The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-17
THE BROOKLYN STRIKE.
The Town Was Quiet Throughout
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New York, July l6.--Brooklyn was qule
tonight, although three policemen hat
their hands full earlier in the day. The
first day of the street car strike develop
ed the fact that very large portion o.
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company EN-
ployes, while they may be dissatisfied with
their treatment, are not will ing TO strike
The good will of the Brotherhood of En-
gineers on the Brooklyn Elevated roads
towards the strikers is no secret.
| The veteran labor leaders of New YORK
while they sympathize with the strike, are
not altogether pleased with the situation
| They say that the Brooklyn men were not
well enough organized.
| The Brooklyn Transit company says that
thousand men struck; The knights OF
Labor leaders say 1900 The company says
IL will resume full service tomorrow.
Only one person was seriously wounded
in Sundays stone throwing. Peter Shada,
messenger. ~ years old, who was struck
by stone while riding on a Green Point
car is expected 10 die. These stones were
hurled at the non union men and conduc-
tor, but one of the missiles struck the boy
over the right eye, fracturing the skull
When the strike began one motorman,
Charles Hill of the Halsey avenue line,
withstood the ieers of the mob and the APP
peals of his fellow men and ran his car
for one round trip. His wife, on Hills re.
turn, begged him to quit On his next trip
while mob threatened the motorman
with personal injury, Mrs. Hill, fearing
for her husbands life, threw herself pros
trate on the tracks in front OF the car and
tcld him TO kill her If he must be in peril,
He picked her up, kissed her, ran his car
to the barn and struck forthwith. Seventy
brakemen on the Brooklyn Elevated road,
controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company, struck in sympathy with the
trolleymen, expecting the engine drivers
to follow them. The engine drivers were
waiting for an order to strike TO come
from Chief Arthur bur instead an order
came directing them to remain al work.
When this became known the brakemen
went back to work after having been away
from their trains less than three hours
The running OF trains was not interfered
with by the short strike, other employees
of the road taking the brakemen's place.
General Master Workman John y. Par
sons had an interview with Police Com
missioner Jacob Hess. Mr., Parsons COM
planned that the action of the authorities
in policing Brooklyn with immense forces
of police taken from precincts outside the
borough was uncalled for when the peace
had not been broken or proof that such
was intended. He asserted that such ac
ton could not be justified unless is was
intended to make it manifest that corpor-
atoms utilize the police force to the detri-
ment of the plain people and declared that
1t was calculated to bring constituted au
thorty into dispute.
Commissioner Hess agreed to some ex-
tent that the employment of police in
such capacity was not right but said it
was never intended to use the police ex-
cept to keep the peace. An observation
that large bodies of the police had been
slowed in hiding in the various depart
ments OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit sys-
TEN brought about the conversation.