New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-17
BIG BOYCOTT BEGINS TO- DAY
COMPANY TO Re WATCHED-UNION
READY FOR PROSECUTION.

Schenectady n y Nov. lS-The executive COM
n,ttee Of the Trades Assembly has been in session
ALI day arranging details OF the boycott against
the Schenectady Railway Company. The boycott
officially goes into effect midnight. but will
actually be enforced at o'clock tomorrow Sew
entv-one men. from each union will watch the
cars and will aided by others II necessary
Every union man found riding the cars will
lose his union card; every business man VIII be
warned not TO ride again, and will be boycotted II
the warning is disregarded; If any employe CON
tinues TO ride after being warned, his employer VIII
be requested to discharge him There are II is
estimated 2S0O persons who live at such a dis
tance the general electric or locomotive WORKS
that they are dependent upon the cars.
1t has also been decided TO extend the boycott to
the use of gas and electric light both Of which
are manufactured and controlled by the Schenec-
tady Railway Company Members OF unions. busi-
ness men and the general public will be asked not
TO use gas electric light, and the trades as
sembly is considering petitioning the Common
Council to cancel the contract which the company
has for lighting the streets with arc lights.
committee from the trades assembly was In
conference last night and to-day with the employees
of the United Traction Company over whose tracks
for for two miles in Albany. The United Traction
employees were asked 70 refuse to permit the cars
the tracks but they decided to defer action until
one had been run into Albany after the boy
The Trades Assembly has arranged for the i'm,
from work The Trades Assembly officers 81 state tate
positively that IL Will not tolerate violence OF
sort There about two hundred and fifty motor
men and conductors employed by the Schenectady
Hallway Company at 81 60 day and the refusal OF
the company TO compel these men to join union
is the cause of the boycott The majority of the
men express themselves perfectly satisfied and
say that they do not want to be unionized There
is strong undercurrent Of opposition to the boy
colt among trades union members, and public
sentiment is unanimously with the company.
Although statement has been officially given
out. officers Of the Trades Assembly said to-
day that that body would condemn the action
OF the Painters Union in charging the
parent body with having ordered the expulsion
OF William Potter. Douglas III. Pratt. secretary
OF the Painters Union. and the who caused
the action TO be taken. said tonight that II the
State proposed to prosecute the other officers of
the union for treason, they were perfectly ready
for IT, and would fight it TO the last ditch The
Potter episode and the boycott are they say. part
of a general movement to prevent any interfer-
ence with the desire OF the Trades Assembly to
completely unionize the city by compelling the
unionizing of the only large body of unorganized
men at the same time that union pre-
vented from belonging 70 the militia.
Schenectady Railway Company. said tonight:
THE company has made plans 10 fight the
boycott. The trades unions are the aggressors.
and we will wait and what the result is. They
have not given any notification Of the boycott
and we have nothing TO do until they carry IL into
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