The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-19
Strikers Win Over a Number Of Non
Union Men to Their Ranks.
Lines Which Heretofore Have Been Running
on Schedule Time Badly Crippled.
Rossiter, However, Claims
That the Strike Is Practically
Ended, and That Cars on the
Rapid Transit Line Will Soon
Be Running on Regular Time.

Be Running on Regular Time.
! NEW YORK, July 1S.-The Brook
Ign trolley strike is still on, and in all
likelihood there will be no end of the
| labor trouble for several days to come.
The company did not run any cars
over it's various lines after dark last
evening, but resumed traffic short. 2
after ) o'clock this morning. Numbers
OF cars were run over the several lines,
but the time schedule was not lived
up to on any of them, and fair esti-
mate of the rolling stock in operation
would be about 60 per cent. During
the day the police made several az
rests of persons who interfered with
the progress of the cars on the Mas
sau lines, but no serious outbreak &C.
CURED until after 6 o'clock.
A small riot occurred a few minutes
after 6 o'clock, in which two men were
painfully hurt. A mob of some 400
persons attacked a Fifth avenue car
on it's way into the city at Sixth street
and Fifth avenue, and Motorman La
than and Conductor Mulcahy were
pulled off the car and badly treated.
Latham had his arm broken and Null
cahy received a fracture of the nose.
| Several policemen who were in the
neighborhood rushed to the assistance
of the motorman and conductor and
frightened the crowd off by firing their
revolvers in the air.
| Three arrests were made, and in less
| than fifteen minutes the cars were
running.
| AT an early hour this morning the
| report was brought to police head..uar-
tiers than an explosion had occurred On
the Fifth avenue elevated line near
! ThirtysiXth street. The entire line
| was blocked. AS a serious riot oc-
CURED on Fifth avenue earlier in the
evening, the police authorities at head
quarters feared that the explosion on
the elevated line was the work of the
strikers.
NEW YORK, July 1S.-The Brook
! Ign street car strikers evidently won
over number of non-union men to
their ranks during the night. The
| Putnam avenue line, over which the
cars had been running on schedule
/. time for the tAst two days. was Grip
pied to-day, certainly one-third of the
| cars being tied up. On the Fulton
street line, which ran on nearly sched-
ule time yesterday. the number of cars
was reduced about one-third. No cars
We're running on the Nostrand avenue
and Tompkins avenue lines.
! President Clinton l.. Rossiter of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, said
to-day that they would begin running
| cars on all the lines to-njpht sHTba
strike, l think" he said lis ended, but
l am not exulting over the situation.
1 gave the men until 6 o'clock last
night to return to work, but if any OF
the superintendent should disobey my
| orders as regards to time and should
| take back some of our old loyal en-
ployes to-day l should not feel sorry.
Many of the men who went out on
strike were at heart loyal to the COM
pany, but they wished to be at peace
with their fellows, so went out
| Asked if it was true that he had
imported 300 men from PHILADELPHIA to
take the place of strikers, Mr.. Rossi-
ter replied: mo, not 800, but about
thirty were sent us, and we employed
them"
General Master Workman Parsons
said to-day: Il consider the position
of the strikers is becoming stronger
every hour. President Rossiter's state
ment that there is no strike in Brook
lyn is hardly sustained by the evidence
visible to everybody"
Master Workman James Pines, in a
statement made at headquarters to-day
said that the strikers were numerical
ly stronger to-day than at any time
since the beginning of the trouble He
said: Our men are in good spirits
to- day, and they intend holding out
| indefinitely if their just demands are
not complied with"
1t was reported to-day that COM
mittee representing the strikers would
call on District Attorney Steele during
the day and lodge complaints with him
against the officials of the Rapid
Transit Company for violation of the
ten-hour law. Mr.. Steele said that
no Grand Jury would meet before Sep
TENDER 18th. THE officials, however"
said the District Attorney, 'if they
have violated the law, could be prose-
cuted in police court If found guilty
fine of $500 could be imposed, with
the additional sentence of one year in
the penitentiary. To prosecute the
company as corporation the matter
must have to be presented to the Grand
Jury
James A. Hayes, a leader of one Of
the local organizations, and four other
strikers. were arraigned in the Police
Court, Brooklyn, to-day, on charges Of
vagrancy. The men were paroled in
the custody of their counsel.
The Board of Aldermen of the Greater
New York unanimously adopted the
following resolution:
Whereas. The employees of a num-
Der of surface railroad in the borough
Of Brooklyn, because of unjust treat
ment and the payment of inadequate
wages, have declined to longer serve
the masters of said railroads unless
their grievances shall be adjusted in
fair and equitable manner; therefore
be it
Resolved, That the Municipal AS
sembly of the city of New York ex-
tends it's sympathy to the striking
railroad employees in their effort to Sc
cure better wages and shorter hours,
and requests the managers of the sew
eraI railroads on which strikes are oc-
curing to agree that all difficulties