The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-22
THE SEVENTH UNDER fire
New YOrk's Crack Regiment Becomes
Target for Strike Sympathizers.
PRIVATE ENNIS IS INJURED
Report of the State Board of Arbitration
and Mediation, in Which Causes
Which Led to the Strike
Arc Reviewed.

Brooklyn, n. Y, Jan. 21.-The Sew
enth regiment was under fire at few
minutes before o'clock this evening.
Shots were fired from the crowd at the
militia and several volleys were fired
by the troops over the heads of the
mob. So far as known the only man
injured was Private Ennis, of Company
II. He was wounded by shot from
the crowd. The troops engaged were
six companies of the Seventh regiment.
They We're under command of Major
Abrams, and were guarding the streets
leading to the Ridgewood depot of the
Greene and Gates branch of the Brook
lyn City line.
The first car was started at $40 p. m.
1t was car No. 1915. Companies A, F
and G marched ahead as far as Bush
wick avenue. and the mounted police
rode beside the car. The car was
stoned from windows and vacant lots
and the rear guard Of the militia and
the police fired about fifty shots over
the heads of the mob. The only man
arrested was Patrick Nugent, who as
saulted policeman. One revolver shot
was fred at the car. The shot did not
take effect, but the windows were badly
broken by stone throwing. The militia
left the car at Bushwick avenue and
returned to the Ridgewood depot. Sew
eral shots We're fired from windows
and roofs of houses along the streets,
through which the regiment was pass
ing. Private Ennis was hit, and it was
reported that other men We're injured.
The police that Were in the car rushed
out when the first alta cl was made
and fired several shots over the heads
of the mob. An officer of the Sew
enth regiment, after the company had
reached headquarters on Halsey street,
SAT- that 1.-The police We're lot of cow
eds. They shot over the heads of the
strikers. Why didn't they try to shoot
right at them
Police officers Collins and Degan
were accidentally shot, supposed by
Seventh regiment men, at Gates and
StuyveSant avenues this evening
Their wounds are not serious.
Elmer p. Van Dyke, of New York
a member of the Twelfth regiment, fell
from the roof of an armory this even
ing and sustained a compound fracture
of the skull
Burke were seriously injured by stones
thrown from the roofs of houses this
evening. Shackleton's skull was frac-
tured.
Report of Board of Arbitration.
Albany, n. Y, Jan. 2i.-The state
board of mediation and arbitration met
this afternoon and arbitrated a specia
report on the Brooklyn trolley strike
which was Submitted to the legislature
tonight. Th>y say, in part:
A strike of the employees on the five elec
tric surface street railways of the city o
Brooklyn who are members of Distric
Assembly No. 10, Knights of Labor, EN-
bracing nearly all the operating forces
took place on Monday morning Jan. II
The Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
company alone effected a settlement
which enabled it to continue its busines!
without Interruption. This board mad,
every possible effort to settle the differ
ences between the other companies arC
their men, but was successful only in tht
case of the Brooklyn City and Newtowi
Railroad company, with whose former EN-
ployes an agreement was brought abou
and contract signed, under which traf
fic was resumed Thursday morning an
still continues without interruption.
Investigation of the causes of tn
strike was made, and it was ascertaine'
that it proceeded from failure on the par
of the executive committee OF DiStric
Assembly, No. 75 Knights of Labor, Il
effect renewal of the contract of 1S9
with the companies for 1895, with certain
proposed changes which involved, prin
cipally, an advance of wages from $2 T.
$2.25 per day to conductors and motormen
who form the bulk of the employees; an es
tablishment of the proportion of perma
nent regular runs to special trips made 70
accommodation of congested travel at Ger
tain times of day, and an observance D
the statute which prescribes ten hour
labor performed within twelve consecu
tive hours on street railways as Q, day
work. The demand for an increase o
wages was finally withdrawn, and tn
other two points of difference, which tn
men deemed vital, remained in the case
of the Brooklyn Heights and Atlanti
Avenue companies, while the Queen
County and Suburban companies We're Will
ing to yield to them, but could not cifec
settlement because of the individual con
tracts made with new men, which woui
prevent the return of a number of the oil
men, and to this the executive board u
District Assembly No. 70 would not as
sent.
However the existing troubles on tn
the statute with regard to the hours of 10
Dor will, unless amended so as to explicit
state and settle what shall constitute te
hours labor, remain u constant irri - 4
and source of dissatisfaction and conter
tion on the part of the employees. Th
cobpanes construe and enforce the word
'ten hours labor to mean labor while tn
cars are moving upon the rail, withou
taking into account waiting time q
either end of the routes. Thus, by tn
evidence taken II was shown that upo
one line where there were eight regula
runs q day, there was waiting time &
three minutes at each end, making forty
eight minutes per day, during which tn
conductors and motormen We're on dut
and in charge of their cars, but for whic
they received no compensation. Howeve
this method of computation of time of Ii
Dor came to be established 1t Is clearl
not within the terms or intent Of law
and is not just, as the employees conten,
With q view. therefore, to removal of tn
cause of the present strike and the PR
vention of its agency IN working furtht
trouble on lines of street railroads, 1t
suggested that chapter 529 of the laws {
1887 be amended so as to prescribe that II
''ten hours of labor to be performe
within twelve consecutive hours, with RET
sonable time for meals, provided for as
days labor, shall commence when the en-
ploye reports for service as required !
the rules of the employer and cease whe
the employe. upon their expiration, Is r
lieved from Cor the day