Evening journal., 1896-04-04
RUMORS OF A STRIKE.
Union Said to Have Ordered
Out New York Car Men.
FIVE LINES sAIDTo BE INVOLVED.
The AmaIgamated Association Proposes TO
Retaliate For the Discharge of tts Mem
bcrs-stringent Resolutions Adopted at
Meeting In Philadelphia.

Meeting In Philadelphia.
Nfw YonK. April At was ruihored
intliis city this morning that % telegram
had been received from Philadelphia or
derlhg strike by the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Worlsmon of 5000 gripmon.
conductors and drivers ON. tho lines con,
trolled hy the Metropolitan Traction com
pany of Now York.
Those lines are tho broadway, the Lex-
lnton avonuo line, the Columbus avonus
line. the Ionox avenue limo and the Tenth
avenue limo.
Tho mon have been Joining tho Anal
Ramutcd Association of WOrknfen for som1
time and about two weeks ago ono of thu
officials found a eripman talking 60 am
agent OF the association. Tho Rripman
was Immediately discharged without no.
tice
Nine moro mon were discharged. fow
days later on suspicion of being in com
muniontion with tho association.
The dispatch Som Philadelphia statos
that a meeting OF tho association was held
I'm that city, at which very stringent reso-
luiions were passed.
1t was determined that unless All tho
ten mon woro at onco roinstatod the com
duotors and grlpmen In tho employ OF tho
traction company should be ordered TO
strike
These resolutions wore at once telo-
graphed 20 New York. In tho event OF
tho strike being ordered some 5000 mon
will 60 out.
Tho numhor Of men who havo Joined
the association within tho last two weeks
Is said to ho worry large. Delegates from
Philadelphia, whore tho headquarters OF
ihe association are hnvo been husig en-
gngod for snmo time making prose ytos,
and the traction company officials have
been on tho watch TO catch offenders.
Assochtion Men Not wanted.
Tho first man TO be discharged waL1 a
gripman who was In conversation with
one of these delegates, though he had nco
yot Joined the association.
10 was in consequence of the suspicions
entertained I'm tho company 3 oilico thai
tho man was given no notice, but dis
charged nt once.
Tho othcr ninn mon woro gripmon and
conductors They had either just Joined
tho Amnlgamated association or wora
about 60 do SO.
ON their names being reported to tho
company's offices they received the snind
short shrift as the first man got.
Tho result Of such strike would con
ftluNulll lt tuluNlNNo ahNNIaEI Oh hA
most all the surface traffic Ia tho main
streets of this city.
Tho Amalgamatod Association OF Work.
men, whose headquarters are I'm philndoi-
phia, ara determined. the dispatch says,
90 insist on tho rights of tho mon and
forco tho traction company TO ranstatq
those they have discharged
Tho Amnlgamatod Association of Street
Railway Employees whose hoadquartosf
are at present in Philadelphia, has bee .
in existence moro than threo years. With o
the last year and a half tho organi4ntio o
has had remarkable growth ia Philadolt
I phia.
President w. ID. Nahon has devote D
considerable time TO the thorough organi{
zntioh Of tho motorinoh md conductors
ther6, andin the Philadelphia strike Oh 8
| Organization ihmped an mepbohhip FoI \
/ q 500 ITO 5,O0O. Tho tutnl mtmberhib y
throughout tho United States IS hctwet a
go. 900 and 60, 600.