The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-20
III Tie MANHATTAN SYSTEM
WILL DE THE oBJECT OF THE
STRIKERS TODAY.
scenes OF Yesterday 1t Ia Declared,
VIII he Tame Compared with
Those Yet to Come.

New York, July 19.-The EXPANSION ~
the street car mems strike from nroot-
Ign to Manhattan island was due en,,ro,,
W sympathy for the striking employees OF
'he brooklyn Rapid Transit company. At
ihiunlsht tonight after the strike had been
on twenty hours it appeared to be the
ihaooest and most ill-considercd battIe
win enormous capital that labor ever en-.
tered on.
Except on the Second avenue line Tho
vars were only interfered with to a slight
uesfee ana unless the strikers induce from
iooo 10 looO men to join them tomorrow
Inc strike will be an absolute fa,ura
rms Mr., Parsons declared he will do
-Nohe Oh the men out. he said, were req
uiariy ordered out, and he promises to tie
UP the Manhattan lines. There are about
o-oV men employed on the platforms of
S cue ears OF lhe lines the strike is against
Seitainiy not more than 400 of these man
ielt thelr places. Policemen had been
concentrated at all stations of the com
pans ana men in uniforms rode in ina
.oeoohu avenue cars to protect the motor
men ana conductors lust as they did In
brooklyn. Three hundred policemen from
brooklyn were transferred to Manhstton
THIS being done for the protection of III,
metropolitan property
whenever striker appeared and tried
10 induce one OF the nonunion men To ouit
woth ne was driven away at the point of
ciup' Never before in Manhattan Dor
ousn were such drastic measures used. |
G o'.t Win the police began early and
ciuns were used so freely that the strikers
became wild with rage. They sought ia
oVerturn cars and frequently dragged mo- |
,ofIuen from their position on the front |
platform and induced them to join their.
ranks or else treated them roughly. lire |
quently cars had to be guarded by four |
or i've policemen. Blood flowed freely
In many instances mobs were led nv wo.
men who were wives of the strikers In
the melees some OF these women we're
ciunoed and trampled on. Women threw
stones, dishes, decayed vegetables and bad |
eggs from the windows of the fats into
the cars as they passed. There were small
riots almost from one end of Second ave-
nue. to the other, The railroad men at
their meetings tonight declared that Sec
ond avenue was only small thing COM
pared to what would develop when the
strike became general tomorrow One de-
tectlVe was carried to the hospital with
broken head tonight.
General Master Workman Parson in an
interview, accused the police of merciless I.
brutality and said that If Devery's men
continued to pursue the same course that
they had followed in Second avenue he
tParsons) would not be responsible for
what the men might do The strikers
were men and Americans. and there was I
a limit beyond which policemen must not
go. He accused the police force and Mayor
Van Wyck's administration of playing into
the hands of the trolley magnates owing
to the influence of William C, Whitney and
Hugh j. Grant. I
Chief of Police Devery, in speaking OF
the complaints of the labor leader. de-
clsred that if the strikers attempted any
violence or interfered in any way with !
men seeking employment he would Club {
off the tops of their heads" Z
President H. H. Vreeland Of the Met
ropolitan Street railway. first declared
there was no strike and then admitted :
hat there was a strike on the Second +
not in the employ of the company. He Il
aughed at the idea of tie-up. The
grievance of the men is that they are re- $
luired to put in from twelve to fourteen !
hours continuous duty on the cars or r
around the stable waiting for runs in or S
Ter to make a full days work of ten a
hours. They ask that "trippers" pc paid
'21a cents an hour and be guaranteed 4
ix hours work. They also ask immunity y
rom discharge while seeking to redress 3
heir grievances or making complaints to Y
he company +
In Brooklyn the situation of the strik- s.
RS on the Rapid Transit company's lines e
vas not improved by the premature strike
f the New York men. The company ran y
more cars and carried more passengers .
nut it became more than ever apparent n
hat President Rossiter has lost rather l.
han gained prestige. Few night cars n
we're run in Brooklyn. On the Flatbusa
at lnI
eat the motorman and conductor and
everal arrests were made by the police,
Whatever may be the outcome of the i
trike, President Rosster Is likely to get =
imself in trouble in several ways. The y
,bor organizations have decided to prose- :
ute the Brooklyn Heights company for i
iolating the labor laws OF the State. 1T &
ne men are TO be believed the company l.
as been guilty in hundreds of instances \
lr. Rossiter was also threatened with ..
riminal prosecution by Al Johnson, Tor v "
Ter head of the Nassau railroad. Mr..
ossiter was quoted as saying Mr.. john
On was concerned in the attempt to blow III
AIRED that If Mr. Rossiter made the d.
,ct charge he would put him in jail. n
Ir Rooster afterward qualified his "
CT
There was talk tonight of ordering out
he National Guard in case General Mas
II Workman Parsons pieuse 10 NC W ~
,e entire Metropolitan system is carried 81
If. The police have been utterly made p'
tate to cope with the strikers ON Sec
nd avenue, SO many policemen being "
seded in Brooklyn. If the National CT
uard is needed. 1885 men can be placed
,der arms and collected in New YORK. Sc
thin twelve hours. Most OF the regl- -,
ents have beer notiled TO noia then- ~
Ives in readiness.
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