The evening times., 1895-10-30

Citizens of Anacostia. men and women,
walked to Washington this morning. The
ears on the Anacostia and Potomac street
railway we're running in an irregular way,
but the walking was excellent and many
preferred it to the uncertainties OF travel
by car line with its employees locked out.
The drivers and their friends, backed
by the labor organizations OF the District,
expect soon TO have line OF 'busses run
ming to supply the lack of accommodations
caused by the lockout.
President Girls void yesterday about
O'Clock ordered his driver conductors To
take their cars into the car sheds and
leave them there.
This action on the part OF President
GriswOld was a surprise TO the employees
of the road, and. they say, without the
slightest prUvocation on their part. Mr..
Griswod, II is Understood. Justlfies his
action on The ground of the contents OF
a letter received yesterday morning from
Thomas j. Lawrence master workman
OF the Street Railway A sScmbly, In which
he repudiated The agreement entered into
on Friday last between members OF the
assembly and the president OF the road.
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have already been published In The
Times. the scale of wages agreed on being
$1.27 2 per day from December to
March and 81 SO q from November to
May.
These terms were agreed 10 by Presi-
dent Griswold aud Messrs. Dent, Sears
and Baker, OF the Railway Assembly. The
members OF the assembly, however. were
not authorized by their orga nization Ia
ont. Int. ar,r
solely, as they thought at the time, in the
interests of the employees OF The nacpstfa
road.
AGREEMENT REJECTED.
In order that there should be no mis-
understanding about the matter, Master
Workman Lawrence called n meeting of
the employees of the Anacostia road on
Saturday night to give them an oppor-
tunity to express themselves. This they
did, and with n single exception. rejected
the agreement. There was but one course
then left for Master Workman Lawrence
to pursue, and that WAS TO inform Presi-
dent tiriswold OF the action taken AT the
meeting. This he did yesterday in the
following commu nication:
AT a meeting of the drivers in your EN-
ployment, held Saturday night. they de
cideti to reject the agreement entered into
by Messrs. Dent, Sears. and Baker. The
sdlu dEEttIticuC Is nun ana NOlu, as IL WAS
made without authority"
Master Worknen ". Ii. Simmons and
Thos J. Lawrence visited the scene shortly
after The ears were run in, and an informal
meeting of the discharged force was held
i'll Haines' Hall. Mr.. Lawrence put the
situation plainly before the men, and told
them they could take their choice and go
to work for $l.25 a day and leave the
union, or to- take their chances.
hoy W a thnr a
neither work for Sl.25 a day nor leave
the union
In the ine the citizens of A nacost
are the only sufferers. They are up in
arms against any such treatment by the
management of the road, and freely express
their opinions about the matter There is
one thing certain. they say. the blame can
not he placed Oh the men. for they were
willing to work, even at the very low
wages they We're getting. They claim
that they support the road. and are very
indignant at being inconvenicnccd by Pres
ident GriswoId whenever the whim strikes
him. without word of warning.
TRUDGED DTOTowN
When the Anacostians turned out this
morning they gave no thought TO the ca RS.
Some secured conveyances of one kind or
another, but many set out sturdly afoot
for their business here. As they walked
anu toIhiutreu tile HdTtsnlp Ia which they
were subjected by Mr.. Griswold, they were
put in very bad humor. and some We're out
spoken in their denunciation OF the treat
ment they are receiving.
An additional In ardship, as reported by the
men, is the lockout OF the stable-men. IL
is asserted that those who belonged to the
union were given their option to leave the
union quit work. This, with the con-
dition that all men must quit the union in
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day, is considered as clear attack upon all
organized labor. and part of Il general ef-
fort to break down the working mans only
safeguard.
4 few cars were started on the road
with green men picked from Maryland
and Virginia. Some of these did not make
the full trip. Others made one trip and
turned in. Supt. Newton said the cars
were running and he hoped everything
would be going as usual in a day ur tow. 1t
was denied that men were discharged from
stables because they belonged tu the union.
President Lawrence, OF the Railway
Union, spent part of the morning along
the line looking over the situation and
taking counsel with the men. They are
negotiating for the use of teams aud
vehicles to start line of travel independent
of the cars. and hope by Tomorrow morn
ing to be in operation.
Attorney for the District Thomas was
asked by The Times to- day what the effect
of President Griswold's action would be
upon the charter rights of the compa ny.
He said he had rot examined the charter
and was unable to express an opinion.
Commissioner Powell said, in response
to the same question, that he knew of no
provision in the law OF charter that gave
the Commissioners power to act in a case
where a railway fails to perform its func-
tons.
Unless the act chartering the company
shall have been modified OF repealed,
and there is no evidence obtainable al the
District building that it has been, the right
of anyone to compel the company to run
by its known schedule seems to be assured.
FIRST CHURCH'S CELEBRATION.