The times., 1901-05-19
ALBANY'S STRIKE EXPENSIVE.
The Trouble just Ended an Expen-
siye Experiment

| ALBANY, n. Y. May 1s.-The strike
on the lines of the United Traction
| Company ended at II o'clock this morn
| ing. The old employees of the company
reopened the Troy and Cohoes division
at o'clock this afternoon. The cars
between Albany and Troy viii begin
running tomorrow morning. The lines
of the company in the city of Albany
will not be put in operation until noon
| tomorrow.
Both the company and the men, as
result of the agreement reached to-
| day, believe they have won the fight
AS matter of fact, the lines of the
United Traction Company hereafter will
be run on a non-union basis. That was
| the main contention between the COM
pany and the men.
OF the 5000 soldiers doing duty in this
city today 2,25O have gone out Of serv-
ice. The Twenty third Regiment, Ct
Brooklyn, is still on duty here. but Kill
leave the city at o'clock tomorrow
| morning. The Second Regiment left
here at y. M, and the Ninth de-
parted at D. m. All the non-iInion
men have left the city
The strike was an expensive one. AL
bany County viii have to pay $4,000
for the presence of the National
Guardsmer here. The average receipts
of the company are $4,000 daily, and
as the road was tied up for twelve days
the company and the men lose about
900 The other incidental expenses
of the sheriff and National Guard win
bring the total to $4,000 or more.
At 9:15 a. m. message was received
from Troy that the agreement had been
ratified in that city. The men in the
West End were not slow to follow suit,
but in North Albany it required a
statement from Mr.. Sheehan, President
of the strikers; P. ]. Downey, of the
Central Federation of Labor. and Mr..
Wollard. their attorney, before the men
voted to ratify the agreement.
AS soon as this was done Wollard and
Sheehan hastened to the office of The
United Traction Company, where they
were Joined by the Troy representatives
of the strikers The Executive Com
mittee of the traction company was
waiting to receive the men, and after
an hours discussion the agreement was
signed.
At the outset of the strike the men
demanded that the company should not
continue in its employ anyone who was
not a member of the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Street Railway Employees.
In the first place, this meant the dis
charge of the men who had been en-
ployed before the organization was or
ganized. Under the agreement signed
today these men go back to work.
Many members of the union had re-
fused to pay their dues. The officers Of
the union had no way to enforce such
payment. They requested the company
to agree to discharge any employe who
had been expelled from the union for
non-payment of dues. Further, they
asked the company to deduct from the
wages of the men in arrears sums suf-
ficient to pay the assessment dues. The
company has refused to consider this
proposition.
The union also demanded that all
conductors, motormen, and pit men
SnOuiQ receive ~ cents an nOur and the
helpers 1712 cents. In the agreement
today the company conceded this lat
ter demand. The concession means an
increase in expenses to the company of
SO, 900 a year. The other concessions
made by the company to the men today
were of minor Importance.
The company wanted to get the non
union men out of the city before the
old employees returned to work This
was done without any trouble, and be-
fore Albanians were aware that these
men were gone they were miles from
the city. The Twenty-third Regiment
escorted the men to the trains, which
We're boarded at a remote crossing near
West Albany and without any demon
stration being made. The two crews of
four men each who took the first two
cars out on Tuesday received a bonus
of 800 for each man.
One of them, though, William Mar
shall, the motorman, is lying in the Al
bany City Hospital, lowering between
life and death