The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-13

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The strike OF the employees OF the Dry
Dock Street Railway lines continues
and travellers by the Grand Street fer
ries are put to much inconvenience
thereby. The hearing before the state
railroad commissioner was continued
this morning at the company's office.
Vice-President Richardson made a re-
ply to the demands of the men, taking
up each one separately. The company
is willing to allow twelve hours to con
stitute a days work including one
hou: for meals. All employees who
work more than twelve hours are to
receive extra pay. Mr.. Richardson
asserted that no outside organization
should have the rightto dictate to the
company whomit should or should not
employ. There was along debate inre-
gard 20 the discharge OF certain men
who had remained faithful to the COM
pany during the present difficulty.
The superintendent replied that the
company would prefer to go to pieces
rather than discharge these men. The
conference ended without any agree
ment being reached. An attempt was
made to run cars during the afternoon
but the strikers put such obstacles in
the way that the trial was abandoned.
During the attempted progress OF the
test car huge load of barrels crossed
the track in front of it. The strikers
cut the ropes that bound the barrels
on the truck and they rolled to the
street and caused delay. A coal wagon
containing two tons Of coal was
dumped and its contents spread before
the car. \ car OF the Grand Houston
| and Forty second Street line
was stopped by the strikers, the
harness was cut and the car placed
square across the track. Each car
that arrivedzswas thus derailed until
sixteen cars were standing across the
| tracks. Passengers we're turned out
and travel stopped. Fifty or sixty
cars finally were blocked and thou
| sands OF persons were a part OF the
scene. Finally 120 policemen arrived
and sought to protect the trial trip
| car. The driver held his reins steadily
and maintained composure amidst
| the jeers and intimidation OF the mob.
| The conductor was surrounded and
dragged off the car. He disappeared
and sought refuge in the cOmpany's
office. Finally word came from the
company to take the car back to the
stable. The strikers construed this as
a step toward victory, and there were
tumultuous shouts, and the course OF
travel was permitted again to be re-
srImed.
The tactics of the street car strikers
in New York, begun on the Sd, were
kept up during the following day, and
on the 5th traffic was at a standstill.
No such suspension OF business was
ever experienced in that ci5y even
| during the great epizootic epidemic
| of 1872. On that morning the city
had the appearance of being deserted.
Not horse car could be seen from the
Harlem River to the Battery, the
| drivers and conductors of all lines
| having struck at 4 O'Clock in the
morning, in accordance with the order
| sent out by the executive board of the
| Empire Association. Every man able
| to put on a uniform and carry club,
was ordered on duty, and 800 men
| were held IN reserve. Police head
quarters looks like an enormous
| bivOuaC of uniformed men. Squads
| OF fifteen or twenty policemen were
dispatched early to guard all railroad
| depots and stables. Mounted men
| JdIIOlcu NIdU6l StIStU anu Jlb IOubt
| of the Dry Dock Railroad from end to
| end, to keep the route clear in the
event of an attempt being made to
run car over the road, as was done
on the previous day, in order to save
| the company its charter. Added to
| the existing trouble, the rumOr that
| the elevated roads would be stopped
at noon increased the feeling of uneasi-
ness, but this proved unfounded.
| Commissioner O'Donnell, after con-
| sultation with the executive commit
| tee of the strikers, met President
| Richardson and the directors OF the
Atlantic Avenue Line, in Brooklyn,
| the result of which was he carried
back to New York with him the follow
| ing proposition from the railroad COM
pany, which was at once accepted by
| the executive committee, still in ses-
sion at Central Labor Union Hall:
! Resolved, That the Atlantic Avenue Rail
road, OF Brooklyn. will agree to pay the
men at the rate OF 50 per day for twelve
| hours as a DAVIS work for conductors and
| drivers, including half an hour allowed for
| dinner; and after our cars are running, to
! submit all the questions of difference be-
| tween the employees to Commissioner
| O'Donnell. 1t is agreed that the Dry-Dock,
| East Broadway and Battery lines be in
| cluded in the same agreement as the At
| lantic roads in Brooklyn.
w. j. RICHARDSON, President.
| The delegates from the different
| roads were started at once to notify
| the men to be ready to start the cars
! at 2 p. NJ. Down stairs in the large
| hall the strikers were in session. Mr..
| Graham announced the terms OF the
] amid ha III h,rGh
| in the room. When he had finished
there was a deep, long breath OF relief.
| A man threw his hat up and yell
broke out which shook the building.
| The meeting broke up and the men
started for work. Joseph O'Donnell
said to q reporter: "All the surface
roads will start at 2 P. NJ. The prop
| osition from Richardson was accepted.
Commissioner O'Donnell will be arbi-
traitor and we approve the choice. 1t
is great victory for us"
! Car No. 1876 OF the Fourth Avenue
Surface road, was the first to reach the
i city hall. 1t reached the stand at
2:2O o'clock and was covered with
brand new brooms. The first car out
/ OF the Dry Dock stables, near the foot
/ of Grand Street, and over the Grand
| Street line, left the stables at quar-
| ter past amid the cheers and yells Of
| the thousands of people in the neigh
| borhood. For blocks away from the
| stables the streets We're impossible
| owing to the throng, but the tone
1 OF the talk was iubilanu in
stead OF defiant as yesterday. All
/ along Grand Street the buildings
were decked with flags and bunt-
ing, until the route OF the first car
wore its best holiday air. The space
directly in front of the stables was
kept clear by squad OF police. The
horses for the first trip were brought
out and hitcbed first to the car which
made the memorable tripunder Police
| Superintendent Murray's direction,