The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
in anticipation of a strike on the Metro
politan lines.

in anticipation of strike on the Metro
politan lines.
strikers Arrested.
At an early hour this morning %
strikers were placed under arrest, sus-
pected of completely in the South
Brooklyn dynamite explosion on the ele-
waited road. Acting under orders from
Chief of Police Devery, nine detectives
proceeded to the strikers headquarters
at the corner of Rockaway and Attain
tic avenues, Brooklyn, and placed all
the strike leaders there found under ar
rest. The men are still under arrest,
but it is expected they will be given a
hearing at o'clock this morning before
Justice Bristow of Brooklyn.
Socialistic Sentiment.
A notable feature of last nights big
mass meeting in Cooper Union, which
was called as a meeting of the am
ployes of the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way company of Manhattan borough,
was the preponderance of socia'istic
sentiment. After the meeting General
Master Workman John NJ. Parsons If
the knights of Labor said:
Il do not see how strike on the
entire Metropolitan street railway sys-
tenn can be avoided. 1t is inevitable
1t will not be tomorrow morning but
d strike will undoubtedly take pace
This statement was in thorough aC-
cord with the sense of the big meet
ing. Master Workman Pines AZ the
meeting, called on the Metropolitan
men to strike. After the meeting a oel-
egatiOn of the Brooklyn strikers lead
ed by District Master Workman Pines,
hurried away to a private meeting
with the Metropolitan employees where
an appeal was made that the Mannat-
tan men join their fellow workmen in
Brooklyn by striking at once.
There was great excitement at the
mass meeting when Lawson N. Fuller
attempted to speak in favor f the
company. Parsons ordered him from
the platform, exclaiming:
No paid attorneys for a railroad
company can sit on this platform,"
After the excitement had alosided
Mr. Parsons addressed the assrmolage,
arousing much enthusiasm.
so far as mediation is concerned"
he said, Il wash my hands of it."
Urging All to Strike.
District Master Workman Pines was
even more emphatic. and the whole of
his talk was intended to urge the en-
ployes of the Metropolitan system to
strike. He evoked tremendous applause
by saying:
why should not workmen in the
same territory be in sympathy with
Of Brooklyn? If the motormen and
conductors of New York go on strike.
We will win
Socialists handed up a set of resolu-
tionS. which We're read. Samuel Prince
president of the Central Federated
union. tried to speak but the socialists
cried him down
Mr.. Parsons made another spev ch
after this, in which he denounce d
Devery. Croker, Platt and Roosevelt
| The secret meeting between the com
| mittee of strikers from Brooklyn and
| the employees of the Metropolitan system
| was not called until l p. m. No infor-
| nation as to what was to be done was
| given out.
--- --. Parsons Statement.
General Master Workman Parsons
| said to-day:
| Il condemn most emphaticallv the
| blowing up of the L structure in
| Brooklyn. If done by strikers, tie
| guilty ones will be rspudiated by the
| organization. This savors much, how
| ever, of the old tactics employed by
| companies in former strikes to create
! public sympathy. This is not a far
| fetched idea. | have no doubt that
every extreme will he resorted to. in
| order to apparently justify the calling
| out of state troops to assist in enabling
| the companies to evade the law"
William Ashley. employed as an in
Vestieator by the BROOKLYN Rapid
Transit company. made an affidavit to-
day in which he said he had offended
a meeting of the strikers late Monday
night, a. which the statement was
made that unless the elevated peone
Joined the strikers they would purchase
dynamite and blow un the elevated
structure. Ashley affirms that 16 men
arrested this morning We're at the meet
ing. The police have evidence these
men purchased the dynamite used this
morning.
President Rossiter has offered 81 coo
reward for the arrest and conviction of
one or more of the dynamiters.