New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-19
BROOKLYN ] I " AXIS
Majority Of the Surface Trolley
Roads Tied Up by Strik
ing Employees.
Partial Service Maintained or
Several Lines a Portion
Of the Time.
MUCH DISORDER PREVAILS
MUCH DISORDER PREVAILS
Wires Cut, Rails Torn Up and
Non Union Mon Hooted
and Stoned.
Hundreds Of Police From Man
haitian and Bronx Sent
to the Scene.

New YORK, July 1S-Nearly all the
conductors and motormen of the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit company struck at
a. m. Those who had cars out left
them on the track. The company en-
deavored to run cars with non-union
men on all the lines and there was
much disorder. Wires were cut, rails
were torn up, non-union men hooted
and stoned and at the Marcy avenue
stables crowd of 5000 men resisted
the police. Many arrests were made
during the day. On some lines the
company maintained a regular service
and on others they failed altogether.
Cars were unable to run on the ocean
beaches. The tieup has not been nearly
SO complete as the labor leaders said it
would.
Trouble Brewing for Some Time.
For some weeks past the employees
of the several lines controlled by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company have
been complaining that the manage
ment did not live up to the 10-hou1
law The men demand revision OF
the time tables at the different barns
and also claim thai they should be paid
30 cents an hour for overtime, which is
equivalent to So day, the price which
they set for a working day of 10 hours.
Meetings have been held daily and
nightly for the last week and it was in
ferred from the rep orts given out by
the employees and their advisers since
Thursday last that while strike was
imminent it would not occur for som
days to come General Master Work.
man Parsons and District Master Work.
man Pines had charge Of the mems
affairs and a strike was called at 4:30 a.
M. On nearly all roads transportation
was stopped for while and a great
deal of congestion occurred in conse
quence.
Police Preparations Made.
Shortly before midnight hundreds Of
policemen from the precincts in Man
haitian and the Bronx districts were
conveyed to the different barns anG
many were placed along the severa,
routes comprising the territory covered
by the Brooklyn Traction company. VI
to 1880 a. III. there were very few cars
run over these lines and those that were
sent out from the different barns were
policed by several constables. By II
o'clock about one-tenth of the regular
rolling stock was working These cars
were manned by inspectors and linemer
and in fact oilers and helpers were
pressed into service so as to maintain 8
partial running of the system. Many
of the old conductors and motormen re-
ported for duty on several lines and
President Rossiter said that shortly
after noon over so per cent of the ole
hands were at work on these lines: =
Presidents Car Attacked.
About noon President Rossiter's pri
vate car, with several officials of the
Traction company and number OF
policemen on board, made tour Of
several lines. Coming back from Coney
Island the presidents car travelled ove1
the Fifth avenue route and as it neareC
Twenty third street and Fifth avenue
those on board found their progress i'm
peded by stalled car near the Fifth
avenue barn. Here a crowd of 50(
people, many of whom were wome1
children, had congregated and thu
motorman Of the Ampore, Howard
jackson, was attacked and received
some nasty bruises on the head anc
legs. The police rushed to the man.
assistance and he was finally rescued
from the mob. Throughout the after
noon boulders and large pieces Of gran
tie were placed on the tracks in TIT
vicinity of Greenwood cemetery and a!
cars came along their further progress
was considerably delayed until thes.
distractions were removed. s+
Says 1t Could Not Be Avoided. y.
General Master Workman Parsons
spent the greater a part of the day in
Brooklyn and considerable portion o.
the afternoon in conference witt
Messrs. Delehanty and Webster Of the
state board of mediation and arbitra
lion. Mr.. Parsons said:
Everybody knows that do not like
strikes. They are not pleasant anc
Furthermore they are expensive. Blu
this strike was one that could not b,
averted The first few hours Of !:
strike neither wins5n nor loses it and w.
are satisfied with the showing we have
made"
Mr.. Parsons said the strike had tn
sanction Of the Knights of Labor ant
that the men would receive the mora
and financial support Of the organiza
ton.