The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-21
MORE TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
The Trolley Strike Assuming Rathel
Serious ProportJonS.

The Trolley Strike Assuming Rather
Serious Proportions.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 20.-Additional troops
have been asked for and have been ordered
out to quell the strike disturbances.
The first brigade of National Guards, in
Guiding all the troops, infantry, artillery
and signal corps, received orders from
Adjutant-General McAlpine to be ready
| for service under Brigadier-General Fitz-
gerald. The efforts of the Mayor to bring
about settlement having proved fruit
less there is no telling when or how the
differences between the railroad officials
and the strikers will be adjusted.
| The news that the First Brigade of the
| National Guard of New York had been
called out this evening caused a great deal
of excitement throughout the city. The
trouble between the military and strikers
which occurred last evening was looked on
as the beginning of a series of such out
breaks, and the calling out of additional
| troops showed at once in how serious
| light the authorities viewed the situation.
The cars were run to-day by green hands
on the same lines as yesterday, but
they were poorly patronized by the public
| Scrimmages innumerablc took place on all
! the lines embraced in the strike, but moth
| ing of a serious nature occurred. The
men are being advised on all sides not to
resort to violence, and in many of the
churches the clergymen appealed to them
to be quiet and law-abiding.
Martin ] Connolly, one of the executive
body who has conducted the strike, when
questioned as to what action the Central
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the movement replied:
''That body sent communication here
to-day and rendered us their full moral
and financial support"
The police captains held another confer
ence this evening. They discussed the sit
uation and made arrangements for placing
the police force on the different lines to-
morrow. The executive committee of the
strikers, after lengthy meeting at Mugge's
Hall, gave out the following statement to-
night:
| Citizens: Seven days since the employees of
the Brooklyn trolley lines were driven from
their posts by soulless corporations because
they were human beings and unable to work
another year under the terrible strain on them,
being compelled to run trolley-ears through
crowded streets at a high rate of speed for four
teen hours as q days Work, so they contracted
for only ten hours.
| We offered to continue our contracts with
our masters for another year at the same wages
if we were guaranteed against more than
ten hours work. The companies refused. All
our efforts to arbitrate were rejected. The
corporations were determined to maintain
their arbitrary sway. Since we were com
PEELED to go out the newspapers have been sub
sidized by the railroad and have persistently
misrepresented our position and exaggerated
every offense committed in our name. They
have terrorized the community with fabricated
| accidents; with acts of violence and have
failed to state that the accidents committed
were at the instigation of the companies agents
to thus seek to discredit our cause.
A serious clash occurred at 10 o'clock to-
night between the soldiers and strikers at
the car stables of the Atlantic avenue at
Twenty-fourth street and Fifth avenue.
Some strikers representing themselves as
newspaper men passed the picket line and
were looking up non-union men at the
stables, when it was discovered they were
frauds. They were escorted back into the
crowd. This led to clash, and the
strikers charged the soldiers on guard.
One of the strikers fired shot into the
ranks of the soldiers, who returned the
attack with renewed energy. Two men,
whose names could not be learned, were
stabbed in the charge.