The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-09
THOUSANDS ON STRIKE
The New York Central 4 Hudson River
Railway Tied Up.
Passenger Trains Side Tracked
and Passenger Traffic Entirely
Suspended-The Discharge OF
Union Men is the Cause.

NEW YORK. Aug. S.-The rumblings Of
the expected storm among the thousands
Of employees Of the New York Central and
Vanderbilt lines owing to the discharge
of the knights Of Labor and Brotherhood
men, broke like fash from clear sky
tonight All the length Of the Central
was tied up. Trains were left by the
crews where they stood when the order
came. Two passenger trains were left nj
S6th street in the tunnel.
The latest report is that the Shore road
is tied up throughout its entire length as
well as the New York and New Haven
road.
Great throngs of people crowded into
the Grand Central depot trying TO have
tickets changed. No one seemed 10 know
how il was, or who ordered the strike.
Even J. ]. Holland denied he knew who
ordered II, or even IL il was ordered.
Representative. of the railroad com
pany called upon citing Superintendent
Brice Byrncs for protection and all re-
serves on the east side above And to
Yonkers and on the west side from ST.
Johns park Ia lonkcrs were placed on
duty, guarding the tracks and property.
The depot at And street was under the
protection of a full force of police, as
sisted by members of the boat patrol. In-
spector Byrncs' detectives guarded the
switches and the signal stations along the
road To Ionkcrs.
After these arrangements had been
made word reached police head
quarters that some of the strikers in
tended TO take possession of the switch
house nj Eighty-seventh street and Fourth
avenue. Inspector Byrncs Immediately
detailed two detectives 10 watch that
point. The inspector himself decided 10
remain AT headquarters all night.
Nice-President Webb of the New York
Central, on being interviewed 10y re-
porter, said the strike extended only 10
West Albany, All of the men who went
out from the employ of the road tonight,
Webb said, would be promptly discharged
in the morning. The men who remained
would be taken care of and amply pro.
| tected as well as the men who came to
work for the road. All good men who
applied for work in the morn
| ing would he taken on as far as
they were needed TO I'LL the
places of the deserters. With great en-
| he would fight the strikers 10 the bitter
end. He said the new set Of demands he
had never seen and knew nothing what
| ever about
| In elfe1, these demands are for mini
mum days wages of Sl.JO, station agents
10 receive an increase of s. per month; the
men in Troy and Green Island shall re-
ceive the same compensation as at
Schenectady and East Albany; all fire
men on six-wheel connected engines
shall receive ~ cents per mile; all engi-
neers on the same cents; four-wheel en-
gine engineers 81 cents per mile, ilrenen
cents per mile. For all men overtime
| double pay.
Webb announced that the fast mail had
pulled out OF the depot at . o'clock with
four mail cars, but no passenger coaches
were attached 10 the train. The vice
president further announced that no at.
tempt would be made 10 run any trains
tonight. There are no means To O. "a
Albany or New England tonight, but the
opening up the great avenues would he
begun tomorrow.
The strike was ordered on account oi
the discharge Of certain employees. Under
orders every train was abandoned, nc
matter where il might be-. Travel wa
not Ouly blocked ON the Central road hu
also ou the New York d New England ant
New York d Harlem roads, which use th,
tracks of the Central as far a. Mclrose.
There is great excitement at the depot
where great crowds OF pcplc gathcrc,
who expected Ia take the trains out of th,
city. Hotels in the neighborhood arr
crowded with disappointed travellers.