The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-22

the premises 10 aid them in establishing
their rights 20 a fair days pay for fair
days labor
The Seventh regiment was under fire at
a few minutes before o'clock this eve
ming. Shots We're fred from the crowd at
the militia and several Voilcys were fired
oy the troops over the heads of the mob.
So far as known the only man injured was
Private Ennis of Company II. lie was
wounded by "a shot from the crowd. The
troops engaged We're six companies of the
Seventh regiment. They were under COM
mand of Maj. Abrams and were guarding
the streets leading to the Ridgewood depot
Of the Green and Gates branch OF the
Brooklyn city line.
A car on the Fifth avenue line started
from Fifth avenue and Twcuty-thiri
street shortly after 4 o'clock. About three
blocks from the depot it was surrounded
by mob. detachment of the Thir-
teenth regiment, under Mai. Cochrane.
charged the mob with fixed bayonets and
the crowd scattered. August Brown re-
ceived d bayonet wound in the hip. lie
was taken TO a neiGhboriug drug store and
was treated there, after which he went
home.
At 6 O'Clock tonight feed.wire was cut
on the Bergen Street railroad, between
Rogers and Nostrand avenues. PATROL
man Collins. who was riding on a car, saw
four men run and gave chase. He ar
rested Edward Dugan, who was recog-
nized as a motorman on the Sackett Street
railroad.
At 6l5 o'clock a mob of over ! 900 men
surrounded Gate avenue car a Nostrand
avenue. Sticks and stones We're thrown
and shots were fired by men in the crowd.
! The reserves from the Ninth precinct sta
| tion house hurried to the scene. After
some trouble and hard fighting, in which
three policemen were seriously injured,
D & NN.s.n o
ton sustained d fracture of the skull. ON
/ GERS Dennis Burke and James J.. Coolhan
| were injured, but less seriously They
were hit on the heads by stones, crockcry
and other missiles, thrown from house
/ tops.
Late this afternoon Elmer =. Vandyke,
| 25 years old of New York, a member of
the Seventh regiment, fell from the sec
| ond story Of the Forty-seventh regiment
/ armory. causing a compound fracture of
! the skull. He was removed to Seney hos
/ pital. Nandyke was under arrest for in
toxcation. and had been placed in the
/ temporary guard room, which he tried to
make his escape by lowering himself by
/ means of a rope made from his under
clothing. The rope parted and he fell,
! with the result as above stated.
Notwithstanding the numerous out
breaks in different parts of the city the
number Of arrests for disorderly conduct
were but few.
The presidents Of the car companies
who announced last night that they would
operate their lines until midnight to-
night, began to weaken before o'clock.
Jersey City, \. j., Jan. 21.-The en-
| ployes Of the consolidated traction com
/ pany in Jersey city have decided to tie up
/ the trolley roads in the event of the
Brooklyn strike results in a victory for
the men. 1t is said the Newark employees
Of the consolidated traction company will
also strike if the Brooklyn men win.
Albany, N Y, Jan. 21.-The state board
of mediation and arbitration met this
afternoon and adopted a special report
on the Brooklyn trolley strike, which was
submitted to the legislature tonight. They
say in part: "A strike of the employees
on the electric surface street railways
of the city of Brooklyn, who are members
of District Assembly No 70, Knights Of
Labor, embracing nearly all the operating
! forces took place on Monday morning,
! Jan. Il. The Coney Island and Brooklyn
I Railroad Company alone effected a settle
ment which enabled it to continue busi-
ness without Interruption This board
made every possible effort to settle the
| differences between the other companies
] and their men, but was successful only in
the case of the Brooklyn City and New
| town Railroad Company. with which and
! it's former employees an agreement was
/ brought about and a contract signed, un-
! der which traffic was resumed Thursday
morning and still continues without inter-
/ rupton.
Investigation of the causes of the strike
was made, and it was ascertained that it
! proceeded from failure on the part of the
! executive committee of district assembly
/ No. rs, Knights of Labor, to effect a re-
| newal of the contract of 1884 with the
! companies for 1885, with certain proposed
! changes which involved. principally an
| advance of wages from s. to $2.25 per day
| to the conductors and motormen, who
/ form the bulk of the employees; an estab-
| lishment of the proportion of permanent
/ regular runs to special trips made for the
! accommodation of congested travel at GER
| tain times of the day. and an observance
! of the statute which prescribes ten hours
/ labor performer within twelve consecutive
/ hours on street railways as a days work.
| The demand for an increase of wages was
/ finally withdrawn, and the other two
! points of difference, which the men deem
! ed vital, remained in the cases of the
! Brooklyn t}eights and Atlantic Avenue
| companies, while the Queens County and
! Suburban Company was willing to yield
4 them. but could not effect a settlement
because Of the individual contracts made
with new men which would prevent the
return of a number of old men, and to
this the executive board of district assem-
bly, No. 70 would not assent.
However, the existing troubles on the
Brooklyn street railroads may be settled
the statute with regard to the hours of
labor will, unless amended so as to ex-
plicitly state and settle what shall con-
/ gtitute ten hours labor, remain a con-
stant irritant and source of dissatisfac-
ton and contention on the part of the
EMPLOYEES The companies construe and
! enforce the words ten hours labor TO
mean labor while the cars are moving
upon the rail, without taking into ac-
1 count waiting time at either end of the
| routes Thus. by the evidence taken it
was shown that upon one line where
there were eight regular runs a day,
there was waiting time Of three minutes
at each end. making forty-eight minutes
ner day. during which the conductors
and motormen were on duty and in
charge Of their cars, but for
which they received no compensation,
However. this method of computation of
time of labor came to be established, it
is clearly not within the terms or intent intent
of the law, and is not just, as the employees
Win a view. therefore, to re-