Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-06
BROOKLYN CARS TIED UP
They Barricade the iTraelss and Stop
 the Few Cars Sent Out.

BROOKLYN, Aug. 6.-ADout 4oo oonouc- tors, drivers and stablemen or the brooK- lyn Crosstown Horse Car Company struck yesterday morning and tied up the lines of the road. A few cars were run under protection of the police. Barricades were placed across the tracks all along the routes. There was little fighting, a geod deal of squabbling, and some Of the strlhe leaders were arrested. The 400 who nave given up work form the working force or the three lines operated by the crosstown company, namely, the Crosstown and Erie Basin, the Grcenpoint and tho Bridge, and the Calvary Cemetery routes.
 The chief grievance or the mon ts that two of thelr fellows were ''laid eff'' for an insignificant offence. Their reinstatement was demanded and not acceded to. and, as the men are also angry at the importation of green drivers, the strike followed.
 The first intimatlon of the strike that the railroad officials at the Greenpoint end of the road received was at 5;45, when the drivers and conductors marched down to the stables at Box street and Manhattan avenue and told the starter that no cars would be allowed to go out.
 No cars left Greepoint during the day Six cars were reported to iave started with ''scab" drivers from Erie Basin, and the strikers at Greenpoint, learning by telephone of the fact, prtpa ted to stop progress detachment started off to Driggs street, near the Manhattan Beach crossing, where they waited for the cars, meanwhile placing large blocks of stone other heavy Instructions across the tracks About II o'clock car 2S crossed the bridge over Bushwicll Creek and as 1t came ln sight the strikers and large crowd Of men and women who had followed them set up howl. Some men jumped on the car and pulled off Driver John Holland and Con ducoar Philip Robinson; while others cut the traces and let ths horses go. Dhe strlh- CTS tried to induce the driver and conductor to join them, and on their refusal beat and kicked them. Police from the Seventh precinct arrived in patrol wagon at thls point and made short work of the fighting strikers and arrested two Of them.
 At 2 D. Ill. the strikers were holding session in their hall on India street when word was received that car No II was on its way from Grand street under guard or twenty policemen ill patrol wagons.
 In the meantime the Executive Commit tee of Assembly 5174 had issued orders that this car must be stopped and thrown from the tracks at all hazards, and that coal boxes, paving stones and wagons shoulp be placed on the tracks at Huron street ThlS order was carried Oul, as the forcassof policemen had been dcpreted by
 
 When the car arrived midway between India and Huron streets there were on board, besides half d dozen policemen, who stood on ths platforms, several ladies', but, regardless Of this fact, the strikers made rush for it as it was ! brought to a stop by couple of hugo i stones lying across the track. Tie police 1 charged the crowd with thClr clubs, and ! then sticks and stones began to fly. The ! driver of the car, Charles Slckles, was 1 knocked senseleSs to the floor Of the car by alarge stone thrown by one of the strikers, l which hit him on the side of the head. Sergeant Robert Reid of the Seventh Ere cinct, who stood beside Sckles, was also struck just below tho right temple with a smaller stone, and half dozen other ! policemen were seriously wounded i'll the same way. Six arrests were made at this time, all the prisoners being drivers.
 The conductor of the car was induned to leave it and join the strikers. Quiet hay | ing been restored, Mdozen policemen boarded the car, and one of them drove it down to the stables amid mingled shouts 9t derision and misses of anger. The other four cars were taken to the stables with out molestatlon. On other parts of the line very little taouble was caused, although a number of cars were stopped
 The stoppage of the cars tho three ! tines, caused a great inconvenience, as on Sundays there is usually very heavy travel, especially on the Calvary Cemetery route, from Twenty-third street ferry. It is probable that the Company will issue a mo- tice that all employees who do not appear for work this morning will be discharged and their places filled with new men.
 The railroad officials claim to know nothing of the cause of the te-up. Vice ! PrazidaDt who iVR1 hOnt noon from Far Ro ckaway in answer to a telegram, said "I did not know of any existing trouble, or that the men had any complaints. went away last night be- lieving that everything was all right
 None of tne men have been to sec me. don't know anything about it or whether we shall start anything from acre."