St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-27
MUST RUN ITS CARS.
Judge GaynoP Issues an Al
ternatiye Writ in Brook
lyn Trouble.
HITS THE CONSPIRACY HARD.
Can Employ Labor as Cheaply
as 1t Can, but the Cars
Must Move
HITS THE CONSPIRACY HARD.
OR GOOD CAUSE BE SHOWN.
Decision Not Considered as a
Certain Victory for
Either Side.

has issued an alternative writ IN The ap-
plication of Joseph Loader for man
damus to compel the Brooklyn Heights
Railroad company to run cars on its line
for the accommodation Of the travelling
public. An alternative writ gives the
railroad company The option to run cars
according to demands of the complain
ant or showing cause for not doing so.
This allows the defendants to file an
answer to the writ. In his decision
today Justice Gaynor reasscrts the prin-
ciple he enunciated in his earlier de-
clson in this case. He declares that
the company's plea that it is by violence
prevented from performing the func-
tions for which it was created is not
true.
Il refuse" says the justice, "to find
that either the judicial or the executive
branch Of the government has failed
in affording protection 10 this corpora
tIon."
This corporation" the court cOntin-
ues, has the right to get labor as
cheaply as it can, but it may not with
out violation of the law stop the run
ming of its cars to try TO beat down the
price or legal conditions Of labor. 1t
was and Is It's duty to run its cars at
the best terms it can make for the day,
being at full liberty to SuperSede its
employees gradually from day to day, or
all at once if it have men enough, at
lower or better terms. Its chief duty is
to run its cars, and all considerations of
private gain to its stockholders must
yield to that.
There being dis putes in the case as
to some of the facts, the law makes it
my duty TO grant an alternative instead
of a perem ptOry writ, but though the
command Of the people be less abrupt
or peremptOry in that form of writ, it
nevertheless is the peoples command.
l also prefer to issue the alternative
writ as that is the most moderate
course and should prove sufficient.
Let, therefore. an alternative writ of
mandamus in the name of the people of
the state of New York issue, command
ing this corporation to resume the oper-
alton of its roads and the accommoda-
ton of the public as fully and COM
petely in all respects az it was doing
prior and up to Jan. II, 1873"
The news OF Judge Gaynor's decision
was received with mixed feelings at the
strikers headquarters at Mugge's hall.
Opinions Of Strikers.
Master Workman Connolly said to a
reporter of the Associated Press regard
ing the decision:
1T might just as we'll have been
twenty yeais as twenty days. Still. in
certain measure it is in our favor. The
roads must carry on their contracts and
fulfill their obligations to the public
and in order TO do so they must have
the men, and these they have not got.
We will carry on the strike if it takes
twenty days or twenty years. We will
fight it out"
"Will the strike be eXtended?"
mo, think not. 1t has gone far
enough and there is no necessity for
spreading it any further. While | adj
nit that Justice Gaynor'S decision is. on
the face Of il. in favor Of the companies.
it is not a defeat for the strikers, who
have a good chance for winning, but it
is great victory fer the citizens of
Brooklyn and Il blow at the companies.
disregard Of the rights Of the COM
munity."
At the headquarters of the strikers
the big room was filled with men who
had come from several quarters of the
republic. The men were curious lot.
The Cincinnati aggregation taking one
corner, the ChlcagOaIiS another while a
contingent from Buffalo had third,
and representatives from other cities in
groups of varying dimensions gathering
in other parts of the hall.
Master Workman Connolly remarked:
"Cast your eye over the aseemblage and
see what you Chink Of it,
There were about 250 men in the hall,
and their costumes and bearing betoken
the adventurous nan who is i'll search
OF work and willing to take anything
that promised bread and butter.
Sending New IEen Home.
I'VE are sending these men back as
fast IS we can ut the expense of the
fund at the command OF District As
sembly 70, ami they are glad to get
back TO their homes and their families.
| Will only add that these men came
voluntarily with very few exceptions
TO us to help send them back home"
1t is said that there are two carloads
of men on their way from Chicago to
take the places OF strikers. About 4
O'Clock this afternoon Capt. Kitzer, with
his mounted men. were called from
Kidgewood to the locality Of Myrtle av-
enue known as the Rope Walk"
where cars we're being riddled with
stones. The crowd was charged and
dispersed in short order.
4 deZen or more cars on the Myrtle
avenue line came into the station with
shattered windows, and we're set aside
for repairs. 1t was one of the most un-
fortunate days for the railroad COM
Panies' property, many cars being dam
aged by collisions. The city of Brock
lyn lOuay presented to the Seventh reg
iment 400 pairs of arctic OvershOes.
When Maj. Abrahams. of the Second
battalion, at Ridgewood, heard of it he
politely declined to accept the present
Tor his men.