The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-07

factory in South Berwick, Me-, which was
shut down two weeks ago by the owners be-
cause Lasters' Union submitted new price
list which was declined, starts up up tomor-
row morning. Mr.. Cummings yielding to the
lasters' demands.
The Tie-Up In New York.
NEW YORK, June 6.-Saturday morning,
for the third time since the beginning of the
year, the cars ON the surface roads in New
York city ceased running. This time the
tie up included not only Brooklyn but all the
Jersey City roads as well. Not surface car
was running in Brooklyn Saturday morning.
and only the Third Avenue in this city. The
movement was to support the Third Avenue
strikers, and the men said that not a car
would be run on any of the roads until the
trouble was settled The strike was COM
plete surprise to the horse car line companies
and the public, for the men kept their inten-
tion a secret, and not the slightest lntlmatlon
of their purpose leaked out.
The police received information of the tie
up half an hour after the order was issued
Superintendent Murray hurried to police
headquarters, and within an hour the re-
serves of the entire fOrces 400 men, were
concentrated at the stations along the line of
the most important roads, and at points
whence they could most easily be despatched
to threatened quarters in the event OF trou-
BILE. One hundred and fifty men were sta
toned at Headquarters; all Summer and sick
leaves were for the present stopped and or
dered off, and the two patrol wagons were
brought to headquarters in readiness to trans
fer the men to any given point at breakneck
speed. The blow struck was sudden and
crushing one. Policemen on the streets
hailed it as short, decisive settlement of the
long strike on the Third Avenue road which
had worn on their strength for nearly two
months.
The order for this strike was issued by the
executive board of Empire Protective Asso-
citation. Since the last strike this board has
been reorganized. 1t has been learned that at
the last meeting of the district assemblyitwas
decided that when the new board was ap-
pointed to give them two weeks to effect
peaceable settlement of the strike on the
Third Avenue road. Failing in that the hrst
resource was tie-up. The members of the
car associations felt the weekly assessment
burdenSOme. and became eXasperated by the
delays and inaction Of the previous boards
They demanded a general tie-up and refused
to listen to the conservative members OF the
board. Some of the men ordered out were
ready to cry with vexation. They went out,
however.
Last night the presidents of the Fourth
and Eighth Avenue and the Boulevard roads,
and superintendents of the Eighth Avenue,
the Smith Street line in Brooklyn, the Broad
way, and the Seventh Avenue visited the
headquarters of the Empire Protectivea eaAsso-
citation and induced the executive board to
withdraw the order tying up the Surface
roads of the city and Brooklyn. Today all
the roads resumed business.
Much dissatisfaction exists among the men,
and loud threats were made against the
board. A special meeting of District Assem-
bly, No. 70, Knights of Labor, which is the
other name for the Empire Protective Asso-
citation, will be held tomorrow to depose the
executive board and elect successors. The
Third Avenue strikers threaten violence
and claim that they have been sold out by the
board. 1t is thought that the car drivers or
ganization will be disrupted in consequence
of the dissension caused by the action OF the
leaders.
Tha Third Avenue put on all the extra
cars available, and carried immense crowds.
Many of the old drivers applied at the sta
bles, and begged of Superintendent Robert
son to be taken back. His unvarying reply,
however was 1T is too late we don't don NEED need
Avenue road, said today: This is a conn.,
plete surrender of the Knights, that will
work the beginning Of their final dissolu-
tion, and they may lay the whole blame to
the incapacity and utter lack of honor and
honesty in their leaders 1t is a victory for
the workingmen over the tyranny and ignor-
ant and avaricious men, whom they have al
lowed to lead them by the nose. We have
beaten them at every point,-at strike, at
boycott and at tie-up,- it has now be-
come fixed fact that we run our road re-
gardless of their Dictates" The roads are
all running as usual tonight and the general
feeling is that the strike is not only dead but
buried.
The Great Lock Out at Troy.
Troy, n. Y, June 5-The most remark
able of all strikes and lockoutS is that which