The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-03
ELEVATED MEN VOTE
 AS UNIT 10 STRIKE
WILL GO OUT IF ACTION IS
 DEEMED NECESSARY.

Subway Trouble Reaches crisis-Rail-
 road omcIaIs Confer With Police com-
 missioner McAdOo Regarding Police
 Arrangements in Case Men Go Out
 General Manager Bryan Issues
 statement-AnOther Conference wni
 be Held.
 New York, Sept. 2.-President W.T. Iliam L. Jencks, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, tonight an- nouneed that the elevated railroad ern- ployees of Manhattan and the Bronx at their all day meeting to-day voted as 8 unit to strike if such action is deem led necessary.
 In the afternoon while the men were voting, E P. Bryan, vice president and general manager of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, which controls the elevated lines and the subway, and Frank Hedley, superintendent of the same company, held an hours confer ence with Police Commissioners McAdoo. and discussed the question of police arr arrangements in the event of strike be- ing called. After this conference MT. Bryan gave out a signed statement in which he reviewed the trouble of the IInterborough company with the elevat- led road employees, growing out of the lcompany's decision to pay motormen in the subway, when it opens. $3 day for ten hours work instead of $350 for nine hours, which motormen on the elevated road receive.
 From 10 o'clock this morning until 10 o'clock tonight the members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen voted on the question of strike on the elevated with the result liannounced by President Jencks.
 An all day meeting of the Amalgamat- led Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America was aI- lso held, and the members of that as@ sociation voted to support the execu- Itive committee of the Amalgamated if the committee should decide to stand by their agreement to support the en- gineers and firemen in the event of a Istrike.
 "The vote was unit to strike,Y President Jencks said. That does not lmean strike, but it means that the men declare for strike if no concesr lsions are forthcoming
 He said that 750 or more members of the engineers and firemens unions had voted on the strike proposition, either personally or by proxy. The amalganiS ated vote was nearly 40Oo, as nearly as lcoud be estimated.
 w. D. Mahon, the national head of the Street Railway employees, arrived in this city tonight. Owing to the late lness of his arrival in this city, the proposed meeting of the different nar tional officers, and the executive conn mittees of the three local organizations interested was not held tonight, but will be held tomorrow morning. Late in the afternoon a delegate from the ICentral Federated union notified the Irnembers of the Amalgamated associa- ton that no matter what their action might be as result of the present diff ficulties, the Central Federated union would stand by the men.
 T It was also stated authoritatively that there will in all probability be an other conference between representa- tives of the men and the officials of the Interborough company, looking tor wards a peaceable solution of the ques- tions at issue.
 MT. Bryan, in his statement, says in. part: Preparatory to the opening of the subway, careful innvestigation was made as to the highest rates of wages for motormen, thoroughly equipped as such and thoroughly familiar with au- tomatic air, also the hours required for service for such motormen; and the rate of $3 per day, of ten hours, was fixed as the salary for motormen in the subway, there being no higher rate of pay or shorter hours for similar ser- Twice anywhere in the United States.
 We regard the action of the chief officer of the Brotherhood of Loconlo- Itive Engineers as being an effort upon his part and his associates, to estab- !. fish a rate of pay and hours for en- gineers whom he hopes to install as motormen upon the completion of the electrics of several of the large steam systems now working toward that end for their terminal in and adjacent to { New York.
 The Interborough company will full fill to the letter the contract made by the Manhattan company with it's en- gineers and firemen, collectively and in dividually, regardless of any action that may be taken by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers or the Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen."
 
 Carroll D. Wright to Resign.