New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
STRIKE SETTLED.
FREIGHT MEN RETURN TO
WORK WITHOUT GAIN.
STRIKERS TO GET THEIR OLD PLACES
AS FAST AS VACANCIES OCCUR
NEW HANDS TO REMAIN

the strike on the New-York New-Haven and
Hartford Railroad had been settled, and that
the had agreed to return. to their work
without gaining their demands.
When the strikers committee after confer
ence with General Manager Platt. reported to
the meeting of the strikers that the company
would stand by it's ultimatum and refuse to
grant any of the demands the question of call
ing the strike off and returning to work at the
companys terms quickly put to a vote.
Within half hour it was voted to return 10
work at
A committee consisting of John A. Warner
Joseph A Malloy and Stephen Mitchell left the
meeting place at and went to Mr.. Platts
office in the Harlem River yards. They IN
formed that official of the result of the meeting
and the strike was declared off. A few minutes
later Mr.. Patt made public the following agree
ment agreed on by the and the company;
We will reinstate all the men who went out as
far and fast use them, but cannot, IN
vice who are competent to discharge the duties of
their respective places All vacancies VIII be hieo t
o witn pp 5be to 9 ali men Gp! report h Sr y
m tosmorrow an complaints M of, OF uhaaT M nromptv
investigated
Mr. Platt would make no further statement.
Mr.. Malloy. of the committee. said that the
men had given in all points, and that ne
thought the strike i'll advised. The meet
ing of the strikers was attended by ABOUT 1-o
men, union and non-union; this is about one
third of the number of men on strike The men
seemed to be jubilant that the strike had been
declared off. although they returned TO worn
without gaining a concession
The railroad officials up to last night had en-
gagged 125 men to take the places of the strikers
These men will not be discharged, but will be
allowed retain their places, and when Vacan-
cies occur the men who went on strike and whose
places have been taken will be re-employed.
Superintendent Wardrop of the men whose
resignation was demanded by the men, SAID just
before midnight that about one hundred men
would report for duty at once and that aoou'
one hundred and twenty-fv at I o'clock this
morning. He did not expect any trounie pe
tween the new and the old men Only fe"
noIcennen were on duty in the railroad yards
Mr.. Wardrop said that there were about four
hundred cars of freight in the yards. and that
these would be moved soon as possible
Soon after 9 O'Clock last night General Man
ager Platt of the NewYork New-HaVen anu
Hartford Railroad, said that he expected the
strike would be ended in the course OF the night
and that the would decide to go BACK 10
work. The company, he said. would not receae
from its position, that It would not listen TO the
proposition of the strikers that the resgnat'eas
of Superintendent wardrop. Detective oBrien
and Assistant General Yardmaster Smith be de-
manded and MI T'urbust be re-employed
Fer four hours last evening Mr.. Platt con-
ferred with a committee representing the
strikers, headed by John Lundrigan, Second
Deputy Commissioner of Labor and Bernard
Stark a member of the State Board OF Arbitra-
ton and Mediation. The conference was heid
in MI Platt's office in the Harlem River yards
and at $50 O'Clock the committee, having heard
from MI Platt the companys position, left his
Office to report at meeting OF the strikers IL
weber's Hall. at No IA Willis-ave
Mr. PIatt said yesterday that while the com
pany usually moved ten thousand cars of freight
on its lines daily il had during the strike moved
six thousand daily and that the quantity or
perishable freight moved in the last week was
very small He said that the whole trouble
hinged on the designations OF Wardrop' y brieh
and Smith, and that the company would not
recede from its position, stated on FRIDAY tha'
these men would not be asked for their resigna-
tons
After the adjournment of a meeting or the
Brotherhood of Trainmen at 1:30 in the az
ternoon. Grand Master Morrissey SAID lhd'
II had been decided by decisive vote that IL
was not best to place the interests of the tram
men in the hands of unorganiZed body OF
men and therefore that the brotherhood
would attempt to settle their portion of the
strike alone. commtte of three was APP
pointed to see General Superintendent Platt-
The proposition made to him was substantially
that if the company would take back all the
men now on strike and agree TO take under con-
sideration any grievance to be formulated after
the men had been taken back. the brotherhood
would declare the strike off, as far as they
were concerned.
Mr. Morrissey said that the brotherhood "ouiu
keen faith with the unorganized strikers. but
that they had decided that some such action
as that decided on was necessary so as TO place
the matter on concrete basis If the com
pany should refuse to hear the committee or take
hack the strikers the way would then be opened
for the formulating of a grievance, and when
this was disregarGed the brotherhood could de-
clare a general strike confident that the lapor
organizations would be behind them
Harry williams, who was Yardmaster at the
Oak Point yards, was struck by freight tram
IN the New-York Central Railroad at Sixty
sixth-st. and Eleventh ave, early YESTERDAY
morning and died soon after in Roosevelt Ho9
nitsI TO which he had been removed. He hdu
haen discharged from his place by Srperin-
,endent Wardrop and one of the men
whom, the strikers wanted to have reinstateu-
While he was waiting to hear whether the com
pany would put him back as yardmasteI' ne
got employment with the NeW-York tehliai
Railroad.
PRESIDENT HALL TALhS.