Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-24
A Big STRIKE.
\ General Strike is lnaugurated on
All the Lines Of the Brooklyn
City Railway Company,
The Company Attempts to Ignore the
Knights OF Labor and Tho Em.
plre Protective Association.
rhe nroohlyn merchants whose Holiday
trade u Rutncd win Run stages
from the BridE- 10 Their stores.
nnonKtYNrrRs MOOR.


NRw YoRN, Doc. 2a.--Tho many thous.
and BrookIynites accustomed 10 use the
horse cars OF the Brooklyn City Railroad
company were to-day compelled to walk.
Tho company controls eleven lires Of
street cars, all OF which were tied M to.
day. The men claim that the company
failed 20 carry out the agreement made
with tho men last March In regard to The
hours OF work.
0oe OF the causes OF the trouble was
tho fact that tho company would not
recognize the knights OF Labor or the
Empire Protective association In It's ne
gutiatlons with Its men. About dozen
cars started under the protection of the
nolice In East New York One OF tho
cars was attacked by 1--WE strikers, whom
the police promptly arrested, aud pre-
vented further trouble.
sunsriruriNa srAGKs.
| NKw YORK, Dec. 2a.--rhis morning
several citizens went TO tho office Of the
! Empire Protective association and asked
how long the strike would last TheEan.
tlomen wero told that tho associa-
tiou did not know. President
Lewis OF the city lines said no
was not going TO give In aud could not
tell how long u was going 20 last, The
citizens said % the asso0iAilon that they
would have Aitv-threo etaEpe to run from
the bridge aud ferries TO their places Of
businesa Tho association win aid them
aud give them men TO drive the stagos,
ASSAULTED ny TIM Mon,
BROOKLYN, n ~, Dec, 80 Tho
Bro0klyn CtY Railway company claims It's
businesa has been Injured by the eancea-
sions of last spring, This "a denied by
the association, who assert thnt the com.
lpany has paid per cent, dlyl-
dcnd az anainst "a per can't last year
State Arbitrator Florence Donovan was
IN Brooklyn to-day aud Ind an Intellectual
canier nee with President Lewis Brook-
lyn merchants say they Will lose thou
sands " dollars by the ttrlke coming Ia
the holiday week n was evident at poon
that there was likely 10 be serious tvuu-
hle on the lines Of tho Brooklyn City rail-
road, aud the police were called upon To
protect q car which the company desired
To start out from the depot ut Greenwood,
and Cipt lilo aud several officers
went TO the &c no and, mounting the plat
form, the car was started IL got only a
block ON its Journey whon mob took the
horses off the car and ran the car back
into the denot. This police WE'RE unable
TO resist the men.
car at Halsey street and Tompkins
avenue was overturned and the driver
aud conductor assaulted by tho mob. The
police attempted TO Interfere but were
ovurpowored aud tho reserves called upon
TO aid them.
A car was holsted from the track a.
Fulton and New York avenues, aud the
police were called upon here also.
The driver aud conductor, who were
"scabs," were assaulted. DISTINCTIONS
have been placed upon the tracks
land II looks as though there would be
even more serious trouble II the company
persist in Their attempt TO run carq,
1uE sTmKE ENDED.
NEW YoRK, Dec ~ The strike Of the
employees % the BROOKLYN city ended to-
night The company refuses 20 give any
Information az % tho terms a the settle.
mont, hut II Is thought II has acccedcd TO
the demands Of the men,