The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-11
QUEENS CAR STRIKE ENDS.
All Except Three Men Discharged OH Friday
Return and NeDOrt for Duty.

After strike that lasted exactly twenty
four hours and caused only a temporary
intolerance in the trolley company's opera
ton Of its cars, the hundred or so en-
ployees of the New York and Queens County
Railway. who went out on Sunday when
the railway officials refused to grant their
demands, backed down completely yester-
dav afternoon and returned to work The
three men whose discharge on Friday
precipitated the strike are still outside
the breast works, the company having
fatty declined to take them back.
The strike ended after these three men,
John Segel, William Scully and Patrick
Phelan saw F. l.. Fuller, general manager
of the railway company They asked to
be reinstated were told they wouldn't
be and promptly left the managers Office,
An informal meeting Of the strikers was
called in a nearby saloon, and after the
trio reported their failure the men voted
unanimously to go back to work Half
an hour later they were all enrolled once
more on the company's books and anxious
to take out cars.
According to Siegel. who is one of the
recognized leaders Of the men, the three
discharged men, when they found they
would not be taken back, advised the others
to give up their fight for the present. This,
ii was said, was also advised by Herman
Robinson, the American Federation OF
Labor or ganizer. Siegel said that, In addi-
ton to the reinstatement OF himself and
his two companions, what the men most
wanted was the recognition of their union
4 Il. 2 a.
Amalgamated Association of Street Rail
way Employees One of the principal
grievances Of the men, Siegel said, was
that the extras" frequently had TO wait
whole day to get q chance to take a car
out and that this resulted in their inability
to get more than rs cents for days work
There was no trouble yesterday any
where along the companys lines as a re-
suit of the strike, The only arrest which
had any connection with the strike was
in Long Island City, where Policeman
Jacob Mestcr Of s95 Albert street tie n wire
to trolley feed wire and then attach il
to lamppost to short circuit the trolley
wire. The prisoner was held In the Long
Island City police court for examination
tomorrow. The reported riot soon after
midnight al jackson and Steinway avenues
in Long Island City proved to he n crush
of people from North Beach to get home.
The 400 extra police from Brooklyn and
Manhattan, whom Deputy Commissioner
Piper rushed TO Queens on Sunday, were
withdrawn as soon as the strikers began
to return to work The railway officials
praise tho Police Department for throwing
large extra force Of bluecoats ont along
their lines and making adequate prepare
tions for possible trouble. The dissatisfied
employees were not SO enthusiastic,
"Say, Piper overdid this thing by about
I 900 per cent, declared one of them
"Some people may critcse me for being
hasty," said Capt Piper Yesterday, but
| don't believe in waiting for violence to
break out before sending men. Whenever
there ia n strike and any talk of disorder
I am going to send men right away and not
wait for a lot Of people to he injured