The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-07-19

NEW YORK, July 17-Another troll.
ley strike is on in Brooklyn. For some
weeks past the employees on the several
lines controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid
| Transit company have been complain
ing that the management did not live
up to the 1O-hour law. The men de.
mand revision of the time tables al
the different barns and also claim that
they should be paid 20 cents an hour
for overtime, which is equivalent TO 81
day, the price which they set for
working day of 10 hours. Meetings
have been held daily and nightly for the
last week and it was finally decided to
stop work Sunday morning. This was
done and the lines were almost COM
pleteiy tied up during Sunday. on
Monday the situation was as follows:
care were run on most of the lines
governed by the traction company
from early morning until O'clock In
the evening, but after sundown there
was considerable falling off in the
service and by O'Clock not a car was
moving on any of the lines affected
tors. The roads comprising the Mas
sau system were more effectively Grip
pied None of the striking employees
returned to work and most of them
were busy during the day influencing
union and non-union men on the other
lines to quit work. In this respect the
strikers were partially successful, but
they made no lnroads on the running of
Putnam avenue cars. This line is prac-
tlcally intact, not more than half a
dozen of its employees being affiliated
with the strikers.
The Coney Island Railroad company
reaped rich harvest on all of its
lines during the day The Franklin
avenue, Smith and Jay street. Hamil-
ton avenue and Dekalb avenue lines
were running on full time and carried
great number of passengers through
out the day and night. The Coney Is
land company lived up to its agree
ment with the employees and conse-
quently its business was not inter-
fered with in the slightest. In fact, the
business on these roads was consid-
erably augmented.
or all the lines in the traction sys-
tenn, Flatbush avenue and a newly
opened Brighton Beach route, were the
most seriously affected lines during
the day. The regular schedule on the
Flatbush avenue and Brighton Beach
roads call for "a cars. but only six
of these were successfully worked. On
the Nostrand avenue line which runs
from the Twenty-third street ferry
landing in Williamsburg to Flatbush
avenue and Bergen Beach, IS cars are
daily sent out. Only eight vehicles
were manipulated and most of these
did not cover the entire route. Tomp-
kins avenue was very much neglected,
only two cars passing over the entire
line during the day.
President Rossiter, accompanied by
Seth l.. Keeney. visited the barn on
the Flatbush avenue line during the
afternoon. The strikers were there to
a man and when the railroad magnates
drove up in a coupe, the strikers ad-
tourned to nearby hall and held
meeting to which they invited Messrs.
Rossiter and Kecney. Speeches were
made on both sides, but towards the
close OF the meeting President Rossi-
ter told the men they could come back
to work, but he assured them that the
company would not concede any other
demands and expressed himself as be.
lieving that the strikers had no grlev-
ances to back up their actions.
There is no strike nor cause for it,"
said Mr.. Rossiter.
You lie You lie!" came from 500
throats in answer to this assertion
and it looked for a time as If serious
trouble would ensue. Fortunately
wiser heads governed the more active
strikers and no damage was done to
either of the representatives of the
company.
As soon as Mr.. Rossiter got outside
OF the meeting room. he noticed two
cars on the main. line opposite the
barn. About 500 persons were in the
Immediate neighborhood, hooting and
jeering the sompany's representatives
and President Rossiter immediatly
decided that 1t would be unwise to re-
move either of the cars He ordered
the cars TO be brought back to the
barn and as the last one was being
switched in, Starter Lewis Jumped on
the front platform and brandshing
revolver In threatening manner
Very little notice was taken of this
act and the crowd dispersed a few
minutes after President Rosster drove
away in a private carriage
Early in the afternoon small sized
boulders and stumps of trees were
thrown on the Flatbush avenue tracks,
but all these obstructions were removed
in time 10 allow the limited number of
cars to make their schedule trips. Con-
siderable difficulty was experienced on
the Nostrand avenue and crosstown
lines. but no serious mishap occurred
All the cars were manned by two or
more policemen and the presence Of the
officers on board the cars prevented, in
great measure, any outbreak on the
part OF the strikers or their sympa-
thiZers.
At o'clock President Rossiter issued
instructions to shut down on all the
traction companies lines, and from that
hour until long after midnight not a
car was run with the exception of a
couple which were placed at the ser
vice of the city authorities to transport
the policemen to the outlying districts
BIG STRIKE RENEWED.
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