St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-06
All the Street Railways in New York City,
Brooklyn and Jersey City Again
Laid Up.
No Proclamation or Explanation Accompa-
MES the Order The Blow Sudden
and Crushing.
The Women Continue to Hold the Fort
ut Cummfngs--Powd Threat
ems TO Resign.
A Voluntary Raise of Wages in the
Milwaukee Shops at Minneapolis
--Other Matters.
A General Tie-Up.

OF the surface roads III the city nave Deell
tied up. This time the tie-up includes
not only Brooklyn, but all the Jersey City
roads as well. 1t was remarked yesterday
by one Of the eXective board of the
Empire association that the proceedings
of the board had been maize TOO public.
He promised the reporters that hereafter
they would not be able 10 anticipate the
action of the board. He said the next dis
tnct meeting would be held in some place
where it would not be found out by re-
poIters. The result of the meeting last
night shows that the first part of the re-
marks was no idle boast. The latter part
was not made good this time. Early in the
evening it became known that a special
meeting OF District Assembly rs, Knights
OF Labor, haze been called together for
meeting last night
THE REPORTERS WE'RE ON HAND.
The meeting continued without any inter-
val until 4. m. to-day. From time to
time men came out of the hall and went
away. Others came and took their places.
Altogether nearly 100 delegates were pres
ent from the associations of the city. One
singular fact was noted in the absence of
the executive board. 1t then developed
that the board was in secret session down
town somewhere. and that none of the Off
u
ance From one of the members it
is learned that the delegates had
passed resolutions approving the course
of the executive board i'll ordering the
continuance of the strike on the Third
avenue line. 1t was whispered around
that warrants were out for the arrest of
certain members of the executive board.
Zach man as he came out was questioned,
but denied in the most solemn manner that
and word had been received from the leaders
as to their intentions.
THEY PROGRESSED IGNORANCE
as to the object of the secret meeting. 1t
became known to the reporters that some
of the men were expecting orders for
general tie-up, and with excitement they
awaited the result. At 3 a. NJ. no news
had been received from the executive
board, and many of the delegates left the
meeting and went to their homes. Only
about forty remained in the hall. Shortly
after a. m. two young men arrived at the
hall and went III. The doors were closed
until $50, when the delegates came
out with stern, set faces. and dispersed.
None of them would answer questions,
and it appeared that they had been eau
toned before leaving the hall to avoid all
conversation about the strike, or of a gen.
eral tie-up. Last of all came the acting
chairman of the meeting. To questions as
to the action of the board, he hesitated.
and then said: 1.-THE executive board has
ordered a general tie-up of all the surface
lines in the city of Brooklyn" He refused
to talk further on the subject and said that
he did not know where the board met to
make up their plans.
FROM ANOTHER SOURCE
it was learned that at the last meeting of
the District assembly, it was decided, when
the new board was appointed, to give them
two weeks to effect peaceable settlement
failing in that, the last recourse was the
general tie-up. This has been indicated
before. The members of the car asssocia-
lions have felt the weekly assessments bur-
densome, and have become eXasperated by
the delays and inaction of previous ex-
ecutive boards. They demanded
general tie-up as the remedy for the
ending of the Third avenue strike, and re-
fused to listen to the conservative members
of the board. With difficulty the members
have been induced to postpone the tie-up
until now. Ed milford, one of the pru-
dent counselors of the board, several days
ago refused to attend any meetings of the
board. and has been at headquarters but
very little of the time. Graham, the care
fui district master workman, was forced
along with the current. The action taken
by the board is said to be
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
by the men. They say they have done this
to force the Third avenue road, through the
intervention of other companies. to come to
terms, and declare that the fight will be
forced all along the line. The old story of a
combination between the car companies was
reported again as one of the causes of the
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proclamation or explanation accompanied
the order to tie up. The old principle
of the order has apparently been lived up
to, viz: Never tell thing until it is
done" The blow struck was sudden and
crushing one. Policemen along the streets
this morning hailed it as a short. decisive
settling of the long strike which had worn
on their strength for nearly two months.
Although the order to tie up was
not sent out to the roads until
after 3 O'clock this morning, by 4:3O
a. IN. it was known universally throughout
the city. The police department was
posted on the facts early, and by o'clock
every depot was guarded by details of police.
The drivers and other employees worked
through the night as usual until the time for
the first day car to run in the morning. At
the Grand street depot of the Dry Dock lines
THE SCENE OF FIERCE RIOT
and confusion in March last the night cars
finished their trips at $50 a. IN. Half an
hour earlier the day cars were to begin their
trips. The men did not appear for duty,
and the assistant superintendent went down
and was told of the order to tie up. He
merely asked if there were any grievances
of the men, and was told there
were none; that they were ordered
to stop work by the board. He then
notified the superintendent. The stable
men were left to care for the horses
At the other stables similar questions were
asked aud similar replies given 1t was
said this morning that over 200 of the
Third avenue non-union men have left the
company, so that only about so drivers are
left in the service of the company. 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 reserves of the entire force,
1.4OO, men were concentrated at the stations
along the lines of the most important roads,
and at points whence they could most easily
be dispatched to threatened quarters in the
event of trouble. One hundred and fifty
men were stationed at police headquarters
and all summer vacations and sick leaves
were stopped. Patrol wagons were brought
to headquarters in readiness to transfer the
men to any given point.
President Richardson of the BROOKLYN
Atlantic Avenue road, called on the super
intendent of police of Brooklyn, TODAY.
and said that he would like to run some
cars under police protection. He thought
it would be necessary to have policeman
on every block along the route, if not one
on every car. Supt. Campbell said he
could not possibly do it, as the strike was
general and it was necessary to distribute
the force so that the greatest good might be
accomplished should trouble arise. Everv-
thing was quiet at the railroad stables. The
Seventeenth and Eighteenth street cross
town lines OF cars are running regularly.
The Trouble at Cummings.
CHICAGO, June 5.-After the exciting
time Of yesterday, to-day possessed little of
startling interest or incident at CUMMINGS