Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-31
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. STRIKERS STILL R|OTING. The Strike Thought To Be s A Failure. O'BRIEN IS IN, CL9HMEL PRISON. The Presidents Message
 About Samoa. j. M. CLAYTON AsSASSINATED. The Senate Still On The
 Samoan Question.
THE BIG STRIKE IN NEW YORK.

- = oRcisus Importance of ssLaber Conn
 mIss1Oaers,'' SGrand Executive
 CommiIseemen'' and ssdaster Work
 men,,-Tne General Impression That
 the strike Will Fail In Ets Object
 New Men Kicked and Abused.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The strike among the employees of most of the city surface rail roads continues to-day both in Brooklyn and New York. In New York, as is usual on the second day, the 'fconference" phase of the trouble has been reached, and labor conlmis- sioners, master workmen and grand execu- tive committeeman have been enjoying feel ings of great importance without much prac- tical result. In Brooklyn the conference police there continue to be inefficient, but an effort to run car is to be made late this af- ternoon.
 In this city on the contrary the police have been most active and have prevented serious disturbances, although some sharp attacks have been made on the cars of the com- panies which tried to send them out. It must be said in behalf of the strikers that many of the men in the attacking parties are not, apparently, former em- ployes of the roads. The mobs seem to be largely made up of the drunken loafers who frequent the lowest rumshops, and who moved to assail the new men on the cars on account of the natural contempt they feel for anybody who works and for the sake of @ little excitement. The competition of the crowd is also an indication of the correctness of the theory (sustained by many facts) that the regular employees of the surface roads have gone into this strike in halt-hearted way, and only because their leader, the glib ex-convict, ''Msster Workman" Magee, has persuaded them to do so in order to force t.recognition" for the executive committee of District Division of National Trades As sembly 226 Knights of Labor, of which he is chairman.
 The general impression everywhere is that the strike in New York will fail of it's ob- iect The companies declare that they will not hand over their business to the "bosses' of the labor organizations-beinga apparently greatly strengthened in this position by the success of the third avenue line in breaking with the union.
 FEW WORDS FROM MIR. WHITE.
 William White, president of the Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery railroad company, said this morning:
 "We could run more than eight cars if we wished, as we have the men, but we wish to proceed slowly and conservatively. The inn portant thing is to produce moral effect ,and this we can easily do by running few cars as many. We wish the strikers to see that they cannot prevent eight cars from running, and to draw the inference that if we can run tors of the company met at Mr. Whites office at noon upon a call from him The Fsbrua- " dividends, already declared, will be re- scinded (so 1t was said) at this meeting in consequence of the strike.
 None of the tied-up lines attempted to run
 ,gA& Iv1k he neighborhood of their stables and along the route of their lines. The Third avenue road, whose employees are non- union men, experi- enced some difficulty this evening in getting their cars through the crowds of strikers from other lines who had congregated along Third avenue. At Ninety-firss street the mob took advantage of legitimate blockade on the road caused by the unloading of furniture wagon and drove the drivers and conductors from their cars and were about to upset the cars when a squad of policemen arrived and dispersed the crowd after arrestinR several of the most active of the strikers. A large crowd of men composed largely Of Second avenue strikers pelted Third avenue car with bricks at 97th street, knocking the driver almost senseless with one. The horses ran away. The mob tried to upset the car, during which the beat and kicked the driver numerically. When the police appeared the crowd, numbering 1,500, fled down the ave nue. The drivers and conductors on three cars deserted them as the men approached. The horses were unhitched and the cars turned over. Detective Cottrell fought them single handed and arrested the ring-leadsr. All of the companies announce their inten- tion to resume operations tomorrow, but it does not seem at all likely that they will be able to do so.
 Late in the evening party of strikers dumped an empty truck on the tracks of the Third avenue line at Forty-sixth street. A squad of police attacked this crowd and the heads of the strikers were terribly battered. Nearly every store window between Forty sixth and Forty seventh street was smashed by stick and stones thrown at the officers by the mob. The police finally dispersed the crowd. No arrests were made.