Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19
OF ACTION.

CONCERT OF ACTION.
To such the Striking Strcet-Car Elm.
p,oycs of New York City Owe Th.i,
yictory-The "~Tieing-Up" of All III.
Lines in the City Forces the Dry DocL
Company to Yield.
NEW York, March G.-The grand 'tic-un,
Of all the surface lines ofthe city, ordered v
the Executive Board of the Empire Proter.
five Association, took place yesterday
morning, and not Il car was run. At 4:oe
n,c,ock the first carior the day on the Sixth
Avenue road should have left the depot
at Forty-third street. The car did NOT
| do So. and as the night men arrived with
| their cars they ran them into the stables
The men stood around quietly, laughed
and chattcd in the best of humor. and did
not attempt to resort to any violence. The
CITY appearcd as if dead. Nothing like tn.
present trouble has been witnessed ever
since the worst days OF the great epizootic
! endemic, a dozen years ago. Under the
decree OF the Empire Protective Associa.
ton at least 1,5OOmen quit work. Mounted
men patrolcd Grand street and the routeo.
the Dry Dock railroad from end to end to
keep the route clear in case OF any attempt
being made orun acar over the road as on
Thursday, in order to save the companyits
| charter. No disturbance OF any kind
occurred, the strikers preserving an att.
tude OF quiet determination. awaiting The
result OF II conference held between thu
Executive Committee Of the Empire .Asso.
| citation and Railroad Commissioner O'Don,
nell, who arrived from Albany in answer to
a dispatch demanding his presence.
At half past one O'Clock Police Superin.
tendent Murray received intelligence that
the committees which met to consider The
strike troubles had adjourned, and that
matters had been adjusted so that the men
would resume work at two O'Clock p. M. opj
all lines in this city and Brooklyn. Comb
missioner O'Donnell, after the con-
sultation with the Executive Committed
took a cab and went over to Brooklyn, \
where he met President Richardson at the|
office of the Atlantic Avenue line, togethed
with the directors. A proposition was subj
mitted to the commissioners contained id
the following resolution and directed I'd
Joseph O'Donncll. chairman OF the Execuj
tive Committee OF the Empire Mutual PROD
tective Associations:
Rcsolped, That the Atlantic Avenue railroad
of brooklyn, will agree to pay the men at thd
rate of Two dollars per day for twelve hOur&
rs Il days work for conductors and drivcr3
including half an hour allowed for dinned
and, after our cars are running to submit III
the questions of difference between the cmE
ployes to Comrnissioner ODonncll:
It. agreed that the Dry Dock, East Broad
way and Battery lines be included in the SAND
agreement as the Atlantic roads in Brookls1 4
lsigned) W. j. RlcHAHDsoN;
Brooklyn, N. Y. March 3, 1886.
On obtaining this document Commi&
sioncr O'Donnell at once returned to Nef
York and vent to the Central Labor Unio&
Hall, on East Eighth street, where I'll
Executive Committee was in session. Il
submitted the proposition to them, and
was accepted.
The first street-car out OF the Dry-Do&
stables, near the foot of Grand street, al
over the Grand-street line, left the stabl
at two o'clock, amid the cheers and yells
the thousands OF people in the neia
borhood. For blocks away from e
stables the streets were impossible az.
ing to the throng, but the tone OF K
talk was jubilant instead OF defiant.
New York breathcs easier as II rcsult
the settlement OF the strike. There "
overcightthOusand conductors, drivers II s
stablemen idle, and the sentiment OF the 80
tire wage-working class seemed to be W
them. There were grave fears OF Il md
serious outbreak than occurred Thursda
The police made such perpendicular sd
pressing disturbances as have not he
made in years; and there were rumd
that the State troops were to
called upon should mobs aga
take possession of the stirred
Orders We're issued prohibiting all parnd
OF working.mcn at present, and thiss tlrI
up bad blood. The news of the settlemd
OF the trouble, however, put the strikd
and their svmpathizers in good temp
and the excitement rapidly subsidized.