Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-07-17
In Progress In New York City
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Involved.
TROUBLE AT CLEVELAND, OHIO
Conductors and Motormen Claim
the Company Played
Them False.

NEW YORK. July 17-Promptly at
. o'clock this morning the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company started cars
out on most of its lines. No disturb.
ance has been reported. The police
seem to have- perfect control of the
situation. Many cars were manned
with green hands. Brooklyn was
quiet last night, although 1900 police
men had their hands full earlier In the
day.
The first day of the street car strike
developed the fact that a very large
portion of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit company's employees while they may
be dissatisfied with their treatment.
are not willing to strike. Veteran la
Dor leaders, while they sympathize with
the strike, say the Brooklyn men are
not we'll enough organized.
Peter Spada, messenger IL years
old, who was struck by a stone while
riding on a Green Point car, is expected
to die. Stones were hurled at the nom
union motorman and conductor, but
one missile struck the boy over the
right eye, fracturing his skull.
About two-thirds of the cars on all
the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit company, except the Nassau system,
are running this morning Cars are
all pollced with from one to four pa
trolmen each, except the Putnam and
Halsey street line, which is running as
in normal time.
Judging from the number of cars
running this morning, the company has
nearly three-fourths of its rolling stock
In operation on all roads other than
those which comprise the old Nassau
lines.
Charles w. Mackenzie, chairman of
the committee of strikers, said he would
surely win out.
Near the barn on Troy avenue and |
Bergen street, the car was stoned by a |
mob, but no one was injured. At Van |
derveer park on the Flat Bush line,
trolley wires were cut and traffic was
delayed over an hour
General Master WorKman Parsons.
said: "The main question IN dispute
tho onaployoo and corporation
s.: Shall the ten hour workday law be
p 1t should also be remem-
Oered that this ten-bour law for surface
railway employees was made to protect
our citizens from the danger of having
trolley cars operated by men, who, from
excessive toll, are untitled for work,
rather then enacted especially for the
benefit of the men themselves. Aside |
from the purpose of enforcing the ten |
hour law, the question at issue before /
the public is, Should the company be |
made to respect our law?'"
THE COMPANY PLAYED FALSE.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 17.-Con.
ductors and motormen of the Big Con-
solldated Street Railway system, who
were on a strike last month, went out |
again this morning. Eight hundred |
men are affected. They claim the com
pany has not lived up to the agreement |
which ended the former strike.
During the early hours today not a |
car was running on any of the Big Con-
solidated lines. Officials of the com
pany asked for police protection.
Large crowds are congregated at all |
barns of the company. Business Agent |
Pratt of the strikers said: "Three weeks |
have elapsed and the company has !
failed to live up to any part of its agree
ment; neither has it shown any inten-
tion of doing So"
Bottles and stones were thrown from |
sidewalks and windows at the cars but |
no one was injured. Mayor Farley is
emphatic in declaring that no such riot
ing as marked the previous strike will
be tolerated.
THE SMELTERMEN'S STRIKE.
DENVER, Colo, July 1.-THE su-
preme court today declared the eight
hour law, applying to mines, smelters
and other Works for the reduction of
ores, is unconstitutional. The opinion |
is not yet ready. The smelter trust |
will now endeavor to reach an agree |
ment with the former employees and |
reopen the smelters. Officers of the |
union say the furnace
men, who formerly worked twelve |
hours, will insist upon an eight hour
day in the future.