Evening journal., 1895-01-30
PLANS OF THE STRIKERS
Suits to Be Brought Against
Brooklyn Trolley Companies.
THE HEARING AT ALBANY TODAY.
Master Workman Connolly Assumes Coma
dence and Says the New Men Are Being
Sent Home Conductor Stabbed and q
Motorman Kidnaped.l

hci'Nt hhN says the new Nen Arc ffeine
Sent Home Conductor Stabbed and a
Motorman Kldnaped.l
BROOKLYN, Jan. 30.-The striking troll.
ley men have gone to law. Suits, iniunc-
tions, writs Of mandamus and other forms
of legal attack have been begun by the
wholesale against the companies. The
strikers have competent counsel. and their
broadsides will be well directed
In the meantime violence has not Who'll.
ly stopped. The fact that the strike is
still on undoubtedly gives encouragement
to the rougher element in the city TO com
init lavlessness of many sorts.
Today at Albany there is hearing be-
fore the attorney general in proceedings
that contemplate annulling the charter of
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad company.
IL is an application by ex-Speaker vii.
liam Splzer. James A. Dennison and Delos
McCurdy, representing the strikers, for
permission TO Begin action in the courts
to annul the charter. E
What the police OF the Greonpoint sta.
tion believe TO be a dynamite bomb was
found late last night at the corner of Mil
ton and Franklin streets Brooklyn. Oh
the track of the Myrtle Avenue line. 1t
is thick glass bottle ton inches long and
about three inches in diameter 1t was
wrapped in paper and was found midway
between the rails The bomb was con.
neoted with the rails by thin wires, and
on each rail was percussion cap.
The bomb was found by Frank Gillette.
a respectable merchant living at III Mil.
ton street. II was almost under an cleo
trio light He noticed the fluttering Of
the paper wrapper and caught the CLINT Of
the something like steel or silver He un-
fastened It very carefully and carried it to
the station
Sergeant Peter Lynch put it in bucket
of water and called in some neighborhood
experts. They said that the substance in
the bomb was giant powder and dynamite.
The bomb will be sent to police headquar-
ters and examined thoroughly.
A Conductor Stabbed.
While car l4s Of the Fulton Street line
was passing under the elevated railroad
structure at the corner Of Alabama avenue
and Fulton street a short. dark man leap
cd out from the shadow Of one Of the iron
pillars. and jumping on the rear step OF
the car lunged at Conductor Green, who
was standing on tho platform, with a
knife AS he did so his foot slipped. and
the blade was buried in Green body Just
over the left hip. In the confusion that
ensued Green 5 assailant made his escape.
Green was assisted to the company S
Office in the stables, where his wound was
found to be of a not very dangerous char
acter. After it was dressed be went to
bis lodgings Green is one Of the new
men employed 10y the company to take the
place Of their striking employees.
The East New York stables OF the Brook
lyn City Railroad company have assumed
something Of their old air. and for the
first time in II days the starters Office at
that point is not occupied by the militia.
Fifty cars were running on the Fulton
Street line during the day. the last car
leaving at 10 so p. M. arriving back
from the ferry shortly before midnight
No trouble with the wires has been re-
ported and the new men are managing
the cars in q satisfactory manner.
Through the afternoon small crowds
from time to time gathered at the corner
Of Alabama avenue and Fulton street.
but were dispersed with very little diff
Guilty by Major Quick of the Forty seventh
regiment, who Is stationed there
In place Of leaving Captain Wendellis
grim guns to guard the approaches to the
stables the soldiers have brilliant calcium
lights flashing broad rays of light along
the various streets in front Of the depot,
showing plainly to the outposts every one
who approaches.
counseling the strikers.
T. B. Mcclure Of Amsterdam. n. Y.
and II. b. Martin of Minneapolis, NOM
bers Of the general executive board of the
Knights Of Labor, have been in this city
since Thursday oD business in connection
with the Brooklyn trolley mems strike
They have held several conferences with
Master Workman Connolly and Mr. Fen
ney of tho board Of mediation and arbi-
tratioD. MoGuire and Martin left for AL
bany last night to attend the proceedings
today before Attorney General Hancock.
whereby it is sought to place the various
Brooklyn trolley car companies in the
hands Of receivers on the grounds that
they have violated the statutes governing
their operation.
McGuire said at the Broadway Central
hotel in answer to questions:
T. want to say that the strike is not
ended. The strikers have not surrender
ed, and the movement is now as strong as
ever. And even if the strike is not sue
cessful though I am sanguine Of its satis-
AoVNoA9 boANAh5lDus lut DIOuklyD car EOln-
panies will not have triumphed. Only
three men have deserted the g, 0O0 strikers
No concession has been made The men
have merely abandoned the demand for 25
cents additional pay per day and return
TO what they demanded before the strike
"a continuation of the terms of S94
I" The strikers will take criminal and
civil action severally and individually
against those policemen concerned in the
outrageous clubbing of some Of our men
in the hall in Palmetto avenue Brooklyn.
I understand that an Injunction has al
ready been requested to restrain the po-
lice from engaging in similar clubbings
We also intend to criminally prosecute
every militioman who shit or wounded
any person during the strike troubles We
propose TO secure the issuance Of criminal
writs against the presidents and directors
Of the different Brooklyn trolley lines for
forcing their employees to work more than
the prescribed ten hours per day 1t is
also on our schedule to ask the legislature
to define how far policeman may go in
violating the law and to investigate wheth-
or the law against P;nkerton men was vi
olated during the strike troubles.
I'VE have sent 300 scabs homo since the
strike began and have every proof that
the Brooklyn companies hired men who
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