The record-union., 1899-07-20
Has Now Spread to Underground
Lines at Manhattan.
MotoTmsn Quit Work Against the Advice Of
Their Labor Organization.


formed Them That He Would
Have Nothing More to Do With
Them.
NEW YORK, July 19.-New York
trolley men joined the Brooklyn troll
ley men to-day in their big strike. The
center of operations in New York City
was on Second avenue. The excitement
in Brooklyn centered in the vicinity or
Thirty-sixth and Fifth avenue, where
dynamite was used this morning in an
attempt to blow down the elevated
structure.
The rioting that took place in New
York this afternoon and tonight was
of a serious nature infinitely fierceE
than that has taken place in the bor-
ough across the river. Scores of peo,,
pie were injured in the second avenue
district. Tonight that great thorough
fare was crowded with jeering, howl.
ing mob, almost it's entire length. The
great tenements gave forth their work
ingmen residents who backed up tha
strikers in many a fierce struggle with
the police, and with the men were many
women and still greater numbers of
children. They stoned every car that
passed over the tracks. They hurled
rocks and chunks of iron and vegetables
of a variety of natures from the roofs
of houses and from the windows; they
barricaded the streets with paving
stones, tore up the street irons, choked
up the slot with wire and spiked and
blocked the thoroughfare; they had
many a hand to hand conflict with the
5000 patrolmen that had been praced
along the line. OF the injured the exact
number cannot be known. Several po-
licemen were removed to hospitals with
broken bones and torn ScalpS. At least
one striker, or strike sympathizer, had
his skull fractured. and a boy had his
skull fractured. Innumerable passen,.
gers on the cars received bad wounds
and it was impossible for passengers
on Second avenue to go much above
Fourteenth street. The cars that ran
the gauntlet had many windows broken
and were badly battered.
1t was the hope of the strikers to
make a deep impression by their sue,
cess in Second avenue. and 80 far as
rioting was concerned. they and their
sympathizers made it. . ~
On the other lines throughout New
York the strike was not at any time
prominent throughout the day. To-
night. however, the motormen on the
Eighth-avenue line to the number OF
100 or more organized and declared q
strike. They thereupon set about to
persuade their fellow workmen to leave
their cars, and with sufficient success
to have them running on only an hourly
schedule before midnight Tomorrow
they declare Eighth avenue will also
be tied up.
The officials of the Sixth avenue line
made the statement tonight that tina
cars on this avenue We're moving tlaa
same as usual.
NEW YORK, July 19.-Without au-
thority of the labor organization of
which they are part, motormen on the
underground electric lines of the Met
ropolitan Street Railway Company
Company has precipitated strike in
Manhattan. The strikers have already
gained many recruits, and the lines of
the company have been considerably
embarrassed. No attempt has been
made to tie up the Broadway cable line
and its various branches. The Second
avenue line is affected most by the
L
nue. line has been made to feel it's eff
fects, and the men are working vigor-
ously to tie up the Madison, Eighth,
Lenox and Amsterdam avenues, and
the Twenty third, Fifty ninth sand One
Hundred and Sixteenth-street lines.
President Vreeland of the Metropol-
itan Street Railway Company declares
there is no strike, and defies anybody
to tie up the lines.
Practically all the police in Manhat-
tan Borough are now on duty in con-
nection with the strike The night
shifts were held when they returned
from their posts this morning and most
We're kept in the station as reserves.
Large details of bluecoats were sent
to the car barns and scattered along
the streets likely to be the scene of
disorder
A strike begun this morning on the
Second avenue line of the Metropoli-
tan Street Railway Company, on the
Manhattan side of the river. About
one-half of the men quit work. The
strike was not authorized by the lead
ers. A meeting was held in General
Master Workman Parsons office this
morning. which lasted for three hours.
Parsons DleaQeQ WIFI the HltH not "
strike, but could not restrain them.
He is said to have used strong Ian
euage, telling them that he would have
nothing to do with them.
Some of the more enthusiastic men
who attended the Cooper Union meet
ing last night formed a committee and
went to the Second avenue car stables
this morning and asked the men to
come out About half the men re-
sponded to the call. and pickets were
then detailed to go to the men on the
other branches of the companys line
and try to get the men to quit work.
There were disturbances at several
places and several men were arrested.
IT was said that those who were try
ing to get the men out were discharged
employees.
The strikers pickets claimed to have
got men out on the Eighth avenue, Co
lumbia avenue, Broadway and Seventh
avenue lines Cars were running reg
ularly on these lines however.
gang of strikers formed at the sta
bles at Sixth avenue and Ffftieth
streets, boarding cars as they arrived
and asking the motormen and conduc-
tors to strike After a time a squad
Of police arrived and drove the strik-