The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-16

All men left In Manhattan were on duty.
either on post or in reserve at the stations.
Chief Dcvery. who had been In Brooklyn.
had coma back to Manhattan and was at Police
Headquarters.
Chief Dcverv heard at ! 80 this morning that
local Assembly No. Z. 300 strong. had Just
voted unanin ously n strike. and had left their
hall. Mt Fifteenth street and sixth avenue. ex-
pcctinE to Join other strikers,
Even tho men VINO are determined to have
astrkc admit that there IL not one chance in
a thousand Of winning Il. The professional
labor agitators who have worked with the
newspapers in tho interests OF the stockjob-
hcrs say that thoro Is no chance. The men
believe that they have one chance. and that is
IN violence They do not hesitate to talk
about 1t.
Yesterday afternoon a Sun reporter was in
formed 10y men who were shouting for strike
that there was but one way In which they
could hope 10 tie w tho system. That was to
intnidnte the mon who are willing to work
aud unwilling to strike One Of these men
said To THE SuN reporter with perfect frank.
ness:
irmrrs to take out "A car will he, brick
s Sa'I"d Ina, oH Min n,mIGnie tho re sno
They will not dare to try to take out cars. This
is going to be tho hloodiest strike thattw have
thes" people its going to he done.
Other men who are perfectly familiar with
ed uraricry this same assertion t. THE Sun
reporter. and they all predicted bloody time
in cas-" the itrik" came, and the company made
any EFFORT to- run its cars.
The Issue MADE
\ committed ~ employees Of the Brooklyn
Haph TraHslt ..nmlany Which waited unnn.
him to sign an agreement to grant the four de-
mands made upon him by committed which
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T fE"mSt Knght James fHf @yes
Wij!Ilam 4. Brown and Waiter J. Madden. =,
Chairman. went in alone first to present the
agreement, In less, than minute he came
""a 7" ne 6cia SV {" the %"Tan y say h" slipped
out Al al events as soon as he came out tho
into into Mr s' Rossitsrs ONCE. In about. three
quarters Of an hour thew came out looking
Mr Rossiter refused everything we asked"
said one OF them. He told us that we had
enough already"
4 committee Of five Brooklyn Heights Rail
waited and eight from the Nassau Railroad
faSh on me shs fst sfSgsd
nnT Who WI fled f With me- s on
behalf OF the other members OF the committed
ask.ahim il he hal anything further to state.
tired aud tie remain1er Of the committee were
then caI!!sh In and stated their individual Griey-
edmp specific grievances being pointed out
which promised to inquire into. and. II the
that might have been Internationally done.
The men finally stated thai they were here
fer S to ba sfg the I'D ba% that Whch dhs
looked ut II yet. At their request took up tho
different parts of tho proposed agreement AZ
follows:
81 That the timO tables he arranged upon all
lines to comply with the n.Hour law work
day.
II informed them that this was being done
90 every line OF the companys system.
80 That tho prevailing rate OF wages shall be 81
for each full days work, and trips overtime to be
paid at 20 cents per hour.
Our rate Of wages is So per day on every
line in the, system. All overtime over thirty
for over year past at the rate Of 20 cents per
hour.
20 That two-thirds of the cars shall be full day
runs
"On the existing time tables today 90 per
cent. Of the totaIr' on the Brooklyn Heights
iu day runs receiving 81 per day. As to tho
crives less than 81 so q day while on the Nassau
Ss when the time tables scyS Iped eyer
was found that over % per cent. Of tho men re;
, sSiyed less than sl50 for the days work and
the regular days work.
-. That the company shall receive committees Of
their employees representing the men, that no en-
poyces shall be Disseminated against for acting on
such committee.
This has been the PRACTICE Of the company
ever since ! assumed charge. and certainly
Will be continued"
80 That no man shah DO discharged without Just
partial hearing
4 stated as to this that no man had ever
been discharged from the company. and no
one would be. without good and sufficient rea
brought to my attention it had always received
and would receive immediate attention"
80. Extra Brakemcn on the Main Line-First az.
teen to report for work at 4:io A. NJ; balance at
$3.50 A. NJ. All braEenen to bs paid from nfteeu
minutes after their reporting time when marked up
for runs When extra brakemen lie held for Rocka-
away Coney Island runs that they he paid for all
time over one hour; that all br,kemen. agents.
uAtemen. and platform men be paid 20 cents per
hour or any fraction thereof.
merely dismissed this and stated that in
view of present conditions could not consent
TO any Increase of wages. but that the matter
of arranging time ia bles would he looked into
With view Of remedyinR any reasonable cause
81 am sorry to say that the attitude OF the
committee impressed mo as being the attitude
OF men looking for a grievance. When indi-
riduas on the comm ttee tried to address ma
at length. as WAS glad TO have them, the lead
crs attempt"d TO deter them. and tho effort OF
the leaders seemed to be 10 produce trouble.
This attitude, however, vii make no difference
iu the feelings or attitude OF the company, We
have the true interests OF our employees closely
~ heart and we will willingly allow no condi-
tion to exist which will give rise 10 reasonable
complaint. We are willing and deslrous OF
hearing genuine Complaints. aud l think our
men generally feel so, as IL Indicated by the
LOYALTY of the great majority. who have been
with US for four years and more.
II do not believe that the committee which
called upon me this morning represents any
thing more than a small body OF malcontents.
who are influenced. not by their own condi-
tons or those Of their felo Wen ployees. but by
outsiders who have selfish interests In pro-
noting trouble
AS some Of the men on the committee are
under Suspension they were not Officially rec
oRniZed. II Is said. by President RoSsiter al
though they Wore allowed to remain
After the committee left Mr.. Rossiters office
they adjourned to % Johnson street, Brook
Ign. which thcy have used as a temporary head
quarters for some time, and made Il report To
General Master Workman Parsons and Master
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