The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1920, Page 2

a Kd wae meghag 9 the men and fireman be allowed I hep ts g : t i ii | | i i rgaagyyat TLAW STRIKE SPREADS H Twisted Wrec leave at 7.08 A. M., standard time, was not opened for passengers until 8.10 and trains arriving at the station re~ ported that conditions along the line were bad, mobs crowding the plat- forms and hanging on to the steps of the trains. The trains were all jam- med, and conductors an dtrainmen made no attempt to takeup Uckets or collect fares. ‘Warned of the rapid spread of the “qatlaw” rail strike, tens of thou- mands af commuters rose early this morning, determined to take advan- tage of any posstble chance to reach their work on time. They found the vurious ferries en- tering the city running better than before the marine workers strike be- gan two weeks ago. Bilis Island was overcrowded to-day becaune of immigrants who had pasn- transportation to points outside New York. There were 2,200 immigrants cared for last night and 3,800 were reported at steamship piers awaiting inspection. Superintendent Baker or- dered an embargo on receiving tmmi. grants from steamships until trans- portation was available to take away those who passed examination, ‘The coal docks of the Philndelphian and Reading Railway at Port Read- dng and of the Lehigh Valley at Perth Amboy were closed by strikes of freight conductors and trainmen ' i teave the terminal experienced much trouble. The Stamford iocal, due to to-day ‘The industries of Perth Am- | boy will svon ibe forced to close. Some factories have only enough raw ma-|{ terial to last three days. | HUDSON TUBE TRAINS RUNNING, | BUT PASSENGERS ARE BARRED System Operated in Full Swing to Train New| Crews—Service Soon to Be Resumed. ‘Though no pamengers were ad-] about sixty passenger trainmen had | HI jl i i hy rf i ct ii waid at & o'clock this morning that MANY LOCAL RAILROAD CREWS | | quit. | Mayor Frank Hague, who at the outset announced his sympathy and that of the Jersey City Commission govermment for the strikers, to-day had a meeting with twenty rapresen-; tatives of the insurgent trothehoods, After three hours he semt out word that he was using all his personal and official powers of persuasion to @et the men to go back to work pend- ing @ settlement of their demands. “If the men go back to work they wil win public sympathy,” said ‘Mayor Hague. ‘They will ward off the famine which stalks behind this situation. They have shown their power. They need not abate one fota of their demands, which may be sub- mitted to a national, State or guuni- cipal tribunat with perfect oconf- dence that they will win their just dues.” The meeting ended with » refusal by the labor men to accede to the Mayor's request. Mayor Hague said he knew the names of only the Chair- man, McHughes, and the Secretary, Connelly. le got immediate communication with Gov, Edwards, by whom it is understood he was advised to seek the conference. He went to ‘Trenton with the Governor after an- nouncing there would be another con- ference with the men to-morrow in which “new elements” would appear, QUIT IN DEFIANCE OF UNIONS Firemen on Mott Haven-Grand Central Transfer Service Go Out—Railroads Won't Treat With the “Outlaws.” was held during the pariy hours im Jersey City. The first enginemen to quit were tbe crews that report between 10 and midnight to the electric trains between Station, Manhattan, ‘and Manhattan Transfer, New Jer- ey. The crews that were to have gone off duty remained at work and operated the trains. Following the walkout of the elec- trical jocomotive firemen on the transfer service from the Mott Haven yards to the Grand Central Terminal, ‘Lawrence Bronson, General Superin- Nendert of the New York Central, called on brotherhood engineers to take the places of the striking fire- men and within two hours had organ- men or ¢iremen showed up for work im the early hours in the Mott Haven yards. Special guards were posted @t all entrances. The railroad bridges fm the Bronx were patrolied by police. Speaking for the managers, John J. Mantell, Chairman of the al & i i i be have struck in this not only outlaws organization, but of the land, a laid tation Act. In, i : fi ct tf fht to grab the public by the ‘Transpo! | disregard.of the law they have unions. Under its terms any group of 100 or more workers may ask for and receive the same consideration any other group, however large, will receive, “Therefore you cannot make strong when you say that these ers will not, be recogn| or thei jevan any, conside: un Hey’ comely withthe law’? 7, Mantell said that so far no Msting now employees to fill the Places left vacant by the “outlaw” strikers, “This,” he said, “has not yet been decided upon, There is, however, no Question but that we will make an effort to operate our railroads.” Commenting on reports of indigna- tion meetings of sections within the extend about “In England when the railroad) BAY CITY, Mich., April 12.—About | men tried to. take .,thes country | 150 switchrnen employed in the Mich- Jamaica, yesterday afternoon agreed by the throat, unittes rose|igun Central and Pere Marquette | that the strike of switchmen and bp and arranged (handle the traf-| yards here joined the strike this| yardmen on the Long island Railroad . The difficult th the Ameri-| morning. can public js that'it has to be hit} PHTLADMLPHIA, April 12—The ae VOR UENariNO By a doclsive hid between the eyes before it pays at-| West Phitadelphia freight yards of | Tesolutions were adopted urging the business. If the communities hit have begun to get together for ac- tion, it simply means that they bave begun to appreciate t this thing mea ni * “The real big thi owever, is the freight Within ‘the New York district are 10,000,000 peo- ple dependent upon freight move- ments for their livelihood, their living. The passen; the more spectacular, ni t! CUTLAW STRKERS WEAKEN I WEST CNN WEST (Continued From Pirst P. Nt re ag pp Ay 1 ones they have sworn allegiance which we contra bt 0 to them to exisUDs calléd for in the strike announce of the men to work: elg’t-hour toasic day, and tyme and a @4 inspection but were unable to get | arrangements had been made for en- | commuting belt, rougmy estimated to | freight | QUIT THOUGH VOTE | IS AGAINST STRIKE {Brotherhood Meeting Condemns} Walkout, but Can't Control ment, to be effective upon the return | country, Ari | hundred and |pany have joined the HERE, BU \ |" SPHE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920, b T WEAKENS IN THE WEST kage of Elevated Car Plunged Into Street by Collision overtime, Sundays and holidays, and double time for overtime on Sundays and Holidays. In addition to the gradual ment claimed by railroad heads in the Chicago district, Brotherhvod Officials said presaged a return to normal throughout the onganiagtion pointed the votes at Columbus, Fort Wayne, Ind, Alcron Ohio and Sagi- naw, Mioh., as marking definite breaks at the strike. SOME OF THE MEN ARE RE- TURNING TO WORK. At Akyvon, striking switechmen on the Erle, Baltimore and Ohio, and Akron, Canton and Youngstoiwn rail- roads voted to return and the remain- ing workers, employes of the New York Central, will mest to-day to de- cide their course. the At Gaginaw, 1000 Pere switohmen decided to return to work to-day and volunteered to troit, Toledo, Ludington, to aid in restoring norma In the far We: tion De: were idle to-day because of At the Chicago stock yard: of a minimum delivery of 186 carioads tosday brought a more opti look, although hundreds of men still would remain idle. WASHINGTON, April thirty-five of the Washington Term: the Capital interfered with COLUMBUB, O. April per cent. of the striking yardmen of returned this morning, according to company the Pennsylvanta officials: ROSTON, April 1 all traffic, passeng press, on through lines of r, froig in Now Mngiand was the ult. in| h@d begun to strike and they had re- this section to-day of the “outlaw” | celved word the walkout would grow strike of ratlrood men |to-day. They had promised full su- CLEVELAND, Ohio, Apnit 11.—| burban service to-day, but this unex- With the exception of the yards of the New York Ce where a half dozen switchmen were working this morning and teen switchmen moved 250 cars, all tention to anything but its immodiate| the Pennsylvania Railroad are con- | much of which gested with frelht, is perishable, Strike leaders claim that sand men of that line ntrike to-day, completely shops and bringing CORNING, \N. Y., Apri Erie Railroad's switchmen left their work here this morning, enginemen and firemen ut all train movements in ased. The New Railroad yard force remained at|of the company struck at midnight, work. ie That passenger service wus main- TRENTON, N. J. Apri! 12--Ap-| tained by the Long Island yesterday proximately 1,600 employees of the|wnas due in large part to the action Pennsylvania Rallnoad system went of officiuls in donning overalls and on strike to-day at the Coalport « Jumpers and taking charge of im- Barracks yards and the West| portant switches at the entranee to ‘Morrisville, Pa. yard. the tunnels and in the Eighth Street ~~ yards near the Montauk cut-off. MANY L. I. MEN “Bolters.” Long Island Railroad o: which and various othe: eities inthe middle West local unions yoted not to join the strike, Seattle, Tacoma, Wverett and Auburn, Wash- ington, and Cincinnat!, Little Rock, , Memphis, Tenn., and St. Joseph, Mo., switchmen registered that intgn- ite these reports, however, Jahn Grunau, strike leader of the Chicago Yardmen’s Association, declared @re going to win. All reports I have | Been able to gather are that the entire country is tied up.” In the Chicago district and at nejgn- boring steel centres thousands of men ‘outlaw strik- ers,” but train service in and out of has not been seriously | —Curtailment of | Cleveland thirty miles outside, | terminals were tied up this morning. movement freight to an end temporarily. York Central 1 improve- the _ W1 (Continued From First Page.) leaders take,” Smith sald, following the in- formal inquiry. ‘The first car of the express crossed to the local track and passed the first car of the local train, which irection. The second car of the express crashed into the first car of the local, smashing the forward part of the old wooden structure into kindling wood and sending it with its trucks against the wall of the Na- tional Insurance Company building, the old Hazen Hyde Greenwich Street, and Carlisle, From there jt dropped into Green- wich Street, carrying down the terri- fied and screaming passengers. Splinters of wood and yluss were sent flying through the second floor windows of the National Insurance | butlding, cutting of the fifty girls employed there and throwing | the rest into a panic. The roof of the} car glid off the part that remained on the track and fell to the street | Fire apparatus with Deputy Chief | Binns in command responded to an} 2 eronninca | alercs Binns was soon followed by | Chief William Kenlon, who took charge. Ambulances were hurried to the spot from Volunteer, Gouver- neur, Broad and New York Hospitals. Marquette go to De- and Flint rvic between Albany some we mistic out- 12.—One switchmen | Some of the passengers were treat- inal Com-]ed where they were and others were taken to hospitals, FIREMEN CHOP WAY TO PRISONED PAIR. In the rear of thé wrecked car} which was left hanging over the} street fromm the tracks Mrs. Falter- | man and Mr. Moss had occupied cross seat. When the car was IM- 12,—orty to work a ‘ht and ex- f Iroads Collinwood ntral lites, | pected. development made {t doubt- ful whether they could make good. The walkout came despite the fact that members of Long Island Lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men at a meeting in Fraternity Hall, where fif- | westbound | freight strikers to return to work, ‘This action was u blow to repre- sentatives of the United Railroad Workers of Americs who went to Long Island City and Jainrioa yester- day to try to extend the strike go that the passenger service of the Long Island as Well a the freight traffic might be stopped, Police Headquarters in Manhattan received at 1 o'clock this morning a telephone call from a man announc- ing himself as the Jamaica trainmas- ter of the Long Island. He eald that twenty-fve conductors and trainmen five thou- joined the tying up of 1 12.—-The The yard remained, n the yards ‘Among the officials were H. E, Lewis, passenger trainmaster; Harry Golder, assistant trainmaster; ¥. < lor, freight trainmaster, and Frank Goode and J, J. Kelly, 'yardmasters. A number’ of cars’ ot perishable frpight were moved out of the Mott Haven yards of the New Haven and over the connecting bridge over the ‘WOODEN “L” CAR GUT IN. East River to the Jesh Pond yards of the Long Island, where there was no strike trouble, and transshipped from there. No other freight has tticlals ad-| moved in the Long Island yards since fox | mitted early to-day their trainmen Friday night, | PERSONS INJURED canted over to the insurance ‘build- ing, the roof was torn off and the floor upturned and splintered, bury- ing the two passengers under the debris. Firemen Hugh McNinney and Ed- ward Goldrich of Engine No. 10 went was moving slowly along in the same| UP the wall of the insurance building | on scaling ladders and, searching through the wreckage, uncovered the two. They chopped them out and carried them back to the “L” plat- form, where they were given med! treatment. Louis Murphy, a longshoreman, was building, on |‘one of those who was catapulted to the street with the debris, He was only slightly burt, but lost bbs cap with his union button, Murphy im- mediately began digging into the debris for the lost button, declaring that {t meant more to him than any of the scratches he had reveived in his downward flight The second car of the express was also badly damaged and the passen- gers considerably shaken up. Investi- gation showed that the oars sid wiped each other, that of the local being forced over the parapet and go- ing to pieces of its own weight, col- Jupsing as it hung above the street Reserves from the Old Slip Police | Station had their bands full in tak- ing cave of the great crowd quickly ussembled, and were on the wround long after service on (he north tracks had been resumed, which was shortly before noon, At 1 o'clock the wrecking crew was still at work clearing the south tracks. ‘Two engine companies were held and the crowd and the reserves stil! lin- gered. Deputy Police Commissioner Faurot assisted Assistant District Attorney Joyce in the latter's preliminary in- vestigation, held m the switch tower at Rector Street. James L. Quacken- ‘bush, chief counsel for the Inte: borough, was present. Motorman Smith of the local train, who is one of the oldest motormen in the em- ploy of the company, said that when he left the Cortlandt Street Station southbound, he had a clear track ahead. After he had travelled a length and @ half the signa! was set against him. He insisted, however, ut he did not have room to stop ‘before passing the intersection of the local and express tracks. He sald that he had his mind on his work and was keeping a good watch for siwnals, It was later that he is said to have admitted that he might have made a mistake. Harry Buntley of No. 278 Kast 208d Street, motorman of the train, said that he had a clear track ahead of him, and that imagined that the alongside on the local track would i Bat shop : Batter ond man Elmer 2, Lasher, signalman in the |] | other kings cunally, pleatnr: tower, sald that the signale were set yore” Chocolate. 3 in the normal manner in order to per- SRG tS 4c mit the express train which | express | he never train running to cross over GREAT INDUSTRES BEING PARALYZED BY OUTLAW SRI \ | |Scores of Thousands of Steel | Workers Made dle by Lack of Materials. TOLEDO, ©., April 12.—To avert a ;Seneral industrial shutdown and suspension Of street car service here |during the strike of insurgent rail- road workers, Mayor Schrieber to- day ordered the confixcation of coal on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks | and tts diversion to the Toledo Rail- (ways and Light Company. YOUNGSTOWN, ©., April 1 Twenty thousand steel workers are jout of work ‘here to-duy, due to the | inmbility f several steel mills to ob- ;tain @oal. Nhe yardmen's strike has |eompletely paralyzed the movement of freight. If the strike is continned the steel mils of the whole Mahoning Valley district will be tied up. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 12.—Many | big industries curtailed operation to- }day as the resuit of the railroad thrown ont of wonk at neariy 30,000. City officials said no danger of a®food | shortage existed, as 1,000 army motor | trucks, stored at the Curtiss Airplane factory, are available for transporting food. Effects of a fuel famine are begin- ning to be feh, however. Navigation on the Great Lakes, which was to by the lack of fuel PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 12.—Blast urnaces and other sections of the steel industry to-day are more and more feeling the influence of tie strike because of the inability of the railroads to move raty materials, and more than 100,000 men are already out at work. i | CLEVELAND, O., April 12.—Kleven tundred men were idle to-day lbe- eause of the pantial suutdown of one Wig steel plant in an effort to con- serve fuel. DWTROIT, April 12.—No settlement of the unauthorized rmilroad strike (was in sight here to-day, and a pum- ‘ber of local factories were preparing for @ gradual suspension of opera- tions beginning to-morrow. SHARON, Pa, April 12.—Ten thou- sand men in this district were idie to-day as the rest of the strike Gevera! plants were partially closed. ae —— = |BANK BANDITS GET $10,000, ‘Two Hold Up Work: end Third Get | SOUTH BEND. Ind, Aprii 12 ‘hold-up men robbed the South State “Bank of approximately this morning. ‘While two of the robbers cowed tho With G Money. row Ben $10,000 cashier and bookkeepers, a third man swept the money from (the desks und vault into a bag. They then backed out of the bank and disappeared. | TEN WOMEN PICKETS HELD. WASHINGTON,’ April 12. pickets arrested last week at the Brit- ish Bubassy were held for a Federal Grand Jary on charges of violating a Federal stauie making It a felony to assault” a diplomatic representative of a foreign government, ~~» $18,000 to Child Hart by Auto. | Justice Fawcett in Brooklyn to-day | consented to a eettiement for $18,000 in the action ‘tor $18,000 brought by Isidor Ashe 3 nis er EsteHe, eleven | years old, of No. 1379 64th Street, Brook- iyn, againgt Louis Silverman of No. 1670 | ath Street, Brooklyn, Last August the {child was struck by an automobile owned by Silverman und driven by an employe: Now Peace Refore publican resolution to end war with Germany, adopted fast week by the House, was transmitted to-day to the Senate and referred to the Foreign Re- lations Committee without discussion. Thairman Lodge plans to have the com mittee begin consideration af the reso jution in @ few daya, but without pros- pect of Senate debate before next week. onto the local track, He was posi- tive that the signals gave the local} train time to stop. HiGH GRADE At the conclusion of the investi-|{] SMOOTH ALMONDS— «ation both moiormen were paroled |] | The cheleet. | full in the custody of the Interberough eT ee tear are on the promise of Chief Counsel Quackenbush to produce thom when- | ch centred kn shell at reat | Contec= ever they were needed. ————. Py perm: Prices realiced Swift & Co. sale of | ns x S carcass beat in Row “ork “City for “Stak wosin FOURS Fe! Fee, exact, Wurday, April 10,” 1920, on shipments sold o reignt from tt Dound and ecified watght cents to 82 conte per pound, —Adat, | strikes, Metimates placed the number | |mave opened to-day has beon delayed | v ther Attractions For Monday: AMERICAN MARINES - LAND IN GUATEMALA Rebellion Against President Opens and City Is Captured in Hard Fighting. WASHINGTON, April 12.--The long Vnreatened revolution in Guatemma egeinst President Estrada Cabrera finally has broken out Reports to-day to the State Depart- ment said the opponents of tJ Presi- dent had gained control of Guatemala City after some street fgh ton MeMi the Au! an Min ister, has been racted by the the opposing factions. | ‘A marine guard from the cruiser Ta- coma und submarine tender Niagara | has been landed to protect the American | Legation. SENATOR ASSERTS STRKE. BORDER ONTO REVOLUTION Poindexter Bill Would Make It Felony to Cause Strike In- terrupting Transportation. WASHINGTON, April 12.+- The outlaw railroad strike situation was ae GOVERNOR REFUSES | SOCIALISTS’ PLEA Tells Block He Can't Call Spe lection Unless There Is Extra Session. April 12.—Gov. Smith day pull a special election to fill the vacancies in the Assembly | caused by the expulsion of the five So-| claliat members, | In a letter to S$ John Btoch, who} jieate the request of the Governor, the latter pointed out that under the Con- to- not stitution the Governor special election to fill vacancies in the \Legisiature after April 1 unless a spe- clal session of the Legislature is called, He added that the records in the executive office show that the el ousted April | and that it is im- heh whether there will be @ | possible to jepecial’ session of the Legislature | called, 'U.S. ACTS TO SAVE PATERSON YOUTH | it comin ner at Berlin Told to In-| gaie Case of Demott, Sentenced to Die. WASHINGTON, April 12.—The State | ‘imprisonment for | suade another to quit work, if, by quitting, the employce interferred with transportation. The bill also taken up in the Senate to-day, when Poindexter, Washington, introduced a bill making it a felony, punishable by a fine $10,000 and ten years’ ny Person to pér- imposed a penalty of $15,000 and 16 years in prison upon any person. who by threats Violence interferved with i commerce und $10, 000 fine and years in prison for destruction of railroad property Senator Frelinghuysen, New Jersey, read Yelegrams from officials in Hack- ensack and Tenafly, N. J., stating that the strike threatened the starvation of the whole state. “I want to raise my voice in behalf of action which will make unlawful in future any conspiracy te starve or freeze the American people,” said Fr linghuysen. He declared the strike ap- proached the point of revolution. and added “the time has come to find out in this country whether we have a government or not.” erstate Vigorous Action will be tuken if there is any interference with the 18 a result of the railroad strikes, it wus announced to-day at the Post- office Department. Otto Praege Second Assistant Postn iter neral, has sent the following telegram to all ntendents ef the railway mail ice nstruct ali chief clerks, tran: Department to-fuy instructed American | Commissioner Dresel at Berlin to take steps to stay exeoution of the death | sentence reported to have been passe. against Paul Ft. Demott, an American for participation in the Rubr revolu tion, | win Dresel was instructed to make an investigation and report to the State Depertment. . H According to reports, Demou, who la} twenty-two years old, was sentenced b/ a drumbead court martial in the Rubr Giatrict ‘Gxecution of the sentence | already bas been postponed for review by Prewident Fert, Demott's parents | are reported to li J CITY TRANSIT HEADS | DENY STRIKE RUMOR Union Leaders of 1. R. T. and B. R. \ {, Say No Move Has Been Made. nN. near Patets A rumor early to-day was that there liad boen strike talk among empio) ees of the Intervorough and the Brookly. id Transit Compan: Rone "hory, weer dented by both officidts ‘of the Intervorough Brother. flood and officials of the B. R. hough it was said some of the B. R. though ve "showed signs of unrest dur- | ing the past few days. INDUSTRIAL COURT DOOMED. | Cone ution Won't Permit It, Says} Backer of Bill. | ALBANY, April 12.—Hope for enact- ment of law establishing a court of in- dustrial relations in New York State | was blasted to-day Majority Leader Walters, who backed the pian, announced he had discovered | {NS Brats Gonsiitucion would not permit | establishment of any superior court | except those prescribed by the basic | law. - | Bloomingdale Brothers’ Employees | Enjoy Ball. | Bloomingdale Brothe empioyees’ annual ball was given Saturday night, 10, at the Commodore Hote! Nearly 6,000 were present. A musi preceded the dancing, the orchestra and chorus of sixty being made up of employees. The entertainment was in charge of John J gerald, H. 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