The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-19
STRIKE EXTENDS.
Board of Aldermen Sustains
Brooklyn Strikers.

New York, July ia strike began
this morning on the Second avenue line
of the Metropolitan street railway com
pany. This is on the Manhattan side
of the river. About one-half of the men
quit work. The strike was not author
lied by the leaders. Some of the more
enthusiastic men who attended the
Cooper Union meeting last night got to-
gether and decided that the only thing
to do was to strike. They formed them
selves into a committee and went to the
Second avenue car stables only this
morning and asked the men to come
out. Every car was stopped as it reach
ed the stables and each man on the car
asked to strike. About half the men re-
spOnded to the call and pickets were
then detailed to go to the men of the
other branches of the company's lines
and try to get them to quit work.
General Master Workman John NJ.
Parsons of the Knights of Labor, who
presided at last nights meeting in Coop
er Union did not want the men to strike
and he is said to have told them that he
would have nothing to do with them if
they struck. They were disturbances
at several places and four men were ar
rested. 1t was said that those who were
trying to get the men out were dis
charged employees.
The strikers pickets claimed to have
got men out on the Eighth avenue, Col
umbia avenue, Broadway and Seventh
avenue lines. Cars We're running regu-
larly on these lines however. The Of
fciaIs of the different lines claimed that
there was not the slightest trouble on
any line except the Second avenue and
they said the trouble there would be ad-
justed in a little time. A gang of strik-
ers gathered at the sta bles at Sixth
avenue and Fiftieth street and tried to
get the men there out. boarding cars as
they arrived and asking the motOrmen
and conductors to strike. After a time
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strikers away. Nobody was hurt
A meeting was held in General Mas
ter Workman Parsons Office this morn
ing which lasted for three hours. Par
sons pleaded with the men not to strike
but they wanted to go out. He said it
would be of no use at such time, but
he could not restrain the men and he
is said to have used strong language
telling them that he would have nothing
to do with them.
At this morning three pickets board
ed an Eighth avenue trolley car at
FOrty-fOurth street and tried to pull
the mOtorman off. A policeman chased
the men away.
The board of aldermen of the Greater
New York has unanimously adopted the
following resolution:
Whereas. The employees of a number
Of surface railroads in the borough of
Brooklyn because of unjust treatment
and the payment of inadequate wages,
nave decuned longer to serve the said
railroads unless their grievances should
be adjudged in a fair and equitable
manner, therefore be it
Resolved, That the municipal as
sembly of the city of New York extends
its sympathy to the striking railroad
employees in their effort to secure better
wages and shorter hours and requests
the managers of the several railroads.
on which strikes are occurring to agree
that all differences between employer
and employees be adjudicated by arbi-
tration.
Resolved, That the corporation coun-
sci be, and he is hereby requested to
take such action as will compel the
railroad companies doing business in
the city of New York to live up to the
10-hour law