was delivered, grant the union offic! an interview they will extend the time of decision, Mitten has consistently refused even to talk to union men on the grounds that the company recognizes no such organ- ization, Nowa NEWa es UNION HILL: 276 Beri alive avemes. Fleating Unconscious im Riv KNOXVILLE, Tenn, A death Mst of the Claiborne County| ~~ flood waa reduced to-day to twenty- four with the finding of one of the victims floating unconsctous on a pile of driftwood in the Clinch River, eral miles below the scene of greatest destruction. Donnelly McBee and his mily, given up for lost, have been found’ Fwenty bodies have been tee covered and no further deaths are _ RELIGIOUS NOTICES. known, IF TOM K. will write to G. W, Ky > a ut. Terrace, “Philadelphia Pee hot Seip Dead Man's Promot Co , | DEAT something to his advantage, Brother, WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Major Mat-| - thew C. Butler, shot to death by H. J. : OoIckO. Spannell at Alpine, Texas, July 20, wus BRICH.-On Friday, Aus. 4, 18: held to-day by the Senate to have died] GEORGE, beloved husband of Mary Lieutenant Colonel. Hix nomination for Promotion was confirmed before his death, but his commission had not been Reich, aged 62 years, body touching the banks of the river or rocks and tree stumps as it was washed down stream to where it was caught in a net. MANHATT 25¢ Daily Take B ighton Beach B, R. T. AFETY BATHS OCEAN BATHING Steel Nets to Keep Out the Sharks 50c Saturday take Private Car or Bus to Baths, or Ocean Avenue Car to Sheepshead Bay, forwarded. By @ bill passed to-day in the Senate the President ts authorized to issue the commission dated July 1, This operates to increase his widow's pension, at 7.390 P.M. at his i it. Jersey City 1 on Monday at AN BEACH 7c Sunday “L’ to Sheepshead Bay Station, then