The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-26
STRIKER POSITION DEFINED.
Master Workman Pines In a Statemen,
Sets Forth the Facts,


New York, July 25.-District Master
Workman James Pines of District AS
sembly No. IS, Knights of Labor, leader
In the Brooklyn street car strike. issued
the following statement to-day:
'"This strike was forced upon the men
by the president of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company. 1t will be continued
for the reason that it has the sympathy
Of all the labor organizations, not only
in New York, but in the entire country.
The ones in Greater New York have
shown their sympathy and support by
their willingness to contribute to those
who were compelled to sacrifice them
selves for their fellow creatures 1T
matters not who the men are who will
man the cars in Brooklyn hereafter;
they must receive the benefit of this eff
fort and therefore will be much easier
to organize than We're those who have
been driven out. In their homes and
alone they will be shown the benefit
they have received by the sacrifices of
those who had sufficient courage to in
sist upon their rights.
"The injustice which consists of the
number of hours they are compelled to
work each day Is so thoroughly adver-
tised that neither the governor nor the
mayor can longer sit idly by and not
recognize the justice of their claim and
the people who own these railroads must
est Of ho
men had been granted it would have
been a thousand times less expensive to
the corporation than the thing they
have forced upon themselves. AS evil
dence of this, point to the Coney ISL
and and Brooklyn railroad, which has
run without interruption through two
strikes. I mention this to show that
laboring men are not unreasonable and
only ask fair treatment, and where fair
treatment is given those giving it reap
the reward. .
II will do always whatever is in my
power to assist the men who have been
courageous enough to sacrifice them
selves for their fellow employees, and no
one can make me believe but what the
fellow employe who has received the
benefits will remember those who gave
such sacrifices. The newspapers can
claim the strike to be a failure, but no
that they or any one can use
will satisfy me that this strike has been
anything but victory for the men, as
the future will prove.
''In justice to Mr.. Johnson and the
public + want to say this: Mr. Johnson
was opposed to this strike and advised
IL +r .trsty II =
with them and pointed out to them why
they could not win, and he advised them
to go to the mayor and told them that
if the mayor would act he could settle
the matter in one hour without a strike.
He also said to me that he had no mo-
tive other than a friendly feeling for
the men who helped him to make his
and I am convinced that this
is the truth"
New York, July 25.-The executive
committee that had in charge the strike
of the street car men in Brooklyn and
New York held a meeting tonight and
perfected an organization An address
to the public was issued in which the
city officials are arraigned and an APP
peal is made to organized labor and
"citizens who believe in fair play" for
financial aid for the strikers who need
it, The address states that 5000 men
are still out of work and that many are
destitute. There was a mysterious
of the police in the stations
Of the Bronx tonight. Chief Devery
ordered them in squads of two and
three, in one case fifteen, from their
stations to Sixth avenue and Lenox
avenue for patrol duty. The police Of
fcials declined to talk. 1t looked as if /
they were preparing for some special
outbreak.