The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-24
ANOTHER BIG STRIKE.
NEW YORK STREET OARDRIYERS
AND CONDUCTORS
Kick Against the Addition oil an Ex-
ira Trip TO Their Days
Work.

NEW York, August 23.-0n the
blaekboard iLtide the tart 2r's room OF
tbe broadway and Seventh Avenue
horse railroad ofiicy J, FIT nth street
pud Seventh avenue, W.T. last w tx
notice that on Monday new time
t,ble would 20 ipt effeoJ, and request
INC the drivers aud conduc' ~ - be
on the lockout for it. The men were
watehful. On { turdqy mo. ming, up
in the employ room, WIS hung q
new sshC iule that called for Elk trips
10 the Battery lust. I'd Ct five trips
they had been making. The time
t1bie WI iDgenior ly grange so that
the six trips were - be dope in the
twelve hours allowed by law. To ef-
feet this, in many casrs the hour for
t'arting on the first tri1 wa set much
earlier than before, e1u the time for
starting the lat trip WIS set much
later. The law t-k's no a,5ount OF
the time between til :. The men
orowled and kept it up al day long.
The local assemblymen met Saturday
evening and the new table We dis
cursed. 1t wgT plain that the men
were disturbed by the Chenge, and
that il they had their own way they
would kick. 1t WI deemed advi- able
20 delay action over Sunday.
They met after midnight lot
night in the b U, and at
1850 this morning were discu; ing
whether it would be better to tic up
the Broadway liue alone or to wat
and persuade the men on the Sixth,
Eighth and Ninth avenues and the
belt lines t. act and tie up all the liness
together. They said that If they tied
up Broadway only the re ut might be
in DOUBT, but that il all the West Side
roads were tied up the strike could not
last longer than day at the outside,
and the companies would readily 90
back to the present order OF things, 1t
was evidently decided to tie up the
Broadway liIe at once and no cara on
that route ara running this morning.
One Of the Broadway conductors said
that though the new schedule in.
creased the trips from five to Elk and
heightened cut the day greatly, it did
not raise the mems psy. The law
which says that horse rail Dad EN-
ployes shall no. be worked more than
twelve hours @ day iDgeniously omit
ted TO say twelve consecutive hours,
and IL would be easy to arrange
echedule under IL 30 that a driver
should be lawfully deprived OF any
chance TO sleep three consecutive
hours q day.
THK POLICE IN CHARGE,
Sergt. Coombs, from the Twenty
second Precinct Police Station, with
fifty policemen, took possession OF the
Broadway R,ilrosd Company's sta
bles, by orders from police headquar
ters, ag soon aB the strike was reported
this morning. Acting Police SupeIin
tsndent Steers, on bis arrival, ordereC
the reserves in every precinct to bt
held in the stations until further or
ders, ard put himself in immediate
communication with the precinct com
mandeIp, and instructed them to neg
leot no precaut,on against possible
trouble. Most Of the captains can't
to headquarters during the foreuool
and conferred with the inspector
They were told to hold their off pla
toous until notice was given iron
headquqrters that they would nj
longer be necessary. The half houyl,
reports from the atablss represtnttC
everything as quiet. Police Inspector
Dixie, after yisiiug the police on duty
there, came in end reported that the
superintendent OF the railroad wat
awaiting tho arrival Of the presiden
at the stables before taking any sction
The superintendent YVES Of the opiu
ion that many OF the men were anx
ious to accept his offer to the mon t.
90 to work on the old time table az,
at the old rates as compromise pend
ing the presidents rrriyal, but the,
were afraid OF the mAlcontents.