The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-18
THE STRIKERS SURRENDER.
Tho Oniolni Statement Of District Master
Workman Connolly Calling or tho

Tho Onioini Statement Of District Master
Workman Connolly Calling or tho
| Strike.
BRooKLYS, N. Y, Fob. l7.-ln call.
ing oil tho strike on tho Brooklyn
lioights md tho Brooklyn. Queens
County and Suburban railroads, Dis.
trict Assembly No. rs issued tho fol.
lowing address:
TO The Pubic.
Acting In behalf OF thoir employees wo
presented TO the officials OF the Brook.
lyn Heights and tho Brooklyn, Queens
County and Suburban railroad com.
panles certain requests for improved
conditions Of labor on their roads for
tho year 1895. Subsequently those re.
| quests, which wer8 never other thnn OF
| tho most reasonable nature, were mo1i.
tiod so as TO leave the companies no ex.
cuso Tor failure to come to agreements
with thoir employees. So 1t is a matter
Of record that wc havo exhausted every
honorable moaus 10 effect friendly
settlement, but the trolley officials as.
sumed u most incorporating attitude
and refused TO make a single concession
IN response to on. reasonable requests.
They went further, aud, 80 far from iIn.
proving tho conditions OF their em.
ployes, they insisted upon terms far
losS favorable than they had mado
without protest in 1894 and previous
years.
Their exaclions forced their employees
to suspend labor on January IA last.
Tho companies have not had the same
consideration for tho public; the same
spirit OF compromise. They started out
to starve their employees into sub
mission, and they have finally sue
coeded. The civil, the military and in
some instances the judicial powers have
all been used to coerce them.
With dcep sense OF appreciation for
the moral and financial support so gen.
erously given by tho people OF Brook
lyn, we have decided to suspend the
struggle, though with our belief in the
justice OF our cause unimpared.
We feel assured that with the aid OF
justice loving citizens tho righ. will yet
triumph. We earnestly urge upon our
fellow citizens to use all their power to
assist US in adjusting the wrongs that
have been perpetrated on us by the
heartess combination OF Lewis, Norton
and Wicker, and the concerns they
represent.
We desire to return our most sincere
thanks to the organizations and iudi.
viduals who have in any way aided our
people during tho struggle, and hope
our sympathizers will never feel the
power OF corporate oppression.
Weremain most respectfully,
MARTIN ]. CoNyELLY,
JonS GIBLIS,
P. J. CULLISs,
W. l. HALcoMBE,
ANDREW D. Bgsr.
This action on the part Of D. 4. rs
will permit the strikers OF thirty.three
roads to return to work, or at least ap.
ply TO be taken back The majority OF
the strikers will undoubtedly be taken
back in time. The strike against Presi-
dent Norton. OF the Atlantic avenue
line. is still on. etsz--
President Lewis, Of the Brooklyn
Heights railroad company, said tonight
that during the day about 600 OF the old
men had applied for work. A number
ofthem, he added, have been received
back into the fold, and Others had their
names put on the eligible list.
Master Workman Connolly is report.
cd at his homo as being very sick, the
result oflabors which he has undergone
during the past five weeks as leader OF
the strike