The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1920, Page 2

=< PUES 5 ot aii oe PY =e ei oa uniformed police to be put on every surface “y they were willing to send ‘out ‘ Lindley M. Garrison, Federal re- ceiver for the B..R. T., received hun- ‘dreds of applications to-day from meh who offered to man trains as | the cominuter volunteers did in break- ing tip the abortive attempt of tha| union outlawed steam railroads to tié spring. The Public Service Commi sion does not permit the employmgnt of Inexpertenéed men on city trann-| portation ‘lines, so these offern have | been declined fi all but’ a fow in- stanges. GETTING READY FOR THE STRIKEBREAKING CREWS. One thousand experienced atreet car men. who have been recruited ‘for weeks in Chicago and cities Bast, however, have been started for Brook- lyn and are expected to arrive to-night and to-motrow, With these the B. R. T. managers are confident they oan start 500 auPface. cars to-morrow jf othe” Mayor keeps his promise of fur- nishing two policemen to a car. Car- penterd “were dusy tn alfthe com- paiye barns puttiig heavy wire seygens about the motorman’s vesti- P putes of 600,ears, 1A explanation of the failure to have ‘Sbtikebreakérs ready "to-day the fol- » epi was given out by te oom. LA _ “Dhe reason there are no surface “ears! running tp-day, le that after Mayor Hylan tad spoken at the Sat- urday night meetink officie’s of tha epee were notified that there would be no strike at present. Prep- jarations for meeting « atrike #itua- -cetyer Garrison, having been inform edythere would be no strike, bad _ Jeragy. Tk took@nearly ten hours to make @ new s#tart in meeting the sit- ‘uation. (The Operating Committee of the “mR. T.; W. 8. Menden, general mahager for the receiver; H, H. Por- ter, general manager of the surface ‘Mines; J .¥, Eagan, intendent of slovated lines, and William Siwbert, superintendent of elevated lines, were in close conference all day. They re- ceived news from all the barns and terminals by a battery of twenty or ore telephones attended by as many te and secretaries. Without making official predictions it was ad- mitted that the outlook was for a much longer suspension and interrup- ion of normal traffic conditions than the four-day strike of/ast winter, The company's barns are being fitted and provisioned for @ siege of two weeks or mote dn the headquarters of the strikers there Was @ similar determination to wick to the issue indefinilely, though Louls Fridiger, counsel for the Amal wamated Association, asserted “this strike Will end in five minutes if the other side will agree to arbitrate and will abide by arbitration.” ‘ ! ' ‘ | REPEATS THAT RIKE 18 FARE BOO! g An émployee of the B. RK T., whose name “wae mot divulged, called on Mayor Hylan w-day and was reported trom: the Mayor's office to say: “The BR. T. is using us as @ tool to fight for an increase of fare, if a meeting of the men was called to-night and m Your Honor takes ‘hold like you did, and have the trouble urbitrated, 76 Per cent. of the men would pull the . cars out tosmorrow morning.” The Mayors visitor further de- elared that he and about 400 others reported at the Greenwood oar barns ¢ willing to go to;work, but were told ‘Jam of Vehicles at Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn, Due to the Great Strike on the B.R. T. System |leaders will meet the Public Service ad PER CENT. WAGE RAISE IS CHIEF DEMAND Conductors and Motormen” on Lines Want Nine Hours Consecutive Work. “did not know whether W. D. Mahon. } ha vi if up the tains entering New York inst | ide Aen Soe Ls te hg Unlimited arbitration, giminat- ing the power of the court to out down awafds. | available for the strikers. This strike | was forced by the B, R. T. Saturday in wages of ap- proximately 40 per cent. Motormen and conductors 84 to 92 cents now receiving 62 te push the fight to the limit. ADDED FERRYBOATS PRESSED all Brooklyn and” Long Island City lines. Interborongh service between the boroughs was increased to the maxim road not only added to tye number of cars on its trains bat ran addi- tional trains. ‘The failure of som body to anticipate the change of con- Gitions by increasing ticket selling facilities at the Atlantié- Avenue junction of the Long Island alW Inter- borough, where only one*ticket 091) faiieg to go out on strike and reporte was open, caused repeated riots IM! ¢,. work will be held in res early, morning hours,» Thousand passengers, unable to buy tickets; peated!y, gbarged on the gates and by urtabi cise ane paid 63 sheer forme of numbers forced them- selved on. trains and rode without paying’ fares. e 33 1-3 per cent. Conductors and guards on ele- vated and subway lines, 70 to 90 cents an hour; now reosiving 49 Conductors and motormen on surface lines demand nine secutive hours of work inst the present arrangement of nine hoyra in eleven. The company. insinuates men hire striking for a closed shop. rhe setkare deny this 1 am speaking for the “motor- men and suFface line men. talk last night with our buac have our families to support and, my opinion, It seems as if the com- pany jugt wants us out.” TRUCKING COMPANIES COME TO ‘PUBLIC RELIEF. ” Trucking companies and inaiviauas| owners abandoned all other Vusiness }to put thelr vellicies into service on wone te hie eummer tome in New" tne jines ontabliahed by the city and, routes, The bridge in Manhattan were oir4| cled by 4 continuous line of trucks discharging passengers and picking | up others for the return trips The New York T and other corporations year-round arrangements for meeting transportation Ue-ups put their own lines in service, every employee hav- ing been provided, rumors of the strike were circulated with a slip showing .tion were thereupon abandoned. Re- | independent Jephone Company ten days ago, where transportation to could be found. Paper Company in Washington Street, Brooklyn, had twenty-five trucks in besides making arrangéments With a score or more owners to plok up Indi- vidual employees, this service channel and the Brooklyn Bridge was reserved for weatbound trafic only Canal and Blisabeth Streets were continuous strgam = of = passenge! North Moore nounced that eighteen of its motor trucks had been diverted to the Brooglynites from erty Avenue and St, J the Manhattan Bridge, The Army and the the Brooklyn Bridge. The traffic | Brooklyn began thie afternoon, The free of charge Navy supply moving all Brooklyn and on the bridges, FIRST CLASH TAKES PLACE IN EARLY MORNING! ‘The first serious clash of the strike hattan were crowded by the dis tuirrangement of their ordinary vol-} Third Avenue system's lines in the vicinity of the bridge terminain were completely demoralized. The New strike breakers and fifty strike sym together at the depot at Halsey Btrect and Saratoga Ave- e were called and the attackers escaped into Saratoga Park, leaving much e of bottion and | waa reported hurt Police were station at Alabama and Atlantic that strike sym pathizers can in the viotnity of City Hall and at Grand Street and Rivington Street as ammunition | Street six abreast and there were Sunday morning and were ready and | by-« starter that the strike had begun fake @ car out. He asserted that when the men went to their lockers they discovered controller handies, air brakes ang other apparatus neces been removes 1 think if the company will let us.” fusd the B. BT, employee in answer 16 @ question, “75 per cent. of us old wien will go bo work at any time Lbey ra from the platforms and that they would not be allowed to! the stairways « threatening . | meeting at Labor jby wind Myrtic , Bary fof the operation of cars had) to be addpessed by Commissioner at 2.30 o'clock — this afternoon. In an interview with reporters Shea anfounced thnt no appointments other | than this have been made, He said he the international President, will come | to New York to take part in the strike | meetings. “You oan say,” he added, “that the strike has the\ full tfon of the union, and that union funds will be) night when they locked out the men ‘at the power house, We're going to INTO SERVICE, AdAitional ferryboats were put on m. ‘The Long Island Rail jand guards of the elevated and sub- ay by standing over the change shelf and burrying money and tickets into the jam and threatenings of a big disso {ter at the Williamsburg Bridge ter- | minais, ordered the police to mak: the bridge a4, thoroughfarg for Man hattan bound traffic only, This ré- lieved the siiuation for a while; but there was still euch a dong it backed wp trucks and carts | pleasure oars for blocks at the Wal Jamebure plaza. ONE WAY TRAFFIC ON THE thon thst | receive double pay uteg by « ce hour for the fitst year, 64 cents the C*™Mpaign, but a corrupting fund wd second year, 67 cents the third year ZO, be less than $16,000,000," ‘That and 6. e screamh of women crushed 1 ji oneq these rushes drew the tram@ polic from the street, and after some rous!) and tumble work the passéhgers were forced td form in double lines and the months and 92 cents an hour there- !2% to ov aiter a meéting at which Tr subway lines are paid 54 cents an ade police aided in hastening ticket sales hour for the first aix months, 66 cents ®%Y other time or plac: for the next year and 67 cents there. | (Oy 44 UNdet any su after. They ask an increase to 87 o dines are pald 47 cents an hour for the first #ix, months, 60 cents an hour for the next year HAY cents an hour thereafter, They a: incre: sf : ALLEGED MISUSE OF GOVERN- cents an hour for the first six months /MENT INSTRUMENTS CHARGED. jay. Cox's charges, Mr. | Haya asserted Renublican leaders have “heen advised of the alleged misuse of | Senator and $5 cents an hour thereafter, shops and in the power houses are crease, according to officials of the| tions by the Democ B. R, T, who sald the average per-| for political purpos in the jam to the entrance to the Williamsburg Bridga, but thought the police were doing wonders. MOTOR BOATS ARE USED TO CARRY PASSENGERS. To-day hundreds of motor boats were being used to carry passengers to work and pleasure seekers to go to or from the beaches. The Arike ts of street cur motor- men ast conductors and conductors | way lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Trans® system. Of the 5,500 men| employed as motormen and conduc STRIKING - PHOTOGRAPHS ‘SHOW. HOW BROOKLYN. TRAVELS, Big Motor Trucks Doing a Thriving Business At Williamsburg End of Delancey Street Bridg tors on troligys but a few score re- | tered car barns, and of these none but ported for work’at the widely ec mu HAYS SAYS fox’ § ja. few of the ‘older men offered to| work yesterday, Of the 3,500 men employed on the} FUND CHARGES ARE subway and elevated lines but 1,500! reported for work and practically, all| lof these were the motormen’ who be- |tong to tite Brotherhood of Locomo- live Engineers. The street car men jana trai |long to the Amdigamated Association | conduptora and guards be- | | wibway lines will continue to draw That siatoment is also fulse. their pay, and all non-tnion men who, CALLED FALSE. erve and! That ‘millions have been contrib Motormen and conductors on ‘the cents an that the Republican funds, nt statement |x false cents thereafter, They ask an ‘That a to 84 cents for the first six to be rais d by ¢ ? and I we Conductors on the elevated and also false. N ted at and no opera h quot He has “nade other state ta ure also fal now say {that thelr purpose," wes to 82 PES Countering Other groups of employecs in the | king for the same pe centage of in- | governmental instruments and func iaatnne Fae From First Page.) STATEMENT OF $15,000,000 Fund rupt source in further- ance of a Republican conspiracy to | buy an underhold on the Presidency: quota fixing of assessinents rtain cities, amount- $4,000,000 was adopted at asurer Upham e present.’ That charge |s éuch quotas were ever any such meeting or at nents} has been raised by th «ing a slush fund for corruption| mittee for ite own tse ach and all of these several charges are absolutely fulse In what they say and Wbelous In| 1920, in| the Nation atic organization| Campaign Committees $38,000. From | es; sending out | 00 budaet he sald had been worked |CONEY ISLANDERS MAROONED; NOT A CAR MOVING OUT showed the divisun of the money for the ofllowing purposes peakers’ bureau, $255,100. Headquarters expense, Wash- ington, New York, Boston, Chi- cago, Denver and San Francisco, $750,874.20. Mr. Hays next “quotas” if Goy een levied for Stat Fiv and cite of Street and Blectric Railway Em- ¢ | quotas ‘hav on suggested by the tan stormed the gates of bisyeen ; trem, as tentative goals in . |dustrial controversies, they can Hive | diffgrent States, and the State com-| End and other terminals The motormen on the elevated andthe bayonet to enfdrce their will |miftees themselves have fixed differ- klyn Rapid Transit t quotas," he said. “These are d_ always, of | y much higher amount efther necessary oF ; anticipated, ‘The fact is, the quotas not\a subway dr eleva meant little, Furthermore, whatever may have been suggested ax quotas . by overzealous solicitors tn their en- the tholsands who sought ;thusiasm in different localitiess, the dato be driven awa y were made ve under Inspector Conboy surface car. leaving Coney ation to the elty found t fact remains that a-certain amount wus believed necesary ugd the budget the terminals closed nove referred to was indicated women ticket sellers therefor. There is actually Republican trea Hays suld, Aft 7 vention, he sald the net balance tn the hands of the National Committee was $196g21.27 ance to tl "Since the 1920 deficit in the hooths. 74.69, Mt. "Phe police gulded ‘eon f all sizes Flatbush nvention there Avenues National Com- subway. ‘The autom $618,013.54 up ' ranged from 50 cents right hands. cents an hour for the first six months purposes, subscribed In the names of|to Aug, 26, 1920. During this period |” » Ne n motor trucks which mig Commissioner Grover Whalen’ and 90 gents thereafter. dummy contributors; to be u to| there thas been raised by the States veedtnetiea rate! |aftor « fow minutes’ aiudy of the Guarda on the clevated and subway prrupt thi ctorate. ‘These state-|Where we haye a joint working a . ent, for their own use $399,- of service for five avid Mr. Hays fl result of “There was on hand on Aug for ahoottr Commit treasury $165,126.31 and we owe $46) Youre 000, ‘This amount has been borrowed) The Coney Island I In order thanticipate expenditures | appealed to the Iron Of this we have loaned to the Congressional Campaign, itte $185,500, and we have lok | Campaign Committ 000 and we have idanedsto th ‘gency. ‘The company to inaugurate a achedule June 14 to Aug. 26, 1920, the Na- ine ; thousands of tons of propaganda by | tional Committee has expended $843,- BRIDGES. ntnge of the increase asked for b¥| the Democratic Administration during. 009.50 ef Whalen then made Manhattan the strikers is 40 per cent. the paper shortage, while limiting the “This leave: deficit pf $28,374.69 Bridge an éxolusively eastbound made one way streets to carry the trucks from the two upper bridges to m the three bridges was re versed when the return rush to Williamaburg Bridge carried — vhe ireatest burden of the day at all hours. All transportation lines In Man- ne of traMe due to the strike, The York Clty lines were’ also swamped | well aw at 69th Street. * The north roadway waa reserved for motor vehicles and horse trucks and wagons came over the south dway. ‘Phey poured into Delancey continuous tangles quickly separated | and cleared by policemen hustling | under the general direction of In- | pector Thomas McDonald, A solid | column of men and women the width of the walkway marched‘ into Man- | hattan from daybreak until after 9} o'clock. The poli suid no such mul- | cd the bridge titude ES was built Mayor Hylan went out on an tn- spection ttip of traffic conditions in Williamabure between 7 and # o'clock v When he arrived at the City. Hell KA suid he had been dwayed Jtaken to settle the strike, F big meeting of business men at whieh |and a the Judge Mayer declined to make any| use of paper by the press, and that statement, but it is known he con-|# large part of It was Democratic po- asiders the action of the men in eall- ing a strike unwarranted and, out- rageous, | litical payers’ money; and | 100, that the Democratic Khe finan. | ticles from leading Demacratac news papers telling of Democratic plans t the Amalgamated, said the strike had | Campaign. Republican fund been brought about by Judge Mayer's ment to arbitrate all differences, Shea | fund You estimate, then, that the cam~ |] ° GO! OLATE, COVMEED was in touch with President Mahon| ‘We, of cours, welcome the oppor- | paign will cost about $5,000,000 tiaxeous. prl ‘at the national headquarters of the|tunity further fully to get forth the| “Yes; but that Includes more ‘than |] ure thee Amalgamated, by telephone, and, ac- | effort of the Republican National Com. | $1,000,000 apent in State campaigns |] \ foggy: cording to James M. Sheridan, Chair. | mittee to popularize the giving of| and assigned to the State”. Soths you net man of the Grievance Committee of | money for campaign purposes by get the B. R. T. men, President Mahon | ting small contributions from a great The men held two meetings to- | large contributions fr the funds raised , the : . m a small num- day in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, | ber, thus forever eliminating any px Willoughby and Myrtle Avenuos,| sible opportunity for ginister influ where they have hired large hall | ences in connection wit!f money in po! and have thelr headquarters, They | ities. also started meetings in Browns “This plan for the raising of money | ville, at Gerenpoint and in the Parke | through small sontribut way Assembly Rooms, of two primary causes “There will be no violence used,"| “The real desire to work said Sheridan, ne grew ou «a real re. improper obligation. "Out of the @xperjence in conner tion with raising funda for war ur poses these popular drives have be come familiar activities, and It » posible at this time to under kind of *« know we are right. Our delegates will use diplomacy to win over the men who are still ut work. We are going to Win this strike because the public will force Judge Mayer and Receiver Garrison to live up to the agreement fine cisead 6 vene age Ww nreitras ion by political organize N MADE FUDGE all differences aud abide by the find- We particularly hoped that th We seem, to be getting ino « dis —These ure big, ereanty ings of the arbitrators. ‘That is all we) Sctivity would increase the political cussion of hearsay evidence again was Nest atts ask.” werent Scnator Kenyon said May [ ask Hlocks home The Brooklyn Chamber of Com- ft was then the purpose and it has! Mr. Kays, whether you have heard of made bhended oe heki @ special meetin to. | been since the purpome to ba | to limt the contribution to @ mi rman) of @ thousand dollars for ar A. Mets, Chairman.or the Chanber, | for any individual, or a thousand do! jasued the call, and’ has plans for a|lars before the nominating convention day what action an attempt will be made to br have all trie to adhere to that plan strikers wad the company té After explaining the machinery an ne ations to that end have tho ‘ wn , wiready succeeded. pifect, Mr. Have produced ‘the. $3,000, ‘ bea e propaganda, all paid for by tax- 6 informed, conimittec he court, it Is also Known,| even resorted to drawing drafts on will not be sweryed by the strike or| bankers in whom banks Government Any other mothoda from ita firm po-| funds were deposited, wiring such sition in regard to the impoasibility| bankers they already had drawn such of permitting a board of arbitration | drafts. ‘ to pasa finally upon demands of the), Mr Hays put into the records ar men which seriously aff clal condition of the coi / Patrick J, Shea, View Prendent of | Mise $10,000,000 for the Presidential i ising activities, he sald, were influenced by refusal to abide by his signed agree. | the reputed size of the Democratic o TIONS, SAYS THE CHAIRMAN, will win if we form in the elimination of an posal ble jstay right with the public, and we 2 . ao ee med ke that dieavor ximum | promises to any one one year snd dollars after. We on Aug 6, 1 However, we have on hand uncollected pledge cards amounting to $291,566.38, all due b tween now and Oct. 1, The treasurer | has these pledge cards, These pledges : from every Stute and are from wons wit! average con Of $126.55 er person, Of these 2,804 pledges, none are over| $1,000, except two, which are for| $5,000 each NO FUNDS FROM THE CORPORA a Senator Kenyon asked Mr. Hays if committee had received any, con utions from corporations. " the witness said Senator Reed questioned Mr. Hays to bring out whother the State com, under Joint Jagreement with the national commit | tee could continue to raise funds. He was told they could not “Have any men of large means ||] ASSORTED PEEVE t been consulted regarding w plan for nie collec underwriting the Republican cam- Fry sae ja palgn,” tor Reed asked we have borrowed som but nothing else has been was the answer That is a straight loan?” | “Have you heard of any promians or agreements with any one whereby they will receive any favors in even Republioan vigtory ? Kone, ent Spicy flavors. LIAL. POUND BOX with vari chopped Fruits a Hts, Bre: sented in Chorolate, Vanilla, Maple and the Democratic Parity making any “Well, there is tie sialene the British Ambassador con to Mr. Cox's campaig heard a lot of rumors by ch | lave take Higplay stock , oe adie 1 mM AS Air, Hays was sul on the ‘atand S arried away the er 8 marooned™*n |MILLIONAIRE RIDES FROM B’KLYN, 50C. Boat Service To-Merrow. ing Popular Prices Range From 10 to 20 Cents thousand ®oney Island nt periods different | mer residents who work) Manhat tition of truc neers was 80 ker A tea i 0: 1 lines paid any gitention to the hand nothing was heard ‘a millionaire touring Gare. es according to fifteen and twenty cents, SPEEDED AT WORD TO HALT. Auto Driver Gets Fifteen Day Sen- Without a Fine. Surf Avenue whére hundreds ered lon of the Interborough | bile 0 public safety” and was given jail sentence in which to rs to, drivers being craps to while away’ t native Df paying @ fine n John Geldermian, stepped on the urd of amboat C ny 10 increase its ‘schedule every half-hour, beginning Tuesday The steamboats and nutomobdiles Taae- Caan Extraordinary Monday Special - . 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